First thing, I'm sorry I haven't updated sooner; I've been busy with college, family and other things. Here is the second chapter of Alvin and the Chipmunks: First Contact. Secondly, to avoid any problems, all I own is my idea's and OC's. All alien species, civilizations and technologies are original and must be asked for permission before use. Thirdly, I just want to mention that I accept anonymous reviews on all of my stories, though I prefer signed reviews. That way I can answer individual questions on the story, topic, or whatever it is.

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Chapter 2: He Who Walks Among Us...

Back to Dave's household, around 11:30:

(This will be from Alvin's perspective)

"Well, at least our house is still standing" said Dave to us as he was nervously looking outside from the front door of the house. "I couldn't blame him, that was an awesome, yet very scary experience" I thought to myself. I could see that the others were taking it hard too. They were very nervous and uneasy. Jeanette, who was originally, standing by Theodore trying to comfort him (he is scared half the time after all), she then walked over to Dave and asked "Dave? Do you know what that thing was?" She was very curious because to me, it seemed like something that came from another world. Dave closed the blinds on the door to block out the lights of multiple emergency vehicles outside. Outside, I could hear police officers trying to set up a perimeter and I could hear people shouting and some crying.

He then walked over to the kitchen counter where a cordless phone was and he picked it up and listened for a dial tone. After a few seconds, he set it down and said "Well, phones are dead. What else can go wrong?" He then stared towards the counter with this gloomy expression, like he was thinking this was his final hours alive. I then rushed over to Dave and tugged on his pants leg, "Dave, do you know what that was out there?"

Dave looked down at me and knelled to get more at my level. My other "siblings" came over to Dave too, all wearing curious expressions. He looked at us and said "No, I don't know what that was, but I can tell you that thing probably wasn't from Earth." I laughed at him and pointed out, "What Dave? Do you want us to believe that Earth has been invaded by aliens or something" I then started to laugh at the idea until I saw that he was serious and I stopped laughing. Brittany came to my side and said "Actually Dave, that does sound pretty stupid." Dave then stood up and walked to a digital clock on top of a table next to the new T.V. and seemed surprised by the time. "Well, it's 11:30 and way past when we all should have been in bed..." He began as he turned to us. The girls were giving him expressions saying "What, you expect us to go to bed after what happened?"

Dave then breathed in and said "But after all that happened, I guess I can call you guys in sick for school tomorrow." We all jumped for joy as Jeanette then said "Thanks Dave." She then looked up at him and smiled, saying "You really do make a good father, Dave. My brothers nodded in agreement, but Dave said "now look, I'm not your actual father, but I do care for you all like you all were my kids..." He then paused for a few seconds. I felt that this was starting to get a little awkward, so I changed the subject saying "Hey, Dave. Can we play on the wii" I asked him? He looked at me and said "Sure, but only...Alvin...if you don't break another T.V. again." I felt a little embarrassed, I mean that was an accident. "Thanks" said Simon as we went to the console underneath the T.V.

Turoka's perspective; 11:32; at warehouse in L.A.:

"Well that went worse then expected" I said to S.A.R.A. as I was putting the combat suit into standby mode. "I am sorry Turoka, but the crash landing was inevitable as I couldn't maneuver us away from the city. That said though, at least they didn't see the actual you in the suit."

I hit the open switch on the cockpit front and I felt air hissing out as the cabin was equalizing interior pressure with exterior atmosphere. The cockpit covering then opened up into three ways: one left, one right, and one up. The open parts then activated the built in lights so at least I could see the floor in front of me. I then hopped out of the suit and onto the ground, my first footsteps on this alien world. My footsteps echoed around the empty warehouse.

I then said "Okay, S.A.R.A., I have a request." Then a little black projector came down from the roof of the suit and soon, the projector came on to show a hologram of S.A.R.A. standing in front of me. She looked like an average voretox, cat like eyes, vertical eyelids and no nose, but two nostrils where a human nose should be, the only exception was she was being projected in a blue outline. "What is your request Sargent Turoka" she asked?

