Disclaimer: Nope don't own Glee, ain't life a bitch.

Waking up at 4:30 in the morning means I be one cranky chica. But that disappeared as soon as I saw my phone blinking and had 4 notifications on here. :) made me happy till someone pulled in front of me doing 20 while I was doing 50, second almost crash of my boring teenage life.

Who else is so proud of the Great Naya Rivera winning the alma award for female artist and her album isn't even out yet. :) Gotta love her.

Anyways.. Seeing as what today is, I'm gonna add some more details to the story line and pay tribute. The last chapter was just for fun.
Now let's press play!

Chapter 4

Terra, My Home

Waking up today of all days, was something Santana did not want to do. She hated this one day. The electronic calendar clock on the wall the day before had basically been screaming at her telling her that the next day was drawing closer.

The calendar clock now read S11.
She'd been trying to block this day out since she was 5 years old. Yet everything was still burned into the back of her eyes.

16 years ago ...The Great Terra

"San, honey, you need to get out of bed, today is your first big day of flight school and you always say how much you want to be like your mother," her nanny said shaking the girl for the 5th time.

With that the 5 year old girl rolled out of bed and stretched and wrapped her arms around her nanny.

It was true, she wanted to be so much like her mother, so much like the one person that everybody looked up to. Her mother was strong, confident in everything she did, she was so proud to be the daughter of such an idol.
After quickly getting dressed for school, her and her nanny made their way to the flight school. Santana was jumping with excitement, she knew that if she could get through today that she was set for life, she'd be the second most strong pilot in the world, behind her mommy of course.
But even with excitement flowing through her veins, the 5 year old little girl couldn't shake the feeling that had struck her when she had first woken up, a feeling that today, would somehow haunt her forever.

...

The day was halfway done, and Santana was doing great, the teachers had never seen someone so young be so skilled, but seeing them so shocked, confirmed Santana's suspicions of them not knowing who her mother was. But of course, as a crazy man had once said on the television set, 'Things get better before they get hell lot worse.' And as crazy as the man seemed, he definitely predicted the future for that day..

The Sirens pierced everyone's ears, heads rocketed up from whatever they were doing, teachers looked from one another, confused, not understanding if this was some sort of drill, or if someone in the Head Department had accidentally pushed the wrong button.
Then another sound started to blare through the rooms echoing down the halls, and everyone was sent into a panic, throwing papers and as she saw one teacher do, jump out the window and run as if a rabid dog were chasing her.
Everyone panicked, that is, except for the 5 year old with brown eyes. She was using all her strength to remain calm, she had promised her mother that she would, she remembered how just months ago her mother had explained that if she ever heard those sirens, to do everything to not panic and head for the house and then wait for her mother. So she did just that.

As soon as she left the doors of the school, she took in the sight of the chaos that surrounded her; she didn't know what the sirens meant, but she was certain about one thing, it was something very bad.
But as if someone had switched off the lights and held everyone at gun point, everyone froze as shadow suddenly appeared and blanketed her and everyone around her, she heard the gasps and finally looked up.

The largest transport she had ever seen was hovering in the sky, and she didn't understand, why would they build something so large, it looked as though it could fit half the people of Terra on there. Confusion shook the girl and she did the one thing she could, she ran for home, she was scared now, done with trying to remain calm, she knew that her nanny would be anywhere but at the house and had to use emergency swipe key hidden in the brick wall to get inside.

"Mommy!" The frightened girl screamed, she knew she wouldn't be there but the girl yelled anyways, wanting her mother to comfort her and protect her.

The girls screaming was silenced when all the power in the house shut off and she was left in the dark with nothing but the dim light shining through the window to help guide her around. She heard a whine pass through the wires, technology was advanced and could fix itself, but the young Latina didn't understand why the lights hadn't come back on yet, then the television flickered on, the screen was staticky and unfamiliar lines ran across the screen. Then a man flickered onto the screen and Santana knew he was a very important man by the way he dressed and the serious expression he wore across his face.

