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The shuttle touched down on the landing pad. It had taken quite a
while to travel the distance from the Jupiter Station to Earth and
almost everyone had fallen asleep. Zodar woke up startled and quickly
realised that he had been holding his bag as a oversized teddy bear.
What's more, there was a steady stream of saliva running down his bag
onto the seat. His face turned bright red with the embarassment and
he started to whistle to make it look like there was nothing wrong.
Unfortunately, this only sprayed spit all over the place.
Chris stopped what he was doing completely and seriously reflected on
the current situation.
"Woo Hoo! Shore leave!"
The idea was like fairy floss in his mind.
"What am I gonna do?" This idea had crept up on Chris too fast.
He'd been dreaming about the possibilities. He could do so many
things... Gyrocyling, Zero-G Hoverblading, Virtual Paintball...
He could even try designing a device for when he went back on the
ship, something cool, something that would save the crew in some
weird circumstance in the future.
Then again...
Zodar made up his mind.
"I know! I'll catch up with my friends at home!" Chris exclaimed.
And with that, the hatch opened and he disembarked off the shuttle.
"I wonder how my pal Birdi is! And what about Boof! I have so much to
find out!"
(In case you didn't get the significance of the names, don't worry,
Birdi and Boof are friends of Chris's in Sydney. But I didn't mention
Mr X. Maybe he'll turn up somewhere, you never know.)
Chris looked up the next flight to Australia and headed towards his
transport to the Airport Terminal.
"I wonder what everyone else is doing?"