I then said "I need to find a place to set up a base of operations, but it also has to allow me to not only blend into the populace, but also let me observe them." She then said as she pulled up a satellite map from the internet that these humans use. "Do you request any place in particular, Turoka?" I then though to myself. "I could try to see if I could set up shop near my crash site, that would allow me to blend into a smaller populace and would let me observe those odd creatures that I saw near my suit when I first activated it. "Actually S.A.R.A., I need you to pin point the location of my suit crash and upload it's coordinates to my suits H.U.D." "Yes, Turoka...Downloading...downloading...download complete."

I could now see the crash sites location on my H.U.D. in my suits helmet relevant to where I was. "Okay, now to choose a disguise that would allow me to blend into the populace" I said to myself. I had a couple images of male humans on file from the suits recordings. I then said to S.A.R.A., "Okay, now download all photos of adult male humans so that I can choose a disguise." She began to download them until I had all of them on record, about 20 of them, that would fit my current physical health and height. I looked through the 20 until I found one that suited me. It was an average human, about 29, black hair, moustache, glasses, brown eyes and wearing apparent human casual wear, T-shirt, Blue jeans, gym shoes, socks. I then selected it from the suits hard drive using my mind. The survival suit is linked to me by neural uplinks that dig into the spine and link up to the nerves. I then heard a weird sound as the disguise was then activated through the active camo. I could see that on my HUD, it said it was done.

I then looked back at S.A.R.A and said "computer, open the cargo ports on the combat suit. I then instantly heard slidding metal coming from the suits legs. Inside were two ID locked cases that contained my weapons. Each case was about the size of a briefcase and had a metal finish to them. My weapons that I brought were: two high powered Vortox military officers energy pistols (my preferred weapons), each capable of turning an organic to a pile of ash if on a high enough setting. In the other briefcase was my other three weapons, one XR-958 plasma assault rifle that has over 575 rounds of energy stored in the six energy cells on the top of the gun, which was a circular disk. My other two weapons were two plasma energy swords, each could project a blade that has enough power to cut through 2 feet of steel in one go.

I grabbed the two cases and then told her to lock down the suits cockpit and activate the stealth mode. Instantly, the suit vanished from sight, yet it was still there. I then proceeded out of the warehouse to my destination.

The following day; at 12:00 noon, in the Chipmunk household:

(From Brittany's perspective)

I had just woken up after sleeping now for 8 hours. I didn't manage to fall asleep last night until like 4:00 in the morning. The reason why was that I was up in fear all night about that machine coming back and killing us all. Alvin was also having a hard time sleeping, mostly because he could tell I was awake. Alvin and I have been dating for a while and consider each other now Boyfriend/Girlfriend. He got out of his bed and went up to the top bunk of mine. I still remember our conversation.

(Flash back to last night) "Brittany, what's wrong? Can't you sleep" Alvin asked me as he was standing on my bed. I looked up at him and said "No, I just keep worrying that when I fall asleep, that thing will come back for us and...and..." I began, but soon was now on the verge of tears over the thought of dying when I'm asleep. Alvin could tell this and slowly walked over to me. He put his right front paw on mine and said "Brittany, what is there to be scared of. That thing disappeared and it hasn't been seen since." He could tell that his words weren't really helping me. "Look, Brit. I'm having a hard time going to sleep too, but you know what?" I looked at him and starred into his brown eyes as he did into my blue eyes. "I'm not scared of the machine, I'm worried because of you." I just then felt my heart skip a beat. Alvin has never been this worried about me before, but I guess after what happened, things now are different. "Really? Cause I thought you would have been afraid of that thing too. I mean look at what..."

I began. Then Alvin put a single paw finger to my lips to quiet me. I felt my heart beat faster. "Look, Brit. Hear your sister's" he said? I could hear Jeanette and Eleanor sound asleep, snoring very lightly. "If they aren't worried then why should you be?" I looked at him and said "I know, Alvin. But..." I began again. Then Alvin put his paw finger to my lip again and he said "Look, if your so worried about this, then why don't I keep you company tonight, huh?" I thought I misheard him, but then he was my boyfriend. "You don't mind sleeping with me tonight" I asked him? He then said "No, Brit. I do care about you, keep that in mind." "Okay" I said. "Maybe it will help me get to sleep."

