GRANNY'S HOME TO MARS
On hearing the sound , Lakshmi came into the kitchen, seldom avoiding her routine afternoon serials to know that plate over the rice bowl on the stove fell off due to water spilling off it. Adjusting the stove to sim, she trod eagerly into the hall to resume the TV but she found a young boy sitting on a sofa gaping around the room. It was a moment of irregularity over her schedule and in addition to the awkwardness, he was dressed like a person from a Sci-fi movie. Any normal woman would have screamed out loud at that sight but she found no hostile looking at the person over the sofa.
“Son who are you? What do you need?”,asked Lakshmi resisting the urge to watch the running serial in TV
“Hi granny. Am your Great Grandson, Aman”,said the boy
“What?!”, said she in astonishment and said laughing” don’t make a fun icon. Is this a reality show? Where is the camera?”
Aman looked puzzled and he asked,” what are you talking abut granny?”
“Stop calling me granny! Am just 26 and I don’t have any children. My husband will be coming any minute now. I hope you better have proper explanation for your presence”, said Lakshmi taking deep breath after her frantic speech
“ I don’t understand. You are my Great granny. I am, as I already told, Aman, Aman Nehra. I came from the future”, said Aman and pushed a button of his watch, then a succulent portal opened through the wall,”and I came to take you home with me”.
She was in a state of trauma by both euphoric and fervent feelings.
Aman held her hand and took her into the portal. She went in without a word or a blink of an eye.
After a flash, they were into the future..
She was made to sit over a chair like thing which was floating without any base support. She was confused at the first sight she saw. She was looking at everything deciphering all that is seen, like a monkey when sent to a library.
There were trees like the past, but vehicles were flying without any ooze of smoke. The houses are towered to a height with their metallic ceilings and covering, that no house is over the surface. There were trees, metallic houses, lamp posts, traffic signals, dividers, fuel pumps, markets, shops same like it was in the past but all of them were towered to a height by a pole which was actually in contact to the ground. Some people dressed like officers were disappearing from their places and some in the same dress were appearing from Nowhere.
“ Where are they gone? Where did he come from?” , asked Lakshmi with the curiosity precipitating from her eyes
“ They are the Leaders of this place. They are using the teleportation and it is allowed only by them to access. Others have to use the jet packs and hover bikes”, said Aman
“Huh.. wha…What year is it?”, asked Lakshmi
“It’s 225 AT”, said Aman with no glimpse of grimace over his face
“AT?!”, asked Lakshmi with feelings missed over Aman’s
“After Terraform, granny”, said Aman with a proud face.
Before asking another question she was terrified by the shape of the moon in the sky
“ what happened to the moon? Why is it so ugly?”, she asked shouting.
People who were passing by that way using their jet packs gazed at the woman who looked like the one’s in their Museum of Ancient Indians.
“Its not moon granny. It’s Phobos the biggest of two moons over Mars”, said Aman irregretably.
“Mars?!”, she exclaimed with peaks of her vocals.
“Yes granny. Let me explain it to you”, said Aman and pushed over his watch again. Then projected out of it were a list of videos and then he selected one from his primary school list.
“ what was that?!” she said with the constant exclaimed tone
“Cool down granny. It’s just a Hologram” said Aman irritably
She then thought it would be better to listen to him rather to face his futuristic anger.
Then a video projected out playing the visuals of the year 2015, then he went explaining
“ Worldwar III has taken place in the year 2100”, pictures of nuclear attacks were sliding,”It was so chaotic that most of the habitat got extinct, only few lives were able to survive underground. The next 125 years were used to develop the destroyed earth to a living habitat but later it was learned that things went far out of hands. The next 75 years were spent to make enough arrangements to start the Terraform operation. Terraform operation is an transformation operation to create an artificial atmosphere over Mars for our species to live on.”,the slides of how humans worked to achieve Terraform were shown,” Magnetic field were used to create sustainable atmosphere which can sustain a stable life over Mars.
Then plants started and habitat perished as same as it was on the Earth by the year of 2500.”, images of smiling people were shown on the Mars,” From then on we were able to perish and were able to maintain a sustainable ,renewable environment for the future generations till Today. Time Machine was the latest technology. So I was lucky enough to fetch you up granny.”, said Aman closing his presentation.
“But.. why.. why me Aman?”, asked Lakshmi stammering
“After your death, everybody missed your cookies and forgot the recipe. So I finally got the chance to taste those legendary cookies”, said Aman.