seven the youth (ultraseven for adults) #35 moon horror
#35 moon horror
Poets often use many words to say a simple thing.
It takes thought and time and rhyme to make a poem sing.
With music and words I've been playing .
For you I have written a song
To be sure that you'll know what I'm saying,
I'll translaate as I go along.
This is the introduction of a famous song,
but some people don't know it.
Do you know what this song is?
Considering the last case of the cloud wall (#34) the other day,
the Youth has decided to improve HAWK 2 as a full scale space rocket.
The improvement this time makes it a high performance machine
with the help of Professor KURA (#13 ) and Doctor USHIMA (#05),
who enable it to reach the moon.
Now, as traial pilots, YURI and MOROBOSHI are chosen.
FURUDA and SOMA are busy doing their main jobs,
and AMABE has to control HAWK 2 from the Earth.
She and he get into the cockpit, and FORCE GATE opens.
After the countdown ends, it takes off toward the moon as a goal.
The new rocket goes into the outer space.
Straight heorizon gradually deflect as if a bow were drawn,
and turn into a circle, which becomes smaller and smaller.
"I cannot believe that I will drive to the moon,
and what's more, with MOROBOSHI kun."
YURI smiles at him.
"Me, either."
"""MOROBOSHI, how is the machine going? Isn't it shaking you? Over."""
"No problem, now. In a minute, shift to the navigation system, over."
"""YES HOPE, over."""
"Let's sleep a little, now. It's 380,000 km."
The speed of new HAWK 2 is half as high as Space Shattle, up to 14,000 km/h.
So, it will take them 380,000 / 14,000 = 28 hours.
By the way, the speed of light is 300,000 km/s, so it takes about one second.
(YURI san, you really do not remember anything, do you?)
When he is gazing her resting face admiringly,
suddenly, a tiny asteroid goes past their rocket.
"What happened?" YURI wakes up.
"An asteroid seem to have gone past us."
(What's I doing! Overlooking it!)
"""Are you OK? Over."""
"The engine stopped, over."
"""Shift to auxiliary engine, and land on the moon, over."""
"YES HOPE, over."
HAWK safely lands on Mare Tranqullitatis (Sea of Tranquility) as Apollo 11 did.
Communication failure prevents them from talking to the Earth.
"Let's go out." YURI
"Yes, let's." MOROBOSHI
She and he relies on the new space suit and helm of new material so much
that they never feel dangerous.
Tne surface of moon is covered of sand called regolith,
or stone broken down into bits by meteors
and piled up tens of centimeters to tens of meters.
The bit is so fine that it often easily go into space clothing
or cause a trouble of precision machinery.
When they look up to the sky, the Earth is shining blue,
which is called 'earthshine.'
The sunshine reflected by the Earth shines on the moon.
"Romantic night, isn't it?" YURI
"You had such an old song, didn,t you?" MOROBOSHI
Then, big moonquake happens,
and the horizon of moon flashes in a moment.
"There's something on the dark side of the moon," he says
"Let's go and see," she says.
HAWK 2 can barely transform to its vehicle mode.
The moon always show the same face to the Earth.
Therefore, the far side suits building aliens' base.
The moon is the closest natural body to the Earth in the solar system.
And it is the only body that human beings have reached,
and the second brightest body seen from the Earth.
But it does not emit light by itself, but reflects the sun.
Near the equator it is 110 degrees Celcius,
while the backe side is -170 degrees centigrade.
Despite his new space suit,
such coldness and darkness are hard for MOROBOSHI.
"MOROBOSHI kun, are you OK? You look pale." YURI
"Yes, of course, I'm OK." MOROBOSHI
Sometimes, they see eye-breaking lights,
and they hear ear-breaking noises.
Two persons step forward, depending on light and noise,
and find the facility being built the same size of school.
"It's aliens' base, exactly." YURI
The moment, the light and noise suddenly stop.
"They got us!"
She and he get surrounded by a lot of space plants PETERO
like cactuses, or cacti, two to three meters tall.
Behind one of them stands an alien.
[[[ WE ALIEN ZAMPA. THE EARTH INVADE GET OUT CAR. ]]]
"They probably tell us to go out of the car."
Some PETERO rush to YURI, lift up her torso,
and toss her to the dark sky, throwing out her to the outer space.
"YURI saaan!"
Countless space plants are about to attack MOROBOSHI,
who is deadly short of energy,
[[[ KILL IT. ]]]
The moment, TLP (Transient Luna Phenomena) happens.
There sometimes breaks out a luminous phenomenon on the moon.
Some scientists say that it is an illusion,
but exactly, the moonlight shines on MOROBOSHI like the sunshine.
When he has buried in a crowd of PETERO,
a flash rushes around in a second.
The next moment, alien green plants becomes black withered field,
which widely spread from the center.
ULTRA BEAM has burned all the plants PETERO down.
The knife of light shot by the thing that jumps up
has struck alien ZAMPA.
After ULTRA BEAM has destroyed all the buildings,
MOROBOSHI cannot be to seen.
YURI is taking an endless spacewalk,
but strangely to say, she has no fear to death.
"My life has been exciting. No regret.
I will see Dad and Mom again as a family."
Hardly has she closed her eyes, she is hold tight by somebody.
Surprisingly turning back, she is surprised again to recognize him.
"MOROBOSHI kun!"
YURI feels relieved, loses her strength, and leaves herself to him.
"This has really given me no fear.
However, MOROBOSHI cannot teleport to the Earth with YURI.
(It's OK. I'm with YURI san as we are, forever.)
In fornt of them the huge white moon floats,
and the small blue Earth floats far and far away.
"Beautiful."
Then, a tiny light approach them.
It's a spaceship or something, new aliens' attack?
The thing passes them, the side of which reads "V3." (#13)
It is a rocket KURA developed at the same time of HAWK.
KURA is in the cockpit, whose moving of rip says,
"Hei, yu. Du yu wana liv or Lav?"
Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words
Hold my hand
In other words
Darling, kiss me
Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words
Please be true
In other words
I love you
In other words
Please be true
In other words
I love you
#35 the end
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