Loonatics Revamp Rise of the Loonatics Episode 1 (Saved)

Chapter 17

Zadavia, as the woman called herself, analyzed each disbelieved face before her, taking in their animalistic features. Her attention stayed longer on the six young adults whose lives had changed forever this very day, and no one dared to move, leaving a mystified silence hanging in the air. That was until Colonel Jason Raccoon cut it with a bark:

"Weapons aimed at her! Keep her at Aimpoint!"

The soldiers around him drawn out their weapons once again. But the woman was unimpressed.

"I would advise against firing your weapons at me, Colonel," she calmly said, still standing tall.

 "This form is only spectral, and any attempt to harm me would only result in unwanted casualties amongst your men and material destructions."

"Are you saying you're some kind of ghost?" the middle-aged raccoon asked warily; he may have fought against tough opponents before, but nothing that couldn't be hurt physically or had anything to do with the afterlife, if there was one. This was completely out of his league, but he'd be damned if he at least didn't confront it.

She smiled, not exactly amused but simply to seem polite.

"More or less," she answered. "This is merely an astral projection, a way to travel all around the universe without bringing my body alongside me. To simplify, I separated my astral body, or soul, from my physical envelope and attached it to the Guardian Sword. The same sword this young man," she added while switching her gaze to Ace, "found inside the meteor."

When her green eyes went on him, Ace felt like she could pierce inside his very being. He knew she could hear his thoughts, like Lexi, but it was much more different too. Like he couldn't keep a secret from this woman even if he tried to.

"The same meteor you apparently send to kill our citizens!" the Colonel snarled. "You said it yourself you have full responsibility for what happened today!"

Zadavia turned back to the raccoon, her smile lost.

"I assure you Colonel that it was not my intention to bring the Guardian Sword to your planet in such a destructive manner," she responded with a hint of guilt in her voice. "It was supposed to be sent to you via a capsule only, but during its travel through space to your galaxy..."
"It was met with remnants of asteroids and comets."

All eyes were on Tech in an instant; it was the first time since he and the other five got there that he spoke. Suddenly self-aware, his green eyes fell on his feet, while kept his arms close to his sides, standing uncomfortably straight and narrow.

"Yes?" Zadavia smiled encouragingly. "Could you develop further?"

The coyote fidgeted with his hands but nodded.

"If the... Guardian Sword had to travel through space, as you put it, then it had to go through both the Kuiper belt, located near Neptune's orbit and then the asteroid's belt between Jupiter and Mars. It's more than likely that, when passing through both of them, remnants like rocks, dust, and even chondrules gathered around the capsule and clumped together. Maybe because the Guardian Sword was the core, and because it has such intense energy around it, it formed a meteoroid comparable to what the Chelyabinsk meteor from the year 2013 supposedly was, but unlike the Chelyabinsk meteor, this one didn't explode when entering Earth's atmosphere and remained intact even after impact. Also, the term "meteor" isn't applicable anymore, since it is now in our ground, and we should call it meteorite from now on."

His knowledge was... impressive, to say the least. He hadn't looked at them through his speech, but his words had been measured, calculated, and he didn't falter once. Zadavia nodded, pleased with his explanation.