Alvin, upon hearing me, he pulled back my covers and got under them. He and I were right next to each other. After a few seconds, I then said "Alvin?" His head shot up and looked at me. "Yes" he said? I then pulled him into a hug. A very thankful hug. I could feel Alvin's heart beat against my chest as he embraced me. "Thank you" I said very happy and relieved. I then released my grip and he did too. I laid my head back down and so did Alvin. I then thought, "Ah, the heck with it." I then wrapped my right arm under his side and to his back. I could tell he was shocked at this. He then did the same with his. I could now hear his breath too. We nuzzled up next to each other and then soon afterwards, I fell into a deep slumber, with Alvin by my side. (End Flashback)

Anyways, I woke up to still feel Alvin asleep next to me. I could still hear him snoring as he was still nuzzled up next to me. I smiled at my boyfriend and I tried to get quietly off of my top bunk. Unfortunately, I must have moved too quickly, because I heard an interrupted snore next to me. I turned my head around to see Alvin with his eyes tiredly awake. He looked at me and said "I'm glad you managed to fall asleep for a little while." I looked at his and put my left paw on his right shoulder, "I'm glad you got some sleep, too."

Alvin and I both tiredly got out of bed, thankful that Dave called us in sick today. We exited the room to enter a hallway bathed in sunshine from the window at the far right end. We went down the stairs to the kitchen. I could see that Eleanor and Jeanette were busy getting breakfast, which was three waffles each topped with whip cream.

Simon and Theodore were busy watching morning cartoons. Alvin went over to his brothers and I went to my sister's. I climbed up on the counter and walked over to them. They were still in their PJ's too, like I was. Jeanette saw me first and she greeted me. "Hi, Brit. Glad to see that your finally up. I thought you would have slept in all afternoon with Alvin. I felt my cheeks turn bright red, "You...You knew about that? She said "Hey, you know that I'm a very light sleeper. I woke up when Alvin jumped down to the floor." She then looked over at Alvin, who was busy fighting Theodore over which cartoons to watch.

"I'm glad he managed to help you get to sleep, sometimes I wish Simon were like that." She then looked back at me and said "You know what? Why don't you have my waffles, I'll get something else." I looked at her and said thankful, "Thanks, Jean. I am very hungry. I was about to start eating when I heard the front screen door close shut and Dave walk out the door. He was going to the front lawn. I decided to follow him outside. I pushed the screen open and it slammed shut. I ran after Dave who was going to a sign on our lawn.

Dave recently managed to clear the junk out of one of the rooms and turned it into a guest room, to go with it, he put up a room for rent sign on the lawn. I finally caught up to him. "Dave. Why are you out here?" He looked down at me. "I could very well ask you the same thing, sleeping beauty?" I looked at him puzzled until I realized what he was talking about and I blushed again. "Does the world know what Alvin did last night" I thought. Dave then said "I was actually about to take down the room for rent sign, since we will be going on tour in a few days." Dave then went to the sign and put a hand on the wooden steak. Just then a voice interrupted, it was a deep male voice. "Excuse me, but I take it that the room for rent has just left as an option."

Both of us turned to a man on the sidewalk, probably about 28, maybe 29. He had black hair, a black moustache and brown eyes oddly the same color as Alvin's. He was wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans, white socks and gym shoes. He had a large gash on his left arm though that had scarred up, but seemed to glisten in the sun. Dave looked at him and said "Actually, the offers still open. I was about to take down the sign though."

Authors note: This next scene will take place again from Brittany's perspective, but then switch over to Turoka's.

(Still from Brittany's perspective)

"Just who might you be, stranger" asked Dave as the stranger was staring back at him? He seemed to hesitate for a few seconds, then he finally said "I'm Jack Vamp and who might you two be" he asked? Dave then said "My name is Dave and this is one of my surrogate daughters, Brittany." I then said "Hello, Jack." I couldn't figure it out, but something was a little strange about him. "I take it that you have more then one kid" He asked Dave? He then said "Yes, I have Three daughters and Three boys. They can be quite a handful." He then stopped for a second and said "oh, I'm sorry. Why don't you come in and we'll discuss the fee for the room." Jack then looked at Dave and said "Yes, that would be much appreciated."

