seven the youth (ultraseven for adults) #19 project blue

#19 project blue

project blue

Do you remember USHIMA diode (#05)? 
It is set up on the mother computer in the Youth hideout,
incredibly improving the radar performance.

In USHIMA Laboratory, Noda, Chiba Prefecture,
a new project is developed, as cooperated with KIRIYA and KURA (#13). 
It is a gargantuan plan that would be able to protect the Earth
from INVADE aliens, by covering the whole planet with special barrier. 
The prototype of Project Blue has already been activated,
with a great protection. 
One day one spaceship hits the barrier, brown up,
to which no one pays attention.

One day Dr. USHIMA carries on his study through the night
until birds begin to sing. 
He wakes up at 11 to find that his wife Lindsay has gone out. 
He asks her to go running on errands at T University.

He picks up glasses and newspaper on the side table. 
And washes face, eats brunch wife prepares,
and seats himself on thd toilet. 
Then suddenly the floor of room begins descending slowly. 
Looking up, he finds the ceiling higher and higher. 
His elevator stops, and he stands up, raises underpants to waist. 
Darkness makes him blind, and getting accustomed to it,
he feels someone standing just in front of him.

"Anybody?  Who's it?"

It grabs him by the neck and punches him on the cheek,
without telling him anything.
"What you doing?"
He receives so many punches that he loses consciousness at last.

He wakes up again to find himself crucified on the wall,
and the large monitor right in front of him shows his living room clearly. 
It stands near the monitor, angrily staring at him. 
After a while, it transforms itself to look exactly like him. 
"What are you gonna do?"
 
When night falls, Lindsay backs home. 
Every move of hers is being watched.　
"I'm home.  Anybody home?"
She cannot find him either in the house or in the lab. 
"Nobody.  Must've gone kind of walk."
She phonecalls him, hearing his phone beeping in the bedroom.
"Walking without phone?"
She begins to prepare for supper.  Suddenly, light off all over the house.
"Blackout!  Why now?"
The circuit breaker checked, it does not trip. 
With a flashlight in her hand, she walked slowly on the hallway. 
The moment, on the way to kitchen,
one of the LED bulbs on ceiling blows up,
the broken pieces of which fall on her.
"What happens?"
She usually feels unmoved at something small,
but now more and more scared.

USHIMA is looking at his wife in the monitor.  
"Stop it, please!  Asking you to stop it now.  What you want?"
The alien steps back into the toilet lift, glaring at him. 

USHIMA sees another USHIMA appear in the living room,
when the power is restored.
"Oh, there you are," Lindsay backs to smile soon.
As is often the case when USHIMA thinks about something,
even though another USHIMA does not say anything,
she thinks nothing about it.

USHIMA turns white,
when he finds in the monitor
the alien is holding an edged tool in back.

The doorphone rings.  It shows YURI and MOROBOSHI.  
"Sorry to bother you late at night. 
We've come here, because Professor KIRIYA asked us
to deliver what he forgot to give Doctor."
"No problem. 
Thank you for coming all the way from far away. 
Please come in and have some tea. 
ANATA, the Youth has come."
"Doctor, sorry to interrupt you suddenly."
USHIMA does not answer.
"Now he doesn't say anything, which is usual."
ET radar is responding.
''Doctor, do you help your wife prepare for dinner? 
Because you have a knife in your hand."
The moment, the alien stands up, leaving the living room. 
YURI and MOROBOSHI run after it,
and it rushes into the full-length mirror,
through which MOROBOSHI with red glasses goes. 
But YURI strikes it and bounces down on her butt. 
Two figures disappear deeply into the MYSTERIOUS mirror.
(I've been left again…)

MOROBOSHI gets lost in Wonderland. 
A green Persia Cat on the tree is grinning at him, saying.
"You're trapped.  Can you get out of this world?"
The floor, black and red, looks like a chess board,
on one corner of which MOROBOSHI stands. 
Each square has enough space for each story to be told.  

The 1st flour, so great many flowers are chatting
as they takes MOROBOSHI for a flower and speaks to him.  
"You are just one flower, but called SEVEN, MYSTERIOUSLY."

The 2nd, a living wooden signboard reads itself in a low voice,
"THIS OR THAT IS STARTING OR ENDING."

On his way from the 3rd to the 4th,
MOROBOSHI is invited to the tea panty. 
Just before he answers yet or note,
Harey and Patter have pushed Dorp mouse into the T back. 

tea party

On stepping into 5th floor, he was attacked by twin warriors. 
The twins repeat their attack in sync with each other,
singing 'The War lust and the Car painter.' 
MOROBOSHI can use his abilites except teleporting,
so easily solve the problem.

The 6th space, MOROBOSHI fights with an egg man on the wall,
giving the humpt-dumpt a great fall, goo-good job.

The 8th end, after beating a lioness and a tricorn,
their bodies are reborn as two knights tonight,
white with ray-gun and red with big sword. 
But ain't got nothing on him.

Finally, the strange 7th, MOROBOSHI is in the darkness. 
He gives off ULTRA BEAM around,
when the mirrors shatters and Wonderland disappears. 
There he finds himself iu the enormous spacecraft. 
Chelsea Cat on the 1st end appears
and turns to another USHIMA.

(Who are you?)  

[Alien BADO, Luigi]

(Aliens BADO are COMRADE, aren't you?)

[I was. 
But his barrier destroyed their spaceship on their way homeplanet. 
Carolina, my wife and Alive, my daughter. 
So, this is my revenge, an eye for an eye.] 

(I see...  ) 
(
[No way.  I didn't expect you, Marionette, to appear in Wonderland,
which my wife and I created for Daughter,
because she loved the Earth story. 
But no more, because I am exhausted,
so I've decided to go and see them.  Kiss you good bye.]

Luigi disappears with Wonderland. 
And USHIMA original and MOROBOSHI are transported to the living room.  MOROBOSHI tells USHIMA about the alien family.  
"I got it.  I am very sorry for him. 
I cannot apologize to him enough. 
If I were in his place,
I would be sure to think of such a revenge,
no matter how seriously it might be judged by the law.
Soon we will have to improve Project Blue
so that the same tragedy will never happen."

Driving to TOKIO, MOROBOSHI is thinking about aliens BADO.  
(Were YURI killed in a traffic accident,
would I like to kill the driver,
be it a human or an alien? 
If you are left alone in the world with no family,
you must not give up living, never. 
Nothing is more important than life. 
It is a miracle just to be born in this universe.)

"What did you like about Mad Tea Party? 
I wish I had been in Wonderland." 
"A.  Ah, couldn't be better. 
You should have been there."

When his eyes meet hers in the back mirror,
he has already stopped thinking about aliens BADO.

#19 the end

to Louis Carol