Disclaimer: I do not own in any way The inheritance cycle, all of that was written by Christopher paolini, if you haven't read them all, get off your ass and pass by a library.
This fic is my first one ever, hope it isn't bad, but hey, you guys are the ones who say if its good or not so, yhea, enjoy.
This takes place rigth after Galbatorix is defeated, Alex, his ship, all the stuff he uses and his dog are all out of my imagination.
Alex's POV
closing in on target, prepare for landing stage. the computer told Alex. finaly, after eigth years of traveling through space in a module the size of a house, with the only company of his dog, Ben, he had arrived at exoplanet Echo 5, this planet had been struck by a evolution catalyst sent by earth all the way back in 2056, since then, ten thousand years had past and the catalyst had done its job, there was now a suitable atmosphere and earth-like plantlife, as well as (acording to the computer) some probability of human-like species. but now he was about to land on it and comence with the colony, every thing he would need was packed in the four massive cargo bays attached to the back of his module, now, as the ship started it's orbit burn anxiety built up inside him, Ben, barked happily and moved his tail.
Orbit burn complete. the computer said with it's mechanic voice.
"Okay..." Alex said to Ben "I'll go check on the ship, you stay put" Ben looked at him and sat down.
Alex walked towards the small hallway that comunicated his module with the cargo bays and prepared to leave the artificial gravity of his module. He leaped into nothingness, grabing onto the ladder, we advanced towards the area with the status computers, the displays were all good, no pressure loss, no hull breaches, nothing to worry about. He looked into a display, wich had the view of an external camera; the planet was gorgeous, for what he could see, there was a signle landmass with a desert near its center and a massive group of mountains far in the southwest, an a huge green area in the south, pressumably a forest.
He entered the airlock, EVA suit on, and exited the craft.
It was even more beautifulthan than the planet, the colossal ship was about six kilometers long and two kilometers in diameter; on the front was the rotating ring that served as his habitat, it could create a gravity-like force using centrifugal force and came with a small farm. then there were the cargo bays, four large metalic tubes rigth "under" the hab, and the twin engines, with their respective fuel tanks were in the back. This was the UK ranger 1, the ship that the UK (Alex's country) had built for space exploration, in the year 2050, there was a "diplomatic" war on planet earth; the victorious countrys decided to make world peace, but since the entire world stopped suffering from hunger the population line went vertically up, so, colonys! yay!
Alex fell into a trance watching his marvellous ship.
Pilot. he computer boomed from the suit's speaker, snapping him out of his trance. please report to habitat module for landing procedures, i'd like to remind you that landing while in a cero gravity ambient could be very harmfull to your health.
So Alex pulled on the rope, in and out of the airlock, moved along the hallway, into the hab, throug the small farm and into the comand module. He tied Ben's harness to the safety pole intended for that purpose.
"Okay computer, pilot at hab proceed with landing procidure" Alex said letting the pun roll out of his mouth.
Burning...
Alex felt a small tug at his stomach as the twin drives powered on, he enshured that Ben was laying down besides him and waited for hell to break lose.
Entering upper atmosphere, heat sielding integrity at 98%
Alex fidgeted with his fingers and Ben looked at him as if saying "seriously?"
Entering stratosphere, heat shielding integrity at 86%. Commencing final burn.
Alex felt the ship vibrate a bit as the engines cranked up to full power.
Distance to surface, 700 feet, 500 feet, 300 feet, landing speed 3.9 meters per second... landing successfull.
Eragon's POV, a while before the landing.
Eragon was enyoing the last day of his stay in Alagësia, he'd be leaving the next morning to the unknown with his trusty ship. He was currently lying down in his tent, in a camp near the brand new capitol of a new empire.
Litle one, one of Nasuada's couriers is in fron of the tent, he looks pretty startled. Saphira told him, he got up, walked towards the entrance and oppened it to reveal that, indeed, a courier was standing there.
"Eragon shadeslayer" he said in a hurried voice "Lady Nasuada sent me to give you an urgent message"
"And what would this message be?" Eragon asked him with a calm voice.
"From what i've been told, a strange object was spotted in the sky, it is moving from east to west and repeats. Lady Nasuada wants you to see what you can find out about it"
"where would this object be?" He asked looking at the sky.
"i have no idea, but it is probably not good news, Nasuada awaits you in that field" he said pointing an a closeby field, in the middle, you could see a group of people, most likely Nasuada and her guards.
Saphira wait here, it's probably just some nuinsance. Eragon said to her as he ran out of the small camp and into the field the courier had signaled.
"Eragon" Nasuada greeted him " i'm glad you could get here quick enough, the thing just started spitting fire, pretty dragon-like, what do you think?"
Eragon looked up at the sky and saw what Nasuada was talking about, a shiny gray figure could be seen in the sky, with fire coming out of it, like a dragon, but some things were off, there was no wing movement, and the figure looked more like a tube than a dragon. Then, to Eragon and Nasuada's surprise, it started getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger...
