Prologue:
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part One
The sun rose up through the Martian horizon, casting its frosted minty rays slowly illuminating the world below with the shade of apple blossom light. As the Rustic Red shadows slowly subsided into oblivion, a faint light reflected on the solitary dome next to the Deseado Crater. A spaceship with an unusual design passed above the landscape in the windowed frame half closed by a shield. By the time the safety curtain had fully rolled up, an holo-projector slowly descending from the ceiling while lighting up with a soft chime.
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Then, the news channel started with a good looking presenter announcing various reports related to mars and the rest of solar system, he now moved to a spacious sunken conversation pit, there was a pregnant tall reptilian alien laying on the beautiful embroidered cushions, the Savior was dressed in the beautiful fabrics that espoused beautifully with the shape of her gracious saurian form. On her dress, there are various form of unknown beautiful flowers from her home planet, the young entertainer was mesmerized by her dress to the point that he almost staggered all over on the guest.
After the awkward situation, they both greeted each other then the handsome boy asked her:
“What a pleasure to invite you in our conversation pit, impress candidate Rumina! Now I have an important question: tell us how your father Epaphroditus and his team discovered our solar system?”
All flustered and surprised by it, she chuckled. Then, “thank you mister Parker, it is also my pleasure to be your invitee but I have to correct one thing: my mother-in-law, her majesty is not yet old enough to abdicate her throne, she still have 400 earth years to reign on her main galaxy. Furthermore, I’m currently acting as ambassadress for your galaxy, nothing more than that. Now, about how your solar system got discovered, that is an interesting question! If I remembered right, my father told me it was because of that incredible… what was the term exact of a place where everyone are gathered to listening one group singing?” slightly embarrassed.
“Ohhh you mean a concert is that you were looking for word?”
Yes! That is the word I was searching! Sorry mister, it’s been a long while I haven’t practiced the Japafren, one of my favorite para-helpmate’s native language…”
“Well, you know what I think? You’re surprisingly good at it!” impressed.
“Hehe… thank you my darling… what was I talking about early? Ah yes, the discovery… my father was able to discover your solar system thank to a video feed of this incredible concert, there were an human dressed in white clothes that leaves only his naked arms, he had a mustache this thick” she gestured with her long claws, the shape of the mustache on her mouth despite her head wasn’t an human shape it was triangular like turtle’s head. “And with the neatly hairs cut, he had a powerful voice that sing… something like this:”
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I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand
Kicked in my face
But I've come through
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After she finished singing it, she looked at the presenter she noticed that he was speechless then, said: “ahem, are you still there mister?”
The young mister snapped back to the reality, realizing that he is on a live streaming “ah! Sorry, did you know that you have a truly beautiful voice! That song you did here, I had a strange feeling I’ve heard somewhere well… continue please!”
Rumina got taken aback by his comment, she never expected to heard this compliment, she continued: “heh… thank you! Alright, as he was singing, he played on a piano beautifully, then my father noticed there were so many arms in the front of him, he realized it was actually people like him who were waving in the rhythm of his songs. When the concert ended, my father and his team were trying to track down where this video feedback came from, turn out it wasn’t far from their planned destination for a mission. So, they deviated sightly from the destination by a few hundreds light-years…”
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Then after a pause, she sighed: “once my father and his team arrived, they realized something was wrong when they tried to hail the planet Earth in their range contact. They decided to investigate furthermore by cautiously approaching the planet…”
The showman raised his eyebrows by realizing: “they discovered our system solar too late is that what you mean?”
“Yes, what sadden them even more is that the singer from that video feedback, his name was Freddy Mercury, he already passed away by that nefarious disease… and as it wasn’t enough, the planet earth was covered in thick clouds for three hundreds earth years! The first thing we found out is that the inhabitants of Earth, they were hiding in various shelters burrowed in earth. It was the first sign that they were alive! The second things that we also found out is that they have an incredibly shorter lifespan compared to us who could live up to 1500 earth years old. Thankfully, with our help they were able to extend their lifespan little by little!”
“Daaamn! That must be so sad to see our neighbor in the sorry state! And what happened to our planet Mars?” as he gestured to continue the story.
“Right! It was horrifying to be stuck in this state, my father and his team started to contact the planet Earth but they realized that the signals they got was not only from Earth but also from Mars, they were surprised by it. After that, they were able to establish the contact between Earth and Mars for so long, my father contacted his home planet to get the permission to help humans to rebuild their civilization. That is how we get known as the Saviors even though it’s not our real species name, but your ancestors insisted to call ourself by the Saviors. So, we resigned to accept it out of the respect. Now, it’s been… hm…” she muttered something about her para-helpmate’s age and various things… then she said: “about 165 years that we stayed in an excellent relationship with the humans!” she finished with enthusiasm.
“Ouah! That long? Now that is cool to celebrate!” he noticed something weird on the ambassadress’s dress then, he pointed out: “err… Hm… Another question, sorry if it was impolite of me but… it is normal to have water on your legs?”
“Oh that is perf- wait WHAT?” That question startled her then, she looked down and she realized that he was right, she was now in panic state “oh sh-“
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The holo-screen suddenly went all black with a message:
“please, stand by,
we will come back to you,
now enjoy our commercial ads”
The mysterious person gestured with their fingers from up to down that will turn off the holo-projector. After that, the person were saying “well, that was an unexpected surprise…” as the tired humanoid get out from the bed, they walked up to the shower next to the bed box, they scratched the naked butt and then the pubis part… they realized one thing: “hum? How come I wasn’t wearing anything there? Oh right! My clothes were so dirty from yesterday work that I was forced to stripped down naked, and had to use a temporary work suit not fit for my body shape… Blah… That life sucks real bad!” they sighed… “oh well, who care if someone came, it’s not as if I will get filmed, do I?” they activated the mirror so, they could look carefully their body for maintenance:
The body is completely naked, their skin is gray with some visible scars around their collarbones. There are fine line that separate between their shoulder and the limb, they spoke up: “HEL, could you check up my body please?” as soon as the sentient artificial intelligence heard it, with a soft and calm voice, with a butler manner, he said: “understood Madam, here the detailed information related to your body.” There is detailed informations appearing on the mirror that help the owner of the body:
General body checkup in progress…
Problems detected.
Deep investigation in progress…
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Synthetic right lung: normal
Synthetic digestive system: normal
Synthetic reproductive system: unknown…
Attempt of auto-diagnostic in progress………
Auto-diagnostic completed:
the synthetic uterus is malfunctioning,
Attempt of auto-repair in progress…
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Error, auto-repair failed
Synthetic reproductive system is shutting down,
replacement of the organ is needed,
Would you like to order a new synthetic organ?
She groaned at the information… then she shook her head, she now asked this: “Will it put me in danger?”
HEL promptly replied: “negative, it would not pose any danger to your life. Shall I continue the checkup?”
“Yes, do it please…” annoyed.
“Understood, here the rest of information.”
Synthetic left hand: normal
Synthetic right arm: normal
Synthetic left foot: normal
Synthetic right leg: normal
General body checkup completed.
“Sweet I can live another day on that shitty planet! Yippee ki yay, motherfucker” she said sarcastically.
“Language…” with a disappointing voice.
“What? Can’t I swear like I want?”
HEL sighed “never mind that, wouldn’t be time for you to go at the zone N7 for your digging work?”
“Huh??” she looked up at the time, then she realized “oh fuck!”
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To be continued...