Roads Untraveled - Part XIX
«Sis! Hey, wake up!» «I'll give it a try, Michelle.» Io 'walked' over to her host and playfully kicked her in the shoulder. «Mikhaila, your sister needs you.» «Huh?» The otter-alien hybrid shot her head towards her sister, wiping her eyes groggily....
Roads Untraveled - Part XXIII
"Almost ready... We have fuel..." Lilith quickly combed through the controls of the orbiter, firing up all the basic startup systems. "Ma'am, the engines are giving me some warnings." "No time. We're launching anyway." Ilaria jogged over to the rear...
Roads Untraveled - Part XXVI
> I don't like walking around this old and empty house. / > **So hold my hand, I'll walk with you my dear.** > > The stairs creak as I sleep, / > It's keeping me awake. / > **It's the house telling you to close your eyes.** > > Some...
Roads Untraveled - Part IX
"So what's different?" Ilaria pulled up some basic sensor readings, but looked over to her new science officer for clarity. "Last time the Earth hadn't gotten past Medieval times, so I'm guessing something's different here too. We getting radio...
Singularity - Part VI
Pale light filtered into the sterile tent via its fabric outer layer. A particular bright beam wormed through a tie hole in a corner and brushed over Adrian's eyes, teasing him awake. He fluttered his eyes a bit until he could make out the rest of the...
Roads Untraveled - Part XXIV
"Where did you go?..." Sydney crouched atop a small overhang that used to be a second floor as she panned her gaze about slowly. "Yoyo, anything?" An upheaval of debris and red mist from below contradicted the otter's radio response....
Singularity - Part VII
"Just show me where they are!" Johnny chased down Carbon as they roamed through the basecamp, fighting his urge to hold the hybrid back by force. "Carbon, you need rest. Hell, you still haven't let me check your wounds yet." Carbon scowled with...
The Second Law - Part XII
«So these suits of yours only work for the few of you?» Ceylon grabbed onto the side of the elevator shaft as he floated against it, anchoring himself by his rear hands. «May I pry into the reason why?» "Glad to see you're not probing us so hard...
Singularity - Part V
The sun started breaking to pieces behind a backdrop of jungle trees as Carbon's Chinook set down for the last time of the day. The otter didn't even wait for the rotors to disengage as he reached for the front right door, popping up the window hatch...
The Second Law - Part XVIII
A slight rumble shook a stone wall in the dead of the servants' quarters, subtle enough not to wake the inhabitants but oddly high enough in frequency that it would have seemed out of place. Then a portal opened flat against the same wall, allowing the...
The Second Law - Part XIII
Ilaria fluttered to a dead stop in the deeper sands of the planet's only beach and signaled for the others to halt as well. "How should we approach this, Carbon? We can't go out there without some kind of plan." "I honestly thought ~you~ had...
The Second Law - Part XXV
"\<I've got this door, son.\>" Colonel Optik slumped forward and slid his access card through a reader. The heavy security door to the exotic materials lab lurched back and forth against some rubble, but eventually shoved itself open. "\<At least these...