"People of Terra, if you are now watching this, then you did not make it too the 2 main transports on time, I am sorry, their are still few pods left,and I apologize for failing all of you, for letting you down. I understand that most of you don't even understand what's going on. The first siren was to warn you that, well, we lost most fighters out in space, today," Santana's heart clenched at those words, but she kept listening, knowing they'd have to say if her mommy was still alive."The main attackers failed to finish their job on destroying the The Central Laser that Beta had directed at us. Our main radio frequency was shot down by enemy fighters and we weren't sure how many survivors escaped from the battlefront, but know that your loved ones that made it to the transports are safe and are heading to the Central Station Living Center, where thousands have been living out of harm's way of the Beta Force, I pray for those who will make it to the escape pod that they are not shot down, and I give my heart and soul to those at home who are now watching this. May peace be with you."

The man disappeared from the screen and Santana was ready to cry for her Mother again when she saw another man appear, a space plant worker.
"We are now back online with the space fighters who are still alive and out there, going to AlphaMain and Defender, do you copy?"
...*Static*...
"TechDork, is that your voice I hear coming from my radio?" a voice said coming through the tv screen, one Santana recognized as Leader of The AlphaMain, Sue Sylvester. The lady was mean at times, but always seemed a bit nicer after making someone she hated cry.

"Uhmm, Yes, Sue, this is Steve, have you had any radio contact from Defender?"

"No, but last I saw the ship was reentering the Terra atmosphere at a high speed, but I know she hasn't crashed, stable readings are still showing up."

"Alright then, AlphaMain you are free to report to CSLC, thank you for all you've done."

"...I'm Sorry it wasn't enough. I'm going to miss tormenting you everyday..May you and Terra rest in peace." Sue replied and the transmission ended.

The man at the desk then flipped over to another frequency and started calling out once again to the still missing ship.

"Defender, do you copy, over?"

The static never stopped as the man called out for the lost ship, and Santana was now curled up into a ball crying her heart out. She was about to scream for her mother again when familiar strong arms were around her and the scent of roses hit her. When she opened her eyes she felt the wind attacking her face as she was being run across her front lawn and looked up into her mothers eyes.

*Terra Lopez, named after the planet, was a young woman of 26 and had dark skin that matched her daughters perfectly, she had dark black eyes that could instantly tell who told the truth and who lied. And the young female loved her daughter with all her heart and after the attacks on Terra had started a few years back, she decided it was time to put her skills to work and became one of the first female Leaders along with Sue Sylvester, her best friend since college. She had done everything in her power to stop Beta Forces progress on destroying the planet. But it just wasn't enough.
So not long ago, she sat down with her daughter and told her that if she ever hears sirens to run to the house and wait for her. When she realized that they were going to destroy the planet she quickly hurdled the ship towards Terra and startled all of her crew mates, it took her a while to get them to be quiet and listen. She explained in just ten seconds that she had to save her daughter and then they were going to be gone. And she knew she was about to run faster than anyone had ever done so before. After she did her best not to crash the Defender into the ground, she ran through the neighborhood to the two story white house that she prayed her daughter was in. As soon she opened the door, she saw her precious Angel lying on the ground sobbing a heart wrenching sound, knowing she had no time to comfort she scooped the girl up and flung open the door and raced to her ship, looking down as she felt beautiful brown eyes stare at her face, she kissed her daughters forehead and glided up the ramp of the Defender that was now lifting itself of the ground.

She had made it.
"Gillian, get us the hell out of here!" The Leader yelled as she clung onto her daughter and her daughter clung back.

The Defender lurched forward scraping rooftops to houses as it accelerated and rose in elevation.

"Boss, we have radio contact." Her second man in command said.

Terra lifted her and her daughter off the ships cold ground and made her way over to her seat, hitting the talk button.

"This is Defender."

"Good to hear you Terra," Steve replied.

"Same to you."

"Where are your whereabouts, Defender?" The space plant worker asked, sounding a bit worried.

