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Judy Robinson had a lot of things in her mind lately, from what was happening to her parents to how to get herself, her siblings and all the children under her care out of that dead planet without a meteor crushing them. Of course, her thoughts have been calmer now that they not only have the titanium to repair the motor, but the help of Grant Kelly, but she was not counting with the apparition of a group of big spaceships in the horizon. There were screams around and Judy couldn´t blame the other children for being scared. Last time they had contact with an alien species, they were attacked by robots. And the possibilities of that happening again were…
“What is it doing?” asked Penny, advancing towards the window after calming down the several children inside the tiny Jupiter. “Are those the robots?”
“Their spaceships looked different” Will appeared alongside his sisters, staring at the ships as if it was the first time he saw one. Which he did not, they had seen several spaceships when the robots attacked them. “We should investigate.”
“Are you mad?!”
“No, I´m not. We should really investigate that ship”
“Will…”
“You ARE mad!!”
“Come on!! We have come across another intelligent alien life form and are just going to let go the opportunity to make contact?”
“Do you even remember the last time we made contact with an intelligent alien life form?”
“I got a robot?”
“That was the time before that” Penny and Judy looked at their little brother, but they knew her enough to know that he wasn´t going to back down. “Alright, but if you do this, you are going to take Robot and US with you.”
“Wait, what?” her redheaded sister stared at her as if she had turned insane too. “You haven´t said what I thought you just said…”
Apparently she did, because the next thing Penny knew she had her spacesuit on and was going to space with her siblings and the robot. The children were left in Liam´s and PJ´s care as Grant watched the Jupiter. As they floated through the emptiness, Penny monologued about why they were doing this. About how insane that family was and how insane everything they did was, from an amateur realizing an operation on their mother to sailing in a spaceship through a toxic sea plagued with toxic seaweed. The girl was also telling herself that surely there couldn´t be robots inside, because if there were…
“Can you stop it?” Judy told her sister. “From what I see, there is people inside.”
“People people, or biological aliens with many tentacles?”
“People people” Judy pointed at one side of the ship. “Can you see it now? It clearly says Elissyus corporation. In English, a language of our world. So, by deduction, the ship must come from the Earth.”
“Earth… does anyone else remember a corporation called Elygius from home or it´s only me?”
“No” Will continued. “I knew all the companies that could have built something like this and there was none called Elygius… at least from our home. Especially one that combined geology and space travelling technology.”
“What?”
“Down there, energy for a better future. It means that they were mining asteroids to get fuel… something that was banned when the Christmas Star crashed and the environment started to become too toxic for human habitation” he explained. “and I think that I have found a way to get in, follow me.”
“So… we are getting inside a spaceship from an unknown, possibly illegal company that extracted fuel from space rocks? Someone else thinks it´s a bad idea?”
“Come on”
With the combined effort of Will and Robot, they managed to open the door to the hangar. There was an amazing looking smaller spaceship there… and the alarm was sounding at top volume. Penny lifted what looked like an artisanal sword from one of the tables around… definitely not a good idea to enter there. But that didn´t seem to bother her brother in the slightest, because the idiot wandered around admiring all the technology. It looked a little bit antiquate to her taste, but… oh, and there was Will, wandering again with his Robot behind him. Yeah, she wasn´t…
“Come on” Judy said and they reassumed their wandering around the ship. Seriosuly, archaic. The Resolute certainly could go faster than this tin can any day… but the Resolute also was built over alien technology, which meant that this is probably the best humanity could do without help.
“Woow” Will said when they stumbled upon a chamber filled to the brim with what looked like tiny coffins covered in frost. “Crio”
“What?”
“Cryogenic sleep” the boy answered. “You couldn´t simply ignore this. The Resolute has it´s own cryogenic beds for when someone gets injured and they need to slow down their vitals until they could be treated. Grant Kelly and his crew were in cryotubes!!”
“Ah, so that was the things he and Judy brought to the camp”
“Anyway, this technology is very different from the tubes that were designed for space missions. What kind of technology enterprise could design something like this?”
“Will, I don´t think it´s our main problem here” Judy said, approaching her siblings. “Just think about it. What kind of miner could accept this kind of job? One where you couldn´t go back to your planet or family? And where there is high risk? Because I don´t think mining in asteroids is the safest kind of mining.”
“Yes… I don´t think so either” Will answered. “Let´s go find out exactly who we boarded.”
The siblings and their robot went to the main deck, where a computer was. Will went straight for the computer and pulled up the manifest. One reading was enough to convince Penny that they definitely shouldn´t have entered that ship. Apparently, the illegal corporation used prisoners as miners. Murderers, mass murderers, terrorists… had she mentioned murderers? It was enough to make her fear for her life. Perhaps they should simply, slowly, walk out of the ship and return to their…
“Watch out!!”
