First Contact
Things to know about story:
1) This story is centered in the same universe as Alvin and the Chipmunks, but my character that I added is an Alien.
2)Turoka, my character, is sent to Earth because his species has recently discovered that there is a planet in this system that has life.
3) Due to not knowing how advanced this planet is or even whether or not the native inhabitants are hostile, they send a special operations soldier to investigate the planets inhabitants (specifically him)
4) Turoka is not a typical alien in his species. His species are aliens that naturally have Telekinetic and psychokinetic abilities. (Telekinetic equals ability to move things with your mind and psychokinetic means to be able to read and manipulate peoples minds.) He is part of a very rare sect called Ardat-yactor. This gives him almost godly like telekinetic powers and psychokinetic abilities.
5) The aliens technology is about 500 years more advanced then human tech.
6) I'm pretty sure that this story will be probably over or close to 100,000 words, but I may try to condense some of the content where I can.
Chapter 1First contact
"Why did I accept a mission like this one" I asked my self as I waited for the C.O. to show me into his office? To go to an uncharted world in a system called Sol and to find out if My name is Turoka and I am a Voretox soldier in the Voretox special forces branch of our military. As I was waiting in a lobby next to the C.O.'s office in Fort Smasaga, I heard a door slide open. I looked up to my right to see the plumbed, a brown skinned Voretox with red cat like eyes and a scar over his left eye, stare back at me.
"Sargent Turoka, please step into my office" he said gesturing in. I stood up from the white hover chair I was sitting in and proceeded inside. He closed the door behind me. His office was large with several chairs, about 5. Of those five, three were centered around one metal and energy surfaced desk in the center. He had several pictures of famous Voretox space battles in holoportraits on the walls. He had a terminal on his desk and a couple dossiers. I sat down. He sat down at his desk.
"Sargent Turoka, do you know why you're here" he asked? I nodded. "To see if this world would be a threat to our expansion across the galaxy." He then continued "You will be dropped from orbit down to one of the continents on the planet, a place the local populace refers to as North America and you will deploy from your combat suit to study the inhabitants of this planet and find a way to blend in and determine if they would be hostile to us. If not, then negotiate with the planets leaders to see if they could allow us to set up a colony on their planet.
If you deem that they are hostile, well then you report into us and give the go. We'll arrive and bomb that planet into a wasteland. Anything before you leave" he asked? "No, sir" I replied. Then get to the suttle launch area and standby for deployment he said.
(4 hours later; in transport above planet Earth in Sol system.)
"Turoka, are you ready yo deploy" asked the pilot? I was currently in my Zerera class combat suit, an older model suit with multiple interchangable weapons such as energy gatling guns, rocket launchers and smoke artillery launchers. The suit was a humanoid in appearance with a jet propulsion system on the back and a red optical lens on the front for the view port. I had just finished checking all the systems for any faults or errors. I was green across the board, or should I say display panels. In front of the pilots chair were six holographic projects mounted to various points in the cockpit.
Each black, reflective projector was currently on and displaying a interactive holographic panel. Around the panels, mounted to the walls of the cockpit were also many various switches and dials. This was left over tech from a while back since now, all modern combat suits have a neural uplink, allowing me to be able to control the suit with my thoughts. I activated my comm set in my commando suit, located above and to the right of the pilots chair. I flipped two switches and instantly, a blue holographic plan phased into view. On it was a video feed to the pilot of the dropship, with many various readout on the signals origin such as coordinates, galactic standard time, etc.
"Roger, pilot. Prepared and Ready for hot drop to the surface. Disengaging inhibitors" I said as I switched off the propulsion safeties, activating my suits jump jets and hover functions. Then I reached for another switch above my pilot chair and activated the suits primary fusion generator. "Roger, opening cargo bay doors for drop" he said in a professional tone. I soon heard a thump as the reinforced cargo doors slowly opened in the massive space transport. My suit is environmentally sealed for operations in hazardous terrain and atmospheres. Capable of generating it's own nitrogen (the breathable air for a Voretox), I could stay in the vacuum of space for a galactic standard month (45 earth days) I felt my suit shake in it's current position as the the vacuum of space took over.
