Waste Planet 1337 B
Waste Planet 1337 B
Once upon a time home of a civilization so hedonist that turned most of the resources of the planet in waste, and abandoned the planet, turning into a global dumpster to accumulate and recycle the waste of other planets in their gigantic recycling factories.
Every day star-ships from every place throw thousands of tons of garbage in the planet;
The poor inhabitants never could leave the planet and their descendants still live there.
Some adapted to living conditions and became rich, controlling the recycle-rs and local mafia. Other people want to leave the planet fast as possible.
They became the hot spot for collectors looking for rare pieces for their star-ships, as exclusive or illegal modifications.
Seizing this kind of visitors became common to built casino hotels in space stations or moons around the planet, Where the visitors could have entertainment or gamble components, modifications or even money.
Also some poor inhabitants try their luck to make money to get out of the planet.
Like Momo Zangh and her best friend Jennifer Krull.
"Okay, you can gave me a card." Jenny bite her lips with excitement.
Momo 'Momo' Zangh, was a Nagual, a beastman feline race, also known as cat girl. She had orange hair with black dots, and wore a saggy overall shorts and a vest upon. Also with goggles and a fisherman hat full of key chains, both with also patch worked bags. She had typical cat like features, including her eyes and sharp fangs.
Worried she looked at her carts and the croupier, that was a Guyra, a swan-man with an uninterested expression. "I pass." She whispered.
Jenny her best friend was a tall Imole, they had a golden tanned skin and totem spiritual animals that jump from their chests with the first breath after are born. Jenny totem was Samantha or Sam a big Wolf with a blue vest, a tissue around the Neck and googles.
She gave a dry gulp. "Give me a card." Jenny wore a blue jumpsuit with so much patchwork that was hard to identify the original color and design. It was filled with pockets that she put from different fabrics. She wore special goggles and had a long pink ponytail from the top of her head, with the sides shaved.
The croupier announced. "Twenty one, winner."
"Yesss!" Momo She slapped the table and the three girls started to jump yelling of happiness. "Good, now let´s come home."
"Why? I´m in a luck wave. That was my third victory in a row."
"And we recovered all the money we lost last time. Let´s quit while we are whining."
"You don´t understand nothing about space blackjack Momo, we cannot stop in the middle of a luck wave."
"If you are in a luck wave let´s find something of value in the junkyard, like we always do. And why you call it space blackjack? It´s just blackjack."
"We are in space." Jenny pointed at the window.
With a judgmental stare Momo got all the chips from the table and threatened to slap Jenny when she tried to get some ships.
"Well, well girls." An older lady appeared surrounded by strong menacing goons. "Are you going so early with my money?"
"It´s our money miss Auntie." Momo answered. "And this time we are going to keep this way."
"And about that spaceship you two want so much?" She pulled a cartoonish long cigar from a metal case. "You two are going to give up of your long dream?"
"We are going to find something in the waste desert, a Proterian ship is discharging right now." Momo pointed at a ship over the planet through the window.
Auntie looked with a tired stare and smiled. "Let´s do a deal. I have an opportunity that you can built the spaceship you want."
"You gave us credit and if we lose we work for you like slaves, like everybody in this place?" Jenny got the chips with a raise head. "No thanks."
"No." Auntie giggled and pointed to a big guy with an unfriendly face. "A client was interested in you guys. Hes interested in pay for a legal cuha, with a contract, off course."
"A cuha?" Jenny covered her mouth looking interested. "How much hes going to pay?"
"He said it cover a 600 meters ship." Auntie released a cloud of smoke. "But you need to cry ans cream for help."
Momo smiled to Auntie. "No thank you, we pass."
The two girls changed the chips for money, and went at the hangar to their ship, Acorn 31 made with adapted discharged pieces from the waste desert. Not much bigger than a small car. It was called acorn because of the shape and 31 was the number of times they took to make it work.
"What was that out there?" Momo slapped Jenny.
