I don't own Starman :-?
But I do own Heero Yuy in my dreams
As always, Enjoy.
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The beauty of this quiet vast?
Aimless radio frequencies reverberate sounds that have been traveling from the ends of the universe for millennia; bouncing from here to there in the jumbled noise of static. They pulsate with life as they ricochet through hydrogen clouds and clusters of space dust, spreading ever further as they tell their stories of ancient peoples and places. They are masterpieces, each one, painting pictures of lifestyles that long ago peeled in the pitiless emptiness of cold cosmos.
Etched in a memento of time on a small, golden disk fixed on a frail metal craft, the signals forever call out welcome to any that may take notice.
And now, someone has.
The moons and stars, surrounded by the stillness and peace of space? Nothing can be done but to surrender to the calm that seeps from behind a comet tail and flows onto the path of the Milky Way.
From this pathway of gleaming stars, a pod disengages and hurls itself near a small planet to begin an orbit around the sphere. After so long in deep space, it heaves in protest with the returning sensation of heat and weight. The time has finally come. Earth.
Suddenly the pod lurched, and was thrown backward. Ice chips and space debris tore free from the pod?s surface and disintegrated as the atmosphere of the planet swallowed it in flames. Thunderous quaking beyond the threshold of the spacecraft slammed it from side to side, threatening to crush it. A piercing scream from rushing winds broke through, and engulfed the vessel in the red heat of a planet?s protection. Seconds pass, then minutes.. and the craft began to buckle under pressures far too powerful for it to withstand. It expanded in the searing temperatures; stretching and warping into a mixed mass of space refuse and metal. At last, the sky let go of its prize, and hurled it through the final erosive layers of ozone. No longer a pod of any kind, but rather a husk of metal and stone resembling a meteor, the vessel continued to sear through the clouds in the suspended free-fall between earth and sky.
Abruptly the craft leveled out and stopped in mid-air. As it continued to float stationary, almost as
if confused on what action to take next, two enormous purple and white air-borne crafts, somewhat
humanoid in shape, flanked the newly formed ?meteorite? to either side.
?Unmarked vessel! We represent the Earth Sphere United Nation! You are in restricted air-space!
You have thirty seconds to identify yourself or you WILL be shot down!?
Immediately, the strange craft twisted around and dodged between the two Tauruses and disappeared into the clouds faster than either suit could track.
The pilot of the first Taurus hailed the pilot of the second, puzzled and clearly frustrated.
?Suggestions, ?Commander? Po??
Sally rolled her eyes and growled under her breath.
?I?m thinking, Wufei. And don?t call me Commander.?
After a few moments, a few scans, and a few choice words from herself and her partner, she pointed in a direction.
?It went that way. I suggest we follow it.?
Wufei?s response was gruff and immediate.
?And shoot it down this time??
He snorted before adding,
?And I WILL call you Commander. YOU wanted to talk to it first. Therefore it was YOUR fault we lost it. Thus YOU will be the one reprimanded. Because YOU led the mission.?
Sally shot him a feral grin.
?Only because you were too slow and I got here first.?
Wufei was about to protest, but thought better of it. Instead, he closed his mouth and turned off his com. Lucky for her, they had just caught up with the bizarre space object. Or rather, it had stopped once again, as if it were waiting for them.
Moments later, they had it positioned between their suits once more.
?This is your last chance. Identify yourself or be destroyed!?
Wufei?s face appeared on Sally?s screen.
?I?m not doing this again. We?re going to do it my way this time.?
His image was replaced with a blank screen, and Sally heard the unmistakable sound of laser power-ups.
Rather than protest, she armed her lasers as well. If Wufei was going to scare this thing into submission with warning shots, she was going to back him, no matter how foolish his actions were. But before either could raise their weapons, the craft shot off in another blur of speed.
?NO! You won?t get away!?
Wufei released an explosion of high frequency laser beams from the suit?s modified double beam riffle. The lasers shrieked against the hull of the space craft, and when the smoke cleared, the ship was gone.
Sally peered at the spot where the craft had disappeared, eyes wide and glassed over with the sheen from unshed tears of shock and confusion.
?Where..where did it go??
Wufei?s features once again filled her com screen. He looked somber, but resolved.
?We can?t be sure what that thing was or what was in it, if anything, but whatever it was probably survived the attack. I wasn?t able to get a clear shot due to the projectory and speed of the object.?
He took a shaky breath, and closed his eyes.
?It?s probably going to crash.?
He opened his eyes, and glared through the com at Sally.
?Somewhere in the territory of Old Wisconsin. Where the Vice Minister?s mountain cabin is located.?
