Crystal Collecter

The sun beams over the vast landscape, as the long sunrise starts to wrap up the final acts of the festival of dancing lights. June’s hair sits tied back into a messy ponytail. The wind lightly blows as she uses her various gardening tools, hoeing and then sowing the strange alien soil.

Sweat beads drip down her forehead, as each strike into the ground and pull of the gravely dirt hold resistance. “Whew, man. I always wanted to set up a farms crops. I know HQ offered all they fancy stuff to make this easier but i wanna fee the livin’! I wanna feel a bit of the accomplishment that comes with this kind of struggle,”June declares proudly to the sky.

“Its been roughly three days now since the sun set. Now that it’s rising, that means that the nights are definitely 3 days long and the days are most likely 3 days long too. That is, in terms of earths 24 hours per day system.”.

She starts to shift he voice to project to the fading stars, “That means your single day here is about 6 whole times longer than a day back at my old home! You’re just cooler like that Bonnie!” She starts to giggle a little bit as she starts cutting into the soil and planting tattie seeds into the ground.

As the hours pass and June continues her field work, the morning slowly fills out past the foggy after party of the festival. The dancing lights slowly dim and become invisible as the show comes to a close.

“Man, doing allat’ is exhausting, I need some of the good stuff right about now!” June pops open the cap to her flask next to tied around a waist band of hers. Ending her swig with and excessive sigh of satisfaction. “Man, ain’t nuthin better than ice cold water!”.

She looks up at the sun coming up through the morning mist, and notices its starting to feel pretty warm out. “I have a feeling I’ma starting getting too hot over on my hill. Hmm,” Her eyes shift towards the pod, an idea behind those eyes of hers. “I’ll be right back Bonnie, gotta make something real quick.

Moments later she walks out of the pod with a metal rod adjourned by the grace of thick, tarp-like, plastic that seems carefully woven in welded metal bars. She walks with the umbrella over her should and marches towards the hill.

“Good thing i had a couple pieces of my bed that didn’t seem to important. With a little bit of weldin’ and meltin’ and putting things where they wanna go, I now have myself protection from the UV rays coming from that spicy nieghbor over there.”.

Her eyes light up, looking to the clouds “Yeah Bonnie, the sun is a deadly laser Y’know. Gotta stay safe, especially with my bloody pale skin, I'll fry if i’m not careful. Seems like days are ever so slightly dimmer here then back home, but I refuse to get burnt so, I’m not riskin’ it”.

June pulls up her suits HUD and begins to pinch and rag files around, looking through folders and reading over certain information. “So Bonnie, My next mission for today is figure out if i can start extracting the intricate metals from inside of the soil and rocks i’ve collected to try and get materials for that rover I need ta get.”.

She pinches at a hologram of the rovers schematics she through together, turning it around showing it to the sky. “Check it out Bonnie, through workshopping last night, I used a bunch of the schematics from all the different files about rovers and other stuff like that in our system and, I made my own version of the blueprints from the rover.

As the morning says its final goodbyes, and the sun begins to come close to its peak, Junes day comes to a nearing end. June sits over the edge of her bed, finishing up some boring tasks she needs to do for the company and starts to get ready for bed.

Looking over at the blankets on the floor, she starts talking out loud as she almost always does. “Been a couple nights since I woke up and Peewee left back into the woods. I’m not gunna go looking for em. I’m too busy to.”.

A content look covers her face, masking a small amount of confusion and uncertainty circling here head. “Wonder is the lil’ bastard is gunna come back. That would be a pain.” She assures herself, shift over in her bed and laying down, covering her face with her arms as she begins to drift of to sleep moments later.

The following day, after spending several hours working on extracting the metal from the minerals, soil, and rocks shes found, she looks at the tiny amount collected and gauges just how much she actually needs to make this rover.

“Iesh, this is gunna be a bloody pain in the arse to take get everything for.” Her hands rub against her temples with slight stress behind her fingertips. “Awww well, not like I don’t have the time to get this stuff, even if it takes longer than I anticipated, I’ll be fine.”.

She heads back out into the woods behind her house and starts to scan around, searching for anything containing the materials she needs for the construction of her rover.

A couple of hours go by as she searches, coming to find about 10% of what she needs for the rover. Sitting on a stump, she starts peering through a couple of data folders about potential references found on different planets in hopes of getting some tips on what environment may typically hold the stuff she needs.

“Well, not a bad day. Most of what I need for these couple of sections here,” SHe starts pinching and zooming in and out of certain complex files filled with blue prints for a properly constructed Chassis and drive train.

A little while passes by as June flips through files, doing a little outdoorsy research while she’s in the forest as she notices a ball next to her legs. As snaps out of her concentration, she looks down and notices Peewee laying next to her.

An annoyed look masks over a face of relief and mellow happiness. “Oh bloody hell, who told ya you could come back her Peewee? Jeez, I got work I gotta take care of. Well, feel free to stick around I suppose.” She bends over and pats Peewee’s head. “Just let me work and you can hang around me, guess I don’t mind then.”

Soon enough, June gets up and starts heading throughout the forest, looking for a specific material. “-So, the reason I need this stuff is because I need a way to engineer the PV cells for the solar power panels. I wanna use them to charge not only my rover but also my power cells for my base. If the extensive supply HQ gave me would somehow run out before I find everything I need for a rechargeable source of power, my stuff would stop working and I’d be kinda cooked lil guy” She looks down beside her feet while shes walking and talking, looking down at Peewee walking and listening beside her.

A humorous looks looms over her face as she gets a weird idea. “Hey Peewee,” She kneels down looking at him and Peewee stops walking and looks up at her. She starts petting em as she asks, “You wouldn’t know where I can find silicon, would ya? It’s an essential part of that stuff I was tellin ya about.”.

She pulls a little pebble out of her pocket, and shows it to Peewee. “This is a little crystal with a pink-colored quartz appearance and says “So this, is a crystal I found in these woods and it contains a lot of silicon. But not nearly enough for what I need. Would you know where more of these tiny things are?”

Peewee looks at and sniffs it for a moment, and then starts heading deeper into the woods. June’s expression changes from a joking face to a confused expression, into a shocked face and finally into a look of pure excitement.

“No way, Bloody hell Peewee, are you really this cool too? Bonnie what the hell? Everything is so fascinating here!” She starts speed walking to catch up with Peewee as she the follows em into the woods.

Eventually, Peewee comes to a small den under the stump of a tree. Peewee looks up at June for a moments and then looks at it’s den. After going inside for a moment, June hears the sounds resembling a bunch of rocks being tossed around.

“This is wild.” June whispers in disbelief to herself. Moments later, Peewee wobbles out of the den with one of the same exact crystals in its mouth. “My little crystal collector!” She take her hand and pats em on the head. “I dub thee, The Crystal Collecter” She laughs and looks down at Peewee

“Wait you don’t happen to have anymore do ya?” She gestures her question for a moment and Peewee looks at the rock, then the den. After going inside for a few moments Peewee comes back out with nothing. Peewee then pushes the crystal towards June with it’s snout.

“Wait seriously? You want me to have your only one of these crystals? No buddy I-” The look in Peewee’s eyes clearly insists. “I won’t fight ya, but seriously buddy. You’re the best. Come back to the pod, I’ll cook ya some grub” June pats Peewee’s head a few times and gets up to head to the pod. Behind her follow Peewee, The Lil’ Crystal Collecter.