"I was just curious."
"Are you out of your mind?" Momo pulled her and whispered. "A cuha it's a rape. Don't matter if people say is consensual, he was going to beat up to death."
"You remember Lynn? A guy offered to her and she went out of this place with her family and just a couple of broken bones."
"And just one eye." Momo looked at the man. "Remember Thalia? She died."
"But her family get out of here."
"I don't think your grajndmother will want to get any place if you are dead."
The planet didn't have only deserts of junk, it had also rings like Saturn, made of all kinds of trash. It was need to find a window to come and go to and from the planet.
In her altered emotional state, Momo didn't notice a big piece of metal in a moment of distraction and hit it losing control, falling and fell right in a violent part of the ring where they were hit by hundreds of scraps of spaceships.
The small ship entered the atmosphere spinning in the worst way possible and started to burn, while inside the ship the wall started to crack with the pressure.
Desperate Jenny, Sam and Momo tried everything they could to stable the ship in vain.
"The garbage ray." Jenny pointed. "The gravitational being protect the junk from crash in the ground."
Momo didn´t thought twice and dove in the rain of waste surrounded by a blue light. They were too fast and blow a lot of debris, pretty much shattering the acorn in the process. But they slow down and landed gently.
"We are safe?" Sam whimpered?
"Surrounded by trash." Momo sighed. "We had luck."
"Luck!" Jenny snapped her finger and wildly started to hit the keyboard. "Maybe we find something in this waste."
"Are you serious?" Momo looked at the window to the waste surrounding them.
"That why we never got our hands in anything good Momo, everybody already finished whit everything good and we are in the safe zone." Jenny took a device.
"We are falling with the waste from the ship, there's no way to be earlier than that."
"My treasure scan is working."
"There's a pile of hydrant drink right there." Sam pointed at the window.
"That factory bankrupted six months ago because their hydrating drinks were toxic."
The device started to blip. "I find. It's here among that debris."
"Probably is some old battery leaking like the last time."
"My scan localized something big. The biggest thing we ever found."
"We already found a perfect circuit breaker yesterday. Let's go back, I'm thirst."
Jenny put a device in one slot in the panel and started dig the pile with the tractor ray. "Help me push thing."
"Are you sure that this second hand detector is working?"
"I'm the one who assembled."
"And put one of those hacked software's."
"Help here and pull this thing." From the debris an egg shaped blue thing appeared.
"That's a jewel?" Sam put her head between them.
"No, the scan says it's hollow." Jenny looked at the screen. "I think is like some kind of broken chamber."
"I hope didn't explode this time." The oval thing float to the the ship. That opened the door and Sam jumped upon it. "Time to go."
Fast they kicked out what remained from the cabin door and ran from the rain of trash. Because of the ray, it was hard to move.
Sam the wolf giggled. "Feels like in those dreams that we try to run from monsters, but we are in slow motion."
Momo pushed the controls. "That´s why nobody tries a dumb stunt like this one."
The ray take out the weight of everything and they could roll the remains of the Acorn. However soon they get out from the effects of the ray, the ship rolled the pile of junk and crashed in a million of pieces.
Dizzy and Angry Momo opened the door.
"Oh! Great wave of luck." Momo fall in her knees with the hands in the head. "We lost our ship."
"We made a better one." Jenny sighed hopeless. "Let´s see if we put the floaters to work at least to push it home, before the ship turn out the ray and this pile of junk crumble."
"We need to be fast Jenny, we already are too far from the safety zone. Mutants can appear at any second."
Jenny passed a device over the blue chamber. "I think there's a flux capacitor inside."
"What are you doing? We don´t have time for that." Momo complained getting the floater that looked like a toy gun.
"What we do now?" Sam the wolf asked.
"We take it home, sell the pieces and we buy a spaceship to get out of here forever." Momo bash the controls and the remain of the ship started to float a couple of feet from the ground. "The floaters were working."
