Rewritten: 1/2/2018
The bird has landed on the branch! (My new phrase! : D )
Here is the next chapter dear readers! Enjoy!
The crashing of waves and scent of saltwater waved like there was no tomorrow on the surface in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. From a distance, it looked normal like it always has been to any earthling. If one were to take a dive however, especially in a certain open area, such thoughts would change. There was only silence within the sphere of machinery and metal. If one were to listen through the thick walls, there is a chance to hear the clanks and thuds of gears, zaps and zooms of plasma and electricity within its skin. Or the excited pounds of feet from a quadruped plant-like alien running down a hallway.
No one else besides her was there to see Pulse nearly trip in her super hyper happiness. She ran towards an area where she will ignite the next step after her landing. She waddled quickly down a long hall to who knows where. She wiggled with each step she took; if there was someone else with her they would probably think it actually looked adorable.
The floors of the hallways were simple, decorated with measly rectangular floor plates. The walls were black with pentagon designs that glowed and would occasionally flicker a light pink, very identical to the ship's surface. The ceilings were dark gray as well just like the floor's plating, except it had dark pink pentagonal designs painted on it instead of actually being functional. One thing is for sure, this place would be a nightmare for those who hate the color pink. Not Pulse, she loves it the way it is, she helped design it after all as her own personal custom spaceship.
The said alien was scuttling down the metal halls towards an area that she loved to hang around. She stopped in front of a thick metal door, which opened up for her once she came within sensor range. The gears within its body turned at an incredibly fast pace, making the large and heavy door split apart and grant entry for its owner in a second.
Pulse walked in the area with a smile on her face. At last she had something to do. She will be able to use her special suit that she was dying to use again. She loves wearing it, it's amazing and an incredible creation to explorers like her. Now, she has a reason to wear it again.
The area she entered was a large, almost laboratory-looking space. It was riddled with gadgets and technology from her home world. Pulse was given the necessary devices and items that every explorer needs before going on a space expedition. However some of these were bought since not all of them were a necessity, and some were rather expensive but she believed she would need them.
Each item inside was all neatly placed in their own space, making it easy to find anything that may be needed at the moment. However, there were so many places and storages that she couldn't find where it was.
Pulse stopped and looked around, trying to remember where she placed it. The room was so large and it's been so long since she was in here that she forgot where she placed it. The dust on the ground and on some of the items tells quite a lot. Pulse frowned slightly, with eyes narrowed. She will have to clean up this place when she can.
Pulse walked around, the ends of her legs collected some of the upturned dust from the wormhole entry. Pulse shook her legs to rid the dust but as she kept walking around, she just collected more. She sighed and just continued on without bothering to rid the dust. Pulse went towards a piece of the wall, where a closet was located. She smiled a little and went over to it. She grabbed the handle and opened it, she looked into it; but made a disappointed face when she saw it was just filled with spare armor like the one she was wearing right now hanging up. Pulse shook her head and closed the closet almost forcefully.
She spotted another closet a few steps down where the armor one was, with some dust particles on its surface. She perked up and quickly approached it with hopeful eyes. She opened it, and gasped in delight and relief. There, she finally found what she came for. She reached in and plucked the piece of magnificent armor from its perch. It was somewhat heavy, but Pulse managed to lift it up anyway.
The armor was black and a hot pink, the pink parts being vector-like patterns painted on it. The leg parts had ridges and the inside was rubber to allow Pulse to bend her legs without problem or with too much strain. The under parts of the legs were made with softer metals with more rubber in between, while the upper side had thicker metal several inches strong. The body was smooth, with thicker metal around the edges where Pulse armor, like the one she is currently wearing, is covering her own body. The body/head portion was smooth with ridges front to back, almost looking like scales, but strong and cool nonetheless. To finish it, it had an arch shaped visor at the front to protect her eyes, and fully concealing its visual structure with one way diamond glass.
This type of armor however, was much more durable and resilient to rust than Pulse's normal ones. This armor was made by the best elements, to resist the most ruthless and fatal of environments. It can resist burning, freezing, electricity, plasma, atmospheric and underwater pressures, anti gravity, along with physical strains such as punching, biting, clawing, crushing, and other sorts of damage.
The real weakness of this extraordinary attire is time and how much damage it gets. With enough time due to the damage received, it will break down, malfunction, and eventually become useless. It would take a lot to damage or destroy it, but sometimes that could take years, thankfully.
The only ones who know about this tech are her people, any other lifeforms would have to figure it out on their own since they never reveal the secrets of their tech to strangers from the get go.
Pulse dragged it out and placed it on the floor. Pulse smiled, walking over to the closet that contained her other normal extra armors. Pulse undressed herself, her current attire being carefully taken apart, off her body and now placed up with the others. Since she was the only being in her ship, she really didn't need to go to change behind a dressing room. While creatures like her don't exactly need clothing of any sort, it is considered formal to wear some form of attire. Pulse has been far too used to wearing clothes and her armor.
Pulse returned towards the special suit, picking up the bottom part and putting it on. She heard snaps and clinks as the conjoined part snapped together firmly. It felt somewhat uncomfortable, a little tight even but it didn't bother her a lot anyway. After all, it's been a while since she had it on.
Pulse fumbled a little with the slightly crushing elasticity around her legs trying to smooth it out. Once that was done she picked up the top part, or the head. Pulse rotated the other half, almost as if savoring the appearance it held. She loved how the paint looked on it.
