Infinity Part 1

Infinity. That’s what my mother would tell me every night as I went to bed. I’d dream of far, far away galaxies and an alien species called: Humans. As far as I knew, they didn’t know about my own “Alien” species. A species called Ioniyions. On the planet of Ion, 3 million lightyears away from the humans. The humans lived on a planet called: Earth.

We’ve been watching them for millions of years. They recently had invented something you might know as time travel and many other things like the reverser. One would restore your youth. But our technology was far more advanced than the puny humans. 

After all this time of helping them build pyramids and helping them learn languages. We were treated as outsiders. Outcasts. We were their foundations! And what do we get?

NOTHING!

We haven’t kept communications in millions of years, but we did have visits. Today? TODAY, it was my turn to go. But little did I know what was about to happen.

Year 19,000,000,001 on the planet of Ion

My ship’s GPS system malfunctioned along with the main control panel, causing me to lose control…and crash. (On Earth). Year 2019. Year of disease, death, and viruses masked as flu’s. My species couldn’t get sick, we’d just die naturally. 

Dead at age 999 or sometimes older. You get old at the age of 657. 0-12 years you’re a kid, 13-400 years you’re a teenager. 401-501 years you’re a young adult, 502-656 you’re an adult. 657+ years you’re finally a senior. 

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I expected to crash land at a construction site. At night. My ship’s systems were down, no camouflage, no laser guns, not anything! I had the darkness of night protect me from the humans. I knew my consequences. Don’t mess with humans. Only observe. 

I found an old theater that projected sci-fi movies onto a screen. Bah! We had holograms and much better things. I hid behind a counter, knocking something over in the process. I heard noises in the other room. I peeked from behind the counter and saw some human teenagers. 2 males, 3 females, and 1 other one that I couldn’t identify as male or female. Hmm. Weird. They flashed their flashlights at me. Hopefully I wasn’t seen. 

“Oh my god! Marko, did you see that? It was an eye!” 

“Oh c’mon Becky. You’re delusional.” 

“But the noise!”

Something fell again. This time on me. I yelped like an animal. 

“Woah, woah, woah! Shh!” The boy whose name was supposedly Marko hushed.

“Hey. Who’s there?” Marko loudly gulped.

Another boy followed him, great nowhere to hide. One of the boys fell. Marko screamed in a very high-pitched voice. The girls snickered.

“JEEZ! Ben! Watch out!” 

I was cornered.

A bright light shone in my eyes, 

The kids all screamed. They tried to run, but I stopped them. 

“WAIT!” I said. “I come in peace! I swear! I'm here to observe, not to hurt you.”

“Woah.” A girl said while the light was still blinding me.

The lights then turned on. 

“Damn you’re ug-ul-ly!” 

“Ouch.” I smiled

“Becky!” They all said.

“What!?”

“It might kill us!”

“He.” I corrected.

“Will you kill us?” That’s what the human I could not identify asked.

“No.”

I could feel his eyes staring at me, he was deep in thought. I looked at him back. And I think…that I was…memorized by this human’s beauty. Marko’s beauty. His skin glowed under the light, electric blue eyes lit up, remarkable beauty, he was.

I think that I’m in love.

NO! NOT WITH A HUMAN.

To be continued…