Arrival

11th of July 3220, evening.

Rick was co-piloting with Purushottam. If one noticed from the side, they could see that the corner of Purushottam's mouth was twitching. It was clear that he was visibly angry. And the reason for his anger was the one sitting right beside him on the pilot seat.

It seemed that Mr. Rick was not only bad in maintaining himself in anti-gravity, he was equally bad in flying the spaceship. He did not remember any of the complex controls, and had stupid desires every now or then to press buttons present in the panel in front of him, without any rhyme or reason. Purushottam was waiting for the next straight pass, where there was no meteoroids to change co-pilot with either of the kids sleeping in the back than the over energetic Rick. This way at least he would be less tired.

Once the straight was reached, Purushottam put the space ship on auto pilot, and woke Len up. Then Len had to pull Rick by his hands to avoid a mishap like last time and they successfully changed the shift. The space ship flew for another 8 hours with Len and Aryaan taking turns at flying the vessel. For the last 2 hours Purushottam left the control of the spaceship in the hands of Len and Aryaan.

The flight technique of the two boys had surprisingly gotten better in such a short period of time that Purushottam was relaxed enough to fall asleep. He woke up a few minutes before reaching Svarga Nagri's atmosphere, and asked one of the boys to switch with him.

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Since Len had been flying for the longest time, he switched with Purushottam. As soon as the spaceship entered the atmosphere of Svarga Nagari, it faced a huge amount of resistance and gravitational pull. This jerked the travellers inside the ship and gave them a feeling of free fall.

Suddenly a scream could be heard, "Someone turn off the seatbelt lock! I need to pee. Please, it's urgent!". It was none other than Rick shouting at the top of his lungs!

Everyone in the cabin decided to ignore him. There seems to be a saying, "If you ignore a fool, they would stop fooling around!". Purushottam turned on the gravitational stabilizer function of the craft. After a while silence once again regained in the cabin.

The craft slowly lowered the altitude.

Finally it was time to land. The coordinates where the spaceship could land was pre determined at the registration station. This was because the planet was uninhabited to the extent of no space station was built back as of yet.

"Boys, the place we are going to land on was previously known as Dev Nagari. It is from this place that our ancestors hailed!", informed Purushottam.

As the spaceship decended, other than grey fog, some brown vegetation could be seen. The place where the sip landed was a barren land beside a dried up forest.