Day 831 on Pluton, a space station in the outer ring. After so long it has made me feel cramped and bored out of my mind until I got a message only a few days ago saying another recruit will be joining me shortly with supplies that requested. Why am I saying all of this? Well today they arrived through the pitch black darkness, I could see them, I could see a new white fleck like a star but it was getting closer by the second and bigger until I could see it was a white spaceship with a star logo on the hood. Then, through the radio, which had been quiet all this time but now it fizzed to life, I could hear a tired voice coming through “Hello, Luna to Pluto, do you copy? Request landing”.
“Pluto hears you loud and clear and request granted, docking bridge opening in 10, 9, 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and docked. Airlock opening in 3, 2, 1 done you can now safely board”
After all was said and done, I rushed to the top dock station with extreme excitement knowing that I would finally have company after two and a half long years. Once I arrived, I saw her, the first person I had seen in years stepping out of the ship. She was an elderly woman with very short bleached white hair, mid-70s carrying a box full of stuff and my jaw dropped to the floor.
I didn’t know what I was expecting since the higher-ups just told me that a person had volunteered to help join me in the job but I always thought they would be young and fit not an elderly woman.
“Hello it’s a pleasure to meet you, my name is Luna, wow this never gets old being back in the outer ring, doesn’t it?” Said Luna in an excited tone
“Uh yeah” I replied
“Well, I should introduce you to Zenos he’s my best friend”
“Zenos? Who’s that? I was only told there would be only one person coming.” I said shocked.
“Ha, Zenos isn’t a person silly” Luna replied while trying to hold back laughter.
Then a head appeared in the shape of a Trapezoid Prism and a round camera for an eye with sensors and antennae everywhere. It stuck its head out looked around and when it saw me it let out a scared whimper and hid in between the legs of Luna using its tiny arms to cover its head.
“Zenos is a Z3, N, O worker technition bot is your best friend?” I said in disapproving tone.
“Of course, why wouldn’t he be, considering he has been with me longer than you have been alive” said Luna
“Right,” I said still not believing what I was hearing, I have been in this little station cleaning the solar panels, tiding up the empty halls and fixing the antennas waiting to see if the small planet below will prove a theory of a Dr Helios waiting, waiting alone than I get told I will finally get a companion who turns out to be a grandma and her technical bot.
“Hey Zeno there is no need to be shy come on this man is a friend, hey what’s your name again?”