Saphira! The mental shout echoed through the field.
On my way. she answered.
the object had now gotten outrageously large, it looked like a giant metal monolith, it had four tube-like structures at the middle, a rotating ring on the tip and two giant tubes that were spitting flames so big they could make even the biggest dragon jelous. Then it all ended, with a barbaric roar, the beast stood litle more than five hundred miles from the castle, afterwards the behemoth fired ropes into the ground and made an inmence creaking sound but made no further movement.
Alex's POV
anchors secured, please stand by while the sistem reviews ship status... complete. Reviewing machinery status... complete. Reviewing ambient... Warning, exesive gravity and atmosphere pressure, protective suit is advised.
"Thanks computer" Alex said while suiting up in the protective suit, now that was an amazing piece of engeneering, even though it is actually a diving suit fitted for air instead of water but mhe, it works and its great. He went once again down the ladder,only this time he was actually going down instead of pushim himself down the hole, and prepared to leave the shutle for the first time in eigth years. He could hear Ben snoring in the hab, good for him. He pressed the small screen on his left forearm, a small plataform extended outwards and he nearly got a heart attack, there was a castle in front of him, how on earth would a human structure like that be on a planet ten ligthyears away from eath?!
Then, to his increasing horror, he saw humanoid figures running towards his ship, with the shine of armour and wepons thousands of years old, then a blue beast came flying into vew, finishing the heart attack. He didn't doubt for a second, he typed *form defensive perimeter* on drone command and retreated the plataform, courled up into a ball and not so gallantly, fainted.
Eragon's POV, flying towards Alex's ship.
what is that thing? he asked Saphira.
I have no idea. she answered.
Then Eragon wished he had brougth Glaerd's heart of hearts with him, the old dragon migth know what the object was.
Then the thing oppened one of the tube-like structures and some of the wierdest animals he'd ever seen came flying out of it; small metalic balls that had metalic tubes facing the front and left a blue trail as the flew, big box-like creatures that left four blue trails and many other things. They came out of the object and formed a solid barrier with the tubes all pointed outwards, he couldn't see the object anymore but he could've sworn he saw a man on a plataform.
I think we shouldn't get any closer. Saphira said.
Yhea, you're rigth, i'll go ahead and scout this "thing" on my own, those creatures won't hit me as easily if i'm alone.
Be carefull nonetheless, that man could be a formidable opponent if he can controll that many creatures.
Eragon jumped off Saphira's back as soon as they landed and started sprinting towards the object, but he got no closer than then feet when one of the strange creature pointed the tubes at him.
Alex's POV; inside the hab.
Warning, authorisation for engagement is needed.
"What the hell does that mean?"
Attack drone A-21 has spotted an intruder.
"Then shoot it! Why haven't you yet?!" He shouted, Ben came to him, starteled by the noise.
The life form matches the traits of a Homo Sapiens. Fear crep into my heart, so my worries were rigth, the evolution catalyst that carried the bacteria that had started evolution on earth, also carried the bacteria from wich humans evolved, so, humans happened.
"You are authorised to fire, kill the guy!"
Eragon's POV; outside the ship.
The moment of hesitation on the creature was over, Eragon had barely a second before it spewed out a piece of metal, it impacted his arcane barriers, shredding them to pieces and draining all of his energy, but all his strength wasn't enough to even slow the pellet down; it hit his left shoulder with the force of a canonball, sending him flying back and behind a rock.
Eragon! he heard Saphira cry, and then the world went black.
Alex's POV
"Did you kill it?"
The drone was unable to eliminate the target, a life form unrecognised by the scanner interfered and destroyed the drone.
"Damm it! those things cost money!"
Captain, more humans are surrounding the shuttle, permission to engage?
"They're just unevolved apes! exterminate them!"
Roger that, exterminating...
Mabey they were less evolved, but they were people nonetheless, he couldn't just wipe them out, I would be bad for his pay.
"Computer! change orders: don't kill them, mangle them, aim for the legs."
Roger that, switching aim.
An hour later, the attack had ended, looked like the humans were all worn out. He was in the cockpit, watching the replay of when the first person was shot, something was strange; the drone had aimed for the head, an instant kill, but when the bullet got close to the man, it did as if it had hit a glass pane, and again, and again, and again until the bullet ended up hitting the left shoulder sending the man flying backwards behind a rock, as the drone advance to eliminate the target; the beast flew into the scaner. It looked like a winged crocodyle, actually, it looked like a dragon; a blue dragon... But that wasn't possible, dragons were mythological creatures, not actual living things. This is a pretty screwed up planet. He scratched Ben behind the ears.
"I'm getting tired of this damm hab, computer! make a larger defensive perimeter and deploy the mining machine, let's get this party started!"
acnologed, commencing colony construction stage 0-3.
Eragon's POV; the following day.
"Eragon!" Arya shouted at him "Wake up already!"
"What happened?" I asked with a sore throat.
