"Well … " Calvin mumbled.
The answer was that he was a native of the galaxy who went to earth, then returned back to his body.
He was a regressor.
He just made a really short detour through earth.
On top of that, he is the game designer, and the main driving force behind the Interstellar Odyssey on earth.
He never expected he would come back. Looking at Sera's manner of talking, he threw an arrow in the blind, then, as was his luck, he struck bulls-eye.
Sera is the first variable he is experiencing.
Or more like, this is the first time his body was intact enough that his soul was able to come back.
His life always ended when the starbeast infestation was cleared, and the planets were devoured.
This time, when he opened his eyes, Moby was about to drift straight into the mouth of a Bazinga.
Calvin drove Moby straight out of there. The bazinga followed, resulting in this situation of the Bazinga being trapped in the nest's barrier.
" Oh my god ! You are the Dark Knight ! " Sera exclaimed. !
Then, all of a sudden, she wiped her already clean hands on her pajamas, then extended her hand.
" Nice to meet you. I am Sera Dustwood, I am currently a literature student at Harvard. I like Panera bread over Olive, and hope to enter law school next year. " she introduced herself.
Calvin, who had never much dealt with girls whether it is in the galaxy or on the earth, was quite taken aback internally.
" ugh… " he said with all of his two hundred and twenty of his IQ.
Fortunately for him, Sera is more nervous than himself, and unlike his own brain freeze when faced with girls, Sera's panic is to ramble.
" So, Mr. Ranker ! What's the plan ? … Whatever the plan is, I promise you, you will not find a better helper than myself, whether it is here or on earth. I have worked every job there is, and could drive any machine in the galaxy, and have a memory capable of remembering the entire five hundred page manual. " Sera said, swinging on the balls of her feet.
She's trembling with both nervousness and fear.
In the galaxy, the Dark Knight is a lone wolf.
He literally met satan, slew satan, met buddha, slew buddha type.
In the galaxy, his kill count could not be rivaled by even a natural disaster.
She really couldn't think of a way to keep her own life other than becoming his utterly loyal licking dog ! or bitch ! whatever … survival is more important.
' Nova ! Nova ! What should I say ? ' Calvin is internally panicking, poking his unresponsive system.
Almost everyone in the galaxy has a system. He, the ultimate captain, has lost his original captain of the universe system when he fulfilled the task of saving the universe. Now all he has is the spare system he bought on a whim on a beach island for picking up girls, called 'Casanova'. However, Casanova, like the true five-penny system, stops functioning as soon as the girl looks like she wants to talk to him.
In essence, he has already picked up the girl, so from now on, conversation is up to him.
" Now .. the plan … ! " Calvin stumbled.
Sera nodded with eager looking eyes.
" Yes, yes ! The plan. " she repeated after him, impatience written all over her face.
She is ready to blaze through the odyssey, run straight to the peak along with the top ranker !
" We develop here ? … " Calvin said hesitantly.
" Huh .. !? " Sera was taken aback.
She expected he had a grand plan of subduing the Bazinga, blasting through the junkyard with a pulsar powered electromagnetic rail gun, then declaring war on Alliance.
" Develop here ? like farming on the land, and staying out of every one's hair like a retirement community ? " Sera asked.
" Yes. " , Calvin nodded his head.
" Master Calvin ! You are absolutely right. We will stay here and conserve our strength. When all other parties in the galaxy are tired after the fight, we will take them over ! " Sera decided for him.
" Ugh.. ! … " , ' I mean let's just stay out of galaxy's sight ' is what Calvin wanted to say, but looking at Sera's happy smile, he was too mesmerized to speak.
As unapproachable as Sera looks, her smile was radiant enough to light up a room.
Calvin, whether here or on earth, had never seen any one smile so sincerely from the bottom of his heart. After all, he had grown up as a child soldier, then, when he went to earth, he went straight to the coding box, then he had been busy with developing Odyssey.
