Neon (part 1 )

"Neon.... Uhh, that's a unique name. So.... "

Jess said with a face that says she's trying to recollect something.

"Erm, Jess?" I called out, bring her out of her thoughts.

"Yes?"

"Erm, where am I?"

"In an hospital room." She answered, while looking at me with a sympathetic look.

"I know am in an hospital room, I mean whe..... Would you stop looking at me like that, please?"

"What do you mean? I am not looking at you in any weird way."

"But you are, you are looking at me like am an unfortunate person who just barely got out of a fatal accident."

"But you are."

"What! No, that is not what am driving a... You know what? Forget about that." I said practically screaming while the sympathy in Jess's eyes kept on increasing. After calming myself down a bit, I asked "I mean, where am I? which country and planet am I in, right now?"

"Oh, you don't know?"

"Yes, am pretty sure I just crashed into a planet somewhere outside the civilization center. Can't really remember what happened that led to the crash, my memories are all foggy."

"Hmm, you aren't wrong when you said this place is outside the center of the human civilization, but we are also not far from the center." Jess responded, she then continued with a proud look on her face."In fact, this planet is the governing planet of the Western sector of the Human Empire."

"The governing sector's security is quite trash. If it was a planet in the center, even the rural ones, they would have had no problem at shooting my pod down before it entered anywhere close to the hemisphere."

"Hey, are you seriously blaming my home planet for not shooting you down? Are you suicidal or what?!" She said with a pout. Placing her hand akimbo and turning her face away from me, she continued. "Besides your pod was moving too fast to be shot down without the military firing at their wown ship, and your crash spot and destruction had been taken into account too, they said it wasn't worth it. You were also scanned to confirm you were not a criminal on the run."

"Oh, and how did you know all that?"

"Cause it's all over the news stupid." She responded, pointing to the holographic screen at the end of the room showcasing the news, with her face still away from me.

"Jess?"

"Yes?" She responded, still not facing me.

"Am sorry, and thank you for saving me."

"Oh, so you do know gratitude, why didn't you say that first, huh?" She said turning to me, but she's still pouting.

"Am sorry okay, I had to confirm am not being held hostage or anything. I don't really remember much, but am sure it's hard to see someone as nice and as easy going as you."

"Am not nice. I only saved you cause my dad was training me nearby, we saw the pod crash nearby and we went to check the crash site and saw you. I just told my dad to save you cause to be wrong to just watch you die." She answered with a blush on her face.

"Oh, so it was your dad that saved me. So I should be thanking him instead." I said trying to revert the mood to it's jovial state.

"What! If it wasn't because I told him to, he wouldn't have bothered saving you. You.... You.. ingrate." She said with a flushed face.

"I probably have never met someone as simple as you, Jess."

"Oh, well I haven't met someone with no sense of gratitude like yourself. First thing you asked waking up was 'where am I?'." She retorted.

"And you still answered, so easy going and nice."

"Leave me. I am no longer speaking with you." She said while 'trying' to flick her short hair before getting up. "I am leaving here, good luck with yourself."

Quickly looking around for my stuff, I found them on a table nearby. On the table was a black jacket made with a material I can't really explain, it's like a mix of soft cotton and leather, on the jacket was a smartwatch and besides it was a dimensional ring used to store things.

'It seems I wasn't left with much after the crash, not like am sure I had much before it.' I thought to myself as i reached out for the table. Just before my hand touched the table, the smartwatch and the dimensional ring both flew off it and placed themselves on my hand. The dimensional ring entered my left pinkie, while the smartwatch taped itself on my left hand wrist.

'woah, seems they are connected to me.... And my brain?' I thought, as a flood of information entered my head from the smartwatch. These information includes stuff like the 'how to' use of the smartwatch and the ring. The space in the ring is as big as a whole major city. And it seems I can control and see the content of the smartwatch directly in my brain. Turning to the smartwatch, I thought. 'Account balance'

"Hey Jess, don't forget to pay for my bills before you go." I called out to Jess as she was about to exit the room.

"Hey! Aren't you all healed, so why don't you pay yourself, after all it isn't like I would get a thank you after paying." She replied, rolling her eyes in the process.

"But you brought me here, so you have to pay." I pressed on.

"You shameless.... Pay yourself! It's just like 10k CCC!"

"I have no money though."

"Crashing your ship doesn't affect your bank account balance NEON. And it seems your smartwatch is working just fine, so pay yourself!."

"But it seems I had no money before the crash, so you have to pay."

"Lies! Anyone who could enter or own a space pod that fast has got to be rich."

"But.... Am poor though."

"Argh, fine, I will pay for it, happy?!"

"Yes, thank you. And it seems you would have to take me in at your place for sometime too."

"Noooo!"

"Pleaseeeeeeeee. I have no where else to go."

"Arghhhh, I will ask my dad about it, just stay here." She said before finally exiting the room.

"Okay thanks, nice Jess."

"I am not nice." I could hear her voice from the corridor.

After staring at the door with a stupid smile on my face for a few more second. I look down at my wrist, at the screen only I could see.

[ Account Balance: 8 000 000 000 CCC ]

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Meanwhile back at planet of the destroyed warehouse, unsuspecting Gaini and his fellow true stars 'woke up', completed their Misson and took Prima and Miranda with them back to the academy.

At the academy, Miranda was accepted as a direct student, a top student. While Prima was placed among the trial students, where he will have to either fight or academically excel his way into the academy.