"Deploying now" he said as I felt the magnetic hooks deactivate and I began to plummet out of the dropship. I was now free falling towards this new planet. I could see that the exterior temperature sensors on one of my holographic panels was reading above 100 degrees Haronot (Voronian for temperature in Celsius) and rising as I entered the planets atmosphere. The atmosphere of this strange new world. Suddenly, I got a feeling in the pit of stomach's (Voretox have two stomachs) that something was bound to happen. Something bad. 9 out of 10 times it's right. For once, I wished it had been wrong.
Meanwhile; in Los Angeles at a certain home of six international rock stars:
"Alvin do you realize what time it is" asked their surrogate father Dave? Alvin, Simon, Theodore and the chimpettes, Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor were in the living room watching T.V. on a brand new screen since Alvin accidentally broke the old television when He and the chipmunks were playing wii bowling with Toby when Dave was in the Hospital in Paris and Alvin accidentally threw the controller at the T.V. The families new T.V. was a 42 inch HD T.V. with surround sound. They were currently watching Spongebob Squarepants.
Alvin heard Dave and looked at him and stated "Dave, what time is it anyways?" Alvin could tell that Dave was realizing what Alvin was doing. "Alvin come on, you know the drill. Everyone in bed and lights out at 9:00 and guess what?" He then raised his watch to Alvin. "It's 9:15 and on a school night so everyone go get ready for bed now." Brittany looked at Dave pleadingly and said "Dave please, the shows half way over. Can we please watch the rest of it?" Dave now shifted his glare to Brittany. "Now don't you start too Brittany. Turn off the T.V. and get ready now. Besides in a week you'll be on summer vacation and we can go back to the fun life of touring across the country at the concerts that I set up for you guys" Both the groups knew that if Alvin or Brittany couldn't convince Dave, then they couldn't either. Eleanor then said "Yes Dave." She then went to the controller next to Theodore and clicked the off button.
Both groups then got up from the chair and went upstairs to get ready. As they were going up the stairs to the bedroom Alvin then said to Simon "I'm getting tired of this same old rut, Simon. Get up, eat breakfast, go to school, come home, do homework, eat dinner, watch T.V. and go to bed. Nothing ever seems to change." Simon straightened his glasses and said " Alvin all of this is necessary for us to be more like normal kids. Besides it'll be over in a week." Alvin finally reached the top step first and said to himself "I wish something could just happen that would break this same old cycle."
Meanwhile; back in earths orbit with Turoka:
"Warning Turoka, the heat around the combat suit is increasing and soon will become too high to deploy landing thrusters" said my on board computer A.I. system S.A.R.A(i) . (Systems analysis and remote artificial intelligence) "Affirmative" I stated through the speakers of my helmet that was part of the Survival suit I was wearing. The suit has many functions: Active camouflage, radar, air purification, armored protection, enhancing reflexes and strength by twice the normal capacity. The survival suit is the actual suit that I wear in combat. It has enough strength in it's Palladium-silicon plating to be able to deflect ballistic projectiles (bullets) and absorb most energy rounds.
"Standby S.A.R.A, I'm activating emergency cooling and diverting it to the plating." I then instinctively went for a set of three switches above my head, right next to the climate control systems. I flipped the Safety mechanism up and flipped the switch to set it to standby, I then did the same to the next to prime the system. I heard a loud whir as it came online. I then went to the third system and turned it off to retain manual control of the system. A display came on screen that said in Voronian "divert Emergency cooling to plating?" I then quickly hit the button on screen that said "Yes." I hope that this works because it is getting exceptionally hot in the cabin. Then I heard S.A.R.A. state "Cooling systems activated." I then heard a loud hum as the cooling pipes in the plating turned on and I could feel the temperature beginning to fall. "Activate reverse thrusters at 30 percent power for landing" I said to my A.I. I then heard a system start up, stall in a few deep whirs and die away. I knew the bad feeling in my stomach's had been right, it is always right.