The two pulled the ship from the pile, fast as they could, and after a while the ship turn out the gravitational ray and the mountain of garbage crumbled.
They walked through the trash desert, with piles and piles of waste. At the horizon, giant recycling machines were getting piles of space waste. I n the sky they could see the moon with another ring around, The utopia casino created hundred years ago as an amusement park for the rich recyclers lose their money. Many times Jenny and Momo lose their money there.
The waste planet 1337 B, had many waste desert's with the politic of finder's keeper. The richest recyclers used machines to take the waste until the fabrics where would disassembled in its basic elements, while the poor people explored the garbage after something valuable.
There was expeditions with dozens of people too look around the piles of garbage for days. And a weird wild life developed in the place around the years.
Zap!!
"What are you shooting at, Momo?"
"A mutant. It looked like a giant naked mole rat with six members."
"You know how a giant naked mole rat look like?"
"I saw pictures. I show you at home."
Outside the trash deserts you could found the regenerate lands, where the out of control plants and savage animals grow without control. And under electrified fences the preserved areas where humans lived in bunkers. Like an anthill under the ground.
They reached the humongous recycle factory and at side a small village surrounded by a metal fence and woods that grew among the junk.
It was a village of bunkers, the entrances where like igloos and rounded roles to underground squares, some covered by old remains of glass domes.
Under the stares they went to a corridor with view to the square, crossed a couple of apartments until Jenny's´s house and parked the remains of the acorns in a small ship garage that they used as an improvised workshop.
The girls took two sonic crowbars from an old wooden tools shelf and started to open the cover. After a few clanks they opened it and Sam that was exited stopped.
Sam put her paws in the chamber? "That's a statue?"
Momo e Jenny exchanged glances. Jenny make a signal with her head to the cat girl go on.
She took her gloves and poked the clothes. "I think there was a corpse inside, with our luck is a rotten corpse."
"It's not a coffin?" Momo took out a cover to look inside. "Seems that has a guy in a space suit inside."
"If is a corpse I believe is fresh." Jenny winked. "We can sell to the baby food factory."
"What kind of guy is thrown away from a ship in the middle of the trash?" Sam asked worriedly. "What we do If he was some kind of criminal, running from the rangers?"
"Then we deliver to greed eye and he share a reward from the galactic rangers with us."
"What is that beep now?" Sam looked at the quadricorder.
"The scan says that was has fractal cubes and flux capacitor's inside." Jenny looked around.
"Where they are?" Sam looked around.
Jenny stared breathing heavily. "I think they are inside the clothes." They started to look in the clothes.
Momo find a big switchblade. "What is that?"
"Took a picture with the quadricorder and look in the intranet." Sam the wolf rolled her eyes.
"Good idea!" Jenny took the quadricorder, took a picture of the switchblade and started to look. "Holly Mole! That´s an axis saber!!"
"What´s the problem now?"
"A new one is 15000!" Jenny show the screen to Momo.
The three girls get frightened. "That´s really the best thing we ever found."
"I told you I was in a luck wave, just that value more money than everything we found here together."
"And the space suit?" Sam hopped around them waving her tail.
Jenny searched in the browser. "It's says is a Gobotix mobile suit."
"Mobile suit?" Momo scratched her chin. "That's not what Starfighters uses to pilot those ships who turn into robots?"
"I doubt that If it was still working,.".
"If has a fractal cube inside." Jenny took her detector and was shocked. "That thing must be broken, it says that there was eight functional fractal cubes; You don´t find such a thing in a dumpster."
Momo slapped her hands taking the dust out. "I already checked the clothes."
Sam the wolf jumped at the chamber. "You think is inside the body?"
Momo crossed her arms. "Why someone would put such valuable thing inside a corpse?"
"You can thing a better way to smuggle things?" Sam the wolf raised an eyebrow. "Someone from the guard get close and they throw away the chamber in the dumpster."
