REWRITTEN: 12/23/17
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Hello for those reading this story.
This is not my first story, but it is my first in this website.
This story will include OCs that don't belong to me but the first character introduced here does. I will give credit to the creators of them who are friends of mine in my profile page.
I will only write this down here once, because most already know since every author does it when writing a fanfic.
PvZ goes to its proper creators, you already should know which are.
Ocs are made by me and my friends.
The emptiness of space is a wonderous and scary environment that most creatures don't experience within their lifetime. Void of anything, and silence being its partner, making the empty vastness ever the more scarier. Yet, from the emptiness it doesn't stop the most stubborn of creatures to reach the heavens of their planet and catch the feeling of anti-gravity for the first time. While the distances are great, dark, and silent, within the corners of galaxies and stars, life flourishes in the strangest of ways. From tiny, microscopic organisms to celestial entities the size of asteroids. When said organisms reaches a level of intellect, they evolve. Space travel, the power to traverse through the vastness is the tool to bring creatures of other stars together, or destroy each other.
Whatever is decided, will always change the history of their descendants.
Within the distance of black, an unfamiliar object of great size floated aimlessly in the confines of anti-gravity. Its shape and features it wore weren't of natural creation unlike other space bodies, instead, the giant round object was made by something living. The large space object's outer surface glowed with symmetrical pentagonal patterns, which were bright pink. It's shape was also a near perfect sphere, of some kind of metal.
Within itself laid the one who controls the great space vehicle.
The being sat in the control room in a comfy spinnable chair that floated slightly off the ground, yet it remained stationary via magnetism, and the being that sat on the chair watched through the window of the magnificent vessel in boredom. Three eyes blinked slowly, almost as if on the verge of fainting to sleep.
Time passed in an endless cycle from a digital clock which displayed the temporal stream the being was bound to. It has been sometime since this sentient creature has seen anything out of the ordinary. Their head, or body, leaned on their fingerless, handless arm to support it, and would switch to the other if they got tired of using the same one. They sighed, and turned towards a projection on a platform. It displayed a three-dimensional image of stars and planets that have been recently documented and explored ,though not all of it one hundred percent. It was a star chart, a very large star chart.
The being got off from their seat and traveled forth to the chart of stars. The light gave more insight to the appearance of the unknown creature.
The creature had round body which had the appearance of a white half sphere, with four white legs that had the similar appearance of oranges with a magenta color for the underside. The legs were attached to a small point, a kind of rod under the creature's body. Their body had light pink horizontal stripes that went from the back of their body towards the front to their face. They had three, black eyes, the third being on their forehead. Their pupils were large yellow circles which reflected the light of the star chart's projection. On the eyebrows of the other two eyes were two large whisker-like appendages that had no use, but they were there as part of their body and slowly wiggled on a breeze that doesn't exist. Around the edge of their body and on their legs were dark purple metal plating with embedded patterns designed on its surface.
The being gazed the chart, reading words, numbers, and symbols which floated around planets, stars, asteroids, and a number of other celestial bodies that the machine projected.
The alien eventually turned off the machine, the area darkened slightly from the absence of the projection's light. The alien walked back to the control panel and typed in a series of words unknown to anyone except the alien itself.
A beep, and another projection appeared, except that what it displayed was the alien's face. And so they spoke, the voice of a female, in a calm and still yet firm tone despite the nervous eyes she wore.
"Day 389,
No signs of life, whether intelligent or naught since day 123. Solar systems at this distance have been bare of anything. Dust, rocks, and fire, water, and sandy planets have been the common sight during my long distance flight. I nearly reached the end of the home galaxy in this path, and if nothing of great interest is sighted till I reach the edge, then I shall turn back and return towards home through wormhole travel. No more valuable information has been gathered. May edit later.
Pulse out."
The alien, Pulse, a xenoshiftrus who left her planet to find a new experience, closed her log and slumped on her seat. She leaned on one of her arms once again in boredom.
"Maybe I shouldn't have taken the 'scenic route' when I started…"
While Pulse can easily travel through wormholes, traveling at normal ship speed lets her see the smaller things in space that travelers don't usually pay attention to. However if her scanners were to pick up something of interest, then she will travel over towards the source via wormhole.
Pulse stared out the window into the expanse of space wondering...hoping…
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
The sudden noise and flashing lights nearly made Pulse shriek in surprise. Pulse held onto the rims of her seat as if it would save her from whatever it was. It didn't take long for her to realize it wasn't an alarm of any form danger, but something else. Something she has been waiting for.
The screen suspended in the air depicted a solar system several light years away on the path Pulse was flying on. The screen then circled one of the planets on the solar system and flickered vigorously, demanding the owner to take action since it is of utmost importance.