"Leaving Terra atmosphere as we speak, I had to make a quick stop and pick up some very precious cargo that I just can't live without." Terra answered, combing her hand slowly through her daughters hair.

"Copy that, Defender you are now cleared for departure to CSLC."

"Thank you, Steve... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Terra whispered out. " We could've done so much better. I know we could have."

"It's okay, We all understand, you and the other fighter did everything possible and that's all that matters." Steve replied simply.

Terra was about to reply when she saw silver metal objects flying past her ship, she looked to see where it had come from, when she saw the Beta Force head ship, Laser aiming directly at the planet beneath them. She saw explosions hit one side of the planet and watched as the laser slowly drew its power...

"But do one thing for us, always fight with your complete heart and soul and give all your strength, fight for me and the others who will die today along with Terra, fight fo-."

*The laser hit. Santana watched as The planet she had grown up on disintegrated under the touch of the laser. The voice of the man who had been talking was now replaced by static, and she felt the sobs coming from her mothers chest as it shook violently up and down.
The little girl was ready to say something when she felt the immediate pull of the ship and everything was passing a by. The ship had been launched into hyper drive and not knowing the feeling, the young one, passed out.

...

2 weeks had now passed since the downfall of Terra, and Santana's mother was gone more than she had ever been than when they were on their home planet. But today felt different, like something was going to happen that shouldn't, and she had begged her Mother for hours to stay at the apartment, the CSLC had already assigned them a room before they had even arrived.

Her mother just told her, that she would be okay, and that she loved Santana, that the little girl was her world and that she was going to make the Galaxy a much better place.

So now, Santana was standing in the window along with many other bystanders listening to the words that she had heard the man on the radio say the words, that would someday be famous.

"Defend the Universe with your complete heart and soul. Defend those who you love with all of your strength. And Defend the memories of those who have already died for Terra." Her mother jumped off of the podium and headed towards the Defender.

...

Santana woke in the middle of the night. She woke possessed, possessed by the feeling that she was about to lose the most important thing in her life.
She didn't even remember how she had gotten in there, she just found herself, crouching behind the abandoned computer desk in the Battle Station Control Room. She was listening to the beautiful voice of her mother, talking over the video-com. Every now and then she'd sneak a quick peek at the Huge screen that held her mothers face. She was relieved to here her mother and see her face, until she noticed that her mother had tears streaming down her face and her voice cracked here and there.

"Listen to me, Corruption is like a disease, once it enters one persons mind, it tries to corrupt the next, it's as bad as space madness. Now, Terra, Listen you have to talk one of the crew members back into sanity." Sue Sylvester pleaded her friend. "It will be hard but you have to. You have to."

"I've tried Sue!" The Latina yelled through the tears. "I've done everything, none of them will come to terms, How could this happen?"

Santana flinched at her mothers voice, she had never heard her sound so broken. She then heard a man's shouts in the background and understood one of the crazed members must have finally left his quarters.

"There's only one thing to do." The 26 year old spoke, her voice was now smooth and her breathing had calmed.

"No! Don't you dare!" Sue yelled at the screen. "What about your daughter, you can't leave her like this!"

"I'm doing this for her, if I return, it proves how weak the Great can actually be, and I'll be abandoning my ship and crew. And that is something I will NOT DO!" Terra shouted back.

"How Selfish..Well...Goodbye old friend."

Santana was so confused she had no clue where the change in the conversation had come from, but when she heard that she was mentioned she froze and quickly unfroze when she heard what Sue said. With those words, the 5 year old stepped out from behind the empty computer and looked at the screen.

"Mommy." Everyone's eyes turned to the small Latina and her mother's eyes opened with shock. "Mommy, why were you crying?"

Terra wasn't expecting her daughter's sudden appearance, this was definitely going to make hitting the Defenders kill switch button a whole lot more difficult.
"Hey honey, why aren't you in bed?" The older Latina took in the appearance of the young girls messed up hair and the sleep that was still in her eyes.