Momo and Jenny exchange stares. "Make sane."
Jenny agreed. "Will not be the first time something like that happens."
"Let´s call Tracy and dismantle him?"
"We can do that."
"I´m not going to open a cadaver, Jenny."
"You are so coward Momo."
"It's not a matter of fear, but a matter of disgust."
"You are going to change your mind." Jenny almost cryed.
"Why?"
"Gobotix suits are exclusive tailored." Jenny showed the screen. "They cost from fifity to five hundred thousand "
Momo yelled. "That´s half a million!"
"We need to undress this guy." Sam bites the suit and pulled.
"I read that has an emergency lock under the chin of the helmet to rescue pilots." Jenny looked for a lock. "I found it."
"They wrote something in the clothes." Sam the Wolf read. "OVO P.K. Griefer. You think is his name?"
"I hope those scribbles didn't take out the value." Momo started to help to take out his clothes. "This guy is some kind of cyborg."
Sam shook her head. "What kind of cyborg has fractal cubes inside?"
"A very rich one." Jenny pull out the helmet and was surprised. "What a waste he was a hunk."
"Oh! I do a guy like that in a blink of an eye." Momo whispered. "Sad he´s dead, look like those guys from advertisements."
"You saw someone hot like that in your life?" Jenny giggled. "He looks like those guys from aftershave commercials."
"I don´t know. I think I do this guy dead." Jenny shrugged.
"There's something in his forehead over the left eye." Sam jump on him. "Three Z's in a triangle. Triangle Z? Triple Z?"
"What? Let me see." Momo pushed her to get a better position.
Jenny passed the quadricorder around. "According with the scan he has something valuable inside." She took a sonic screwdriver and a knife.
Momo widened her eyes and hushed to take the uniform. "Let me took the mobile suit first."
"Don't dirty it with blood." Sam jumped back in the floor.
"The blood must already dry." Jenny turned him.
"He has come kind of cover in the back." Jenny stabbed the body.
"Oh, by the galactic gods." Sam run to the other side of the workshop. "He´ s bleeding."
"I knew we should call Tracy." Momo stepped nervously. "She would pay for the blood."
"It's not so much blood, he already stop bleeding." Jenny used the screwdriver and took out something that looked like a small battery. "Hold this."
Momo hold it and tears started to flow. "By the abyssal moons, that´s a flux capacitor!"
"And here has another one." Jenny cleaned the blood with a piece of cloth and get up. "With this we can do magic. I will not even sell this."
"You really are with luck." Momo hold her hands and they hopped yelling of happiness. "Let's took of his suit and leave it to Greed eye."
"Good. What we do with him?" Sam asked.
"Close the coffin." Jenny gave on shoulder. "After we went to Greed eye we need Tracy to disassemble him."
"It´s not a coffin."
"Whatever." Momo kissed the flux capacitor. "Lets go and them we bring Tracy here."
"Why you need Tracy?" A voice come from outside
It was an old sheep woman with a interested smile.
"Granny Dolly?" Momo was startled. "What you are doing here?"
"I saw you guys yelling and came to see if Jia was at home." The old lady entered before they could do anything. "Who is that one?"
"That one?" They changed stares.
"That's a parent I don't see for a long time who comes to visit."
She looked at a picture in the wall. "J.J.?"
"That one." Momo agreed and looked at Jenny waiting for confirmation.
"That´s it, my older brother." Jenny agreed. "J.J. the old J.J."
The old granny looked at Jenny confused. "But your father said he died in the star troops."
"You know how my father was Miss. J.J. was dead to him after he leaved."
"Why you need Tracy? I saw her right a minute ago." She looked at the guy, but Momo kept in the way. "That´s blood? He´s hurt?"
"I need her to fix J.J. hips. But don't worry, we going out and we are right back." And they pushed the old lady outside the house. "Let's get out because he is dead tired."
They closed the door and run with the blade and the suit.