studiobondurri CHAPTER 468 SPACE CRAP
CHAPTER 468 SPACE CRAP
CHAPTER 468 SPACE CRAPI was flying us over the barren landscape of the US border. Linda latched onto my back. The girl was still ecstatically watching everything as her legs wrapped around me. The sun out now, I was glad she at least wasn’t crying.
After we left the observatory I had taken her to her home in Portland. She was an intern at the Observatory as she studied some weird astronomy major I had never heard of. Having been working there for a summer job she was plenty worried about her family. We got to her house but no one was there. Since it looked like the place had been ransacked I hoped they were okay.
Rather than being upset by the fact that they weren’t there she was content. I offered to drop her off at the safe hospital, but she wanted to go with me. After checking in on the doctors I let them know of my plan to check out the possible meteorite sites. They began getting excited and relaying the information to their sister locations around the world. Quickly gathering all the possible scientists needed to potentially study the space rocks, I hoped we were getting close.
The closest confirmed outbreak zone they gave me was near the American and Mexican border. Flying slightly slower so Linda could stay on my back, she had talked for a while. Asking about my super powers and how I got them. I embellished a little and took some notes from King Arthur and Manhwa. Stating I had been chosen to climb a tower and each level of the tower allowed me to gain new powers until I broke out and got back to Earth.
She listened happily and believed every word as I showed her examples of each power. Eventually the questions stopped though and she wanted to land for sex again. I obliged and we were finally back on our way to one of the many possible landing sites of the meteorites.
Far more around the world than I expected she stated that space junk and meteorites fell all the time. Most of it burned in the atmosphere, what didn’t was usually about the size of a rock so people never really noticed them. Since I didn’t know enough about this sort of stuff, I believed her and our
“Crazy isn’t it?” She asked. “The world goes to crap, but nature is still gorgeous.”
“And deadly,” I reminded as my hand moved along her lower back as we stood near the stone carved handrail. “Hurricanes will still happen. Forest fires. Causing more death. It’s so…indifferent.”
“Sometimes,” she said with a nod. Staring up at the night sky. “But it’s why I wanted to study astronomy. So much beauty here. I couldn’t help but wonder about the beauty out there too. I wanted to see them all. Those other planets that have this same beauty.”
“That’s a weird reason to devote a career to,” I said, smiling.
“They say do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life,” she reminded. I nodded as her head leaned against mine.
I took in a deep breath from my nose. Enjoying the scent of her and the world around us. Though I’d known her a short time I really did like her. It was moments like these that reminded me why I searched for women in each world.
I had spent weeks traveling with a shadow clone. Then a few more on my own as I worked with the scientists. This right here, with a beautiful girl, made the work so much more worthwhile. I was creating memories with her. A moment I would remember forever.
Though I might not spend a lot of time in this world, no matter what happened, I had these moments. I was here. I had made a mark on the life of this woman. I would be remembered, and it was somehow comforting to know that.
“That’s weird,” Linda mumbled quietly.
“Hmm?” I asked. My thoughts empty as I stared at the ocean.
“Now that I think about it. We know that the sun didn’t have anything to do with the Z’s. I mean, there were those meteorites, so it couldn’t have been a sunflare.”
“Right,” I said, realizing she was correct. There was no way a sun flare caused this.
“But you said they landed east to west over like 24 hours or whatever,” she said, staring out. “Which is astronomically rare.”
“What are you saying?” I asked, not understanding.
She pulled back, thinking as her eyes took on a glassy stare. “I didn’t know it before I started my education but the universe is pretty big.”
“Really?” I asked, Sarcastically. She rolled her eyes, hitting my chest.
“Yes, like huge. So huge it’s rare to get meteors from the same spot. Whatever these zombie makers went through to emit that death inducing crap, they should have all fell around the same time, because the Earth is moving really fast. But that couldn’t have happened since that would mean they came from different directions at once. So that means they were spread out hitting different spots along the world over a day's time. Which is beyond weird. The Earth is moving through space throughout the day. If these rocks went through the same radiation to emit that stuff they would have needed to be close together. But they weren’t. They were spread out. But somehow hit Earth. I don’t know if any landed in the ocean, but it’s astronomically rare for this to happen. Especially for the meteorite to survive.”
“What are you saying?” I asked. “It wasn’t a coincidence?” I asked, starting to wonder.
“I have no idea. I’m just saying it’s rare,” she said. Slowly her eye drifted up. “When did the meteorites land?”
“Beginning of July,” I said.
“What time?” She asked. I shrugged. “Cus if it happened at night maybe a meteorite landed on the moon too.” She pointed up at the near full moon above us.
I looked up at it. “What would that matter?”
“I don’t know,” she said with a shrug. “There’s very little atmosphere there. Maybe something happened to the meteorites when they struck Earth. Also the meteorite wouldn’t be so broken down on the moon. Maybe there was a nice exterior around the gooey center that protects it from exuding that crap. Or the heat from entering atmosphere caused a chain reaction that cooked whatever it was made of to zombify everything. So if there is a sample on the moon, maybe we could actually test that one without dying.”
“Would it be on the dark side of the moon?” I asked, seeing her point.
“Probably,” she said with a shrug. “Maybe there is a satellite we could send-where are you going?!” She yelled as I raised in the air.
“The moon,” I said with a laugh. Flying up into the air I decided it was as good a time as any for a space walk. Since I knew I could go into space now, it was time to check out the moon. Become the first person in existence to walk on it barefoot. Increasing my speed, I broke the sound barrier as I flew straight at the white glowing orb in the sky.