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Chapter 2: The Mobile Colonies of Mercury Venus

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Chapter 2: The Mobile Colonies of Mercury and Venus:
Mercury is the first planet in the system. It has next to no atmosphere, its rotation in sync with its cycle, one side always facing the sun and is constantly being baked by the sun’s extreme heat, the other side always facing space and is constantly in shadow making it a frozen wasteland. Life could not survive on this barren rock, and yet, at Mercury’s north pole a mobile colony has been established, four giant cars that serve as big houses linked together on an electric track powered by the sun’s rays. Believe me, the narrator, this mobile colony gets enough power to last a day. At least, one Earth day. Tall, glass windows were positioned on the outside of the rotating colony, providing its residents with only one vantage point of Mercury at a time.
As the colony was entering the shadow side of Mercury, which could be considered night, it got an unwelcome guest. A giant, metallic wyvern landed on the colony’s track. Its tail whipped over its shoulder, a gatling gun at the end of the tail that spun as soon as the colony was within ten meters of the dragon and as the gun spun electric needles flew relentlessly from the tail and struck the colony where it made contact with its tracks. The whole colony, all four buildings, were electrified, a most unwelcome and very much surprising burst of a shock that lasted too long to the numerous people on board.
The colony stopped. It remained where it was, powerless, and smoking. The gatling gun on the end of the dragon’s tail ceased turning and the wyvern took off from the planet and into space.

On board the colony of Mercury, one man got up on his hands and knees, feeling hurt all over from the electric shock as he watched the metallic dragon fly away through space. The man pulled out his mobile device to call for help.

Venus is the second planet in the solar system, its atmosphere dense and thick with poisonous gases, metal and sulfur rain down on the planet, the greenhouse effect gone haywire, the fumes are so intense that even the rocks that dot the planet are on the verge of melting. The planet is uninhabitable, and yet there are not one but two rotating colonies on the planet, and both are located at the planet’s north and south poles. One is constantly moving along an electric track as it maneuvers across valleys, bypassing mountains, and going through canyons, the other a prison.
As the colony on the North Pole is moving through a narrow canyon a giant metal monster descended from above. It’s wings massive and organic, which could hardly be seen in Venus’s thick atmosphere. It opened its mouth and a thick laser shot from down its throat, firing at the rotating colony, the gases of Venus dodging the laser, creating a whirlwind. The laser hit the colony like a nuclear blast, stopping it dead in its tracks.
The monster slowly flapped its wings, carrying itself steadily and quickly out of Venus’s atmosphere.
No one saw where the laser had come from. But someone suspected. Bradley Snipe, the younger brother to Donovan, sat in the second to last car on the train. His mother was not currently with him, which was odd because she had been with him in that car mere minutes earlier. He pulled out his mobile device to try to reach her and attempted to make the call. His phone was unable to connect, a little odd considering they were on Venus, and with all the electricity in the atmosphere, making a connection should not be so difficult. He tried to reach his mother one more time. Brad’s mobile device was trying to find hers but could not.
He decided to make a call to his father. This took a little longer as his father was much farther away.
The phone finally connected and a hologram display showed an image of his father which moved as his father moved.
“Bradley,” said Greg.
Brad quickly adopted a quaint act of a boy about his age. “Daddy, something’s wrong. Mommy left, and now the colony has stopped.”
“What do you mean?” His father asked.
“Everything has stopped, daddy,” said Brad. “Something big attacked it and now I’m stuck.”
“Sit tight son,” said Greg. “I’ll have you out of there.”
“Daddy, please hurry” said Brad, maintaining his boyish performance.
The hologram display vanished and the face of Greg with it as the call ended.
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