"Mommy, answer the question."

"It was nothing sweetheart. Now go back to bed."

"You're lying."

"Somebody please, just... Get her out of there." Terra said, tears falling down her cheeks again, Santana could then hear the many shouts of all mothers crew members in the background.

"But Mommy wait!" two men were now grabbing the girl, struggling as she kicked and flailed about. "Mommy, don't, I had a bad dream Mommy! Somethings bad's gonna happen! Mommy don't, please!"

The Older Latina had a tortured look on her face and said only one thing.

"Te quiero a mi ángel pequeño." (I love you my little angel.)

"La mami complace no te quiero a mami!"(Mommy, Please no, I love you mommy) The young girl was now shrieking, but she watched as her mother turned off the video-com and ended transmission.

Present Day

Santana clung to the sheets of her bed as tears cascaded down her face, the memories had hit her with such force, she hated that day, because of that day, she had lost the one thing she had ever really loved in the world, and the one thing that loved her back with just as much devotion. Most knew her as Terra the Great, Santana knew her as Mami.

She was so glad when a sudden blue light went of in her room, it meant that Puck or another crew member were definitely going make sure that for the night, they would get so drunk, that in there minds, this day didn't exist.
Santana lazily sat up and read the message that was displayed across her PalmPad.

1 hour. Hitting the best club in this joint. We have to drink this night away. -PuckTheMan

"Put this on B, we're going clubbing." Quinn said as Kurt tossed her a top that would definitely bring quite a lot of attention to her boobs, and a short skirt that easily complemented the shirt by showing her strong dancer legs.

She knew what today was, even if she had never gotten the pleasure of living on Terra, she knew that why everything had been silent today, was because most were in mourning of the terrible loss of there home world and the main construction site of the CSLC.
Brittany quickly tossed on the clothes and made her way out the door with her roommates, she didn't know what it was, but she had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach.

...

They walked to the best Techno Club in the whole station and were surprised to see how packed it was with such a day. But as they glanced around they realized that most people in the club were Leaders and members of ships.
"Score." Quinn high-fived Kurt before walking over to a Blonde haired cutie that was sitting at a table close to the bar, Kurt on the other hand, made his way over to a table to that had only one guy sitting at it and struck up a conversation very quickly.

'Weird I always thought him to be the shy type,' Brittany thought as she made her way to the dance floor, and began to move and sway her body to the beat. Letting the music take over control..

Santana and Puck arrived at the club right at the peak of its night time popularity. Puck had informed her on the way over there that a lot of other ship Leaders were there.

'Great, so much for wanting to get drunk out of my mind, can't have another mistake like Finn on the team.' Santana thought as she made her way over to the bar.

Two mildly strong drinks later, Santana was watching as Puck tried to bait a short brunette, who in Santana's mind reminded her of a garden gnome with a nose that you'd think could only belong to someone who'd been hit multiple times in the face with a dodge ball. She tried to take her mind off of it by eyeing up someone who she could take home.
Santana never did brunettes that was a sure thing, something about it just creeped her out; and they couldn't be more than 2 inches shorter than her. She preferred tall chicks, They were just a rare turn on for her.
Basically, no one in the club that night met her check list standards.

Or so she thought.

She was now focusing on Finn who was awkwardly advancing on some poor girl who looked about ready to cry for help and Santana was about to go scream at him and tell him off when a strange familiar angelic voice penetrated her thoughts.

"Do you have any water?" Those few words had frozen the Latina, right in her place, it had been a few days since she had played FightLifeX, making sure that the 'LeggyBlonde' girl could only beat her if she played for 9 hours straight. She suddenly felt eyes on her and was very tempted to look at the girl beside her, but caught herself as she heard the girl say"Thank You."

From her peripheral vision Santana watched as a tall, blonde walked away...
'No fuckin way' was the only thought that had crossed her mind..