Even the ants and cockroaches in their lab are male, he is sure. That's how inexperienced he was with the females. Thus, each and every one of Sera's actions are unexpected, and enlightening for him.
" On that note, what do you want to eat ? I will make it. " Sera asked. Then, she stopped in her tracks.
Despite asking that question, all she had on her hand were nutrition drinks.
She looked at Calvin apologetically.
" This… " She stuttered.
" I take S-level, no flavoring. " Calvin answered.
She does have S level no flavoring nutrition drinks. She brought them specially, when she realized they are the perfect sort of accompaniment if she is stuck in one more situation like the one on the test planet. S-level nutrition could feed her for three days, with no waste products generated in the body. It's perfectly calibrated. One could call it divine dew.
Calvin tinkered with the positioning system, and in just one minute, he gave up.
" We can not use this. This is a triangular sample style mapping device. However, we are surrounded by a gravitational ring, blocking its sight all around. I need to take it into space, out of the gravitational ring, to map any area. "
" But .. " ' we do not have enough energy to escape out of the gravitational ring ' is what she wanted to say, but it's too obvious of a reason to be stated out loud.
" Indeed. Once it's full, Moby could traverse out of the ring, but he doesn't have enough energy to come back. " Calvin said, gesturing to his clover munching dragon.
Sera looked at the sky, and realized the second problem.
The bazinga could easily strike the leviathan down with a pulsar beam or gravitational beam as long as it did not stay right above the gravitational ring. If The bazinga is considered down, then they have to go up. After going a distance far enough to not be hit by the planet eater, they have to make a circle in space to create maps, then, they can return down, reaching the base station.
There is a reason these beasts are called planet eaters. They still roam the universe freely, despite the millions of years of technology development in the galaxy. Their power is unrivaled.
Sera hesitated for a second. Actually, if they could land on the Bazinga with the leviathan, and the leviathan could take in the energy, then she could transfer the energy of the Bazinga to the leviathan, making any sort of space traversal easy.
However, once she reveals that card, she has no secrets from Calvin.
After eating, Calvin wandered outside to look for any resources he could gather. Not that there is anything but muddy soil outside.
As he was walking by, he turned his head and saw the black wooden mecha.
He suddenly stopped, then wandered closer to the mecha. He placed his hand on it, then closed his eyes.
Sera did not know what he was doing, but the next minute, he opened his eyes, and looked at Sera with his eyes full of shock. Fortunately, Sera turned away, and did not notice his look.
Calvin rushed into the pod once again.
" You could transfer energy ? " He asked Sera.
Sera stopped in her tracks like the deer in headlights.
' How ? ' She wondered, looking at Calvin's face.
Calvin was too excited to care.
" That mecha was a wooden mecha designed specially. It could only be activated by a seed containing an incredible amount of energy. However, that's not all. Only the person who transferred that energy could drive that mecha. " He explained to Sera.
' Damn ! to think I would get caught like this ! ' Sera lamented.
" You know what ? If you can transfer the energy of the Bazinga, I can teleport you anywhere in the universe. " Calvin offered.
" That is not enough to risk my neck. " Sera refused bluntly.
Calvin continued to persuade her. What can I say ? Sera is a sucker for good looks. In no time at all, they are traveling towards Bazinga, which seemed to be in a temporary daze after shooting energy beams.
Sera went down in the mecha. For animals, she could transfer energy by touching them with her mecha. That is why this mecha must be organic, and that is why it's so special. It's a gigantic clone of its owner, plus a little more.
For complete synchronization between both of them, the mecha needs to grow a brain pod. Fortunately, it's already started, only lacking in energy at this moment. More energy that goes through her mecha, the more the brain pod grows.
Sera settled happily on bare feet in the cabin. She placed one gigantic wooden hand on the ground, which a power spot on Bazinga, with another, held Moby's tentacle, started transferring energy.