Stray Beyond the Cosmos

Chapter 5

Inside the ISS, people who are busy doing their assigned roles halted, their faces and eyes are glued outside their pressured pane, a spaceship that is wider and longer than the ISS has stopped near them. As the strange behemoth ship stops, a fast small spacecraft was dropped into Earth, followed by dozens of similar spacecraft heading in different directions. The people inside who are still staring at the ship are amazed by its size, but what amazed them was the fast-moving spacecraft that effortlessly zooms into the Earth.

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Beijing, China

Four J-16 Fighter Aircraft intercepts two strange flying objects that suddenly entered directly the Beijing's Airspace from above without stating their intention. The four aircraft fired their 30mm cannon as they chase the two strange fast-flying objects, then they fire two of its PL-10 air-to-air missiles. A total of Eight air-to-air missiles are chasing down the two UFOs for a kill. As the PL-10s are reaching their targets, the 8 air-to-air missiles explode as it hits an invisible wall, as the smokes cleared, the pilots can see a glowing blue orb that surrounds the spacecraft that hovers above the City at 20,000 feet. "I-i-impossible!" the co-pilot from one of the J-16 said loudly in his flight helmet. A moment after, the two strange aircraft fly away as if they're not interested in them.

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20 minutes after the said encounter of J-16 Fighter Aircraft of People's Liberation Army Airforce or PLAAF, the building of Zhongnanhai where President Xi Jinping resides, eight fully armed vehicles are lined up outside Zhongnanhai. The man in formal suit with bulletproof vests meets up with the President and bows to him, "Mr. President we are here to escort you and your family to safety. " The man in a formal suit said. "Thank you, but I need to get the documents I left at my office" Xi Jinping replied. the man in a formal suit nodded, President Xi runs back inside to get his documents back in his office. After 5 minutes of running, he is now in front of the door of his office, he put his key and biometrics to unlock the door. He opened the door then, he checks the drawer below his desk. A touchpad with a handprint is connected to the drawer. He put his left hand in the touchpad, a click sound was heard indicating that the drawer is now unlocked. Then, he gets the documents he needs. Before he turns around, he noticed a shadow that is slowly forming a humanoid shape, "Hello, Mr. President" a voice coming from an unknown man behind him. Xi remains calm and sits on his chair, he turns his chair around to see the mysterious man behind him, he sees a man in a full helmet with a rebreather, wearing what seems to be a black exoskeleton, a holster for a pistol-like weapon, and combat boots that are integrated to his knee pads. Xi remains calm after he saw the man behind, "Who are you? Who sent you?" he asked. "Me? Let's say I am here to book a meeting with you and our representative. " the mysterious man in a black exoskeleton said. "Representative? Are you the aliens? Are you the one who enters our airspace without saying anything?" Xi asked again. "The answer to all your question is Yes, we did it for the future conference so you will not think of us as weak and easy to take advantage of. " the man answered. Xi was speechless after he heard the man's answer. "Are we on your booking list now?" the man asked. "No, I didn't know your name" Xi fearlessly answered, "Oh well, just list it on the name of "Mark" " he said. then, the mysterious man vanished slowly from foot to head "See you, Mr. President. " the mysterious man said before he fully vanished. President Xi who is still staring at where the man vanished right before his eyes are shocked by the sudden disappearance as if the man's existence is slowly disappearing right in front of him. The escorts who are still waiting for his return outside enters his office, they saw him sitting on his chair staring at his window.

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Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Putin just finished his breakfast at Novo-Ogaryovo, he is now headed to the Senate Palace where his Military officials are waiting for him. As he enters the building, his secretary meets him, "What will it be this time?" he asked his secretary as they walk inside the 1st building in the Moscow Kremlin complex. "Mr. President, the Chinese backed out the plans for invasion, they say that we need to be warry about these coming aliens instead of continuing our plan to invade our close neighbors with China," the secretary replied and takes a short breath before e continued his report, "Then our spies and bugs we set up inside Zhongnanhai, it was confirmed that the aliens made contact with President Xi" the secretary continued, Putin let out a sighed as he realized, he just wasted millions of ruble, "Is this the reason why they called me?" Putin asked however, the secretary did not answer, he just swallowed hard.