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Round 3.2 Space Sweet Space

A story written for "Gloves Up| A Multi-Genre Smackdown Contest", Round 3.2 (October 2022). Genre: Sci-fi. 

Song Used- "E.T" by Katy Perry 

Story Word Count: 3390

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"We've crossed the exosphere. The spaceship stops here..." Lexi tuned out of the conversation. Commander Tzar went on speaking about their plan. However, she was distracted. Her mind was hopping from one server of brain to the other. Until she could finally feel the pixel like blue eyes locked on hers.

A mop of curly black hair sat on the flawless face of the creature who did not belong to their world. Tall, robotic and skeptical with cryptic moves and gestures that somewhere caused a goofy sensation in her bosom.

She surely seemed to like it; however, extremely disliked the cause of her turmoil.

Eyes encrusted with tiny pixels that appeared to be type IIb diamonds, blue to almost grey. The shades, so light and bright, like the stars of the dead night. The regal and twinkle they possessed held her spellbound. The foreign creature was beyond her league. It was all wrong. Her thoughts were all wrong. Yet she couldn't help but neglect that thought for just another hour.

An hour and then he'd be gone. Once and for all. For good.

Who would have known that the monotonous life of hers would take a gradual peak, molding it on the anvil of foreign infatuation.

Nevertheless, she sighed, thinking back to the time they found the creature for the very first time.

10 months ago.

It was all planned. The dramatic climatic changes and misplaced star positions had sent a red alert straight to the scientists.

Something drastic was about to happen. Something that'd entirely change the cosmic construction and bring about a disastrous result.

It didn't help the fact that the impacted part would be along the coordinates 20° 42′ 35′′N and 156° 15′ 12′′W. This part includes the Hawaiian Islands. One could feel the chills down the spine from the various scenarios the blue-green globe would undergo in the next few hours.

And when the time came, the equipment was out. Ready and steady, measuring the shift in temperature, atmospheric pressure, radio signals and outer space connections. It didn't last long, though. A tremendous tremor shook the ground beneath. And all the connections and servers broke down. Everything was shut. Utter darkness enshrouded.

The silence before the storm.

And then, all of a sudden, another huge vibration vibrated along two rift zones: the southwest and east. Something from the sky fell on the rocky terrain surface with a speed greater than even light.

As a result, the once-dormant Haleakalā island was blasted with tremendous force. The molten lava almost destroyed the whole island.

The whole incident occurred in a matter of fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes was all it took for the destruction to reach its peak.

However, it took more than fifteen weeks for everything to be restored and operational. The servers were working again. Satellites started taking signals and then started the great research behind the mishap.

After a span of seven hysteric months, four major news items leaked from the World Space and Research Organization.

First, it was the formation of a supernova near the supercluster of galaxies called the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, which altered the energies and radiation. A huge explosion after the Big Bang. Then followed the blue shift of many existing stars.