Project Blue Earth SOS

3:10 A.M. January 7th, 1995 A.D.

The United States of America Florida Airspace

This is Trick Star.

Current altitude is 98,000 feet.

Engines... check. Maintaining speed of Mach 9.

Fuselage components, heat-shield integrity... check.

Shutting down as planned.

Counting down from 5 and...

3... 2... 1...

Our result is eight minutes.

Congratulations on setting a new record, Dr. Brest!

Thank you, Captain Clayton.

If we can put this G-Reaction jet engine to practical use,

flying around the world in an hour will no longer be the stuff of dreams.

Trick Star, the mission is complete. You may make your return.

James, I've got a special bottle of wine open and waiting for you.

Come on home!

This is Trick Star to Captain Clayton.

I've picked up some approaching aircraft on my radar.

What?!

James, we're not picking up anything on radar on our end.

He's coming up on me from behind and he's right on me. What is this thing?!

But there's no other aircraft that can fly at Mach 9.

This is impossible!

Sayonara sucker!

Trick Star, your rocket boosters are reigniting!

I'm reading an increase in altitude from 100,000.

I'm reading Mach 15, 16, 17...

Don't be stupid, James! Even you can't handle that!

Altitude 105,000 feet!

Reading Mach 21, 22, 23...

If he continues at this rate, he's going to exceed escape velocity!

James!

Don't fail me now, Trick Star!

What happened, James?! James?!

It's coming...

There are rainbow-colored lights...

It's a saucer!

A saucer?

James!

Answer me, James!

James!

Episode 1 Mysterious Flying Saucer Invasion! SKY KNIGHT Blast-off!

This story is a Work of fiction. Names of characters and establishments, etc. Are in no Way related to actual people or establishments, etc.

2000 A.D.

The Capital of Earth: Metropolitan

Metropolitan Central Station

And here is mankind's first commercial train powered by a G-Reaction engine:

The Lightning.

This duly famous bullet train clocks in at 500 kph,

and can make to the trip from Metropolitan to New York in a mere hour and a half.

Hey! What's that?

Well, looks like I managed to make it on time after all.

Billy!

Hi, Lotta!

So, were you invited too?

As usual, my father has locked himself in his laboratory.

So, he sent me in his place yet again.

They're not going to be happy to find out that their guest of honor is a no-show.

That's Dr. Brest for you.

Hello, Billy.

And Emely, you're looking especially elegant today.

Ah, always the charmer, aren't we?

Shall we? The ceremony will get underway soon.

Who's that kid?

That's Billy Kimura.

Billy Kimura! Him?!

He is the heir to Kimura Industries,

a conglomerate whose total assets are valued at an estimated $200 billion.

A prodigy, he graduated as valedictorian of his class

from the Great Britain Royal University at the age of 14.

But he's just a kid.

I apologize for having kept you waiting.

At this time, it gives me great pleasure to invite you all to enter the Lightning.

This way, please!

Washington!

Washington!

It's okay.

Easy boy!

You! Who do you think you are?!

I'm Penny Carter, and this is my sidekick Washington.

That's not what I mean!

I mean, what do you think you're doing letting your mutt run around in a place like this?!

Yeah! You know, Billy hates dogs.

That's not what I'm saying...

I apologize for having disturbed you,

but this train is dangerous.

Why do you say that?

Because Washington says so.

That dog?

How stupid...

Come and have a look at this.

A tanker, a passenger plane, a submarine...

Within a few weeks time,

there have been several disappearances of vehicles powered by G-Reaction engines.

This train's powered by a G-Reaction engine too, isn't it?

There's no saying what could happen!

Yeah, I'm aware of those accidents,

but saying that the G-Reaction engine was the cause of the accidents is nonsense.

At present, the G-Reaction system is absolutely safe!

Your out-of-date claim is outrageous!

I see.

Of course, that sounds like something the heir to the company

that designed the G-Reaction engine would say.

What did you say?!

Stop it! Both of you!

Washington!

What in the...

Lotta!

No radiation residuals...

and there are no traces of burning or scorching.

That is to say, this isn't the result of some problem with the G-Reaction system.

I guess that kid was right this time.

What do you think, Washington?

You're confiscating all of our film?!

What do you mean?!

Until we get the all facts straight, the press is to remain silent

as far as this incident is concerned.

The press has rights, you know!

We will return your belongings after we have developed the film.

That's tyranny!

You, you can't be in here. Get out now.

I'm sorry.

How are you feeling?

I'm fine now.

I've just been going over the articles on the disappearances one more time.

"According to a crewmember aboard a freighter that was in close proximity

to said aircraft carrier at the time of the incident, his dog suddenly went into a fit of barking

moments before the aircraft carrier disappeared."

Besides that one, there are testimonies stating

that when a passenger plane vanished right after take-off,

all the dogs near the airport started barking wildly at the same time.

So, dogs are able to sense something?

Master Billy, here is Penny Carter's profile.

Thank you.

That explains it! That's why that name rang a bell.

Graduated valedictorian from Massachusetts...

And he's about the same age as you, Billy!

Looks like you have a new rival.

What rival?!

And now for the news. The G-Reaction powered submarine, Alexandra,

that disappeared last month from the Mariana Islands,

was discovered before dawn this morning in the Nevada Desert.

Ice?

Hey! Let me see inside this thing.

Captain Clayton, what do you think you're doing?

If I'm not mistaken, this is out of your jurisdiction.

I told you I want to see the inside.

There was no one inside.

Having a look around would just be a waste of time.

Photography and recording are absolutely prohibited.

Any materials found in violation of this will be confiscated.

Are you kidding?!

How are we supposed to write a story?!

Billy!

You're late.

What are you doing here?

Because I want to know.

A train disappeared in front of my very eyes. I want to know why.

That's my job!

Investigation of this kind of mystery is the duty of science's best!

What's so funny?!

That there's someone out there thinking exactly what I was.

Sorry, but if you want the best, you're looking at him!

Hey! Wait!

Huh?

Hey! You can't go in there!

Hey! Someone get them!

Well, well...

They're in.

There's no one here, is there?

They were even saying so on the news.

Maybe they've been taken somewhere far away.

My bulb burnt out? At a time like this?

Mine's got a silicon bulb.

Yeah, well, so does mine!

They burnt out at the same time...

That's impossible.

At the end of the millennium, a silver trumpet will sound out.

When the comet plunges into the ocean,

the reign of the Infabel will begin.

Don't move!

Both of you put your hands up!

Oh my...

Looks like they've been intercepted.

This isn't a playground!

What would you do if you had been exposed to radiation?

That wouldn't be possible.

What?

The A7-model submarine's G-Reaction engine is manufactured by Kimura Industries.

Even if, by some rare chance, it sank, it wouldn't leak radiation.

Safety devices are in place which would contain such a leak.

But...

Of course, we used a Geiger counter to confirm

that there was not a radiation leak just the same.

We weren't the only ones inside.

What?

Inside the vessel, there was a girl with black hair.

There was no mistaking it.

Well...