"you got shot with this" She simply answered holding a metal pellet "at least acording to what Saphira told me"
"How long has it been? where am I? Is everyone alrigth? has the thing done anything else? did-" but he coudn't continue because he startedd coffing.
"Take it easy, it has been only a day" she said to him "You are back at the capitol, in the medical pavellion; shortly after you got shot, those animals formed a circle around the monolith, they dont let anyone close, but the only shoot for the legs. Also, a massive contraption was deployed, it looked like a box, with a big water wheel-like wheel in front; it scoops up dirt and then sends the iron and other ores to a series of other contraptions"
"But what is it doing?"
"I have no idea. By the way, Nasuada is gathering a diplomatic party to aproach the object while we wait for the urgals, dwarves and elves to be here, she wants you to go with her but also added that I should stay here and protect the camp"
Alex's POV.
"Nothing like an evening walk isn't there Ben old friend" he told his dog while the walked around the ship "the city should start building itself in three days, you know, so we just need to live in that hab for two more days Ben!" Ben barked happily.
pilot, there is a group of humans near the northen perimeter. the computer said throug his PDA.
"Repell them then, shoot them in the legs"
They are carying a white flag, the human gesture for truce, I believe.
how odd, i'm on my way, don't attack them"
Roger that.
Shortly after, he was standing in the northen perimeter, looking at the distance, he could see a group of people walking his way, carrying a big white flag.
when they reached where he was, an ebony woman steped forwards and speaked.
"I an Nasuada, can you undestand me?"
the wierd part was that she speaked english, perfect goddam english in the middle of galactic nowhere.
"I do, I am Alex Hunter, human from planet earth" a puzzeled look showed up on her face, as if she was also wondering how he spoke their language, and probably also wondering what the hell did he just say.
"What is your pourpose here?" she inquired.
"I come to set up a colony"
" But this is the centre of the Varden empire, you can't just place a city rigth next to it!" she yelled, it looked like she was getting impatient.
"I'm sorry, but, what can you do to stop me?"
Now she looked furious "We have the most powerfull mages in all of this world, we've got the elves on our side, the dwarves as well. You. Have. No. Chance!"
I couldn't help but laugh, I mean really, magic? Dwarves and elves? what was this? the lord of the rings?
"Does all this seem funny to you!?" she asked.
"As a matter of fact, yes, What are you talking about? are there hobbits too?"
I thougth she looked pissed before, but now she looked enraged "Eragon, please kill this idiot"
"Yes lady nasuada"
Eragon's POV
as Eragon entered the stranger's mind, his first thougth was "an elf" the mind was so complicated it migth as well have been a maze, the wierdest part of it all was that he sensed an even smarted beign, very close to the man's mind, as he induged into it, a series of red symbols blocked his way, then a mental arrow was shot into his mind, shattering his defences and his mind with them. He was being killed, his memories were getting ripped out and deleted, he let out a scream then collapsed.
Alex's POV
An error messge flashed in his PDA it read: "Warning: foreign software detected, proceeding to eliminate..."
Then the tall blonde man, the one he had shot earlier, bent down, vomited blood and rolled his eyes; then fainted. All his companions looked at him, and then at me in horror, but I wasn't paying attention.
"How fascinating, he managed to "link" with my computer and got wrekt by the antivirus, also when i shot him earlyer he manged to intentionaly changed the bullet's trajectory"
They all looked at me as if I was an alien... oh, wait, I am an alien for them. Anyways, i typed for collecting drone 48 to come pick him up and take him to the lab for further examination, and as the drone came into view I said "So much for your mage, I guess that is too bad for you; now i'll take him away and there is nothing you can do abou-" He was cutted off by a roar as the blue dragon came into view spitting fire out of it's mouth, it tried to reach for the fallen man, but it couldn't get near because I shot at her with my hand held heavy handgun (befor you throw crap at me for bringing a gun to first contact, allow me to say that the totally deserved it) the drone took the guy and the dragon went after it, but, as soon as it got near, attack drones swarmed it and chased it back; as they turned around to go back to their position, one fired two missiles that went behind the dragon, tracking it.
"I really do hope that that guy and that giant lizard aren't your best troops, because if they are you are screwed. Now get lost before i ask my friends to fire at you as well" I said waving my hand at them.
Defeated, Nasuada turned around and started walking, with her companions behind her.
"What a terrible first contact" I said to no one in particular "Well, got a colony to bui... Oh no! I forgot to set up the comunication array, what an idiot"
Author note: this fic, I wrote because I couldn't find any in wich Alagësia is visited by people from earth, also, I am cosidering extending this to other series, so, if you would like for a series about a specific series, lets say... attack on titan, or percy jackson. tell me and i'll consider sending one of my brave astronauts over. Also, I am VERY sorry for my most likely awfull spelling, english isn't my first language and so I may mess up a bit with the grammar, also the fact that I'm writing this on py phone makes grammar very hard to check. I am very sorry if my writing offends you. Also, anyone knos how to put that line to separate stuff?
