Eto woke up, feeling his head pounding in pain. He slowly opened his eyes and he tried to think of what happened. Suddenly a memory flashed before his eyes of TYO falling out of the pod and later how he himself got swung out of it.

  He remembered falling but after that it went completely dark.

  While he held his hand against his head, he slowly started to get up but soon he heard a voice next to him.

  ‘Better stay down, council worm,’ a voice said and while Eto tried to look who was saying it, he slowly went down to the ground.

  Behind him were a lot of trees but one tree caught his attention.

  It was a tree shaped like a man, with arms and legs. In the tree, a face was shaped and it held a spear towards Eto.

  ‘You humans keep polluting our lands but not on my watch. Not anymore,’ the tree said as the mouth on the bark moved and he pulled his spear back, preparing for an attack.

  Eto’s arms slowly started to glow, preparing to dodge it but right before the attack happened, someone shouted towards them.

  ‘Gongarza, don’t!’ a high voice of a woman said.

  The tree stopped his attack and looked back, surprised by the voice.

  Eto also felt his power disappearing as he rolled over to look in the direction of the voice.

  From behind the tree, someone approached them and when Eto could see who it was, he could feel his heart beat a little faster.

  Behind the tree creature, a girl walked towards them.

  She had green skin and parts of her skin was covered like the bark of a tree.

  Her long dark green hair was mixed with different leaves as it almost reached the ground. The place where her clothes should be were covered up by leaves, formed elegantly around her body.

  ‘Gongarza, I command you to stand down. Pain and death do not solve problems,’ she said and even though the tree creature called Gongarza looked like he had a different opinion about it, he stepped back.

  ‘Princess, be careful. He is not from around here,’ he said on his guard for Eto.

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  When she slowly walked towards Eto, he could tell she was the same age as him. When their eyes met, he could see her being shocked by him.

  On another part of the planet, a pod opened and Veronica, Hawk and the prisoner climbed out.

  ‘Well, that was heavy,’ Veronica said, trying to stand straight after spinning so much. She felt dizzy and she felt how parts of her body were bruised.

  ‘Yeah, luckily we made a safe landing,’ Hawk said with a sarcastic tone as he also felt the pain around his body. He looked at the prisoner who looked like she had pain from the landing too.

  ‘You alright?’ he asked and she looked at him, angrily.

  ‘Why do you care?’ she almost shouted angry and Hawk pulled up his shoulders.

  ‘Fine,’ he said, ignoring her but Veronica walked up to her.

  ‘What is wrong? Veronica asked as she didn’t feel like leaving her like this, even though she attacked them.

  ‘Nothing,’ the assassin said grumpily and she looked away.

  Veronica wasn’t gonna take it and she pulled up the girl's shirt.

  ‘What are you doing?’ the assassin asked in frustration, trying to stand straight with her cuffs still on.

  ‘Stand still,’ Veronica said as she pulled up a bit of the assassin's shirt, revealing a bruise on her stomach.

  ‘One moment,’ Veronica said as she grabbed something from her pocket.

  ‘I don’t need help,’ the assassin said but Veronica ignored her.

  She grabbed a spray and started to spray on the bruise.

  ‘Could sting a little,’ Veronica mumbled but the girl looked at her with anger.

  ‘I don’t feel pain,’ she said but Veronica could see through her mask of pride.

  ‘Sure you do,’ Veronica said as she pulled the shirt back down.

  After that she looked around, noticing a wild jungle around them.

  ‘This is Daisugi?’ Veronica asked and Hawk nodded who already looked around. When they were on the ship, he had seen the bits of info on the screen about the planet. Showing a wide range of flora and fauna.

  Quickly, Hawk switched his forearm for another one and held it like a weapon in his good arm.

  ‘Watch out. We got company’ he said while looking through the trees of the jungle, noticing something had approached them.

  TYO slowly opened his lens. He could feel his tiny body being broken in different places but luckily he could get up.

  His tiny wheel got stuck in the dirt and he tried to get out.

  He looked around in panic, not recognizing the area and no one he knew.

  ‘I'm 100% in trouble,’ he mumbled to himself.

  In the distance, he heard something and hoped to find someone returned to the robot.

  With all his power left, he tried to make his way through the dirt and passed the trees around him.

  When he came to where the sound came from, he jumped from fear and tried to hide as quickly as he could.

  In the middle of the jungle stood a huge station where smoke was coming from. In and around the station, soldiers of the council could be seen.

  TYO shook with fear as he tried to calculate how much more in trouble he got into.