My ears were then suddenly assaulted with a warning siren that seemed to radiate around the cockpit. "Attention, Turoka. The thrusters are unresponsive and appear to be malfunctioning" the A.I. said. "S.A.R.A. begin automatic repair on system 7D" I said to her as I was trying to find anyway to slow the decent. I was now focused on two things, stopping this free falling 28 ton death machine, and praying to the goddess Arashu (voretox goddess of motherhood and protection) that I would make it out of this alive. "Alert, we are approaching the planet at high speed and my calculations show I can not have the systems back online before impact" She said to me. I then could see through the screen that we were now in the planets stratosphere and were about to collide into what looked like a city.
"Computer, activate emergency protocol "Botched landing." "Yes, Turoka. Standby." This protocol activates an emergency kinetic crash shield that absorbs most of an impact. I then heard a dull boom as the system came online instantly. "Shield in place. Assume crash position." "This is going to hurt" I thought in distress.
back in the Chipmunks home in L.A. Around 30 minutes later:
The six chipmunks got into their respective bed and were waiting for Dave to tell them goodnight. Alvin however, while still in his bed, he was looking out the window from his top bunk in boredom. "I wish something would happen to change this boring rut we're..." he began to say to himself. Then suddenly a bright light in the sky attracted his attention. It was very far from the ground and at first seemed like a speck, but it was getting closer pretty fast. He turned to rest of his "Siblings" and yelled, "Hey, everyone. Come here, there's something falling out of the sky." Instantly, the rest of the chipmunks rushed out of bed to the window to see what Alvin was seeing. Simon was the first one there followed closely by his other brother and then Brittany, Jeanette and then Eleanore. They all looked out the window, staring at the object plummeting to the ground at a high speed.
"What do you think it is" asked Brittany staring at the object in wonder? This object seemed to be burning up on entry. It was like seeing a rocket flying up overhead. One of her sisters, Jeanette answered, "I don't know. I've never seen something that bright fall from the sky." Then Simon realized what it probably was. "Actually that seems like it could be a Meteor or maybe a falling satellite." Theodore then looked at Alvin and said a little unsure "Do...Do you think we should tell Dave, Alvin?" Alvin looked at his brother and chuckled "How could something that small do any damage. Honestly Theodore, there's nothing to worry about." Then Simon spoke up in shock, "Guys? It's changing it's impact course. It's heading for our street."
Everyone then looked back at it immediately and everyone could tell that it had indeed, changed course for their streets general direction and was about halfway to the ground. "Simon then yelled in panic "Guys get down!" The Chipmunks scattered to the ground of the bedroom. They were now feeling a slight vibration resinating through the ground like an After shock. They had just hidden under the two bunk beds as The rumbling got more violent and intense now starting to feel like an earthquake. Then from nowhere, a massive boom occurred as the thing impacted with the ground. The ground shook violently.
The Girls and Theodore started to scream as a loud crashing noise that sounded like a building collapsing and then a massive explosion occurred with a flash of yellow light. Car alarms were heard outside as two more explosions took place and then an even louder crashing noise occurred followed by one more explosion and then everything went silent as a graveyard. The sounds to be heard were a few car alarms and people screaming and yelling. Then The Chipmunks heard a new sound. It sounded like rapid footsteps on a staircase. Then Dave came charging in the room.
"Guys. Girls. Where are you?" Alvin crawled out of the bed first followed by the Guys and then the Chipettes. "Dave! Your alive" shouted Brittany happy that her surrogate father was alive and not hurt! He looked around very panicked "never mind me, are you guys alright. The Chipmunks nodded to show they were fine, though they were quite shaken up. Simon then asked Dave "What was that explosion?" "I don't know, come on guys. Lets see what the damage is." Dave and the Chipmunks then quickly went down stairs and ran out the front door to see A horrible catastrophe in the streets.