Dave then went to the screen door and held it open for me and Jack. When Jack entered though, he was looking around quite curiously, like he was never in a house before. When the door slammed, all of my 'siblings' looked over in Dave's direction. Then one by one they noticed this stranger standing there. "Uh, who's this Dave" asked Simon who had just put down the T.V. controller? Dave then motioned at Jack and said "Everyone this is Jack Vamp. He is interested in renting the guest room that's available.

The chipmunks started to introduce themselves. Well actually Jeanette was the one doing it. "Well Jack, I'm Jeanette and this is one of my sister's Eleanor." She then motioned to me. "I take it that you met Brittany, my other sister." She then pointed to the guys in order. "The guy in the red is Alvin. Simon is the one with the glasses and the guy in the green is Theodore. They're our Surrogate brothers." Jack then said in response, "Nice to meet you all." Dave then looked at Jack and said "If you'll follow me, I'll show you the guest room and tell me if it suits you." "Right behind you" said Jack.

Dave then proceeded across the kitchen and then upstairs. Jack then began to follow him up. I could hear something weird though. Every step that Jack took, I heard a faint sound of metal footsteps. It was so faint however that I think only Chipmunk hearing could even detect it. Even then it was very low in volume. He followed Dave upstairs and soon disappeared from view. I then ran to the counter and climbed up it to the counter top. Both of my sister's were still up there. "Jeanette, Eleanor. Is it me or could you hear metal footsteps in sink with Jack's" I asked my two sister's? Eleanor looked at me and said "I could hear something, but I don't think it was coming from Jack."

Jeanette then looked at me and said "Brittany, I think your still partly asleep. I don't notice this stuff and I don't see why you seem to notice it." I then heard Alvin and our two other surrogate brothers running across the floor and then climb up to the counter top. Alvin looked at Jeanette and said "There is something a little off with that guy. I mean just look at his eyes. He hardly blinked them at all." Jeanette then said "Not you too Alvin. Look just because a person is a little unusual doesn't make them a creep."

Just then I heard Footsteps descending the staircase down to the ground floor. Dave was descending the stairs along with Jack right behind him. I heard them talking to each other. "So, your fine with the room Jack" Dave said? Jack said "yes, it'll do for now." I then looked at Jack and said "Jack, you do realized that we will be going on tour at the end of this week, right?" He seemed puzzled at the sentence until Dave said "Darn it, I forgot that they're going on tour for 3 months across the country." He then looked at Jack and said "Looks like I forgot that part."

Then Jack stopped him and said "wait, you said you all will be traveling the country for 3 months." Alvin then spoke up "Uh, yeah. We are international rock stars." Jack then stood still, apparently thinking to himself. Finally he turned to Dave and said "Would there be any possibility that I could come with you all? I could be useful for added security." I looked at him quite puzzled, as did everyone else. I then walked across the counter closer to him and said "Jack, how could you possibly protect us. Are you like a bodyguard or something?" Alvin and Simon began to laugh to themselves at how ridiculous that sounded. This guy looked like he couldn't even hurt a fly. Finally Jack spoke "Actually, I'm even better then a bodyguard." That got everyone's attention.

"I actually am in the military. In the special forces branch to be specific. I'm actually a special forces commando." I didn't believe him until he began to explain about his career and why he's here. He's here on something called R&R which means rest and relaxation. He has been in the military for 15 years and has become a very well known commando in the U.S. special forces. Jack then said "I could help to keep you six safe in case something happens. I do know how to kill a man in over 20 ways with my hands and I do have training with many classes of guns and explosives." I looked at him in a different way, what he said actually made sense. Except for one thing.

I then looked at him and asked "Jack, do you have any proof of you being in the military." Jack then said "actually I do. I have my dog tags in my room in one of the briefcases. I'll go get it." Jack then began to walk back up the stairs to the guest room. After he left I then heard Alvin speak up to Dave. "So let me get this straight, Dave? We're letting a guy with military training and who knows how to kill a guy 20 different ways stay in our house. Don't you think that there might be a little problem with that?" Dave then looked at Alvin and walked over to him. He then said "Look Alvin. If he is staying here, then I want you to try and not bother him too much okay." Alvin then said in shock "Oh, come on. Like I would ever do that to a guest" he said laughing nervously.

