5. Exiled

All five of them were shoved down an rundown path, with Ah-moe leading the pack, his wife Ah-pui trailing behind, followed by his children, Ah-moo, Ah-mo and Ah-mui. Ah-moe, still wriggling around in his chains and snapping at the guards had not noticed that they were being led to the old and disused launch pad - the one which had been used as a rubbish dump for years.

It's when they got there that they realized their exile wouldn't be anywhere as easy as Ah-mooe said.

As they walked closer to that rocket they were about to board, they could see that it was made at least 20 years ago (120 earth years), and has not been maintained for years. Ancient, considering Pluto's fast speed of technolgy advancements. (Plutonians are mostly very intelligent, remember?) Leaking fuel tanks, wings that are about to break, dents, rust and scratches everywhere... In fact, the rocket was barely standing, leaning precariously on some temporary structure. Interestingly, it was angled towards the giant hot spot in the sky (the sun as we know it), but of course, they were too busy to notice.

Before Ah-pui could start whinning and crying, before Ah-mo started to shout and annoy his sister, before Ah-mui could try to reach for something to whack her stupid brother, they were thrown into the rocket by the Pluto Guards.

And so, they were squeezed into the small spacecraft, and were shot into deep space in a matter of seconds.

"Good riddance!" many people thought out loud.