Aldric laughed: “You of all people! I wouldn’t have thought that I’d see you again! Hey, you remember Almeric my brother? He’s married now. That’s Jane, my sister-in-law, by the way. Oh, and Jasmine and Zoe are married now as well! Crazy, huh? Anyway, what have you been up to?”

Stella sighed: “What are you doing here?”

Aldric: “Oh, we went hiking and somehow got lost.”

“That’s nice. Listen, it was nice meeting you all again, but I think it’s better if you leave now.”

Her former college friend ignored her last remark and instead tried to catch a view inside the old housing unit: “Hey, are you living in some sort of commune? Have you felt that weird force field this morning?”

Stella stiffened: “What did you just say?”

“Um, you know, that weird thing that happened today? This… feeling? Well, we all felt nauseous and I think our truck broke down because of this.”

Stella stared at him blankly: “You know what? I’ve changed my mind. Come in, you must be thirsty. Let’s talk.”

Auriga had the electricity, which was powered by a small windmill in the back of the building, up and running in about an hour and Eri managed to scavenge some food out of the UFO wreck. Others weren’t that helpful…

Stella tried to calm Andromeda: “Everything’s okay. I’m pretty sure nothing’s going to happen to us. I wouldn’t take Percy too seriously on that matter, he can be really paranoid sometimes.”

It didn’t work. The young birth queen jumped up: “Well, I didn’t sign up for this! Actually, I didn’t sign up at all! You lured me into this whole thing! You kidnapped me!”

“Wait, WHAT?!”

Stella turned to Auriga: “No, we didn’t!” Turning to Andromeda she tried to keep her voice calm: “You signed up for this! You knew perfectly well what you would get into and DON’T tell me that I didn’t warn you about the possible consequences!” Stella had warned her, had even tried to talk the young hybrid out of it. Hadn’t it been for the desperate situation on Sixam, she wouldn’t even have considered the possibility of bringing her ‘home’. She wouldn’t have recruited half of her current crew.

Upset, Andromeda scoffed and left the room. Percy laughed sardonically and whispered under his breath, just so loud that Stella could hear it: “You really have a good taste in recruits.”

Edit: Sorry, that’s Percy (Perseus), not Eri!

“Wait, what? We were attacked?!” Auriga, who had previously chatted with Andromeda, now listened attentively.

“No, we weren’t!”, Stella tried to calm the young alien, “There was just some anomaly in the atmosphere and we were hovering too low, and it pulled us closer to earth and our devices failed and then gravity happened. That’s all!”

“Actually”, Percy interrupted her, “I don’t think it was an anomaly. There were pretty huge forces working against us. That wasn’t just bad fortune. Something either went horribly wrong or someone wanted us down!”

Andromeda exploded: “Oh, I knew it! I knew it was a bad idea to join you freaks! For watcher’s sake! Bubbles!”

jaydesims replied to your post:  Man this all looks really interesting! Love all the details you added. Plus the outfits are amazing. 😮

The outfits are gorgous, right? (These are ALL conversions from S3!) I sometimes get a little carried away…. ^^ Glad you’re enjoying it!

Stella rolled her eyes. The young hybrids and their irresponsible behaviour could really be a pain in the neck. Next to her, her second-in-command scoffed: 

“I don’t think dragging the humans into this is a good idea. You know how they usually react.”

“They are hybrids, they were raised on SimEarth. They tend to forget the dangers. And times changed. While I went to one of their colleges under the disguise of being a hybrid I met an actual PT who relocated to earth and lived there. Human wife, kids, house, garden, everything. Granted, the place where he lived was a little bit weird, but I think humans are more accepting of us now than forty, fifty years ago.”

“Alright, but I still don’t think that that’s a good idea. But I think we have other problems right now- what the heck was that force that dragged us down?”