I knew that he knew that he could get on anyone's nerves way too easily. Jeanette then said "Well, I kind of think that having Jack around would make our lives safer." Alvin then looked at her and said "Oh, come on you talk like that it's normal to have a trained killer living in the house." Finally, I heard footsteps coming down the stairs. I then looked to see Jack coming down with a set of metal stamped tags. When he reached the bottom, everyone then noticed that he returned. Jack then said "Well, if you want to see military dog tags, this is what they look like" he stated pointing to the metal chain and tags. Jack then set them on the table and then turned back to Dave, "so how much do I owe you for the room" he said? "for each week it's 50 dollars, but how long do you plan to stay here" said Dave? Jack then said "for one week, then after that...if it's okay with them... I could lend my talents as their personal body guard. You know, until I have to report back to action again" he said bringing up the topic of going on tour with us.

Dave looked at us and said "guys, what do you think" as he pulled out a kitchen table chair to sit down? Simon then looked at all of us and said to Dave "uh, could we have a few minutes to discuss this in our room?" Dave then said "Sure. Just tell me your decision." Simon then motioned for us to go up to our room. My sisters and I jumped down from the table and went to the stairs while Alvin and his brothers went from the family room to the stairs. We proceeded to climb up until we reached the top. From there we went to our room which was the first door on the right. We went in and closed the door. My sisters went to the ground bunk bed to the right and Alvin and his brothers went to the left.

"Okay, is it me or do you guys find something strange with this situation" Simon said to everyone as he stood up on the bed. "I mean he shows up just one day after that machine fell from the sky and he says he is a trained killer. Call me crazy, but something is wrong with this story." Jeanette then said to Simon, "Simon, think of the facts. He's probably here on, you know, military leave." Alvin then said "Simon, think how cool it would be to have an actual military commando as our body guard. It would make us even more well known." I then said "Okay, well aside from that; there is something a little off with him. Every step he takes, you can hear almost inaudible footsteps and did you see that he almost never blinks." "Not you too" said Jeanette as she looked at me around Eleanor. Theodore then said "Well think guys. You know that Ian Hawke is still out there and after both of our groups escaping his schemes of making us stars by threats, who knows what he might try next."

I looked at him and nodded in agreement and explained "Actually that's not a bad idea, it gives us some extra security from Ian." The others seemed to be thinking it over for a while. After about a minute, one by one, they finally agreed. "Okay, so we tell Jack that we want him to come with us. Great then lets tell Dave" said Alvin. We jumped down from the beds and Eleanor opened the door and we proceeded down stairs. I was about to follow when I stopped to look in the guest room.

On the full size bed was a metal briefcase that was open and I saw what looked to be the barrel of something shiny stick out of it. I then said to myself "I still can't help but think of what was in those things." When jack first entered, he was carrying two mid-size briefcases. I then ran into the room and jumped up to the bed. I then looked into the briefcase to see two very weird looking guns. Both appeared to be the same models. They were larger then Dave's hands combined and were made of an odd silver like finish. The top of the gun had an almost fin like object that stuck out forwards with what seemed like a camera on it. The gun had a hand grip and a trigger for a weird sized finger. I could see what looked like a circular ridge sticking horizontally out of the right side of the gun. It seemed like it was something inserted into the weapon. Then I noticed something weird. From the little etched in lines in the gun, the little lines were glowing on and off evenly with a constant pattern of blue light.

I then heard Alvin shout "Brit, where are you?" I then turned to the door and yelled "Coming Alvin." I jumped down from the bed, not sure how to respond to the weapons let alone if I should even tell someone. I ran down the stairs to see all 5 of my other siblings standing on the kitchen table. I ran to the table and climbed up it. "Well, finally Brit. What took you so long" stated Alvin, whom I was standing next to? I looked at him and said "Oh, nothing. I just had to us the bathroom." Alvin looked at me and must have finally accepted my lie. "Well guys, tell Jack about your decision" stated Dave. Simon looked at Jack and said "Jack, we would like for you to come with us on the cross country tour and serve as our body guard." Jack then said happily "great, thank you guys."

