Crono's Story by Traum

Chapter 4 Cris

The choice had been mine to make, and I'd done it, whether it was for better or worse would be for history to decide. Now all that was left was to save the universe. More easily said than done, of course, but I felt up to the challenge. A giddiness began to creep up on me, and in a hasty voice I asked Krillin, "So where's your ship, I wanna get going."

He reached into his gi, and pulled out a small capsule, then stated, "Right here." He pushed the compressible top of the cylinder case, and then threw it at least 20 metres in front of us. I didn't know what was going on, and I had turned to ask when a gigantic 'pop' sound rang through my ears. I whipped my body around to face the sound, and where my bald headed friend had thrown the capsule, a gigantic space ship was resting comfortably.

It was a large sphere like ship, with huge circular windows on each of its sides, and landing struts supporting the base of the ship, holding it a few metres above ground. Beyond the main, frontal window, at least 20 metres in width, the word "CAPSULE" was spelt in capital letters. "How'd you get that ship out of no-where?" I asked Krillin.

"Capsule of course." He looked at me oddly, but then shook his head and chuckled, "Oh yeah, you guys don't have them here, our dimension must be a little ahead in the technology department."

"How do you fit an entire ship into a small little capsule like that?" I questioned, all the while feeling more and more like a very small and idiotic child.

"Don't ask me, I have no idea. Kinda like the senzu beans, I just use them, don't know what makes them work."

"O-k. But why didn't we just create the ship where we were? Why did we have to fly all the way over here?"

"Launching from here will put us on a direct course for the rip in space that I created."

"I see." It made sense, but there was something offsetting about hopping into a spacecraft that came from virtually nowhere. It wasn't only the previous invisibility of the craft; it was it's daunting size as well. The ship was huge, maybe 50 metres tall and 30 metres wide, but Krillin didn't seem to take much notice.

He walked up to the base of the ship and then floated up to a small beeping control panel near the large window. He punched in a few buttons, and there was a large pressurizing sound, followed by a small walkway being ejected from a space under the main window.

After a few seconds the walkway touched the ground just right in front of me. I began walking up the small ramp, and in a few seconds was at the main window, when I approached it, it split into five different sections and each shot away from me, creating a huge opening for me to walk inside the ship.

Krillin was right behind me, carrying Triono behind him. In a few seconds we were both inside the ship. It had red tiled floors, with red padding on the walls and a roof window that was also tinted red. There were two chairs placed in front of a pair of control panels to my left, which I assumed were for the pilot(s); and behind the two pilot seats were two more passenger chairs. Right in the middle of the ship was a huge cylinder, reaching from the floor to the roof, with several buttons and control panels along the side of it. There was a small liquid crystal display screen read "1 G" on one side of the cylinder. I didn't know what it meant, but at that time I didn't really care.

"Nice ship you got here." I told Krillin, while still admiring the sheer size of the craft.

"Thanks. Now if you don't mind, could you buckle Triono into one of those passenger seats?" He asked while he pointed to the seats behind the pilots' chairs.

"Sure." I said as I jogged over to Krillin, who stood with Triono near the central cylinder. He handed me Triono's still limp body, and as I dragged him over to the near seat, I could hear his light breathing and the rising and falling of his chest. I knew he'd be good as new if he ever woke up and ate one of those senzu beans of Krillin's.