Electroid's - A Collaboration Project

Chapter 5 - Venus

Steam filled our visions, but as soon as it went away we saw a fiery lavaland. It was strangely beautiful, actually. It was quiet and calm and glowing. The lava, though being extremely bright orange and red, made a soft white noise that for some reason made me feel better about Venus. I honestly had no idea why I hated it so much, I guess I was so afraid of burning to death here.

I walked down the path the ship made for us to walk down. I took a good look at everything around me. Wow, I thought. This is Venus? It's so beautiful! I took about 2 steps forward until I heard a voice.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" I looked over my shoulder to find a fiery little..thing who was about a foot shorter than me.

"Oh um," I stuttered, "well it's a long story. My name is Parzival, and I'm an Electroid. Have you ever heard of them? They're people who- who travel through space and stu-"

"I did not ask you to waste my time," The fire thing interrupted me, and put a hand on my shoulder, "come with me. Now. The princess wishes to see you." ..The princess? Of Venus? There's royalty on Venus?! Wow, as an Electroid, there's so much I don't know. Especially since this place seems so empty, I never would've thought there's royalty here.

That aside, I glanced around. The ship was there, but no people in sight. I hesitantly started walking with the fire thing.

"So um," I began, "what's the princess' name?"

"Venus."

"Oh uh, that..that's nice." My voice trailed off and we were soon walking in silence. Venus is surely quiet, I thought. As we were walking, I saw calm volcanoes and hills. I saw lava trickle down some of the hills, and I smiled at it. The volcanoes weren't erupting, and it was so quiet. I have never felt this calm and..okay in my life.

Before I knew it, we were at a bright orange castle that was like 20 feet tall. The fire thing walked up to the door, knocked about 5 times with a rhythm, and the huge door opened. A girl in a dress, much taller than me, opened the door. Her hair was a dark red, she had gigantic horns, elf-like ears, and her skin was a light grey-ish pink. She didn't look like a model, but she didn't look hideous either. The girl looked average, just like me. Except she had jewelry and futuristic stuff on her clothes.

"Fireihn #4! Welcome back," She said, "who is this?" She looked at me.

"Oh um-- My name is Parzival! Parzival Joseph Walterson. I'm an Electroid, you see, and- and- yeah." I awkwardly chuckled, "It's nice to meet you."

"You seem..human, Parzival. Come inside." She gently took my hand and led me into the gigantic castle. The front room was full of gadgets and tools, much more than the ship I was in. It had a couch and a big TV, but personally it doesn't seem like it's stayed in a lot. I couldn't get a good look around before she sprinted up the spiral staircase. That girl is crazy fast, I thought. I don't know if I can keep up!

I ran after her. Upstairs there was a short hallway with 3 doors (one in front, left, and right). She went into the room on the right. It was a room with a big, turned-off screen and a big plane-like keyboard. There was a hovering chair, obviously, and a big window on the right too.

The girl stopped, turned to me, and put her hands on my shoulders.

"I'm Venus," She said, "Princess Venus."

I blinked, "Where's the queen of Venus?"

"We don't have a queen here, only princesses and princes." Venus shook her head, "No time for discussion. Why are you here?"

"Well, I'm an Electroid, and I was having my Electroidal Ceremony. Then, out of the blue, these big robots came in. They took everyone, but thankfully I had time to escape. I passed out and woke up with a big robot arm on me. I pushed it off and it was labeled 'Riverbrick Productions'--"

Venus put her hand over my mouth, "Riverbrick Productions?" Her hand was surprisingly cold compared to the planet itself, "Are you sure that's the right company?"

I jumped back a bit from the sudden interruption, but I nodded quickly, "Yes, Riverbrick Productions." Venus started to pace around the room.

"So her plan's in action now," I heard her mumble, "I didn't think it'd come this quickly."

"Who's plan?"

"Queen Athena's! Her plan from decades ago! She wanted to destroy every planet so her planet could be number one, so she created a fake company with robots.Earth was already attacked, right?"

"Yes." I gulped.

"Thank goodness you escaped. Earth is probably cracked at this point, as expected."

"Cracked?!"

"Calm down! It is probably cracked, but if the robots leave then it'll heal itself. For now we need to find out how to save my planet. Save other planets, too."

We then heard a loud boom, and screaming again. It was faint but we could hear it. I recognized those sounds. The robots reached this planet! The familiar beeping slowly started getting louder and louder. I looked out the window and about 10 robots were coming for this castle.

"Venus, we have to leave. Now!" I tugged at her arm, "The robots are here!"

Venus looked out the window and ran to the wall. She tapped on it and a strange trap door opened into a dark room, "Come with me."

"Is this a trick?"

"Do you want to live or not?"

I sighed and entered the room with her. She flipped on the lightswitch on the wall and a big orange ship was right in front of us. The room had a big garage door so the ship could get through. Venus opened the ship door.

"We need to get out and save all the others. I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to leave your other crew behind, they're probably gone now." She sighed. Not like I cared about them anyway, I thought. Venus sat in the pilot seat and patted the co-pilot seat, "We don't have much time, alright?"

I looked around a bit. I could tell the robots were pounding the castle's front door open. I hesitantly got into the co-pilot seat and closed the door. I buckled my seatbelt, and Venus smiled at me.

"This is gonna be hard, but I know we can do it. Let's ride!"