After dancing for 8 songs, Brittany was finally feeling very parched and headed to the bar, begging for dear life that they had some regular water. She noticed that the only spot that wasn't crowded around the bar was where a very hot, as far as she could tell, Latina was sitting. Brittany made her way up and squeezed in beside the girl and a man who had his back facing her, and asked the bartender for water, this club unlike others knew that competitive dancers would show up at random and had to have some sort of re-hydrating drink, the guy behind the bar handed her her water and she quickly downed it. But not before eyeing up the girl beside her, the girl was wearing a very tight strapless black dress, that from where Brittany was standing gave her perfect view of her cleavage.
'Oh. My.' Brittany's eyes raked over the girl, and even though she couldn't see the girls face, she was sure she was drop dead gorgeous.
Brittany was about to continue perving on the dark skinned girl beside her when she saw the girls eye flicker towards her.

'...' only thing that ran through Brittany's mind, she had completely forgotten about a thing called peripheral vision and prayed that the girl hadn't seen her obvious gawking. She quickly thanked the bartender and paid before escaping to the dance floor.

'That was too close,' Brittany thought as she once again started to sway to the music, but this time adding a little seductiveness, that she was sure would grab anyone's attention. Who knew even the girl at the bar might see her.

...

*Santana took notice that there was now a large group of people gathering around where the blonde had disappeared, and for reasons unknown she went to investigate. Only to find the sexiest thing she had ever seen.
There in the center of the crowd was the tall blonde, her hair swinging from side to side as she let her hips move with the guy behind her, the man obviously not a dancer, he just took advantage of the fact that there was a hot babe basically grinding into him and that his hands were wrapped around her perfect waist.
The sight of the man behind her was a bit repulsive, but the blonde her self, was just to damn sexy. She was so seductive in every move she made, even if it was just to flip her hair to one side, or to a little snap with her arm.
Santana was pretty much convinced that this girl could make anything look sexy, even if she if it was to do the most manliest disgusting thing ever, It'd be hot in someway. But just because she was sure the girl was sexy, didn't mean she was going to let the blonde get all the attention.

So Santana eased her way onto the dance floor and began to counter the blondes every move.

Brittany wasn't really sure were all the whoops and whistles were coming from, she had been dancing with her eyes closed and just repeating the same moves over and over, so she decided it'd be nice to know who was going to try and steal her spotlight, and then she spotted the hot and fiery Latina from the bar.

Only this time, the girl was looking right at Brittany and dancing her way towards her.

The girls locked eyes, enchanting and gorgeous blue eyes met the mysteriously beautiful dark brown eyes.

And so began their dance of what fate had in store for them.

R&R...I'm so sorry for not having a truthful meeting yet.

A/N: That wasn't too bad was it.. This chapter was to go into more detail of Santana. Which I was just giving an intro of her life story. Britt will be a part in unraveling the rest of her past. I know I said they'd meet, and well trust me the look that was playing in my head that was going on between the two, was something that only soulmates can share. But next chapter they'll talk and I've got to find out how to write funny things down in a story.
I'm pretty crazy, and I have one of those be bitchy to make people laugh personalities,(I'm like Santana in every way. Unfortunate truth.)
Only time I make people laugh without being mean about someone is when I randomly say my thoughts out loud or start dancing randomly to a song in choir.

So I apologize for the lack of humor, and or funniness of the whole story, I promise to do my best. I also apologize for not making them talk to each other yet.. I wanna get to the interesting stuff already. I'm the author and even I'm impatient about the story. ;)

But blame my best friend for calling me while I was thinking of ways to introduce them in this chapter, we got way off subject from a project she was asking me questions about.(I'm in Leadership 2, she's in Leadership 1 and I did the project last year :p) Somehow the conversation went from the project to her not getting a car this weekend to talking about homecoming and dresses and how me and my date are now best friends(he's like my lesbro), her watching the movie crazies to talking about scary movies and I finally reminded her that she had to go, cause she has to read for a really hard class. SOO.. That is totally the main reason I haven't made them talk yet.

Peace. I really need some sleep. Till next time.