The destruction was devastating. There was a huge trench like crater that ran through one houses yard to the opposite houses yard. There was fire all over the place as Sirens could be heard in the distance. The two houses the trench went through were completely destroyed. The first was totally vaporized as nothing but ashes and burned bricks remained. The street was torn apart as several car husks remained, all burned and destroyed with blast marks around them. The other house had part of it still standing, but the whole middle of the house was gone as it too was on fire. We ran closer to the carnage to see something that made us gasp. There were charred corpses of people on the sidewalks. It all looked like a war zone from a movie.
Dave went over to an older man, probably in his 60's to ask what the heck happened. We carefully walked through the disaster. As we neared the second destroyed home, Alvin noticed something and pointed out to the rest of his 'Siblings,' "Guys I see something over there in the second houses yard." He then ran away from the group towards the thing he spotted. "Alvin, wait. Stop" Yelled Brittany! It was no use however as He probably couldn't hear her or didn't want to hear her. Brittany ran to chase after him while the others ran after her. Once Alvin was through the house, he noticed something so unusual that he stopped in his tracks and just stared in awe. The rest of the group caught up to him and stopped too, staring in awe at the sight.
In the center of the lawn was a greyish-white humanoid looking machine. It had steam coming off of it from the impact and the explosions. It had an ususal black structure on it's back that seemed to be for providing thrust. Near the lower back of the humanoid machine were two dim orange lights that were flickering. Jeanette then said to Simon "Simon. That is defiantly not a meteor."
Meanwhile; in the combat suit from Turoka's perspective:
I felt dazed and dizzy as I was trying to regain composure from the crash. I managed to sit up only to see a large cut on my arm that punctured the suit and was bleeding bright orange blood along with the synthetic oil composite that my survival suit uses to lubricate it's systems. "That must have been some crash for the Palladium-silicon plating to get punctured" I said to myself. I looked at the screen in front of me, which was a little hard since the lights inside were very dim due to suit wide power outage and I said "Computer, status report...Now!"
I then heard my A.I. then say "Standby...Standby... systems failure in 20 percent of primary systems and power failure in 5 percent of all secondary systems." I then said "Computer, what is the power level of Fusion reactor 1?" My combat suit has a primary reactor and a secondary reactor, both capable of providing nonstop power for over six galactic standard months if used sparingly. My A.I. then stated "Fusion reactor 1 is completely drained of energy from use of Kinetic crash shield, but reactor two is fully functional." I then knew what to do. There was a lever near my right arm, next to one of the holographic panels, or where it should be sice the powers out. This lever would swap the primary reactor for the secondary reactor.
Before I pulled it, I then had to ask S.A.R.A. a question "Computer, are all motor systems functional or are the back ups dead too?" She then said "I detect no problems with the secondary motor systems, but some primary systems are damaged." I then said to the A.I. "Computer, switch damaged primary systems over to functional secondary systems." After a few seconds the A.I. said "request done." I then said "stand by, I am going to switch over the reactor and activate motor systems.
back to the perspective of the Chipmunks:
We were all staring at this unusual piece of machinery laying in front of us. Alvin asked Simon "hey, Simon. Do you know what this thing could be?" Simon looked at Alvin and said "Look I don't know what it is and I think we should get back to Dave before..." He began. Then some sound started to come from the machine. It was a loud alarm sound like a warning alarm. Apparently it was loud enough that Dave and some other humans heard it and came to investigate. Eleanor and Jeanette turned around to see Dave coming through the ruined house along with several police officers. Then Alvin and Brittany heard a whirring noise as something unsheathed itself from the humanoids back.
It was a large dim glowing orange cylindrical object that was then brought into the machine and was rotated only to be replaced by a very bright glowing one of the same type. The metal covering the object slid back only to show two points of orange light lined up vertically. Then the alarm stopped and all was quiet. That is until a robotic voice came from the machine that said something in an odd language. Then the officers apparently noticed lights coming on all around the machine, it began to glow with little lights on certain points of the machine. Then a loud whir began to build up until it said something again in the strange language. Then the things feet curved under the soil and fixed in place. Soon, a loud propulsion sound began to come from the front of the machine. The machine slowly was raising up from the reverse propulsion. Dave then yelled at us " Everybody stand back!"
