Rollen is having a different life now. His days speak of more productive stuffs. His level of intellectuality has left everyone speechless. His teachers often make him the standing example in the class and insist other wards to gain motivation from Rollen.
It was a sunny morning. A bright Sunday. Mrs Adams finished her daily chore and decided to take Rollen out for some shopping. Rollen wanted to go to the gaming zone since a long time now. But some or the other work kept them busy all this while. Moreover, Rollen still missed Plume a lot. It has been over a month now. Plume left him for his own planet.
Today, she decided to finalise the plan and went to Rollen's room to get him ready.
She saw, Rollen was fiddling with the remote which the alien duo gave him that night.
Hey Rollen, do you want to go to the PlayStation today? I am done with my work and planning to leave in another couple of minutes.
Mom, I have a different plan for the day.
For a blink, Mrs Adams felt as if her 4 year old little Rollen has grown up to be a 10 year old lad. She went on to ask him, what can be more luring than the gaming zone?
Rollen gazed at her and thought for a while. Then he said, Mumma I have some homeworks to complete. You can leave. I can stay alone.
Are you sure dear? Mrs Adams enquired.
Yes mumma. I am sure. I can accompany you some other day. Mrs Adams felt perplexed at the unusual behaviour of her child. He has a proclivity for games. Then what made him renounce the golden chance of going out with mom.
Her thoughts whirled around in her brain.
She decided to leave. She went up to Rollen and kissed his forehead. Mumma please drive safely, Rollen muttered.
Mrs Adams was 26 and her 4 year old son was advising her to drive safely. She really felt her little Rollen has grown up years older in less than a month.
She left the room in utter silence and went out towards the parking. She turned back to see, Rollen was peering out of the window eager to see her leave. She got into her car and drove off.
Rollen jumped down from the window pane and without wasting a moment, pulled out his drawer to take the remote.
Now the remote was in his tiny hands, awaiting a little press. He thought for a while. Which one shall I press? Red one will call Plume and green one will fetch him an empty spaceship. After few minutes of brain storming, Rollen decided to go with Red, not because he loved red but because he wanted to discuss with Plume before he actually took off from Earth.
He pressed the red button. There was a vibration in the remote. His hands started shivering. In a couple of blinks, he heard a hustling noise from behind him. He jumped up and peeped through the window overlooking the rear garden. He saw a little spaceship hovering over the grassy floor. In another couple of seconds, Plume was right infront. Rollen's eyes flooded in tears and he took Plume close to his heart and pressed him close. I missed you so much Plume. Did you miss me too? Asked Rollen. Yes Rollen, my mate, I have missed you too, replied Plume.
Dont lie Plume, howled Rollen. Had you missed me, you would have come to me atleast once.
Plume looked at him and spoke in a mild voice. My dear mate, I wanted to come to you but I couldn't. There is a war going on in our planet. The inhabitants of Libbosine and the ones living in Crecotus are at war with each other.
What is Crecotus??? Rollen asked in a perplexed tone. Crecotus is our neighbouring planet. The ones dwelling there are known as Creckos. The Creckos are wicked and shrewd. They always want to fiddle with our planet and aim to conquer it. Our Libbo soldiers are very brave. They are fighting the battle with full devotion.
So, the people of Libbosine are known as Libbos. So you are a Libbo. Yes dear, just like you are a human. Wow!!! So I wanted to go to Libbosine now. Isn't it possible?
Rollen questioned.
Plume looked sad. He never wanted to say no to Rollen. So it is not possible right?
Rollen repeated.
Plume looked up at Rollen's face that depicted the glorious shine that's gradually fading away.
Please don't be sad mate. Let me sketch some plans. Plume thought for a while and spoke with a lot of enthusiasm. There is one way. I will put you inside a metallic pot with little pores. You can breathe from inside. I will take you in this concealed form into Libbosine. After reaching inside, we can plan our next move.
Plume went ahead and brought out a gleaming pot made of some metals and ceramics. He said, they make such crockeries from asteroids which fly around their planet. The pot was too midget for Rollen to fit inside. He gazed at Plume with an asterisk expression peeping out of his gleaming eyes. Plume understood his concern and smiled. Don't you worry mate. Hold my arms. As Rollen touched his arms, he felt a wave of electricity passing through his body. In another blink, he saw something strange. The pot appeared bigger and wider. Then he saw Plume. Omg!!! Even he grew bigger. After a phase of baffling scenes, he understood that they are not big, he has grown smaller and thinner. Now he can easily enter the pot. Plume held him and placed him inside the porous pot.
He peered through a pore to see that Plume carried the pot into the spaceship. Suddenly, he placed the pot and went out.
He came back after a couple of minutes.
Where have you gone? Asked Rollen.
Mate, if suppose we get late and won't be able to return before aunty returns home? Yes!!! I didn't think over this, said Rollen. I know mate. But don't worry. I have done something. I have made a 3D material projection of you and gave it a artificial brain that is similar to your brain. In simple words, I have made a duplicate Rollen who exactly resembles you, both in look and actions. Aunty will never get to know you are out of earth.
Rollen felt very proud for Plume. He said from within, Plume, you are amazing. Without me feeling the concern, you not only felt it, but also worked out to solve the problem.
It's my duty mate. To keep you safe, replied Plume.
In another few seconds, Rollen was in his first trip to space. That too to a different planet. He felt sinusoidal waves of mirth, all through out his mind and soul. He could see the cloud lumps and the blue and white patches of the sky. In no time, he could look down to witness the humongous trees and towers growing smaller and smaller with each blink. The porous pot revealed everything to him despite he being concealed.
