The following morning the virtual decoration of its RES appears with a tropical look.

“Good morning, your breakfast is already served.” the panel informs.

Nic and Xabel take their tablets with the continental breakfast.

-It´s quite early- Nic comments -What a pity! As much as I like to have breakfast in the terrace. But it´s still dark outside.-

Xabel smiles, taking the orange-juice. -What a great month of holidays we had here in Spain, I will remember a lot of nice moments. But - now it´s time to return to real life!!-

-Imagine, in the past people travelled with their clothes, shoes, t-shirts, they put even their tooth brushes in their hugh suitcases. Crazy. And calculate the costs for the STAT, if each one of us would travel with completeand heavy luggage around the world. Unbelievable, isn´t it?- Nic says.

-I think in the past the people did not analyze these facts, they were not prepared to think about saving energy this way. They travelled, for example, from New York to Spain with the whole golf-equipment.-

-Well, Xabel, let´s take a TRANS and go to the airport.-

They leave the RES. “No personal objects left in the RES.” the panel informs.

-Bye Bye!- Nic answers.

And downstairs in the hall another panel advices “Outside temperature: 15º C.”

-Thanks, thank you very much!- Nic says.

Outside in the street a lot of empty TRANS are parked. Xabel touches one of them in the roof and the doors open automatically. Both brother sit down in the car.

-Let´s go! Airport of Málaga!- Xabel orders.

“7 minutes to International Airport Málaga” is the automatic information of the TRANS.

On their way they observe the dark and cloudy sky.

-Seems to be a very rainy “good-bye” of the Costa del Sol!!- Nic smiles. -But even with the rain I would prefer to stay one more month.-

-Well, but the holidays are over, what shall we do. And I am really looking forward to return and be again with the guys!-

-Ah, there it is! Departure F, return of TRANS.- Nic finds the indication.

They leave the TRANS, pass the check-in and walk to the boarding gate. Finally they reach the airplane, take their seats and have a look out of the window, both of them with sad faces.

-Puh, there is really a heavy storm starting again. I don´t like it. Xabel, have you heard about the problem that we will reach a saturation in the ionsphere? They say that the magnetic field in the magnetic atmosphere is  becoming a dangerous risk for us, instead of protecting us.-

-Nice subject to talk about, Nic, right before the take off!- Xabel answers ironically.

-What happens? Are you afraid? Huhh, huhh!! Don´t be childish! Walter says that never before there had been such a clear reflect of the radio waves in the ionsphere like in these last months. And he thinks it´s because of the saturation of charge.-

-Radio waves? What about your are talking, Nic?- Xabel asks without understanding.

-Walter has still some radio systems of the 20th century…-

-Ah, better shut up, Nic! Walter, with all his stuff, will be in trouble soon. And you have got enough with your things.-

The airplane realizes the take off without any problems although a tropical storm and heavy rain is happening.

-Uff, makes me fear!- Xabel says.

-Ah, come on Xabel! Don´t worry!- Nic takes its headphones to listen to the music.

The flight continues and while reaching the travel height suddenly they fell that there are strange things happening and the faces of the cabin crew does not reallly express calmness!

-What´s going on?- Xabel asks anxiously.

-I don´t know, the music as well is failing a lot.-

-Ah, that doesn´t matter!- Xabel is getting upset.

-Yes, it does, because if the music fails and the airplane control as well . . . ; Walter was right with his ideas!- Nic says.

-Don´t start again!-

-Do we have a metalic thing with us? . . .  Ah, yeah, my keys!- Nic takes them out of its jacket.

-What´s that?- Xabel asks surprised.

-That´s the key of the shelter in the house of Walter. He is keeping the old key-system to close his doors, you know. Wait a moment.-

And Nic goes to the back part of the airplane searching another metalic object. A few minutes later he comes back to his seat - obviously very upset and nervous, and trying to keep calm he nearly shouts out

-It is magnetized, Xabel, the key is magnetized!!-

-Shut up, calm down, Nic, the people are looking at us-

Xabel is looking around to the other passengers and with a forced smile he explains

-Ah, sometimes my brother behaves a little strangly, sorry..!-

-Xabel, they are crazy, they are playing with our lifes, the key is magnetized!!-

-Shut up now, Nic, don´t be paranoid, We´ll going to have a lot of trouble.-

Members of the cabin crew finally go around to tranquilize the passengers and at the same time sounds the comunication-system

“Dear passengers, it´s your pilot speaking. We had some problems with the navigation-system, we solved them completly. Sorry for causing a little bit of trouble. The cabin crew will serve you in a moment a drink. The arrival time at New York will be at 14.00 local time. Enjoy your flight.”

-Scoundred!!- Nic wispers altered.

-Will you shut up once and forever!!- Xabel is really angry with his brother.

-Xabel, look out of the window! Look, and tell me what you see!-

-I can see the sky, the ocean, … but…-

-Well, what I told you, we passed the storm, and now there is no magnetic field anymore!-

-Ah, stop it, please, Nic, forget about it, and please, for the rest of the flight, okay!-

-Have to tell it to Walter, will be interesting what he will think about it.-

The flight continues without any problem, but Nic keeps its anger about all the things that happened.

VOICE IN OFF:

“Nic always tried to find out the reason of several problems and nearly always finished analyzing the things with arguments against the current system of the STAT. He only changed to a positiv opinion in case of things or situations related with the 20th century.

To be honest, I don´t know why he adored that age as much as he did, seemed to have been a funny time.

Till the end of the 21st century people were living in their own houses. It was usual priority of life to become property owner in spite of the high energy-costs and enormous traffic problems caused of the daily movements of each person. In that age millions of persons were moving daily just going to work and returning at home!! They were spending so much energy without having in mind the enormous pollution and destruction of the environment.

On the other hand getting owner of a property like a house, a flat or apartment was not as easy as it sounds. Needed to be adult with a fix job and a stable income. A high number of marriages were made to assure the financial base to receive the mortgage for a property. And naturally this fact caused on one side the increasing number of divorces or on the other side put the family or couple together for ever just to keep the financial security.

Furtheron in that age people were not open to share things. To explain this the following example maybe helps.. Yes, they were sharing the big parkings, but each one with its own car. That means that they always had to look and very often to wait for a free place to park and later only were leaving the parking with its own car. There did not exist a transport-unit like today our TRANS, everybody used its own car.

I don´t know, Nic loves that age and I think it is not because he feels pain for it, he really admires the past. For me it´s difficult to understand, I think it was a complicated society.”

Finally they land in New York and landing happens without any problem. The brothers go directly to a RES, take diner and relax.