Pulse shook her head, snapping her out of her trance, and narrowed her eyes in determination. Pulse lifted the second half and placed it upon her head, concealing her face behind the visor. Clanks, clinks and straps later she was ready like a rookie explorer. Pulse smiled under her mouth piece while she walked over towards a mirror to take a look at herself. She saw her reflection, well, more like the suit's reflection. She turned and twisted to get a good look at her entire metal clad body, to see for anything amiss, and how good she looked in it. She continued on for a few more minutes, till her eyes widened in realization and blushed, feeling embarrassed she was doing something like this.
Nevertheless, she checked herself for anything amiss one more time before she analyzed its features. She tested each and every one for efficiency and functionality, finding that they were all good and working. She soon left the room satisfied.
She headed back towards the control room. Pulse issued some commands to connect her suit to the computer, which will allow her to transfer data from her suit and directly to the computer and back whenever she needs to. It will be useful, since she will be taking lots of photographs and video recordings once she leaves, but not every second of it; she has a habit of doing so on occasions. It will fill up storage space faster than light can travel, figuratively speaking. Lastly, she will be able to issue commands using her suit to her ship, so if she were ever to encounter a situation where she would need her ship, she can simply call for it from nearly anywhere on the planet.
Pulse smirked with pride at her work, now she left towards another place, where she will now start her mission at last. Pulse entered a new area, a wide empty area. The place was bare of anything with the exception of a circular sunken platform on the floor. It was what separated the outside world and her own vessel's insides. Five gray rectangular teeth sealed the hole, preventing anything or anyone from getting in or out.
Pulse walked around the hole, towards a terminal. With a bit of tampering on the screen, the terminal unlocked the exit. She turned towards the pit, which rumbled and split apart, granting access to the salt filled ocean. Pulse could see the deep, dark ocean filled with mystery and wonder. Probably filled with tiny animals and probably giant monstrous creatures. Whatever it is, Pulse would want to study them.
Pulse stopped in front of the open hole, taking a moment to look around at her ship one last time before she hopped into the air and fell straight down the open water. Pulse phased through the shield and air bubble, and splashed into the new world.
Pulse felt weightless, almost like floating in space. Pulse moved down her arms to swim in the water. She went in circles, feeling the water move around her concealed and protected body somehow. Pulse activated her scanners, along with getting several grams of ocean water sample, storing it into a small pocket in her suit. Not like anything will notice anything amiss from a couple missing grams of water.
Pulse commanded her suit to close the gap, and indeed it did. The exit from where Pulse came out closed, the plates sealed it shut and looked just like the rest of her ship, nothing out of place. Pulse was no longer inside the safety of her ship. She was out in the unknown, though confident enough to traverse the planet.
Pulse turned and swam away from her spaceship to see where she would go from here. On her visor, several symbols and words appeared indicating several places where she could go, mostly land. Pulse stared at the information in thought.
"Several islands were miles from here, rather far thought but I can make it. Or... this large landmass over here on the opposite side." Indeed, there was a giant piece of land in the opposite direction to the islands. Pulse looked back and forth trying to decide which direction she should go.
"Which to go, which to go..." murmured the visitor, still looking back and forth. The giant landmass was actually much closer to her ship than the series of islands.
Soon her mind went for the large landmass. She was sure she would find more creatures, or beings there than the islands.
Pulse swam like she was a creature of the sea. She had no natural aquatic attributes, but she learned how to swim during her free time back home. She eventually took it further and went to pass various aquatic tests; being here makes her very glad she took swimming as a hobby.
Pulse swept her eyes to the wide oceanic expanse, trying to see if she could make sight of anything interesting. Dark silence greeted her like a friend. The alien frowned, bodies of water always contain some kind of life, but her area must be empty. Maybe her landing scared off the few critters that may have been around.
Besides, she could hardly see anything as it was getting very dark right now. While Pulse could use her suit's scanners she would prefer to save it for another time.
"It's so dark down here, maybe the surface is better to see." Pulse muttered under her breath. She looked up, seeing the wavering waves in whatever light remained from the sinking sun. Pulse twisted her body so that she faced upward, and pushed herself to move. As she got closer, she could see the water become slightly clearer, even seeing the sparkles of some stars. With a splash, Pulse broke the surface and remained in the air for several seconds over the water.
At that time she was able to see the nearly dark sky from the approaching night. She saw the horizon line still bright from whatever bits of light remained. Thought something caught her eye, far to her left. Something blocked part of the horizon line. Before she could analyze further, she splashed down with a loud wave.
Pulse swam back up to try and look, her head part looked to where she saw the light block. Something large prevented part of the disappearing horizon from being fully visible. As she narrowed her eyes, she saw some features that she didn't find as being a living being. It looked perfectly flat, and it appeared to be...moving?
Indeed, whatever it was, it was moving across the water, but not at a very quick pace. Heck, Pulse could see waves being made at the direction it moved forth, indicating it was breaking what little surface tension the sea had. Pulse knew this wasn't a natural occurrence due to the fact that she could make some comparisons to the object's appearance to ships that travel by water in her homeworld.
Pulse's hearts sped up once again with the thought of seeing the extraterrestrials. She remained still because now she wondered what they may have looked like. Maybe they were land dwellers, or sea dwellers who evolved to go to land, or maybe the other way around. She suddenly remembered that while she was up in space scanning the surface, she saw some figures moving about some of the roads that her computer showed her, but the images weren't clear enough. However, she would prefer to see them with her own eyes.
Pulse also knew she had to be secretive in her approach to them, who knows what they would do if they spotted her. Maybe they encountered life from beyond their planet and wouldn't be surprised.
Nevertheless, Pulse soon moved onward towards the moving vehicle, making plans in the meantime.
Done!
Hmmmm, wonder what could be that out there...but we shall see next chapter! Not much to say so...
Except happy new year! 2018!
And I would like to be notified for grammar mistakes.
The bird has left the branch.