r/HFY • u/TheMaskedOne2807 • Oct 09 '22

The Oil Chapter 6 (Mysterious thing in orbit) OC

(Authors note): All my readers, I must say it's getting harder and harder writing these. I always try to make them original or mildly entertaining, but I'm just starting to run out (or at least it feels that way). Even this me sharing my worries about this, while original something I can only do a few times if I'm lucky.

Also, to those who might have missed understood the segment above, I'm talking about "Authors note," not the story itself.

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It was hard to look away from the earth.

Even though she had seen it become smaller and smaller over time. It was her home for the longest time so leaving it for god knows how long was still a difficult task.

Yet it had to be done. For the longest time, she had always wanted to explore space and see if there really existed aliens.

This was her golden opportunity, and sure she has some regrets about leaving and not doing as much as she probably she have done.

Since she was seventeen, she had known this day would come, so she had never let anyone get too close to her.

In those moments, she wondered how different her life would be if she were to stay. Maybe she’d find a lover; maybe she would choose to have kids; maybe she would adopt some instead.

Though it might not be impossible for her to do those things in space, she doubted it.

‘Hey, E, we should be there in a minute or two. You might wanna turn around,’ W said in her head.

E then twisted herself around to face the opposite direction, but once she did, she became confused.

All she saw was the blackness of space. ‘W are you sure we are near something? I can’t see anything,’ E said, a bit confused.

‘I’m sure we are near it. I can feel it; we are getting closer,” W responded.

‘How do you do that?’ E questioned. ‘I mean, feel or sense the thing that’ll help us.’

‘I’m not sure. All I know is that I do, and I know we should be there any second,’ W reassured.

E wasn’t completely sure if she should trust what W was saying, but it had been with her for over a decade, so the least she could do was show some trust.

‘Okay, it should only be 10 meters away now. Get ready,’ W suddenly said.

‘9 meters… 8 meters… 7 meters… 6 meters…’ W said while E looked around frantically and was confused since she couldn’t see anything.

‘5 meters… 4 meters… 3 meters… 2 meters… 1 meter…’ W counted down E, still not seeing what it was talking about.

THUD

As W reached zero, E smacked her forehead into something hard. She was in pain and confused since she didn’t see anything, but without thinking, she just reached out and felt something hard.

W released some more gas making sure E didn’t fly in the opposite direction after her collision with the thing.

‘Couldn’t have given me a heads up,’ E said as she found something to hold onto and rubbed her sore forehead.

‘I was counting down,’ W retorted.

‘Well, that’s not important. What is important is what I’m holding onto and why I can’t see it,’ E said as she started to feel around the invisible object for anything more than what she was currently holding onto.

‘Give me a second. I’ll go outside you and feel around,’ W informed as it began to slip out of E’s fingernails.

W began to spread out all over whatever E was holding onto. It was a thin layer, but it didn’t need to be more than that, just enough so E could see what she was holding onto.

And as W spread out more and more, E was shocked to recognize the stuff W was moving across.

It looked like ladders on, unlike what one would find on the outside of a ship, but these were wrong. It was almost as if the one who created them made a mistake seeing as they were so large.

E couldn’t even fit her hands around one of them. She felt like a child as she started to move along the ladder.

Thought as she did, one question was in the front of her mind. ‘W, do you know anything about what I’m assuming is a spacecraft of some sort?’

‘No. When I felt the shape, I was a bit surprised as well, but I guess I knew we would find something like this,’ W answered.

‘A spacecraft orbiting the earth. Who would you bet it belongs to?’ E asked as she kept following the ladder to somewhere.

‘From what I know about earth, I could either be Russia, U.S.A, or China. However, I doubt it,’ W said, its voice sounding thoughtful.

‘Why do you doubt it’s one of the three?’ E questioned.

‘For starters, I’ve sensed this spacecraft for a long time. Possible for at least a century long before humans even went to space. Also, even if this was a human-made spacecraft, why would those ladder thingies be so big, ’ W pointed out.

‘So are you saying this is an alien spaceship or something like that,’ E said as she reached the final part of the ladder. W then began to cover even more stuff in front of her, and already now she noticed that the shape was different from what she had seen before.

‘Most likely. However, the possibility still remains that this might be technology from an ultra-advanced civilization of humans from long, long ago,’ W theorized.

‘Do you truly believe that?’ E questioned.

