Disclaimer: Farscape and its characters do not belong to me at all,
I'm not paid for using them, I'm just messing around.
Authors note: I'm not quite sure yet where this is going, but ill try to make were ever it is as interesting as possible, promise (.
The glow from the distant star, His star, showed muted through the canopy of the module. From this distance it really didn't look any different from the other stars in the visible sky. A little brighter perhaps, but not much so.
They had just passed a planet he had said was call Pluto, after some creature called a dog, or a cartoon, or a god, she was really bad with the names.
Even the uninhabited planets in his system had a name, even their moons. It seemed a beautiful waist of names, truly human.
They could be at his front door in less then an arn, but there were things that needed to be done first. They had to mask the signature of the module and wait for nightfall on the northern continent that they had chosen to land on. Then they had to come in slow and easy so as not to alert the planets defenses. Which seemed primitively ineffective, but scary enough when all you have is a modified module, a pulse cannon and two pulse pistols. Then they needed to fly low over and uninhabited area called the everglades and find a place to hide the module.
After all this if every thing went without a glitch, they would have forty-eight hours to get done what they had come to do. After that, the risk would be to great.
"Ok the senor mask we bought at that last place seems to be working ok. There really isn't anyway to know for sure, but as far as the readings can tell, we are invisible."
"That's comforting."
"Well it's the best I can do, sorry."
He adjusted a couple of switches, she figured mostly out of anxiety and not so much necessity.
"I'm sure it will be fine John, besides we really don't have any time to be second guessing ourselves now."
"Right, you right. Ok I'm going to come in slow, and start to enter the atmosphere at a low arch to avoid detection."
"Ok, lets do it already." She patted him encouragingly on the shoulder.
"This would be a whole lot easier if I had my fathers ring." He muttered under his breath.
"I'm sure you will do fine without it."
"Yeah, sure."
"Please, confidence I'm getting nervous back here."
"Sorry, its all under control, there's nothing to worry about baby."
"Great."
He laughed a little in the back of his throat as they started to descend through the atmosphere. He pulled up a bit bringing them in very shallow, almost like a slingshot maneuver, but with a little more angle to allow for reentry. They were headed for a peninsula covered in green, it was really quite pretty.
They it a few turbulence bumps, but other then that, reentry was, as john would say 'a piece of cave' what ever that meant.
"I'm gunna try to land in the Glades, not much around that area but alligators."
"What's an alligator?"
"Nothing to worry about, we probably wont even see one."
He brought them down low over what looked like swampland. This should be pleasant. Within a few microns they were safely, figuratively speaking, landed, though sinking just a bit.
John opened the hatch and started to get out of the module.
"Let's get our gear out and then we can find some stuff to cover this thing up with. I think the road is less then I mile that way." He pointed in a vaguely southern position. "And we should be able to catch a ride to the city from there."
He gave her a hand out and they started to unload the two packs they brought with them. They stashed the pulse cannon in the back of the module, which was for extreme emergencies only.
She double-checked her pigmentation and the wig Jool had fashioned in the mirrored surface of the canopy glass.
"Are you sure this is going to pass John?" she asked as she examined the alien color of her skin.
"Chi, as long as you don't talk we're home free."
"Ok fine." She still wasn't sure she believed him.
To Be Continued..
The next chapter will be longer.
Authors note: I'm not quite sure yet where this is going, but ill try to make were ever it is as interesting as possible, promise (.
The glow from the distant star, His star, showed muted through the canopy of the module. From this distance it really didn't look any different from the other stars in the visible sky. A little brighter perhaps, but not much so.
They had just passed a planet he had said was call Pluto, after some creature called a dog, or a cartoon, or a god, she was really bad with the names.
Even the uninhabited planets in his system had a name, even their moons. It seemed a beautiful waist of names, truly human.
They could be at his front door in less then an arn, but there were things that needed to be done first. They had to mask the signature of the module and wait for nightfall on the northern continent that they had chosen to land on. Then they had to come in slow and easy so as not to alert the planets defenses. Which seemed primitively ineffective, but scary enough when all you have is a modified module, a pulse cannon and two pulse pistols. Then they needed to fly low over and uninhabited area called the everglades and find a place to hide the module.
After all this if every thing went without a glitch, they would have forty-eight hours to get done what they had come to do. After that, the risk would be to great.
"Ok the senor mask we bought at that last place seems to be working ok. There really isn't anyway to know for sure, but as far as the readings can tell, we are invisible."
"That's comforting."
"Well it's the best I can do, sorry."
He adjusted a couple of switches, she figured mostly out of anxiety and not so much necessity.
"I'm sure it will be fine John, besides we really don't have any time to be second guessing ourselves now."
"Right, you right. Ok I'm going to come in slow, and start to enter the atmosphere at a low arch to avoid detection."
"Ok, lets do it already." She patted him encouragingly on the shoulder.
"This would be a whole lot easier if I had my fathers ring." He muttered under his breath.
"I'm sure you will do fine without it."
"Yeah, sure."
"Please, confidence I'm getting nervous back here."
"Sorry, its all under control, there's nothing to worry about baby."
"Great."
He laughed a little in the back of his throat as they started to descend through the atmosphere. He pulled up a bit bringing them in very shallow, almost like a slingshot maneuver, but with a little more angle to allow for reentry. They were headed for a peninsula covered in green, it was really quite pretty.
They it a few turbulence bumps, but other then that, reentry was, as john would say 'a piece of cave' what ever that meant.
"I'm gunna try to land in the Glades, not much around that area but alligators."
"What's an alligator?"
"Nothing to worry about, we probably wont even see one."
He brought them down low over what looked like swampland. This should be pleasant. Within a few microns they were safely, figuratively speaking, landed, though sinking just a bit.
John opened the hatch and started to get out of the module.
"Let's get our gear out and then we can find some stuff to cover this thing up with. I think the road is less then I mile that way." He pointed in a vaguely southern position. "And we should be able to catch a ride to the city from there."
He gave her a hand out and they started to unload the two packs they brought with them. They stashed the pulse cannon in the back of the module, which was for extreme emergencies only.
She double-checked her pigmentation and the wig Jool had fashioned in the mirrored surface of the canopy glass.
"Are you sure this is going to pass John?" she asked as she examined the alien color of her skin.
"Chi, as long as you don't talk we're home free."
"Ok fine." She still wasn't sure she believed him.
To Be Continued..
The next chapter will be longer.