Chapter 7
"I guess you all have worked on your flaws", my father's voice boomed in the assembly hall.

Yes, I have definitely worked on them, I thought. The assembly hall was dark. My father was giving a speech and subtitles were coming on the big screen behind him.

"You all will be trained hard, I hope you all have prepared physically", he paused

"And mentally" he gave extra time saying the word.

I touched my abdominal region feeling it packed with some hard muscles. I had been running and exercising from the past one and a half year.

"I am going to tell you all some basic rules you all have to follow-
Proper discipline should be maintained, all the time.
You will always carry your emergency helmet with you all the time.
Its not like this that you can't have fun there; surely you will enjoy it as well. You all will be monitored all the time except your privacy hours.
But no pranks with the programme will be tolerated. You must not harm anyone". My father said in a serious tone.

"Now you all have to change in your school uniform, which is also a space suit" He smiled.

These E.A.R.T.H scientists are crazy, they have been doing great experiments and doing brilliant inventions.(though they have used a great amount of our country's resources.)

"In the ship you have to sit on the seat which matches your roll number, now you all are dismissed" said my father leaving the stage.

Everybody stood up and shuffled their legs.

"Boys have to go left and girls have to go right". A robotic voice bellowed from the speakers.

A blue arrow appeared pointing towards the left and a purple arrow appeared point towards right on the gigantic screen.

I started moving towards the left with other kids, my eyes were desperately searching for Nyx.

The kids from behind surged forward so I had to move. I exited the hall and found myself in a corridor. There were six tables. Everybody formed lines around them.

I was at the starting of the line at the 3rd table.

"Good morning, Can you please tell your roll number." Said an old woman with big blue eyes, she was in her sixties. She must have been beautiful when she was young. I started dreaming about Dextera.

"Uh-Uh, can you please tell me your roll number" the woman asked me politely.

"Oh, It's eleven", I said embarrassed. "Why are we not wearing the uniform that we already have, is this has something extra"? I asked.

"No dear, it's just an extra uniform, no extra feature" she said handing me the dark red uniform with the number 11.

I smiled and went towards the room that was named 'changing room".

There were already a dozen of kids there. I started to change. The uniform was soft and comfortable from inside.

It was made of a synthetic fibre named 'Kafuton'. It was invulnerable from dangerously high temperature, keep you warm in cold temperature, if you are sweating hard it will allow the sweat to evaporate, waterproof, and was 50 times stronger than steel. Surely this was one of the greatest fibres ever invented by humankind.

I slid into the uniform, zipped it from the side. I noticed that the collar was somewhat hard. I touched it.

"System online," I jumped as I heard a female voice.

"Good morning sir," the voice came again "You seem scared", it was coming from the suit.

"Good morning" I replied. "Are you inside my uniform"?

"Yes, I am your personal assistant" it said. "Every uniform has its own exclusive A.I" it paused as to take a breath "I can help you in some small problems"

"Oh! Uhmm" I said impressed by the organisations gift in my suit.

"So can everybody hear you"? I asked

"No, every suit has its own exclusive A.I, only the person wearing it can listen to it. I am sending my voice to you by rhythmic vibrations from this suit to your body" it said in its robotic plus human voice.

I was still a bit startled by its voice.

"Okay, now; can I turn you off"? I asked.

"Yeah, but first you have to name me, and order me by saying my name and then system offline". It said.

"hmm name" nothing came to my mind. "Okay, so your name is Kiwi" I remembered the ancient fruit that I read in my history book.

"Nice choice sir" it exclaimed.

"Thank you, now system offline Kiwi". I said as I wanted some peace for my mind.

No voice came in reply. So I took it as a goodbye. I came out of the changing room into the corridor and so other confused faces talking to themselves.

"Hey, man" somebody knocked on my shoulder.

"Hey stupid piling" I said before turning towards Nyx.

"Where were you? I have been searching for you the whole time" I said in an angry tone.

"Me too was searching for you" he said; though he sounded like he wasn't "But man Dextera is amazing" he smiled.

Yeah she is, I thought to myself.

"What?" he asked; punching my shoulder lightly.

"What?" I asked him again coming back from my day dreaming state.

"You were grinning" he said.

"No, I was not" I said "I was just talking to my assistant" I lied. "By the way, what have you named yours"? I changed the topic.

"I have named it 'Tom'" he said proudly as he has named a baby.

"Tom? Yours is a man?" I said "Mine is a girl, and its name is Kiwi".

"Everyone is requested to report at the docks in ten minutes" the robotic voice boomed from the speakers in the corridor.

XXX

I felt my heartbeat in my mouth as I was sitting in my chair; Nyx was 18 seats behind me. He was wearing his uniform with the number 90. The spaceship was massive; ready to take off. I felt the hum of its engine as the countdown started.

T minus 10 seconds...

9

8

7

6

Sweat glistened on my forehead; I clutched the armrests of the seat. There was a massive window in front of me, everybody was nervous and was staring out of it.

2

1

Ready to launch

Go!

In just a couple of seconds we were going up, the spaceship was fighting the earth's gravitational pull, rocketing at a speed of 11 kilometres per second.

I felt that my bones have melted leaving only air inside my body. The upper part of the dome was already open.

I stared out of the window, and saw the dome of Castalia quickly closing. The spaceship eventually slowed down.

Reaching in 5 minutes.

The view was breathtaking, my heartbeat calmed down a little. Earth was looking beautiful, covered with massive black blue and orange clouds but still beautiful.

I inhaled as if I was breathing the view.

3 minutes...

Now, I could see the whole Earth in one view,

Arrived.... the voice announced,

The ship slowly turned around as it was docking itself to the station.

And Holy Molly, it was massive. Everybody wowed as our ship got parked. The school itself was a big space station.

Everybody please make a line and get down on by one.

The gate opened with a hiss.

Every one of us was amazed. We left our seats and descended the stairs that led us into the school.

I looked around and saw hundreds of other ships were parked. Lights were coming from the floor pointing us towards a white gate.

"Welcome to S.P.O.R.E" a man said as hundreds of children entered the gate. 3 other adults were also standing beside him. One of them looked familiar.

The gate behind us closed, and I noticed the place. It was mostly white. I remembered where I have seen the man.

"Roll number 1 to 250 will go with Mr Strane Gerish," said the man.

Mr Strane Gerish face looked like he was sick.

"Roll number 251 to 500 will go with me", he smiled."Roll number 501 to 750 will go with Miss Bellona" he pointed towards a pretty lady standing beside him. "And the rest of you will be escorted by Sir Daton" He completed.

All of us arranged ourselves according to our roll number; it took us a few minutes.

Mr Strane started walking and 250 of us started following him.

"Nyx Kalra roll number 90 is calling" I heard Kiwis voice. So we can call too, impressive.

End of chapter 7

A note from author-

Hey folks I know this chapter was late and no cliff hanger but I just wanted to fill in some spaces that we will need further in the story

By the way, did you like kiwi.

And one question for you all
Choose a word- big or small. This will come handy further in the story.

And yeah my school's have opened so I have less time for writing and exams coming too.
Plz vote if you liked this chapter.
I'll try to be more consistent