Lee goes with Sue to the car, that thanks to being in a side road, it wasn’t affected by the sound blast.

  “Lee, big brother, you okay?” asks Sakura.

  Lee nods. “Yes Saki, big brother is okay.”

  Sue places a hand on Lee’s and Sakura’s shoulders. “This was scary, but let’s get back to taking Sakura to school. Get in the car.”

  Just as Sue starts the car, they see someone running in a blue and red uniform; Sue opens her window. “Can I help? I have to take my daughter to school.”

  The young woman nods. “Hello, I just came to check the three of you. Make sure that you are safe, as you will need to come to the medical tent for an examination.”

  Sue nods and drives her car back to the main road, now crowded with reporters, medics and a clean-up crew; everything is being supervised by the military.

  After being examined, Sue, Lee and Sakura get the green light to continue their journey as they have no problems, with the exception of Lee, who still hears a slight ringing in his ears.

  As Sue drops Sakura at school, Lee remembers that he too goes to this school. As Sue talks to the main office, explaining why Sakura is late, a teacher notices Lee standing by, but he seems to have an expression of someone that is looking far away.

  The teacher approaches Lee. “Hello Lee, it is nice to see that you are back.”

  Lee snaps back to reality; then, seeing the teacher, he stands up and bows in respect. “Hello Miss Yung.” Lee then stands straight. “I’m not back; I got back home, but the doctors said that I need to stay home for the rest of the week to be sure that there is nothing wrong.”

  The teacher smiles. “That is good to hear, so how are you feeling today?”

  Lee smiles as he scratches his ear canal. “I was fine this morning, but the explosion made my ears ring.”

  “The explosion?” the teacher asks, as no official report had been reported.

  “Yes, when Mum was coming to school, something fell from the sky and it exploded!” says Lee. The teacher is about to ask more, then Lee looks at the TV in the main hall and points. “There, that is where it happened.”

  Hearing this, the teacher turns around and sees the news broadcast. “Jack, turn it up!” she says, and the school receptionist looks up, then turns up the volume on the TV.

  From the TV speakers comes the voice of the female reporter. “Breaking news: earlier this morning, the Hinohara Village regular Wednesday morning routine was disturbed by the falling of a fuel tank from a space station. In the early hours of this morning, there was a crash of the station with a meteor; the crash caused a bit of the station to break apart and it got hurled to Terra Two.” There is a pause as the news broadcasts a recording from the space station command control showing the meteor crashing, then the cylindrical fuel tank heading to New Earth.

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  “Unfortunately, despite the military’s fast response, they didn’t manage to catch the tank before it crashed. We could only capture footage of the destruction caused by the crash.” This time the footage is of the tank ablaze in the middle of the road, the buildings around still standing but ruined. Then the camera footage zooms in and captures Lee pulling the other kid by the wrist, away from the damaged car and tank; when the kid runs away, Lee is seen running back to the kid and slapping him, then pulling the stunned kid away.

  The footage then shows the soldiers land and move everyone away before the firefighters drop the gel bomb. From this angle it does look like the fire was put out; then it shows Lee cup his hands over his mouth in a shout followed by kicking the kid in the back of the knees and forcing him into the ground, then over the radio the sound of the soldier is heard. “The kid is right, everyone get down!” Then down below on the street, people are visible hiding inside stores; the military soldiers alongside some of the civilians are seen diving into the ground away from the tank just before it explodes.

  The footage becomes all shaky and it shows the helicopter spinning before it stabilises and the camera flies back to the helicopter. Then the scene changes back to the reporter. “After talking with the main general, we were told that the first child,” An image from above of Lee is visible, but even with the extremely good quality, it’s hard to identify him as his face is not visible. “He was the one to call out that it was about to explode, ending up saving a total of thirty lives!”

  The footage turns to the inside of the news studio, and the anchor speaks. “That was Tinashy at the scene; so far no fatal victims have been confirmed, but five adults and seven children have been airlifted to the nearest hospital with severe injuries caused by the impact of the crash. We will bring more information along the way. Now for other news…” The TV is then muted.

  The teacher looks at Lee, and sees what he has on. “You, Lee, you saved all of those people!” the teacher says with pure shock in her voice; even Sue looks at Lee in shock.

  Lee shakes his head. “I only said it was going to explode.”

  Sue walks back near Lee and the teacher. “Lee, because you told them it was going to explode, you saved them. Now let’s go back; I still have to go by work;” she says, then extends her hand to Lee, which he takes; then Sue faces the teacher. “Miss Yung, thank you for your concern about Lee this past week; he will be looking over the homework.”

  The teacher makes a face and Sue stops talking, so Miss Yung responds. “Lee has already sent the homework I sent; I have not taken a look at it, but I have seen that it is completed.”

  Sue looks down at Lee. “Did you do all your homework yesterday?”

  Lee nods. “Yes, I did all the homework before the bike ride.” He then looks at the teacher. “But it was a bit hard; I had to look online to know about the recent history for your homework.”

  The teacher looks confused. “Why did you look at recent history, Lee?” She then grabs her holo-tablet and looks for Lee’s homework as she continues. “I teach you art; the homework was to draw a picture…” The teacher stops. “I’m so sorry Lee, I accidentally sent you the wrong homework file; but this is all correct. This is homework for the fifth-years, and you did it?” Lee nods with a shrug. “Incredible; you did fifth-year history work while in the second year.”