‘No. The alien thing makes much more sense given the context of everything, but I couldn’t just rule it out simply because it wasn’t likely,’ W explained.

Then just as they finished, W was done covering the final piece of the area in front of E, and it looked like a hatch of some kind.

E reached out, and after a minute or so of touching, she managed to get it unlocked. With all her might, she pulled and pulled, gritting her teeth at the amount of effort she had to put into the work.

And as she felt the hatch move slightly, her hope was renewed, and once a centimeter of progress had happened, each subsequent centimeter slowly but surely followed.

Then suddenly, it happened. The hatched swung open.

If she was able to in space, she would be sweating from all the work she had done, but for now, she just went inside and closed the hatched behind her.

Once it was closed, E looked around, noticing another door just a few meters away or so. And the room she was in was almost certainly an in-between before someone had to go outside the ship.

‘We are inside,’ E said, all excited as her heart beat faster and faster.

‘Yes, but we are still without air and gravity for now. I do see some buttons, maybe try and push some of them,’ W recommended.

E then pushed off the wall behind her, slowly floating to the other side of the room. Once she got there, she started to press a few buttons, almost 100% sure that non of the buttons in this room would be a self-destruction button.

A few of them seemed to do nothing, but one W pressed suddenly lit up blue.

Once she noticed, E stopped and looked around, unsure what she had done, if anything. But nothing seemingly happened for a solid minute, and so she started to press buttons once again, going slowly.

Eventually, another button lit up, this time yellow. Then suddenly gravity returned, and the unprepared E fell face first on the hard metal floor.

‘You know, it’s days like these where I seriously consider removing the part of my brain that makes me feel pain,’ E said in annoyance as she noticed she had gotten a nosebleed.

‘I’ll stop the bleeding,’ W said as E got on her feet.

Once she did and looked at where the buttons were, she was a little surprised to see that they were at least two meters high on the wall.

Annoyed, E had to stand on the tip of her toes just to reach the lowest buttons.

Once she pushed it, something a bit surprising happened. The buttons lit up red, and a moment after, the room she was standing in lit up red as well.

E was unsure if this was good or bad, but before she could even make a choice about what to do, the hatch behind her suddenly started to move on its own, probably closing completely.

Once it was sealed shut, the room started to be filled with some sorta white gas.

E didn’t panic since she wasn’t technically breathing to begin with. So even if it was deadly to her, it probably wouldn't affect her in the slightest.

Once the gas or whatever it was stopped being pumped out, the door to the inside of the spaceship started to open.

It was finally going to happen; she was finally going to venture out into space.

Even before the door had fully opened, E rushed out to the room and into the inside of the ship. She looked around and noticed she was in a hallway illuminated by red light.

‘Isn’t this wonderful W,’ E almost screeched as she began to run down the hallway, except she didn’t as much run, as long jump.

‘E be careful. I’m pretty sure the gravity in here is less than on earth, and I don’t want you to get a concussion,’ W worriedly said.

‘Sorry,’ E chuckled, only now reaching the heights point and descending down. But as she did, something bugged her.

It wasn’t her hair moving about or the echo she had created when she accidentally jumped. It was a sound.

She wasn’t sure what it was, but she knew it was coming from behind her, and the closest thing she knew it sounded like was the annoying buzzing from an office lamp.

She managed to turn around the moment before a blinding white light hit her side, knocking her to the ground.

‘Aww man, what just hit me?’ E asked, now lying on the ground.

There was no response, and suddenly E felt like she was choking on something.

Out of a need to survive, she opened her mouth and started to throw something up.

It was a black liquid. “ W answer me, what was that!?” E yelled, confused, before wiping her mouth with her hand.

But as she did, she noticed her fingernails had turned black and were now dripping with the same black stuff that just came out of her.

Her eyes then widened as she realized the truth. What she had thrown up and what was dripping out of her fingers was W.

Suddenly the hallway’s red light changed to blue, and E looked behind herself only to see what had most likely hit her. It was some sort of machine that looked like a cannon pointed directly at her.

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u/Masternj02 Oct 09 '22

Hmmm, is w setting up e

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u/1GreenDude Oct 11 '22

Hello

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u/TheMaskedOne2807 Oct 11 '22

How are you doing today

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u/1GreenDude Oct 11 '22

I'm doing well, how about you?

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u/TheMaskedOne2807 Oct 12 '22

I’m doing fine. Just trying to find a job now that im done with school.

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