The very next moment, he could see his own planet as a cocktail of blue and green paints. It looked mesmerizing, dancing up and down on a black background. It resembled the poster which was made by Allena, his class mate. Earth on a black chartpaper. He felt overwhelmed to witness such incredible face of nature beyond his own globe.
In another couple of seconds, he could now see another spherical mass having a tinge of orange and golden shades. A scarlet beauty filled his eyes. He looked at Plume, who was busy driving the spaceship. Possibly, Plume too sensed Rollen's confused gesture and replied even before he could ask.
It is our planet. It is Libbosine. Here the clouds are orange. The soil is golden. We don't need water to survive. So no blue traces. Rollen was astonished. This is insanely beautiful. But Plume, I will need water to live. Don't worry mate. We are scientists by birth. I have devices which can mix up hydrogen and oxygen to produce water. I have already filled oxygen from your atmosphere while coming. And hydrogen is abundant in our globe.
Rollen felt relived and extremely amused at the same time. His alien friend cares for trivial things that concerns Rollen. He felt he is so lucky.
Plume's voice restored his senses. Mate, listen to me now. We are very near to our globe. There is strict surveillance and they may peep inside. You just stay quite and don't move much. I will befool them easily.
Ok Plume. I will obey.
He felt a jerk and stressed his views out of the tiny pores to see. The spaceship landed somewhere. Scarlet clouds painted distant barren lands like a canvas art. Suddenly he heard voices. Looz grooz vooz foozi booz!!! It was not Plume. May be they are those armies Plume told him about. He saw two little men jump inside the spaceship. He felt dreadful but stayed completely quiet. Fortunately, they could not take a note of the presence of an alien inside. They returned. Again few voices.
Sooz e rooz booz xooz sooz e wooz!!! Now this was Plume. Hooz e hooz...pooz dooz gooz!!! The army man replied.
Plume jumped inside and with a tame face, drove off with his spaceship. After some more time of flying through those scarlet clouds Rollen finally saw a strange structure. More like a metallic dome. Now Plume smiled and said, welcome mate!! Welcome to my home. He parked the spaceship in the yard in front and took him inside. It was a huge and glorified structure with different stones embellishing from all sides. A strong beam of light was being emitted in fits. He took him to a strange zone inside where orange and red walls welcomed Rollen with a gust of air that had a different smell which Rollen was not at all familiar with. There were no beds, sofas, TVs or any other furniture Rollen was familiar with. There were spherical structures which they called Dozies. Dozies were meant to doze, i.e sleep. There were frozzies which were tall and cylindirical metallic structures, meant for cooling things. Now after coming across a set of strange structures, finally Rollen spoke. Hey Plume. Where are your parents?
You wanna see them? Wait. Plume made antic noises..Groozie Grooz..heuzzz beuzzz muuuniezzz... He hardly finished when Rollen saw smokey structures condensing in front of his eyes. Two strange creatures, though somewhat similar to Plume arrived. Plume asked him to lift them up. This was to transmit his language into their brains through inductive transmission technology. He walked ahead to pick the two little creatures in his arms. He placed them in his palms and said Hello.
They replied, Hello dear. I am Crume and she is my partner Numia. Plume and Scume are our children. You are like my child too. Welcome to Libbosine my son.
Rollen was over enthusiastic to know aliens, who were so good to him. They were all busy chatting when a sound of a beep attracted their minds. Plume looked scared. What happened Plume, asked Rollen. Buddy, this is the army spaceship. This beep means they have somehow doubted alien presence in our planet. They might have found alien DNA.
So what are we supposed to do now? Asked Rollen.
Don't worry child, Mr Crume spoke. There is another way out of Libbosine. I will take you out safe from here. Saying this, he turned towards Plume and said. DOOZ JOOZ HOOZI MOOZ!!! Plume grinned and replied Xooz Cooz moozi foooz!!! Then he turned towards Rollen and said, Buddy dad asked me to feed your address in his brain. I have fed it. Now he will securely drop you back to your house. Saying this, he gave him another remote. It had one yellow and one pink button. What is this Plume? Asked Rollen. This is another remote which will help you clone your ownself and again destroy the clone at your own will and wish. Now when you reach your home, press this pink button. The clone of yours, that I made before bringing you here will be automatically destroyed and it will transmit all encounters between him and your mom into your brain. This will ensure that you will never be caught. And when for the next time you wish to come here using the green button of your remote, do use the yellow button of this remote to create a clone again and it will automatically feed your brain data into its mind.
Rollen picked him up and kissed his forehead with tenderness.
Child, please don't delay. We have to leave the planet before they barge inside our home and imprison you as well as us, spoke Mr Crume.
They hurriedly rushed out through the rear door and jumped into another spaceship.
In another couple of minutes, the orange planet was bidding them good bye and the spaceship headed towards the blue green cocktail planet once again.
Rollen's eyes captured all these views and this adorned his human mind with memories that he could never forget. Before he was landed down, Mr Crume restored his human structure and size.
Rollen bid him Good Bye and went inside his house. He saw, his mom was no where then. Without wasting a moment he pressed the pink button and felt another wave of vibration. The clone disappeared immediately and trasmitted all the encounters he had with Rollen's parents.
He rushed into his room and began doing his homework. No one ever will know what Rollen had been through. You too keep it a secret.