Part 25 - Approach
March 23rd 2007 13:38
Dark, heavy, menacing, silent, Ga Gantuar’s ship slipped by the moon, headed for Earth. The disturbing quiet of the ship’s exterior was completely mismatched by the chaos of the in side.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,” screamed Ga’s wife Lo. The sound continued until she ran out of breath, which wasn’t’ really all that long considering she was also running out of room to run and because she was running air sucked in and expelled from her lungs quickly and regularly.
She came to a wall and stopped short of colliding, heaved out with her lungs and in with the surrounding air then continued her business of “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Ga, the love of her life, was similarly short of breath for he too was running and screaming a single repeated letter, though lower in tone. He preceded his wife, only by centimetres, for she followed him with an axe, raised above her head, in readiness to bring it down anywhere on her husband’s body. She didn’t care where, a limb, head or neck.
For two thousand and some years the two had been ensconced within their super-liner, and while it was the size of a small city and there were a myriad of distractions to keep each from trying to kill the other, two thousand years is a long time and fate forced them to meet from time to time. You would expect, as they were in love, that something would be on their minds other than murder, but a long time alone in space can do the strangest of things to a person’s sense of the sensible.
These two travellers did not have the luck of finding a blue dot to transport them quickly from one place to another. Their journey from ‘The Cream For All’ to ‘The Milky Way’ was taken the long way around. On this lengthy journey friendships were destroyed, lovers learnt to hate and those in possession of sanity quickly lost it.
You would assume that to travel from one galaxy to another would be an adventure, and that perhaps, you might meet all kinds of alien life-forms, all types of terror and any number of prevailing travails. But the universe, home to all galaxies, all knowledge, all civilisations and life, is very big and quite empty. It is not unusual for someone to move long distances for extended periods of time and see nothing more than some dust and the odd flash of distant lightening as newly made Gods create newly inspired religions.
“For the last time Ga, stand still and let me kill you!” Lo was beautiful for her age. Her standing amongst DisQuientian political circles had been great and she took it upon herself to retain her beauty and fitness regimes while travelling through the void. She held the axe at a particularly jaunty angle that, at any other time, Ga would have found inspirational. For now he found it menacing and complicated.
As he ran, Ga thought to himself how lucky he would be, should Lo manage to catch up to him, that though totally insane, the woman he chose for his wife had remained beautiful and arousing to the very end.
From the dashboard a mechanical voice blurted, “Planet approaching. Planet approaching.”
As he ran by Ga flicked a switch that turned off the voice then flicked a second switch.
Lo stopped her incessant scream, stopped her gallop, and asked, “What did you just do?”
“I’ve turned on the black-box locator. We’re approaching another planet. Perhaps this is the one,” he panted.
Lo lowered the axe and said, “Oh I hope so. Insanity is tiring.”
They came closer to the controls and huddled over a small screen displaying the results of the black-box locator’s search.
There was a blip.
“Oh!” gasped Lo, “Is that it?”
“Oh, no, just a timing light.” They peered at the screen again for moments before a bell rang.
“Oh yes!” cried Ga.
“Yes?” questioned Lo.
“Yes, that’s it. We’ve found it! After half a lifetime of travel we’ve finally located Bo’s ship’s black-box flight recorder. She is here on this planet!” with that last statement he pointed at a slowly growing pretty green and blue disc in the distance.
Lo and Ga looked to it and wondered just what it was that had made their daughter run away from everything that life had to offer and abandon herself on this little insignificant part of Everything.
On the Beigebummjob, 5 events happened at the same time. Hu stopped moving faster than the eye could see and bumped into a chair. Ru stopped hearing everyone’s thoughts and decided he didn’t have to kill himself at all. Je stopped breathing fire and took a drink of water. La fell to the floor with a plop and rubbed his behind. And a light on the panel in the control room flashed the message “Star Cruiser approaching” and the words, “self defence systems on stand-by, weapons locked, missiles ready to launch” noticeably floated with ethereality across a monitor screen, unnoticed by all.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,” screamed Ga’s wife Lo. The sound continued until she ran out of breath, which wasn’t’ really all that long considering she was also running out of room to run and because she was running air sucked in and expelled from her lungs quickly and regularly.