Jack then said "If you don't mind, I've had kind of a stressful day. I think I'm going to go lie down in my room." Dave then said "Go ahead Jack and again you're a welcomed guest to our..." he began but then stopped as he looked at something on Jacks arm. I looked down to Jack to0 see what it was and I couldn't believe it. The cut on his arm was bleeding, but it didn't look like real blood. It was orange and seemed to glow with a luminescent light. Alvin noticed it too and said "Hey man, what happened to your arm and what's the orange stuff?" Jack seemed puzzled but looked down at his arm to see that it was in fact bleeding. He seemed shocked and worried at the same time. Finally he calmed down and said "That is classified knowledge, but all I can tell you is that it was an initiative two years ago in a super soldier program I was part of." He then said "If you'll excuse me." He then went up the stairs to his room and I heard him close the door.

Dave then said "Well guys, now that's taken care of, why don't you go back to having your day off from school." Dave then left the room and then went into the living room across from the kitchen. He went through the door way and disappeared. I then heard my siblings saying things like, "well, I wonder what's on T.V." and "time to do homework" The only one who was left was Alvin and he was beginning to leave to go into the family room to watch T.V. with his brothers. I then climbed down from the table and ran to Alvin. "Alvin, can I ask you something?" He stopped and looked at me smiling "Of course, Brit. What is it?" I then looked at him concerned and said "Do you think I'm being too paranoid about Jack?"

Alvin chuckled and said, "well, Brit. It's not everyday that a commando is staying in your house." I then could tell that he was holding something back. I placed my left paw on his shoulder and said "Alvin, please be honest with me." He looked at me like he wanted to keep what he was saying and take it to the grave. I knew though that he couldn't lie to me. I was his Girlfriend after all. He then said "Okay Brit, yes I think your being Paranoid about this. So why don't you just relax." I was standing there thinking about the weapons in Jacks case again. Alvin could see that I was troubled and he then said "Hey, you know what? Why don't we go upstairs to the bedroom and listen to some music. That will get your mind off of this." I then looked at him again and said "Okay."

We headed upstairs to the bed room. Alvin went and found his IPOD and I went to my bed to lie down and wait for him. He got up to the bed with the ear buds attached to the IPOD and brought it over to me. He angled it towards me and said "Pick what you want to listen to, Brit." I scrolled up and down the list of like 500 songs that Alvin had. I finally choose what I wanted to listen to "Screaming Eagles" by Sabaton..

(Author's note: Sabaton is my favorite power metal band of all time. I would recommend listening to this song, it's one of their best.)

I then said "Okay, I chose it." He then lied down right next to me and we put the ear bud pieces next to us (since we couldn't fit them in our ears, they were meant for human ears) I then listened as the song began to play. I was still thinking about the pistol like guns I found in Jacks case. Alvin looked next to me and said "Come on Brit, relax."

He then wrapped his left arm under my back and around to my left arm. I again felt shocked that Alvin was this concerned about me. I knew though that there are only 4 people I trust the most. That is Dave, Eleanor, Jeanette and Alvin. Especially Alvin since he saved me and my sister's from Ian Hawke. I then raised my arm up and put it behind Alvin's head, with my hand resting on his back. He too seemed shocked, but liked it. I then rested my head on his shoulder and felt myself being slowly taken over by the music.

(To Turoka's perspective; across the hall)

"Well, that went better than I expected" I said to myself. I had just closed the door to get some privacy. I locked it too. After I figured out how to lock the door. Everything on our home worlds are automated, even door locks are controlled by holo-panel codes. "It's funny, I'm the most feared commando in the galaxy, a veteran of hundreds of battles and at least a dozen wars; and I couldn't even figure out how to lock a primitive door" I thought to myself. I then deactivated my disguise. My H.U.D. registered the deactivation of the disguise. I could now feel more at ease being alone.

