AN: This chapter has him moving on, it's proving hard to keep track of how things would work together, so I'm jumping earlier than I had thought I would. I'm sorry to everyone who was looking f0orwards to more interaction between Fowl and Xander
Xander smiled as he focused on the last few hours, it hadn't taken much to modify the shuttle for interdimensional travel, although there wasn't the technology here to guide the jump, only to make a blind jump. Well partially, they could easily backtrack to places the ship had been to, just not to ones like his home, though they could identify it from their own signatures, just not home in on it.
Nicole had scanned the area logging it into the system as he watched Fowl and the Butlers standing there, Fowl now had a few toys of his own to protect himself from the fairies, Nicole had given him the plans to safeguard his computers and an implant to protect his mind.
He reached down, the chaos emerald powering the jump drives kicking in and he vanished like a wraith.
The ship shook as if in an earthquake and then stabilized, engines sputtering as his eyes took in his surroundings.
"Nicole, where am I?"
"I've identified the planets datanets, we're on another earth, Fowl doesn't exist here, nor does Sunnydale, and it is also not matching the readings from Mobius."
"Anything of interest?"
"One moment, uh, we have a slight problem!"
"And that would be?"
"The military seems to have well..."
"Nicole!"
"They found us, we have four unidentified fighters closing, my search uncovered the designations of them, but not much else."
"What are they?"
"A prototype starfighter of sorts, I'm unclear as to the true designation is, I'm not calling them by an X name because it will change and then I'd have a lot more work in switching names."
"So we have a bunch of Rogue Squadron wannabe's," he chuckled, "What else?"
"The cloaking isn't working, so go for it flyboy!"
"Roger that!" Xander chuckled as he glanced around, "Why the hell do these things look like a cloak shape from Star Wars and the Batwing?"
He brought the shuttle vertically, evading their line of sight as he dropped low, "Can you track them for me, and I need all the data I can get on these idiots!"
"I copy, found the reason they can track us, shifting modes, standard drive is now offline, AG field stabilized, visual cloaking still online."
"Intercept all available data, I need to find a way to keep this up, keep us on their tail, I want to see where they go to," he said as he visibly relaxed, "I need to take a breather."
xXx
The shuttle dropped low over the landing field before settling a short distance away.
"Alright, where are we?"
"Colorado, the military here seems to have an unusual devise that allows some form of interplanetary travel, a gateway to the stars."
"You mean like that Tunnel in the Sky book?"
"No, a ring of some odd material that opens a wormhole, that sort of thing."
"Science fiction made real, now there appears to be a reason for my Scifi addiction."
"And you happen to be the only one with a way to use it."
"Well, my luck, it can go either way."
"Yes, you seem to dig yourself so deep it looks like your trapped and just manage to get out before it proves to be fatal!"
Xander smiled as he focused on the last few hours, it hadn't taken much to modify the shuttle for interdimensional travel, although there wasn't the technology here to guide the jump, only to make a blind jump. Well partially, they could easily backtrack to places the ship had been to, just not to ones like his home, though they could identify it from their own signatures, just not home in on it.
Nicole had scanned the area logging it into the system as he watched Fowl and the Butlers standing there, Fowl now had a few toys of his own to protect himself from the fairies, Nicole had given him the plans to safeguard his computers and an implant to protect his mind.
He reached down, the chaos emerald powering the jump drives kicking in and he vanished like a wraith.
The ship shook as if in an earthquake and then stabilized, engines sputtering as his eyes took in his surroundings.
"Nicole, where am I?"
"I've identified the planets datanets, we're on another earth, Fowl doesn't exist here, nor does Sunnydale, and it is also not matching the readings from Mobius."
"Anything of interest?"
"One moment, uh, we have a slight problem!"
"And that would be?"
"The military seems to have well..."
"Nicole!"
"They found us, we have four unidentified fighters closing, my search uncovered the designations of them, but not much else."
"What are they?"
"A prototype starfighter of sorts, I'm unclear as to the true designation is, I'm not calling them by an X name because it will change and then I'd have a lot more work in switching names."
"So we have a bunch of Rogue Squadron wannabe's," he chuckled, "What else?"
"The cloaking isn't working, so go for it flyboy!"
"Roger that!" Xander chuckled as he glanced around, "Why the hell do these things look like a cloak shape from Star Wars and the Batwing?"
He brought the shuttle vertically, evading their line of sight as he dropped low, "Can you track them for me, and I need all the data I can get on these idiots!"
"I copy, found the reason they can track us, shifting modes, standard drive is now offline, AG field stabilized, visual cloaking still online."
"Intercept all available data, I need to find a way to keep this up, keep us on their tail, I want to see where they go to," he said as he visibly relaxed, "I need to take a breather."
xXx
The shuttle dropped low over the landing field before settling a short distance away.
"Alright, where are we?"
"Colorado, the military here seems to have an unusual devise that allows some form of interplanetary travel, a gateway to the stars."
"You mean like that Tunnel in the Sky book?"
"No, a ring of some odd material that opens a wormhole, that sort of thing."
"Science fiction made real, now there appears to be a reason for my Scifi addiction."
"And you happen to be the only one with a way to use it."
"Well, my luck, it can go either way."
"Yes, you seem to dig yourself so deep it looks like your trapped and just manage to get out before it proves to be fatal!"