She came to a wall and stopped short of colliding, heaved out with her lungs and in with the surrounding air then continued her business of “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Ga, the love of her life, was similarly short of breath for he too was running and screaming a single repeated letter, though lower in tone. He preceded his wife, only by centimetres, for she followed him with an axe, raised above her head, in readiness to bring it down anywhere on her husband’s body. She didn’t care where, a limb, head or neck.
For two thousand and some years the two had been ensconced within their super-liner, and while it was the size of a small city and there were a myriad of distractions to keep each from trying to kill the other, two thousand years is a long time and fate forced them to meet from time to time. You would expect, as they were in love, that something would be on their minds other than murder, but a long time alone in space can do the strangest of things to a person’s sense of the sensible.
These two travellers did not have the luck of finding a blue dot to transport them quickly from one place to another. Their journey from ‘The Cream For All’ to ‘The Milky Way’ was taken the long way around. On this lengthy journey friendships were destroyed, lovers learnt to hate and those in possession of sanity quickly lost it.
You would assume that to travel from one galaxy to another would be an adventure, and that perhaps, you might meet all kinds of alien life-forms, all types of terror and any number of prevailing travails. But the universe, home to all galaxies, all knowledge, all civilisations and life, is very big and quite empty. It is not unusual for someone to move long distances for extended periods of time and see nothing more than some dust and the odd flash of distant lightening as newly made Gods create newly inspired religions.
“For the last time Ga, stand still and let me kill you!” Lo was beautiful for her age. Her standing amongst DisQuientian political circles had been great and she took it upon herself to retain her beauty and fitness regimes while travelling through the void. She held the axe at a particularly jaunty angle that, at any other time, Ga would have found inspirational. For now he found it menacing and complicated.
As he ran, Ga thought to himself how lucky he would be, should Lo manage to catch up to him, that though totally insane, the woman he chose for his wife had remained beautiful and arousing to the very end.
From the dashboard a mechanical voice blurted, “Planet approaching. Planet approaching.”
As he ran by Ga flicked a switch that turned off the voice then flicked a second switch.
Lo stopped her incessant scream, stopped her gallop, and asked, “What did you just do?”
“I’ve turned on the black-box locator. We’re approaching another planet. Perhaps this is the one,” he panted.
Lo lowered the axe and said, “Oh I hope so. Insanity is tiring.”
They came closer to the controls and huddled over a small screen displaying the results of the black-box locator’s search.
There was a blip.
“Oh!” gasped Lo, “Is that it?”
“Oh, no, just a timing light.” They peered at the screen again for moments before a bell rang.
“Oh yes!” cried Ga.
“Yes?” questioned Lo.
“Yes, that’s it. We’ve found it! After half a lifetime of travel we’ve finally located Bo’s ship’s black-box flight recorder. She is here on this planet!” with that last statement he pointed at a slowly growing pretty green and blue disc in the distance.
Lo and Ga looked to it and wondered just what it was that had made their daughter run away from everything that life had to offer and abandon herself on this little insignificant part of Everything.
-o0o-
On the Beigebummjob, 5 events happened at the same time. Hu stopped moving faster than the eye could see and bumped into a chair. Ru stopped hearing everyone’s thoughts and decided he didn’t have to kill himself at all. Je stopped breathing fire and took a drink of water. La fell to the floor with a plop and rubbed his behind. And a light on the panel in the control room flashed the message “Star Cruiser approaching” and the words, “self defence systems on stand-by, weapons locked, missiles ready to launch” noticeably floated with ethereality across a monitor screen, unnoticed by all.
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