We all ran away from this machine that was activating. The police however; did not, but instead pulled out their pistols and pointed them at the machine. One of them, who appeared to be their leader then said "Prepare to fire." They cocked back the hammers on their pistols. By now the machine was up and standing. The thrusters shut off. It stood still until it began to turn to the right in heavy footsteps that shook the ground. The front was facing us now. It was also greyish-white, but had several holes on the front, probably from the thrusters. It had 2 arms, but both were different. The left had nothing on it but a large metal hand, the right had what looked like a shield covering the fore arm. The most noticeable feature was a bright red 'eye' in the center of the machine that seemed to be looking around.
The eye closed in on us and stared us down. A few seconds passed and then the machine took a step forwards that seemed to shake the Earth. Everyone backed away. It took another step. One of the officers looked at the leader of the police here and said "Permission to fire, lieutenant?" The leader was about to say something when the machine took another step and stopped. The machine then took off in a fast walk kind of movement towards us. "Fire" yelled the lieutenant! All we could hear now were their pistols going off, firing bullets at the machine. The crowd near the street began to panic and scream. Probably from the machine and the gun fire. The humanoid machine, though, was absorbing the bullets like they were spit balls. There wasn't even a mark on the armor as it shrugged it off.
Dave and the Us ran away from the machine as fast as we could. Then we heard a huge thump as the thing leapt into the air, It went higher then even what was the roof of the house. It came down in the street in a huge crash. It then stood up slowly as it was still being fired upon by the police. In Simons frantic rush, he spotted a news crew already on scene filming this indestructible machine. It then proceeded to walk down the street and then stopped after a few feet and it turned towards us. We all heard a loud sound that sounded like metal opening. Alvin looked up and pointed out loudly that two launcher like mechanisms were coming from the shoulders. They were black and looked like a metal ramp with a wheel like mechanism on top of each that had grey shells in the ramp.
We heard the motor spin up and then it began to launch out shells into the air. It stopped after launching 5 shells from each. The shells were coming down around the street. "Cover" yelled the officer as we all began to run for cover from it's attack. The shells impacted the ground and began to explode. But not, in an explosion, rather in a cloud of grey smoke that quickly filled the area with a smoke screen. We heard coughing all around us from people inhaling the smoke. Alvin and his 'Siblings' were low enough that they could still see the legs of the machine. I heard the news crew moving to a better position to see this thing. Then the thing retracted the launchers and stood there. Then we heard a loud whir and a rush of air as a blue aura surrounded the thing spinning around faster and faster until there was a bright flash and it vanished into thin air.
When the smoke cleared everyone was surprised to see this machine gone too. Dave looked at us and said as we were hiding behind a ruined car, "Guys, to the house. Now! GO!" We took off lightning fast with Dave trailing behind until we got inside to safety.
Same scene; but from Turoka's perspective:
After I pulled the lever, I then pushed a second lever back up. This one would lock the second fusion generator in place once it was switched. I heard the standard warning alarm from outside sounding dully because since the reactor is powered by fusion energy, it emits radiation, so it tells others to be cautious and not approach it. Then the second reactor was in place. I heard the metal cover that protected the vulnerable reactor then close and lock. Then my A.I. stated "reactor switched. You are cleared to start up the motor systems. "Roger" I said as I then raised my hand to three switched above me near the F.C.S. (Fire control systems) panel. I took the first switch and turned it to the side and then pushed it in. I saw on the screen in front of me that the switch had thankfully activated the upper motor controls and the systems of the combat suit. I then took the second one and did the same to see on the monitor that it activated the lower motor systems. I know that this takes long. However, I wanted to take this slow since I just survived a fall from thousands of miles and that some systems are damaged.
I then took the last switch and flipped it up to set the system to standby. I heard the neutral voice of the combat suit state "ready." Then in order to activate it, I then reached for the two holographic displays, one on either side of my command chair that lets me drive the machine. I then pressed both of my palms down on the panels to activate the suit. "Initializing" said the suit as it began to automatically right 'myself' from the ground. I finally heard the suit stop, which means that now it is up and I can control it. I then said "computer, optics on." The screen in front of me changed from a control panel view to a optical view from the lens in the 'eye' of the suit.
