Electroid's - A Collaboration Project

Chapter 4 - The Arrival

We were reaching..Venus. The planet I was not looking forward to visiting when I agreed to become an Electroid. And now it's the first planet we were going to? Maybe the only planet! Oh well, I thought. Can't escape this now.

In the middle of our arrival, we stopped.

"PUT ON THE SUITS," The loudspeaker boomed, "PUT ON THE SUITS."

After that someone walked into the room I was in. He looked like an employee, "Look in the closet," He said, "there's a big white suit with blue markings. Put on that one." He then walked out.

I looked at the closet and got up slowly. Surprisingly it wasn't that hard, but my body still ached a bit. I opened the closet, and there were glowing gadgets and watches..and three suits. One had green markings on it, one had blue markings, and one had red markings. I wasn't going to be stupid and grab a gadget (even though the temptation was strong) so I just took the big, blue-marked suit and dragged it to the bed. Wow, I thought. This thing is so heavy!

Anyway, after about what seemed like forever, I got the suit on. There are so many switches and straps that it took about 30 tries to get it right. I looked in the mirror the room had, and I looked like a big watermelon. The mysterious suit was so thick.

I strapped on the helmet. The see-through part wasn't glass nor was it plastic. It was this weird material that I can't explain. It was really cool, though.

My brain decided to go wack again because then I started doing mild dances in the mirror. The suit was fun to move around in despite the thickness. Humming to myself some song from my childhood, I twirled around.

"Babadum.." I sang quietly, "Babadum da-doo.." I got really into it until the loudspeakers boomed once more.

"GO TO THE FRONT OF THE SHIP. FRONT OF THE SHIP." Dang it, I thought. No more dance. Honestly, I was getting a bit tired, so I guess it was good I stopped.

I trotted my way out of the room. There was a big circular hallway, and a bunch of doors on the sides. There was a huge door at the end of the hallway though, so I headed towards that one. Opening the huge doors, I saw a small line of people, a front desk, and what looked to be a security check. Y'know, the ones at airports where they check all of your stuff (and take 60 years to do it.) I awkwardly got into the line of people.

It took about 5 minutes until it was my turn. They scanned me with a weird scanner on the ceiling. Red flashed on my entire body, and there were slight beeps until the scan stopped. The guy who flipped the switch to scan me chuckled.

"You don't have anythin' buckled!" He smiled. He buckled and buttoned things all around the suit, "You're free to go, bucko!" I smiled, thanked him, and walked around the curved corner. That's where I saw the lady in front of me go.

I saw what looked to be a waiting room. There was a small couch and chairs. They looked SUPER futuristic, though. I sat down and the seat started bobbing up and down. Due to the disturbance in the balance, the seats were moving because they were hovering! Actually hovering. I was sitting in a non-imaginary hovering chair! Anyway, aside from me freaking out about the chair, I sat down and waited for my name or number or whatever they were going to call to be called. "NUMBER 4572639." came over the loudspeaker and a man, I would say maybe in his early 20's, walks into a room. He doesn't come out for maybe 20 minutes. I thought I heard pictures being taken in the very back of the room. The sounds were faint, very faint. Yet, I could still hear them as clear as a sunny sky in a summer evening.. In other words, I could hear the faint sounds fairly well. He walked out of the room maybe 15 minutes later with this crazy high tech suit. I had this blue suit that was nothing compared to his suit. They called a number again out of the loudspeaker.

"NUMBER 378336, please make your way to the door." Not realizing what I should do, I waited a minute until they called the number again.

"Again, NUMBER 378336, please make your way to the door." Finally, after I had stopped zoning out and just completely mind-blanking. I looked at my card and realized. Oh! I have number 378336! I immediately got up from my chair which wobbled again after I got up because again. It's hovering!

Anyway, I walked up to the door and it opened with a low humming sound. A lady in a green and blue outfit was standing in the doorway.

"Right this way sir." She said really politely. I start walking with her to a room full of a bunch of gadgets and machines for who knows what. Look, I might have been the main reason for us to take this ship and to be on this ship, but I had never seen the inside of the thing. I didn't know my way around it, either.

"Sit down, sir." The lady said to me as I was sitting on a... you guessed it. A hovering bench! Man, I have got to stop getting so distracted about hovering stuff. I mean, I'm on a spaceship near Venus in space, the year is 3025, and my corporation was just attacked by our arch enemy's evil-freaking-robots! Now I'm freaked about the chairs!

That aside, she pulled over some machines that started scanning me. The lady looked at me, "Sorry, I don't mean to be that person, but can you stand up for the full scan please? It won't work with you sitting down."

I gladly stood up and let the huge machine scan me.

"Thank you" she smiled, "you may sit back down now." I sit back down as she leaves the room. She came back, "Come with me, your scan is finished." I got up from the bench and started to walk out with the lady who started taking me to a room I was unfamiliar with. A low humming sound came from the walls. Must be the scanning in the front, I thought.

The room looked similar to the waiting room, but it was smaller and had no furniture. There was a very interesting door in front of me, but it read 'DO NOT OPEN UNLESS INSTRUCTED' It got me very curious about what could be in there. Probably the suit accessories that they were giving out to passengers?

"Stay in here," The lady calmly said, "we'll be at Venus soon." Oh yeah, I thought. Venus. The big suit I had on was already weighing me down, who knows how long I'll be at that lava filled planet.

Soon, a man came up to me and flipped a big switch on my suit. I didn't know that was there, I thought. Did the scanning guy ignore that switch?

"This is your AGMS, or as I should say Advanced Guided Movement System, but almost anyone will understand what you mean by AGMS." I took a look up and down and realized. Oh, that's why I feel like I can move more, "It will help you run, jump, slide, and even free-run even better than before."

Wow, all of those things enhanced by one suit is pretty impressive.

"This suit is free, we were required to give it to you when you came aboard. If you would like a more upgraded suit you will have to come back later when we are in stock for other suits. You will have to pay for that one, also." The man put his hand on my shoulder once he saw that I was freaking out like crazy, "The suit will supply oxygen for you. That's why I flipped the big switch, because it activates the oxygen tanks in your suit. Don't worry, the oxygen is enough to last you 5 years."

That's even more impressive! I mean, supplying 5 years of oxygen into your body? Thats genius! I stood in the room as more passengers entered. All of them had the same exact suit as me, just in different sizes. Suddenly, an announcement, even louder than the last, came onto the loudspeaker.

"ATTENTION, ATTENTION. WE WILL BE LANDING ON VENUS IN 10 MINUTES. I REPEAT, WE WILL LAND ON VENUS IN 10 MINUTES." I was super excited to be able to go out and explore Venus. I looked at my suit and realized. Wait, if this thing can help with all of my movement. I don't know what this thing is fully capable of so I need to be careful. Who knows what I could achieve? Then, the loudspeaker blasted louder than ever, "NOW ARRIVING TO VENUS. NOW ARRIVING TO VENUS. WE WILL LAND IN 3," Wait- We're landing on to Venus already? "2," Everyone prepared themselves, "1. WELCOME TO VENUS."

We all felt a strong bump on our feet, and then the mysterious door opened. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe what was before my eyes.