I started walking towards the bed when I caught a reflective object to my left. I turned to see a mirror mounted to a dresser and a figure staring back at me. "Do'shte, my armor even looks like I'm a veteran of many battles" I thought to myself. In the mirror, was a being that almost looked like a machine rather than living. My armor was this machine.

My suit's palladium-silicon armor has a black and red paint scheme to it. The majority of the armor was black colored with lines of red on the chest starting thin from the front and moving to the back horizontally, growing in width. As well as on the collapsible helmet that went from the forehead to the back. My armor had grooves and indentations, some of the grooves had pulsating lights, flashing on and off at a dim blue, steady place on many places, making it look even more machine like. Layered plating covered the shoulder armor going from the base and working towards my neck getting smaller and thinner as it built up, creating a layered effect. The armor on my hands had a jagged and layered appearance going back to the forearm.

My helmet, was what made me look like a machine above all else, though. My helmet had a re-breather mechanism on it that was grey. It sloped downward about three inches and branched off to the left and the right at an even level and stayed pressed against the helmet, eventually going back into the helmet at the cheeks. From the branches of the mechanism, one on either side, there were vents that released visible vapor every time I exhaled. My active camouflage (disguise) hides this vapor from view. The vapor was the waste product of nitrogen breathing creatures, which was argon gas. I could hear my deep breathing with each exhale as well. My "eyes" built into the helmet were optical sensors, and they had a yellow tinted lens over each sensor, with light being emitted from each lens that created glowing yellow "eyes". All over the armor were scorch marks and scarps from my many times I've taken energy rounds, and having the armor stop it.

I went over to my open case on the bed and was about to close it up when I noticed something out of place. I activated my suits built in thermal vision mode for the optical sensors. Suddenly, my vision went from visible light to infrared vision, making everything distorted and appear blue (cold temperature) to red (warmer temperature) to white (hot temperature). I could see leftover heat residue from one of those little creatures. I could see paw prints leading from the case to the door. I then deactivated the sensors and I closed the case. I heard a series of latching sounds coming from the case. Also, I heard the remote lock say "lock engaged." I then picked up the case and put it under the bed along with the other one. I thought that this was strange, being in a human house as a guest. I then decided to Catalog the days events so far. I reached for a holographic projector disk on my belt and pulled it off the magnetic hook.

The disk was black with glowing red light being emitted from the projector lens. It had several marking on it, showing which way to set it down to activate it.

I set the projector on the floor and then spoke in Voronian "activate." Instantly the projector flashed to life as an image of a 3D computer interface came up. I then spoke to it voice commands to control it. "activate video Journal" I said in Voronian. The interface changed to a view of a screen with a flat line across the middle of the screen that served for tracking your voices tone and pitch, and to the right was another panel that actually cataloged the words spoken to it in Voronian. I began my journal:

"Journal; Day2 on planet Earth; sol system; operation True Judgement. The day has been quite unusual. Yesterday I saw that humans are hostile, but not actively hostile. Those humans almost seemed more scared than hostile, like they were defending for their right to live. About 20 minutes ago, local time, I have set up base in an undisclosed location in a human home. One that instead of the male human named Dave caring for human children, he cares for children of a different species, one with fur and eyes that closely resemble Blog-rats on our own home world. Only these animals are actually friendly and operate like a close knit family. These animals do not seem actively hostile or even a treat to any one. Much unlike the rats on our world that are so aggressive that they would tear out your own eyes if you looked at them the wrong way.

I set up base here to preform objective one of my mission: to observe the populace, their behavior, customs, and civilization and then the second objective, make the judgement, the decision of their species. To tell our military to set up an agreement with this world and uplift the humans into galactic society by setting up an outpost and helping them to become space faring or to tell command to bombard this planet back into the stone age if it is deemed that they are too dangerous to let them live. My code, the code of the Ardat-Yactor's tells me to protect the pure and punish the corrupt. I see pureness in this world. I know that they have good in them, every culture does. My code is saying to do everything I can to preserve this world, but my military honor says that if they are a threat, to cleanse this world in the name of our empire, our gods and our species." I then stopped and said "Turoka signing off."

(A/N): I know there isn't a lot of action or real suspense right now, but there will be in the next few chapters. Oh, will there be. Remember, please read and review, but no flames.