Deviant Desires
Star
- Joined
- May 7, 2012
- Location
- United Kingdom
No-one noticed it coming.
Travelling at speeds unimaginable by man, it shot past most satelites unseen, the few that did observe its passing registering it as nothing more than a flicker of light. Past the International Space Station, through the horde of debris that orbited the Earth, gliding gracefully to skim the atmosphere at an acute angle.
The heat as it burned through the protective layer was enough to alert some authorities but they remained unconcerned. Its observed size was less than twenty metres across, its chances of passing through the atmosphere without burning up very small indeed. It roared on, flickering in the night sky as a shooting star, wowing amateur observers until it disappeared from view.
Finally soaring into clear skies as it passed into the hemisphere that was currently experiencing day, it slowed, confident that it had passed unheeded into this primitive world of upright apes. As the smoke passed from it, cooling from re-entry, it could be seen to be long, sleek and a resplendent silver like a speeding platinum teardrop. Now within range of human observation posts, it flickered on their screens then vanished like a random blip. Cloaked from human surveillance, it thundered on at twenty times the speed of sound, making sure to keep away from inhabited areas.
And then it slowed. Down and down it descended, closing in on a city which was in the grip of twilight. Flying into the city's airspace the silver ship glimmered and then darkened until it was like a shapely sliver of obsidian, invisible against the night sky. Finding a place in the shadow of a tower block it came to a stop, resting on the roof of a smaller building obscured by the tower's shadow. Heat rose from the steaming ship as its engines whined to a stop.
He was here at last. Distant observations had confirmed that this planet was inhabited, teeming with carbon based life. Scientists from his world had tested, analysed and speculated until they had come to the surprising conclusion, a conclusion that had prompted him to risk coming here: that these seemingly unremarkable humans may well hold the secret to his planet's continued existence. He came with a hypothesis, now all he needed was a subject to test it on...
Travelling at speeds unimaginable by man, it shot past most satelites unseen, the few that did observe its passing registering it as nothing more than a flicker of light. Past the International Space Station, through the horde of debris that orbited the Earth, gliding gracefully to skim the atmosphere at an acute angle.
The heat as it burned through the protective layer was enough to alert some authorities but they remained unconcerned. Its observed size was less than twenty metres across, its chances of passing through the atmosphere without burning up very small indeed. It roared on, flickering in the night sky as a shooting star, wowing amateur observers until it disappeared from view.
Finally soaring into clear skies as it passed into the hemisphere that was currently experiencing day, it slowed, confident that it had passed unheeded into this primitive world of upright apes. As the smoke passed from it, cooling from re-entry, it could be seen to be long, sleek and a resplendent silver like a speeding platinum teardrop. Now within range of human observation posts, it flickered on their screens then vanished like a random blip. Cloaked from human surveillance, it thundered on at twenty times the speed of sound, making sure to keep away from inhabited areas.
And then it slowed. Down and down it descended, closing in on a city which was in the grip of twilight. Flying into the city's airspace the silver ship glimmered and then darkened until it was like a shapely sliver of obsidian, invisible against the night sky. Finding a place in the shadow of a tower block it came to a stop, resting on the roof of a smaller building obscured by the tower's shadow. Heat rose from the steaming ship as its engines whined to a stop.
He was here at last. Distant observations had confirmed that this planet was inhabited, teeming with carbon based life. Scientists from his world had tested, analysed and speculated until they had come to the surprising conclusion, a conclusion that had prompted him to risk coming here: that these seemingly unremarkable humans may well hold the secret to his planet's continued existence. He came with a hypothesis, now all he needed was a subject to test it on...