The sword passed centimeters from Will´s face before the Robot intervened and stopped whoever was wielding it. A woman… with the most scary face painting Penny had ever seen. Not that she had seen many before, only that… scary. Behind the woman, wielding weapons from swords to pistols, were a group of young humans. They seemed ready to fight the alien Robot even if that could cost them their lives. Penny approached her siblings. If these people were on the ship, then they surely have committed heinous crimes, which meant they were surrounded by insane murderers…
“What is that? A robot?” one of them asked, a young latino woman. “Was it on the ship before?”
“No… and neither were them” a blond girl said, staring at them. “Who are you and what are you doing here?”
“Stay back!! We… Robot will take care of you if you try to…”
“What are you talking about?”
“You… you are criminals!! That´s why you are…”
“Ah, you are talking about the prisoners. We got rid of them…”
“Raven, stop” the blond ordered. “Perhaps we should introduce ourselves before making assumptions. Lexa, please lower the sword.” The woman with the war paint responded in some kind of guttural language that all but the Robinsons seemed to understand, the blond answering in the same speech. “Alright, I´m Clarke. These are Raven, Bellamy, Echo, Harper, Monty and Lexa.”
“Nice to… meet you?” Penny talked. “Are you truly not murderers?”
“No, you can check the archives to confirm that” the woman called Echo had a way of watching them that made the girl doubt the veracity of that declaration. “And you are?”
“I´m Judy Robinson, this is my brother Will and my sister Penny” she said. “And Will´s Robot.”
“It´s a great piece of technology, kid” Raven said, analyzing the robot with glee. “You must be a genius to build something like this.”
“I… I didn´t build him, I kind of find him and repair him…”
“Impressive!!” the girl eyed the robot even more. “You know, I´m a zero g mechanic and pilot, so for me any technology…”
“Raven…”
“Come on, Clarke, let me have some fun”
“So… you are crew members or something like that? Guards?” Penny asked. “Aren´t you a little bit young to be guarding prisoners in a spaceship that let´s them handle dangerous things for mining fuels?”
“The mission Eligius Three was repurposed when the Earth suffered a nuclear apocalypse, now it transports whatever is rest of humankind towards the future” Monty explained. “But I guess that now that you are here, we can safely say that Earth recovered and we can come down.”
“Yeah, there is a problem with that”
“What problem?” Penny motioned for the window. It would be easier to explain if they actually saw it instead of listening to the Robinson´s words. “What the hell happened here?!! What did you do to the Earth?!”
“We didn´t do anything and that´s not the Earth” Judy explained. “Perhaps we should begin from the beginning.”
-A few hours later-
Clarke was having some troubles digesting it. And it was just… she had seen lots of bizarre things in her life. Damn, she had even travelled through time!! Unfortunately, not even with that advantage she managed to save the Earth… her Earth. Because the Robinson siblings apparently came from another Earth that had more advanced technology. Enough for them to do what Elygius wanted to, develop a colony in another planet. AS for why they were so far away from their planet, Monty told them that he programmed the computer so, if Earth didn´t heal after Praimfaya, a secondary protocol would activate and take them to deep space in search of a new home. As for why Clarke was there despite not wanting to survive if Earth did not was…
“… we only want you to know that we love you. Have a good life, Clarke.”
The last message of her parents told her everything she needed to know. Abby and Jake Griffin had wanted her to live, so when the environment started to deteriorate in Eden, they drugged her food to put her in cryo. Like they did with her friends, because they trusted them to keep her safe. Why her? Abby was an amazing doctor and Jake was an amazing engineer. The world needed them more than it needed the Commander of Death. Or the space.
“Stop torturing yourself over that” Bellamy said, entering the room she was watching the final messages of her parents. “It´s done, now we have to move forward.”
“All the preparation, all the things we did… and everything I went through so I could change our destinies… and it was for nothing” she said, turning his eyes towards him. “We couldn´t save our planet or our people…”
“But you saved our people. You saved more than last time” he sat down near her. “Lexa, Lincoln, Maya, Jasper, Roan, Charlotte… Wells. They are all alive because you endeavored to keep them that way. Dammit, you even saved Octavia in a way, she didn´t become Bloodreina again because you devised a way to communicate with the Ring.”
“That was Raven and the Elygius tech…”
“And whose idea was to use the tech from Elygius? Raven could have saved our asses by putting these metal tin cans to work, but it was you who proposed to search in the locations of Eligius so more people could escape” he smiled. “Your parents were good people and I agree with them. You deserved to live.”