Pulse's two hearts thumped faster and faster as she kept gazing at the screen and the information it has gather in the few seconds that passed. She kept the stance for a little bit more before she got her bearings soon enough to analyze the discovery. Pulse pushed and clicked digital numbers and words unfamiliar to any other intelligent beings except for her people. Pulse zoomed into the planet to see what sort of data was gathered.
"Rocky planet, size 4, third planet farthest from its star, with atmosphere, land masses and lots of water, good for potential formation of bacteria, and evolve to the next stages of creatures or civilization if it actually happened...wait, this actually happened..."
Pulse's body shook, feeling extreme levels of eagerness for this potential opportunity. She locked onto the star where the planet was located, then activated the countdown of ten seconds for wormhole travel. Pulse fixed herself onto her seat and strapped herself down as to not fly off her seat. When the countdown ended, Pulse felt a pull.
The front of the ship glowed a sequence of several colors. The sequence went slow till it picked up the pace, getting faster and faster. The lights grew, and then beams of several colors launched out from the points of one of the pentagonal patterns. The beams converged together into a single point, where a ball of white light materialized. The ball grew to tremulous sizes until a loud crack broke the silence, but it isn't like any one could hear due to being in space. The ball collapsed onto itself and formed a wavering halo, the inside sinking in like a sinkhole. The beams from the ship disappeared, the newly formed wormhole taking their place.
Pulse grinned, which nearly took her whole face. She leaned forward to reach the controls since she was strapped down. She pushed a lever to make her beautiful vessel move forward towards the rip in time and space. The ship lurched and moved at the command of its owner, inching closer.
Once the vessel touched the edge of the wormhole, the rest of its body was pulled into it almost forcefully. Pulse was pulled forward from the force, but she held on since she was strapped.
The ship vibrated intensely, though not very violently. Pulse thought she felt her brain wiggle inside her head. With all this quaking, it could most likely had. Pulse tried to say some words but they just came out as unidentified gibberish.
The alien slowly turned her body's section of her head towards the space-proof window. Outside, streaks of light decorated the space outside, making an amazing and rather trippy light show. Pulse looked back down to her control panel, avoiding the sight as to not become nauseated. The first time wasn't pretty, or clean.
Pulse closed her eyes to help her tune out the rumblings, till the sensations vanished. Pulse opened her eyes once again to see the new part of space. Infront of her she saw the solar system that she arrived, now getting a closer and better look.
This was a totally new and undocumented solar system to her and the database, until now. Since the ship was right next to it, it analyzed the extraterrestrial bodies and picked up more data that it hasn't picked up due the great distances before. It analyzed the other planets, starting with a very small planet with a moon nearly as big as the planet itself. Then the scanners moved further and further up towards the sun. It analyzed the large gas giants, then moved to the asteroid belt, and found a large asteroid that could be considered a planet, but it wasn't the object of interest. The fourth, and especially the third planet caught her interest very much. It was the reason she was here after all.
She zoomed in on it enthusiastically. She now had a more detailed visual on her target for physical features such as mountains, forests, trenches and many more. She now had identified more features on its surface. Her eyes sparkled, the tips of her fingerless arms scribbled on the digital keyboard to excitedly store the new information gathered.
Once the data was in, Pulse did what she came for all this time that she'd hoped. Life.
So now with that done, she activated a special kind of scanner, one with a sole purpose.
The machine of the vessel scoured the third most planet. Examining for a feature very rare to most existing space bodies. The automated machinery continued on for a full minute, till it stopped and confirmed the thought. Indeed, life existed here. It wasn't just any either, these fellows were intelligent. They had buildings on the surface as she could see dots of white on the night side of the planet. Nothing natural could create such visible lights from space unless they were artificially generated machines. Speaking of, the scanners picked up mobile machines zooming on creature made roads from some kind of stone. This meant they must have been advanced enough that they could have the potential to go to space. The thought was proven when Pulse saw metallic, strange looking satellites floating around their home rock.
Pulse unstrapped herself from the safety of her seat and jumped around in triumph. She finally found one, a planet filled with intelligent creatures. Pulse continued to dance around, stopping once she landed on the ground. She quickly got up, not minding or caring that she fell on her rump.
The happy extraterrestrial went back to her seat, now getting down to business.
She made a few simple commands before she proceeded. First she activated a radio-proof cloak, to make herself invisible against the satellites and other detention made devices. According from most planetary discoveries, most civilizations begin using radio wave technology. Now she can't be spotted easily, and so she hoped she wasn't detected when she arrived from the wormhole.
Next, she checked the status of the technological prowess of the civilization. The satellites surrounding the planet gives Pulse the impression that they are in the 'modern' stage, which is the beginning of a space stage civilization. However with the satellites around their planet they must have began already going into space, or on their way to space. Nevertheless, Pulse wanted a closer look.
