“I do…” He opened the door and left. I followed. He walked down the hall and tried to find a window. Other agents watched us walk around, new recruit in the lead, wings out and a smile on my face. He turned down a hallway and stopped at a window he hadn’t looked out yet. “…but space.” he leaned on the window’s ledge and stared out at the uninterrupted view of space. his eyes darted around. I’m sure he was happy about his new and enhanced eye sight.
I stood next to him and spoke softly, “And space technology and aliens and…” I paused. “…We could really use a good earth engineer…”
He laughed softly, “Yeah that’s totally the reason why I’m here.”
My smile disappeared and I stared out into space.
“Why do you want me here?” He turned to me.
“I knew you had to join the ISF Dormant Agent Division the moment I saw that it wasn’t some random attack.” I answered, my voice softened, “It’s my job to protect humans. The MIB ‘way out in left field’ division of the ISF is on Earth and there to manage their own stuff. We don’t mind, in fact we encouraged it. We deal with interplanetary affairs anyway. They do their own thing and we do ours, but we contact each other when it’s necessary.” I stopped once I realized I was rambling.
“MIB… the Men in Black?” he wondered.
“The very same thing but the movies were so inaccurate we don’t keep them here.” I answered. “But I’m out here most of the time and you’ll be on earth. You’re an open target there and you had to be protected somehow.” I looked at him. “And this was the answer.”
“Couldn’t just leave me on earth?”
I looked him in the eye, “The ones that attacked you work for a woman we’ve been trying to track for decades. If she wants you then there’s some connection to you from her side.” I paused and debated if I should say more.
“There’s a lot going on that I won’t get to know about huh?” He asked.
“Yeah,” I looked away. “After we lock away your powers, I’ll take you home and leave you alone. Hopefully the barrier plate will be able to protect you enough.”
He reached out to hug me, and I let him. “Thank you.” he leaned down and pressed his head into my neck.
We stood like that for a while until I glanced out the window and moved him so he could see it.
“Wow,” he whispered, “a real shooting star.”
“Gonna make a wish?” I asked, assuming he knew about that dumb earth superstition.
He looked at me, “It already came true.” He smiled, “Didn’t ask for the life changing or life threatening part, but it came true.”
I watched the slowly moving, bright white object move past HQ. It was a ways off from any security field but it was still pretty to look at. It left a streak of light in its path. I started laughing as I saw a robotic arm reach out from one of the roofs. It had a few different containers on it.
“Are they really…?” He asked, watching it with me.
“I think so.” I replied. “It’s not every day that a shooting star roams so close to HQ.” The stardust moved into the containers and then they were pulled back through the roof.
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Hawk Meets Markiplier
FanficThis is part 1 of ISF Origins: Markiplier Hawk has worked in the ISF for several years and has seen too much in this universe but this... this human, Markiplier, she never saw coming. The Intergalactic Space Force gains ground on their quest but Haw...
