UFA - Unidentified Falling Aliens
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just2hands(tag General Grievous)
Ah, the California desert. It had been too long. No, really, way too long.
Anika had taken the softtop down on her rental jeep, and as far as she was concerned, the sky was the limit. Or actually, any place was the limit after the medical convention she'd just had to deal with in San Fransisco. Now granted, San Fran was no where even near Los Angeles which was a good thing. Even thinking of that city and the plague of undead she'd dealt with was near enough to give Ani hives.
But now the convention was over, and she had two more days until she had to give back the jeep and fly out. Two more whole days, she thought to herself. Go parasailing? Boating again? No, not this time. This time, since she hadn't been able to bring her motorcycle along (or drive it across country) Dr Nuttal had decided on hitting the desert once more, and just taking the jeep out on the dunes,miles from the highway, far from humanity.
After all, she wouldn't be able to get lost, even if she tried.
Slowing her jeep to a halt on top of a dune, Anika sat in the driver's seat, staring out at the sun setting in the west. The sky was a brilliant collage of pinks, golds, orange and purples, and the sun was just a half-disk on the horizon. And behind her, in the East, the very first stars were already beginning to show.
It was the perfect time for peace, for contemplation, for
"What the hell?" There was a huge flash of light behind her, and a rumble that sent the sand skittering under the tires of the jeep. Earthquake! "Oh god!" The world lurched, the jeep slid sideways, and Ani slammed her head against the metal bar of the roll-cage. A cloud of dust came up and enveloped the vehicle and it's driver and weakly Ani tried to wave it away while coughing, blinking her eyes.
"Oh, oh my head." Oh god, what the hell happened? Anika looked from one side to the other, trying to see out the rear-view mirrors, but her vision was still blurred. Trembling fingers reached for the latch, opened the jeep door. On unsteady legs Dr Nuttal climbed out of the jeep and - still holding on to the frame - turned to see what the hell kind of bomb had gone off behind her.
No. No way. A plane had gone down, had crashed out there in the desert! She could see the metal gleaming gold in the brilliant sunset. Gold and silver crushed wreckage lay behind her, and a thick black smoke slowly rose into the sky from the main assembly. Without a second thought the young doctor climbed back into the jeep. After a couple tries to get the key into the ignition Ani was spinning the steering wheel and spinning the jeep, and spinning around to head toward the crash to see if she could assist any survivors.
The closer she got to the crash however, the more she came to realize that it was no plane, not even a small one. What on earth had come down, a satellite? An observation - something? Finally the human stopped the jeep and just stared, not believing what her eyes were showing and her mind was trying to convince her of.
She couldn't call it what it was, didn't want to call it what it was. It had to be an experimental military plane, it just had to! Because the alternative was unthinkable.
She spoke to herself as Ani carefully opened the door and stepped out of the jeep. "Anika, you don't want to do this, you really shouldn't do this. Dammit, I've watched this scene in Independence Day, and I am no Will Smith. I am gonna get my ass killed."
"Hello?" Oh that was stupid, she thought. As if aliens speak English, right? But then again...
"Hello? Is anyone in there?"
Ah, the California desert. It had been too long. No, really, way too long.
Anika had taken the softtop down on her rental jeep, and as far as she was concerned, the sky was the limit. Or actually, any place was the limit after the medical convention she'd just had to deal with in San Fransisco. Now granted, San Fran was no where even near Los Angeles which was a good thing. Even thinking of that city and the plague of undead she'd dealt with was near enough to give Ani hives.
But now the convention was over, and she had two more days until she had to give back the jeep and fly out. Two more whole days, she thought to herself. Go parasailing? Boating again? No, not this time. This time, since she hadn't been able to bring her motorcycle along (or drive it across country) Dr Nuttal had decided on hitting the desert once more, and just taking the jeep out on the dunes,miles from the highway, far from humanity.
After all, she wouldn't be able to get lost, even if she tried.
Slowing her jeep to a halt on top of a dune, Anika sat in the driver's seat, staring out at the sun setting in the west. The sky was a brilliant collage of pinks, golds, orange and purples, and the sun was just a half-disk on the horizon. And behind her, in the East, the very first stars were already beginning to show.
It was the perfect time for peace, for contemplation, for
"What the hell?" There was a huge flash of light behind her, and a rumble that sent the sand skittering under the tires of the jeep. Earthquake! "Oh god!" The world lurched, the jeep slid sideways, and Ani slammed her head against the metal bar of the roll-cage. A cloud of dust came up and enveloped the vehicle and it's driver and weakly Ani tried to wave it away while coughing, blinking her eyes.
"Oh, oh my head." Oh god, what the hell happened? Anika looked from one side to the other, trying to see out the rear-view mirrors, but her vision was still blurred. Trembling fingers reached for the latch, opened the jeep door. On unsteady legs Dr Nuttal climbed out of the jeep and - still holding on to the frame - turned to see what the hell kind of bomb had gone off behind her.
No. No way. A plane had gone down, had crashed out there in the desert! She could see the metal gleaming gold in the brilliant sunset. Gold and silver crushed wreckage lay behind her, and a thick black smoke slowly rose into the sky from the main assembly. Without a second thought the young doctor climbed back into the jeep. After a couple tries to get the key into the ignition Ani was spinning the steering wheel and spinning the jeep, and spinning around to head toward the crash to see if she could assist any survivors.