“I´m a murderer”
“So am I, but every drop of blood we shed was so our people could live” he patted her back. “Now come on, you have to get up and help Lexa. She might be the Great Commander of the Kongeda, but she is going to need her girlfriend backing her if she is going to rebuild our world.”
“We don´t even have a planet”
“These Robinson kids and their people do. Apparently, they think it´s big enough for us all to share” so they were better than them. “Come, the others are waiting.”
They were indeed. All except Monty and Harper, who had accompanied the girl named Penny back to the ship. The crew was all children, didn´t that remind her of something? Even if the decision was taken for different reasons, the 100 were also children when they were sent down to Earth to see if it was inhabitable. As they talked to the other two kids, they realized that a lot of the planet Alpha Centauri was wild. The colony was a relatively small place. The grounders… at least those that were from the clans would find a good place to rebuild their society, while the Arkers and Maunon could live in the colony. Of course, that could be a choice, they could also adapt…
“Guys!!” Monty´s voice through the communicator took her out of her thoughts. She grabbed the laser com.
“What´s going on?”
“Remember that Robot the kids brought with them? Well, it´s making a strange thing that… and it´s projecting an image right now that… are those spaceships?”
“Give me that!!” Penny Robinson´s voice nearly pierced their ears. “Judy, Will!! The robot is showing us our parents, like in the cave!! I´m trying to talk to them, but they don´t answer!! Will, what do I do?!”
“Don´t do anything” her brother answered. “It´s not the robot or our parents, it´s SAUR. He is trying to use our parents as bait to find us.”
“Bait? Why would someone need a bait? And what is SAUR?” Clarke asked.
“Second Alien Robot, he is an evil robot that attacked our ships and has been trying to kill us since he found us” the boy explained. “We need to go rescue our parents.”
“Wait, Will, we can´t just run to the rescue, he will kill us” Judy said. “My mission is to bring all those children to Alpha Centauri unharmed and that´s what I will do. Our parents would agree with me.”
“Then we are going to abandon our parents?!!”
“I like this about as much as you, but we don´t have another option!! We don´t even know how to fight…”
“But we do” Clarke intervened. “And you are smart enough to device a plan, no? Leave the fight to us, that´s a thing we are good at. We have fought in terrible conditions before and won, we will again. You focus on rescuing your parents and taking our people to the colony. Bellamy…”
“I will go wake Octavia.”
“Go…”
“No” Will Robinson stopped him. “No, we are going to do it in our own way. And we aren´t risking anyone. We might need your strengths in the future, especially if SAUR somehow manages to reach the Colony.”
“Then what do you want to do?”
“Well…”
-A few hours later-
Maureen and John Robinson hugged their children. Much to their surprise, they had managed not only to find them again, but guiding all the children from the 24° Group of Colonists and find new friends. They didn´t know how much they could trust these strange group, but for now they would give them the benefit of the doubt. Their assessment was cut short, as Don arrived with a list. All prepared to leave, Clarke sending Raven, Monty and Harper back to the Eligius so the mechanic could pilot and guide the ships to the Colony along with the Jupiters. The rest went with the Robinsons on their Jupiter after saying goodbyes.
“Okay, fasten your seatbelts, it´s going to be a rocky ride” Reyes instructed as she sat down on the controllers. The mechanic followed the smaller Jupiters through the hole in space time, emerging on the other side with the ships and the rest of the Eligius ships. She smiled when she saw the planet. They made it!! That was their new home!! “Clarke, we are here, it´s beautiful… Clarke? CLARKE!! LEXA!! BELLAMY!! ANSWER ME!!”
“Raven, where are they…”
“I… I don´t know but… but we are going to find them… we are going to find them” she walked towards the cryobay, activating some pods. “Wake up, John, it´s not time to sleep.”
“Has the Earth recovered yet?”
“No, but we find a new home” Raven answered as she helped Emory to her feet. Monty and Harper did the same with Octavia and Lincoln, who seemed confused. “Clarke, Bellamy and the others are lost in space and we need to find them. But there is also a demented robot trying to kill them and the people who helped us, so we might need to prepare this place for a good fight. So you take care of the fighting part and I will search our friends.”
“And just when I thought that the fight has ended.”
“Be realistic, when has it ended” Raven smirked. “Still better than the planet of the evil bodysnatchers, don´t you think?”
“Anything is better than that” Murphy answered, touching his forehead. “Lost in Space, eh? They did it well this time, but somehow I think they can come back to us fine. They are the kind to defy all probabilities.”