Lastly, a powerful shield to protect the ship from solar radiation against the star of this solar system incase of unexpected solar winds. It can also protect from incoming space material very well.
The space vehicle moved closer towards it's destination, moving around space rocks and the planets to reach it safely. As Pulse got closer, her scanners gathered more data. More precise bits of info caught the triple eyed alien, ones that made her face transform into an expression of concern. When she neared the asteroid belt she saw that the planet contained concerning amounts of an alternate substance that doesn't seem to belong there. However Pulse deducted that it may just be natural occurrences, but she would like to take a closer look to confirm the newly made theory.
The vessel passed the asteroid belt, now approaching the red planet, though she did not detect anything worthwhile. She now passed the red rock planet and finally neared her long wanted desire. Pulse studied the green and blue planet before her with interest equivalent to a child in a candy store. Pulse couldn't wait for very long so she kept driving her precious ship closer. She now came by the planet's moon, which she would want to take a look. She didn't see anything on the dark side of the satellite, till she took a glance on the other.
Pulse raised an eyebrow, seeing the bizarre formation that decorated the surface. Strange markings defined a structure that Pulse was unfamiliar with. It looked like some kind of creature, with eyes and mouth filled with flat teeth, and gaps in between. The supposed eyes had smaller holes in the middle forming pinpricks for pupils. Its head looked slightly bigger than what a body and head ratio would be. But who was she to judge? These potentially aliens would most likely look like that, and Pulse herself has seen some strange extraterrestrials in her lifetime, constantly.
Pulse took several pictures of the 'face'. This could mean the aliens marked their planet's satellite, but for what is anyone's guess. Pulse stored the images in a file for safe keeping. She will have to explore it for another time.
The three eyed alien turned her mind to the planet before her, wanting to do some exploring immediately.
The spacecraft made it close enough that it was now within its furthest gravitational pull from the surface. There, Pulse noticed another feature from below. She saw specs of violet, some were large, taking space from entire land masses, while others were smaller, looking like measly dots from where Pulse was. These pockets of violet really stood out from the greenery and blue, it look unnatural.
She wasn't sure what it meant, but she knows she will see these up close and personal soon. She is unsure if these pockets of violet are dangerous or not but time will tell.
The spacecraft closed in further now, reaching the satellites. Pulse realized that she was now in the exosphere. Pulse looked outside her window, seeing countless satellites littering outermost layer of the atmosphere. Too many.
It was a slight worrisome sight to Pulse. There were too many satellites here, and some looked broken, probably out of use or from collisions by space objects like meteors. If these fall then it could do some damage, especially to infrastructures. Nevertheless, Pulse continued her path. Pulse's ship moved closer down towards the planet, the sky around was now turning blue by the minute.
A satellite floated in the way of the spacecraft. Pulse noticed it immediately, so she quickly activated a beam that allowed her to move the satellites away from the path and avoid collision. Pulse knows her ship can withstand a potential impact with one of these satellites, but she didn't want to break these foreign machines unless make the aliens here angry for breaking their stuff.
Once all the satellites were pulled out our the way, Pulse's ship surged forward faster. A sphere of fire and light covered the surface of the entire space craft, but the shield protected it from burning up or even receiving scorch marks on it's near perfect surface. The rushing flames clouded the window, but Pulse didn't mind, she can get the views once she reached the ground. Pulse slunk into her seat and crossed her arms in front of her patiently. She stared at her screen, watching the altitude between her ship and the ground lessen each second, however it felt like forever to her. She hardly noticed the rumblings due to breaking through the atmosphere. The moment she could see again, she pulled herself forward, nearly touching the screen with her face.
She could now see so much. She could see the great blue waters that went on for miles. The ocean water shone and sparkled in the setting sun located in the horizon, creating a rather mystical setting for the visitor. Pulse took several pictures of the sun set, the first photos of the new planet now in her custody. Pulse rubbed her arms together enthusiastically.
The space craft continued its descend, the ocean water now appeared withing reach. Pulse looked at the water, wanting to know what kinds of see creatures could possibly live in there. A rumble snapped her out of her thoughts. The ship stopped moving. It now floated right on top of the water motionless by several meters.
Pulse smirked, and used the same lever to move. The galactic vessel descended once again, straight towards the water at a slow pace. The shield around the ship prevented water from the plane from getting through, so it remained as dry as sand from a desert. It didn't take long for the ship to be entirely submerged under water.
Now there was a ball of pink metal protected by a shield creating a bubble of air around it. Pulse heed no mind. Now that everything went on as planned, she can get to the next phase of her mission.
Lone exploration.
Finally done. Better than the original one if I say so myself.
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