Sayonara Babylon! CHAPTER ZERO!

PROLOGUE_ _ _

"In the year Twenty-four, Thirty-One, Mankind had flourished from his native planet, Terra-prime. Space Colonies had been launched, and plannets had been setteled Colonized. For the Terra-bound inhabitants, space had been their crowning achievement. Mankind gained technology beyond their natural development, energy weapons, floating cars. In essence: Science fiction became Science fact. Due to colonizing efforts, Terra-prime's swelling population at that time dwindled to sub-standard heights.

Terra-prime was a place of beauty and happiness.

This would not last.

In twenty-four, fourty-two, A planet, at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy's interrior, was discovered. This world was bigger than anything ever imagined, and was made of minerals not found anywhere else in the known universe.

When a science team tried to examine one of the naitive rocks on this un-inhabbited world, everything changed. The minerals inside the chamber reacted with eachother, and created a wave of energy which-when combined with the radation of the near by sun-caused the planet's core to overload.

The Scientists attempted to send a message back to Tera-Prime of their discoveries, but they did not succeed.

The planet exploded, shattered into seemingly microscopic pieces. Each piece, just slightly smaller than Tera-Prime's own Moon, was sent out into the galaxy. Most would drift aimlessly into the black of space with no target in sight within a melenium. But some, random pieces, were sent into populated cultures.

No-one knew of this disaster, and no-one would until it was too late."

A meteroite, smaller than the earth's moon, rushes past Pluto, and Neptune, straight towards the thrid planet from the sun.

This meteroite smashes through Saturn's rings, and sending the planet's magnetic ballence off ballence. It rushes past Jupiter, and inturn magnifying the storm on it's surface a thousand times more.

"The Colony on Mars spotted this danger, and relayed it to Terra-Prime, warning them of the imminent danger.

Terra-Prime's ecologists had little time to react, as all contact to Mars was lost with-in moments of the meteroite passing by the red-hued planet."

The meteroite smashes through Earth's moon, adding the satelite's mass into it's own. However, this impact changes the meteroite's course, sending it into a circular orbit once around earth, immediately destroying the planet's fragile magnet field's ballence.

"The meteroite slingshot itself away from Terra-prime, and towards the yellow star that it's inhabbitants called their sun.

Meanwhile, Terra prime's magnetic field was in chaos. All over the planet, sections of the planet were cut off from the rest by spheres of gravity and magnetic wells.

The loss of the magnetic field resulted in mankind's oldest inhabitants going insane, and it's youngest to black out.

When the meteroite finially impacted the Sun of this system, it ignited the gasses contained inside in ways not thought possible.

A wave of energy errupted from the solar surface, and expanded out into the solar system. Likewise, this happened in other populated environments, with equaly dramatic effects.

The magneticly off ballence planets, when hit by this wave, shattered. They shattered, just like the planet that had began this madness. But, due to the strange magnetic fields formed by the meteroite on Terra-prime, this shattering caused the system's planet count of Nine (or was it eight? The book doesn't say!) to multiply to that numbering in the dozzens.

Terra-Prime was now a barren wasteland."

The Earth now looks to something akin to Swiss cheese, only with the missing chunks floating around the now larger (though not much hotter) sun.

"Those that survivved, I think you can guess, were not happy with this development. Especially due to the fact that those above the age of nineteen had died due to the insanity caused by the meteroite; those that survivved, I think you can guess, were those under that death line."

A girl, with brown tinted hair, sighs as she plows her shovel into the arid soil. "And why am I telling you this?" She waves her hand in the air as if to mock a greeting. "It's because..." she huffs and throws a shovel full of dirt out of the hole and onto the ground behind her. "...What else am I supposed to do?"

The red hued beetle sitting on a nearby rock gives no reply.

"And here I am, explaining what happened ten years ago to a beetle that's probably no more than three." The girl sighs. "But, that's really all any of us can do right now."

The beetle binks it's green eyes.

"You know...I don't think your species ever existed before the whole 'Explosion' thing." The girl muses. "I certainly don't remember any red tinted beetles with green eyes and silver metalic horns existing before...But, then again, I was only six then."

The beetle seems to understand, and yet, at the same time, does not.

The girl sighs as she presses the shovel deeper into the water-lacking dirt. "I'm like you, ya know."

The beetle blinks, as if to say "How so?"

"We both scavange the sands, we both dig for what's burried, any sign of life, remaining below the surface." The girl sighs, pulls out a water bottle, and drains out the last few drops into her mouth. "When everything went...you know...All of Terra's water got shoe-horned onto a bunch of different pieces, and yet none of it remained here on Terra itself." She looks up to the sky, spotting one of the nearrest plannet-chunks showing through the day-light sky.

Half Blue, Half Green. Water and Trees.

"You know...I haven't seen a tree in years."

The beetle looks confused.

"You've probably never even heard of a tree." the girl sighs, and colapses to the ground, the reserves of her energy almost depleted. "Man...It's hot..." she looks to the beetle, and smiles. "I wonder if he'll let me keep you..." her throughts are cut off as a loud sound cuts through the air. "Right on cue..."

The girl sighs, pushes herself off the ground, and climbs out of the hole, pausing only briefly to look to the beetle. "You wanna come with?" she asks.

The beetle shakes it's head, seemingly saying "another time, perhaps."

The girl nods. "Okay then." she salutes the insect, and exits the newest crater on the already crater-ized planet.

The beetle tunnels into the dirt, returning to it's home, as the girl waves down the battered vehical driving towards her location.

Neither of them knew the dangers that the planet had already faced were nothing compared to what was comming.

END PROLOGUE_ _ _

WELCOME!

Welcome to the Sayonara Babylon! Blogspot! What is this you ask? It's an ongoing story I've decided to write in Manga style, and, should I ever learn how to draw, Actually draw!

The main idea came about like this: I had a dream. This story was a manga first, then an anime movie. Nice, eh? I doubt it'll actually happen, but, a guy can dream, right?

Well, Nothing else to say.

Ja ne! See Ya!

_DTC