The control panel was put on a different screen that was above me. I then placed my hands on the panel and began to motion for the suit to turn around. I could see my suit begin to turn around. I could hear the steps of the suit from the cockpit. I then turned to come face to face with some life forms native to this world. The bipedal creatures dubbed by our military intelligence classified them as what they are on their world, Humans. Unfortunately, this all that our database has on this world One was standing closer to my suit then the rest. They must have come to investigate my entry that apparently caused a ton of damage. The rest of the Humans were standing near a destroyed Home. I noticed that they had primitive weapons with them. I activated the optical scanners and scanned their guns. The results were: steel-titanium composite material with simple automatic fire system feed by hard, cased ammunition based off of copper and propelled with gun powder. "Man, we haven't used ballistic weapons in over 350 years" I thought.
I then adjusted the camera lens down to the human again and this time, I noticed 6 life forms down by his feet. They were about 8 inches tall and covered in fur. They seemed to interestingly, also be sentient. I then realized that I was actually visible and exposed to all of them. I knew this because the Active camouflage was in the off position. I had to get out of here. The only way out with causing more destruction to this already damaged area was to go through the destroyed home then to the street. I then motioned my hand to make the suit move forwards. I could hear the joints and servos of the suit moving in sink with the sounds of the suits feet. After my first step I heard a human say something in a language that I couldn't understand. The human up front with the six animal like life forms then ran away.
"Computer, begin compiling translation software for their language" I said to S.A.R.A. She then responded by saying "very well Turoka, accessing local human database dubbed 'internet'" I then took another step forwards and then stopped when one of the humans stated something and the S.A.R.A. translated it into audio as "permission to fire, Lutentant?" These must be the local law enforcement of the city. "Computer, are the jumping mechanisms online" I asked the A.I.? It then said "systems standing by for your input, Turoka." I hoped they really did work because I had to get out of here, fast. I then motioned my hand further forwards and the suit took off faster towards the destroyed home. I then heard one of the Humans say through the translation software, "Fire!"
Then I saw through the screen and heard through the speakers that the law enforcement then began to fire. I knew that these small cartridges couldn't penetrate my suits armor. After all, it was built to withstand plasma beam rounds. I then pressed both of my hands down at the same time and the suit jumped off of the ground over the house and the humans. "Amazing, this planets gravity is less then our own home planets" I thought. I then felt the suit come down to a crashing stop in the street, where the rest of the humans began to scream and disperse. That is all except the news crew near my position.
"Do'shte (Voronian for the word Da_n), Our covers been blown. Now the whole planet will know of my presence. I could still hear the harmless pinging of the law enforcement weapons on my combat armor. I then began to walk to the left down the street. I stopped after two steps and turned to the humans. "Computer, what non lethal weapon systems are online and ready" I asked my A.I.? Then the computer said "the smoke screen launchers are online and operational. Should I do the honors, sir?" I then said "yes, but non lethal only, I don't want any nerve gas raining down on them." The A.I. then took over activating the smoke launchers and firing them. I had to use the suits teleportation system or I would attract even more attention from the humans. I activated the system and began to select the destination when the A.I. fired off the smoke screen rounds. After the smoke screen shells began to detonate and provide us cover from visual sight, I found the perfect place to hide the suit.
Since they have only seen the Suit, I can hide that and I can use survival suit's active camouflage to assume a human disguise and begin the mission. "A.I., retract the launchers and go to standby, I'm activating the Teleportation function." I then pulled a lever above my head near the secondary screen. I then felt a shaking as the suit was prepping for transit. I could see through the view port the blue aura of a space disruption anomaly as the screen went black only to reappear a few seconds later in the location that I put in...An abandoned warehouse in the city.
Authors note: I know that this story is somewhat confusing, but trust me it will make more sense as it goes on. And yes, Turoka and the Dave's 'family' will eventually meet.
Please, no flames.