The closer she got to the crash however, the more she came to realize that it was no plane, not even a small one. What on earth had come down, a satellite? An observation - something? Finally the human stopped the jeep and just stared, not believing what her eyes were showing and her mind was trying to convince her of.
She couldn't call it what it was, didn't want to call it what it was. It had to be an experimental military plane, it just had to! Because the alternative was unthinkable.
She spoke to herself as Ani carefully opened the door and stepped out of the jeep. "Anika, you don't want to do this, you really shouldn't do this. Dammit, I've watched this scene in Independence Day, and I am no Will Smith. I am gonna get my ass killed."
"Hello?" Oh that was stupid, she thought. As if aliens speak English, right? But then again...
"Hello? Is anyone in there?"
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Date: 2017-05-24 09:14 am (UTC)"This had better not be some trick," he said, suspicious but the main risk was to the droid - and he didn't much care one way or the other about that.
He hoisted the battle droid up, opened up a panel in its back then held the body out toward her. "Here. Attach the power source to this." There seemed to be some sort of piece sticking out that may be like a strange sort of plug. But it should be able to attach and power up the droid to some degree.
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Date: 2017-05-24 09:28 am (UTC)"Look General Grievous, I'm going to lay some straight talk on you, ok?" And yes, there was one hand on her hip as she began speaking.
"I didn't have to come looking for survivors of your crash. I didn't have to offer to help you. I didn't have to tell you about possibly getting your robot there to do something other than gargle words. I did all this on my own. So yes, you can stand there and be as paranoid as you want to, but sooner or later you are going to have to get it through your head that I am a doctor. It is not just a job, it's my life, it's my... oh forget it."
She picked up the cables, came closer to him and attached one side to the robot, then looked around for something to ground it with, finally deciding on a piece of wreckage. "I swear, I've seen vampires who are less suspicious." She looked up. "You may want to put the robot down, I don't want you to get hit by the electrical charge too." And then she mumbled some words under her breath. Something to do with knocking, and sense.
A few seconds later, she was ready, and attached to cable to the battery of the jeep. "Ok, lets see how this does."
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Date: 2017-05-24 09:39 am (UTC)"I hope you do not think I would be so foolish as to immediately trust a strange human being who claimed to be a healer."
But he was being fairly civil otherwise - at least to his way of thinking - and he kept out of her way for now.
Once she sent the power through, the battle droid jittered and shook, making unintelligible noises for a moment before going still.
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Date: 2017-05-24 09:58 am (UTC)Wow, Wade would be so proud of her! All her time with her bestie had finally started rubbing off, in a good way. Anika was finally able to start standing up for herself - at least where her profession was concerned.
"Look, I don't expect hearts and flowers ok? Just - can you try to tone down the whole tall, dark and growly bit? I've got it, you can kill me seven ways to Sunday, any time you want. I know that part already."
The robot jumped, the human jumped. "Ok, what I'm going to do is start the car, and see if the electricity will help start it that way. No, I won't leave you here. But if I don't start the engine, trying to wake your robot might drain my own battery, ok?"
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Date: 2017-05-24 10:11 am (UTC)"Go ahead and do it."
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Date: 2017-05-24 12:48 pm (UTC)She sat behind the steering wheel, staring out the windshield at the alien before blinking and swallowing hard, then climbing out of the car seat once more to check on the general's robot-servant-thing.
"Is it doing anything yet?"
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Date: 2017-05-24 01:39 pm (UTC)Grievous stalked over to it, ordering. "Get up!"
The droid seemed to be confused. "What, where?" Then it focused on the tall cyborg looming over it. "Ah... Yes, General. At once." It waved an arm around again before it found some traction and pushed itself off of the ground.
Grievous inspected it and poked at it a couple of times. "Is everything in working order?"
The droid didn't reply, standing straight and silent. Grievous kicked it.
"Sir! Yes, sir!"
The cyborg growled disapprovingly at the delay then turned toward Ani. "It looks like your idea was successful."
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Date: 2017-05-25 05:16 am (UTC)"Now we have to get the cables off." She removed the set of cables from the back of the droid and the piece of wreckage serving as a ground, and then took the other end of the cables off the battery. Coiling it all up, the doctor set it in the back of the jeep before shutting off her vehicle and pocketing the keys once more.
"So it was." Anika gave a slight frown at the abuse to the robot, but chose not to mention it. "What can it do? Can it fix your ship?"
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Date: 2017-05-29 02:22 am (UTC)The cyborg General turned again to the woman.
"That is not in its simplistic programming."
So not much help there. He spoke of the droid in a rather condescending way as if he didn't think much of it.
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Date: 2017-06-19 08:49 am (UTC)She hoped.
"Look, I'm going to sit down over here, maybe rest a little while. Unless you have something else you want looked at or checked out, like that cough of yours? Yes? No?"
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Date: 2017-08-23 05:22 am (UTC)He just was unaware of the extent of it.
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Date: 2017-08-24 03:49 am (UTC)"Look, do I have to worry about you killing me in my sleep or not? If I can't help you, I don't know what I can do here. What I do know is that if I don't get some rest, I won't be able to help anyone - including myself."
"So what do you say?"