They had been on their way home from Nell's Flower Shop when the sky began to rain fire. A large rock fell from the sky and crashed right into the road the couple was travelling on. The man driving swerved off the road to avoid crashing into the inter-stellar debris. Another meteor rock fell from the sky and landed right next to the truck, causing to flip over.

The couple was unconscious of several minutes. The husband was the first to awake. He blinked and shook his head. He wiped the blood from his eye that had dripped from a cut across his forehead. He nudged his wife and silently thanked the heavens they had been wearing their seatbelts. "Martha." he called. "Martha."

The strawberry blonde woman opened her blue eyes. Her head was throbbing. "Jonathan.What happened?"

The man looked around, beholding the fiery fields and the craters that had opened up the earth. "I don't know. I-"

Suddenly the two of them heard little sobs and sniffles. They looked out to their left and saw a young, blonde girl of no more than three years old huddled into a ball at the edge of a crater, looking into it.

The man struggled with his seatbelt and braced himself to fall from his seat. He crawled out of the window, his wife following from her own side of the truck. They approached the little girl, who was rocking back and forth, crying.

The little girl turned around, her blue eyes large and scared and wet. She spoke, but the couple didn't understand what she said. The woman took off her flannel jacket and wrapped it around the tiny child. Th girl clung to the woman and laid her little blonde head on her shoulder.

"Martha." the man said. "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"

The woman looked into the crater. Her eyes grew large and she gasped. Below in the crater was an elliptic, metallic compartment. What seemed odder was that only half of it was there.

"What do you think it is, Jonathan?"

The tall man shook his head. "I don't know.But we need to get it out of here. If anyone finds it, they'll link it back to this little girl."

"Are you saying you want to keep her?" Martha was little shocked that her husband would suggest something like that, but was thrilled.

"We don't have much of a choice, Martha," he said as he climbed down into the crater. "If anyone one of these government officials find this.thing.and her, who knows how many pieces they'll chop her into to put under a microscope."

"What are you talking about, Jonathan? You act like she's some sort of.Gene Roddenberry alien."

Jonathan put his hand onto the craft and pulled it away quickly. "What child climbs out of a metal ship that's hotter than Hades and doesn't get burned?" He showed his wife the temporary marks that were scalded onto his hand.

Martha's eyes grow wide yet again as she looks between her husband and the little girl in her arms.

The small child lifts her head off of Martha's shoulder and says something in her alien tongue. "Erehw Si Kal? Kal-El?"