Visitors From Heaven Ch. 2

"Mom I'm fine, I've been living up here for over a month and the only time I see other people, is when I go into town. I'm perfectly safe up here. There's a national park on two sides of my property and only two elderly couples whose houses are a couple of miles away on the other two sides and it's almost twenty miles into town. If anyone else is out here, it would probably be a lost hiker, not some crazed murderer or something. I'm perfectly safe." Rebecca told her mother as she began to wish she hadn't brought her cell phone with her.

A month earlier she had bought a cabin and property on the edge of the Redwood National Park. Luckily for her the old woman who was having it sold at auction had insisted that who ever bought it, had to agree to preserve the land as it was. After hearing that most of the other bidders had left, who had wanted to build cabins to rent to vacationers and she was thrilled when she had won the bid.
Her mother however, constantly worried about her being alone in the middle of nowhere and now that she was spending the night out camping alone, her mother didn't seem to want to stop talking to her.

"Mom if I stay on the phone too long the battery could die if I need to use it later." Rebecca pointed out, hoping that would get mom to let her go.

"Are you sure you're alright out there? Maybe you should go back to the cabin, I could stay on the phone with you until you get there." her mother said.

"Mom I'm trying to do some research, and that's a lot easier if I'm outside, I'll be fine. I love you, good night." Rebecca said.

Before her mother could reply the phone went dead.  A few seconds later Rebecca saw what looked like a large meteor streaking through the sky, she quickly pulled out her video camera and recoded it as it streaked down through the earth's atmosphere. Rebecca was shocked when it didn't burn up and flashed a brilliant blue as it came through earth's atmosphere and a sonic boom shook the ground and echoed off the mountains. It looked like it was coming straight towards her, for a second she thought about running, but quickly decided that would be useless without knowing where exactly it would land, so she stayed where she was. Too mesmerized by what she was seeing to worry about what would happen, she continued to record it as it came towards her. A minute later it slammed into the mountain side below where she was, shaking the whole mountain and sending up a cloud of dust and debris.

She grinned with excitement at what she had just witnessed and wondered how many people had ever gotten to see something like this so close up. Deciding she couldn't wait until morning to see what exactly the meteor looked like, she grabbed her backpack and camera then raced down the mountain as fast as she could, without stumbling in the dark. This may not have been what she was looking for, but it was almost as exciting to see.

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Hot Rod transformed, looked around and wondered how far off course he was. Kup had told him they would be landing in a desert and he doubted that the forest he was now standing in would be very close to a desert. He did a scan of the area and found what he assumed was a human about a quarter of a mile away and heading towards him. Quickly and as quietly as possible, he headed away from the approaching human.

A few minutes later, after working his way through the trees, he came into a clearing with a house. Hot Rod scanned the house, when he found there were no humans inside he relaxed and looked around. There was a large, two story log cabin with a deck and balconies over looking a large pond behind the house. The front of the house had a full porch and a garage, parked in front of the garage was an old pickup truck. Deciding that wouldn't work for him, he started searching the internet for something to transform into. He had just chosen the car he would transform into when he heard something in the woods, scanning the area he found the same human that he had noticed after he landed. He didn't have time to hide so he quickly transformed and hoped that the human wouldn't know there wasn't supposed to be a car there.

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Rebecca got to the crash site and pulled a large flashlight out of her backpack, then balanced it in a tree so that it lit the area enough to see into the crater. She walked around the crater taking pictures and video of it before she took the flashlight down and carefully walked into the crater to look for whatever had landed there. She thought it was strange when she didn't find anything in the crater and decided she would have to come back during the day to get a better look. As she started to leave the crater, she stumbled as her foot came down in what she thought, at first was a hole, but as she shown her flashlight down and then up the incline of the crater her heart started pounding as she realized the hole she had stepped in was one of several that lead out of the crater and looked more like strange, huge footprints than random holes. She stood there for a minute, too shocked by what she was seeing to move.

Finally recovering a little she slowly made her way out of the crater, searching the area for anything unusual. When she didn't see or hear anything she pulled out her cell phone and tried calling her mom, but she couldn't get a signal and gave up. She was trying to decide whether to go back to her house or follow the tracks that lead into the woods when she realized they were headed straight towards her house. She took a few deep breaths to try to calm her nerves, checked the batteries and amount of film she had in her cameras and pulled a tape recorder out of her backpack and turned it on. If whatever had walked out of the crater killed her she was going to make sure it was well documented if any of her equipment survived. She then pulled a pair of infrared goggles out of her backpack and looked around the area for anything unusual, when she didn't see anything she put them back and started following the tracks.


Rebecca followed the tracks to her backyard and around her house, her heart pounding with fear and excitement as she wondered what she would find.  As she came up to the side of the house she thought she heard what sounded like metal and gears moving. She froze when she came around to the driveway and saw a car sitting in her driveway. She slowly walked around it, staying several feet away from it, she didn't know a lot about cars, but from the streamline shape she thought it might have been a race car, although it was unlike anything she had ever seen before; it was painted magenta and orange with yellow flames. Then as she walked around in front of it her breath seemed to catch in her throat when she saw the symbol on the hood.

She slowly backed away from the car and went in to her house, without turning the light on she set the video camera in a window so it was recording the car, then she rushed into another room, pulling open a file drawer and with shaking hands pulled out a file marked Mission City Incident and dumped it onto her desk and started almost franticly flipping through news paper articles and print outs until she found a print out with a picture of the same symbol that was on the hood of the car in her driveway. It had been drawn by a man who had been in Mission City when it was attacked, he had said he saw it on the back of a truck that had suddenly changed into a giant robot. Rebecca flipped through a few more papers and found a news paper article that, for some reason, when she had read it she had gotten a feeling it was connected to what had happened in Mission City.

It mentioned four meteors crashing into earth the night before Mission City was supposedly attacked by terrorists, even though many people had claimed they saw giant robots fighting in the city. Rebecca just hoped that if the robots had been fighting and if that was what was sitting in her driveway, that it was one of the good guys and wouldn't hurt her.

Rebecca sat down and trying to keep her hands from shaking she wrote a note explaining what had happened that night and changed the film and video in her cameras then put it with the note in a safe that no one knew about except for her mother. She then picked up her infrared goggles and walked to the window where she had put the video camera. Taking a few deep breaths and telling herself she could handle whatever she saw, she slowly lifted the goggles and looked at the car, she could have sworn her heart stopped at what she saw, even if she couldn't identify what exactly it was, she could clearly make out some type of heart beating and a circulatory system although it was completely different from anything she had ever seen before.

Stepping back into her office she started pacing and trying to figure out what to do, she wanted to confront it and let it know she knew it was alive, but if it was dangerous that could get her killed. She considered calling the police, but if it wasn't dangerous and it ended up being locked up and being studied she'd never forgive her self. Letting out a frustrated sigh she dropped into her desk chair and leaned her head against the desk.