I want to thank my fiancée for playing Wikus. She will continue to do so as this story goes on. Thanks for reading all.
Again, do note, the quote at the top of this chapter (as well as the story title) is from Shawn Lee's "Kiss the sky". It's a great song, check it out. This fic, as you may notice is going to be rather music based to some extent.
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And you will be one day exactly what you are
Just keep your head up high kiss your fist and touch the sky
A loud buzzing noise escaped the large mothership as hundreds upon hundreds of small portals simultaneously opened up on the exterior of the ship. Time stood still and the many MNU officers held their breaths as hundreds upon hundreds of small drop ships exited those portals like a swarm of bees. The humans were expecting a massive invasion.
Somewhere above the buzzing of the smaller ships' an order to ready arms could be heard. The MNU officers' obeyed, albeit shakily. "Steady!" The officer barked as those ships began to lower to the ground near the tents. A mass collection of Prawns began; the doors of the small ships opened and in went the large aliens. The humans found it to be surreal, the Prawns, a blessing.
Christopher looked at Wikus, "Are you ready?"
"As ready as I'll ever be" the human turned Prawn said without a moment's hesitation. He glanced up at the enormous mother ship above, if the Prawns could create that Wikus wondered what the hell their home planet was like.
Christopher beckoned for him to follow, "There are some things you need to know," he clicked gently. "As you know Prawn is a slang term, it is somewhat offensive. Once in the ship, we will refer to ourselves and our people use, Poleepkwa."
"Poleepkwa" Wikus said the word slowly, testing it and finding that he liked it a lot better than Prawn.
Christopher tilted his head and clicked approvingly at the smaller Poleepkwa. He nodded to a nearby drop ship and lead Wikus there. Before allowing the smaller man to enter he turned to him suddenly, putting his large, three fingered hands on the former human's shoulders.
"Wikus, are you certain?"
"Yes,there is nothing left for me here," he looked into those deep, and warm eyes of Christopher
The larger Poleepkwa nodded and clicked, satisfied with the answer. Christopher turned and led Wikus into the drop ship that was already nearly full to capacity with others of their kind.
The humans stood there dumbfounded with awe as the Prawns loaded into the drop ships, the doors closed and they took off. The same thought ran through ever MNU officer's mind: will they be back? The bee-like swarm of drop ships rose up into the sky. Some of the MNU officers abandoned holding their guns to grab cellphones from their pockets to snap pictures of the magnificent sight above. There were no words to describe the mass exodus of the aliens.
The small ships slipped into the open doorways from whence they came and the metal doors snapped shut filling the air with a loud 'bang'. The engines of the mothership started with a roar and like before the shockwave ripped through the air and broke all the glass within a couple hundred mile radius. The large hovering aircraft began to move slowly, rising up into the sky.
"Well, shit, after more'n thirty years they're gone!" The commanding officer of MNU said, looking around at all the soldiers.
"Bu' sir, until they're out of sight, we're still in danger. They could fire some crazy fookin' missile and blow up all of Africa!" One officer replied.
"Or tha whole fookin' earth, man!" Another chimed in.
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Will they blow the earth up? Or Africa? Will they come back? Look for an update soon to find out.
