"We should go back, my Mom is going to kill me."
"Relax, Jason, it's not that late, besides I doubt she's noticed you aren't home yet. It's not like you ever leave your room anyway." Nick had a habit of being wrong when it came to whether Jason was going to get in trouble or not. It was already half an hour past his curfew, and Jason didn't really want to tempt being grounded again. He had only started to be let out of the house again two weeks ago, and here he was again, doing what Nick said to. Even as two eighteen year old juniors they were still at the mercy of their parents. At least this time it was for a better reason than trying to get into one of the senior's parties, not only were they a grade younger, neither of them was the type to be invited. "If you keep up I bet we'll be the first ones to find it."
The it Nick was referring to was something, Jason couldn't be sure what it had been, that had swept over his house and disappeared over the forest. The thing had gone sailing through the air, but the brief moment they had seen it, it didn't seem to be crashing but landing. No one else had noticed it, Jason lived on the outskirts of town, out near the woods, and Nick's house was the closest thing to his. Nick had immediately said that they should follow it, the sun had already been setting, but Jason reluctantly agreed, the two of them jumping on their bikes and riding them as far into the woods as they could before jumping off and walking. Jason had thought ahead enough to grab flashlights and now the two of them were walking through the trees, with just the little light they could provide.
"It was probably just a plane," Jason said, peering around the darkness. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't scared, not of the thing that had raced over the house, it was probably nothing, a bird or meteorite, or something, he didn't know. But the woods had always creeped him out, especially at night, it was mostly from Nick telling him all sorts of stories when they were younger about how there were killers or cannibals living in the woods and if he wasn't careful he would get grabbed by them.
"You have got be kidding me, have you ever seen a plane flying that low? Or a plane even fly over your house for that matter?" Nick replied, glancing back at him, but continuing quickly forward.
Jason was moments away from calling it quits, he should have grabbed a heavier jacket, the hoody he was wearing didn't do much for the cool night air. "Well, no, but what else it could be? Don't tell me you still think it's..."
Nick pushed a branch out of his way and suddenly looked back at him, grinning broadly. "That's exactly what I think it was, look!" He pointed forward, past the tight pack of trees in front of them. "I told you, I told you." Jason moved up beside him, his jaw dropping. "It's a spaceship."
"No way. It's impossible." Jason murmured, looking at what definitely looked like a spaceship in a small clearing in front of them. It was sleek black and about the size of a school bus. Without their flashlights, they could have walked right past it and not noticed it in the darkness. It was perfectly smooth and appeared similar to a rounded tube.
"I knew!" Nick iterated again. Jason couldn't believe it, but Nick had been right. The ship did look like it had indeed landed and not crashed. Nick suddenly turned and looked at Jason, "I dare you to touch it." Of course, Nick would just straight to ridiculous dares.
"What? You can't be serious. We should leave, and tell my Mom, or call the police or something, I don't know," Jason almost stammered. This was all crazy.
"If you're too scared you can just say so," Nick grinned down at him. "I can't believe you want to get your Mom, we just found this, it's our discovery."
"I'm not scared, it's just, don't you think we shouldn't be messing with it? What if it's dangerous?" Jason was scared, but Nick wouldn't actually take that as an answer.
"It doesn't seem dangerous, it's just sitting there. If you're too scared, then I'll go and touch it," Nick began pushing through the underbrush.
The black ship hadn't done anything since they had spotted it, but that hardly filled him with confidence. Jason grabbed his arm, holding him back. "Fine, I'll touch it, but after that, we're going and telling my Mom, alright?"
"Okay, as long as you actually touch it," Nick agreed.
Swallowing, Jason went ahead, pushing through the bushes and entering the clearing. Nick was a half dozen steps behind him, urging him to continue forward. Jason had to keep himself steady with every step. Right now he wanted nothing more than to leave, but he knew Nick wouldn't agree. All too soon he was almost within arms reach, his heart was pounding in his chest. He raised his free hand tentatively, his fingers stretching out and tapping against the hull of the ship. It was cool to the touch and firm like metal. When nothing happened as he touched it, Jason relaxed slightly, resting his entire palm against it. Nothing had happened. It hadn't exploded or disintegrated his hand or anything.
He looked back at Nick, breathing out a sigh of relief, "Happy now? Can we please leave?" He was amazed he had been able to actually force himself into the clearing and to touch the ship.
"I can't believe you actually did it," Nick grinned back at him, "You're braver than I thought you were." Jason was as surprised as he was. Suddenly Jason couldn't feel the ship against his hand and the grin completely vanished from Nick's face in an instant. "Jason!"
He heart sank and he whirled around to see where he had touched the ship had opened and a figure was rising from it. Jason moved to stumble back, desperate to get away from the ship and whatever was getting out of it, but before he could move so much as a foot a hand reach out and grabbed him by the coat. The flashlight fell from his hand as he grasped at the hand trying to fend it off. The interior of the ship was brightly illuminated, enough to light up the entire clearing in a soft blue glow. Jason could only take in the fewest of details as he tried getting away from the alien. It was taller than him, towering over him by more than a foot. It was clad in some sort of black ridged armor, from head to toe, including some sort of flat faced helmet that he couldn't make out anything through. The hand grabbing him seemed human enough from what he could tell, the five fingers clutched in a fist and holding onto him.
"Jason!" Nick yelled, running up to him. He didn't get far, before the alien just shoved him back with one hand, sending him to the dirt.
The alien stepped out of the ship, one long leg rising up and over it after the other, and it easily held onto Jason one-handed. He knew this had been a bad idea, and now what was going to happen to the two of them? He tried to prepare for the worst, closing his eyes to block out whatever horror the alien was going to inflict onto the two of them. But nothing happened after a few seconds. He was still trapped by one hand but nothing else happened. Cautiously he opened one eye. The alien was simply standing there, making sure he didn't escape.
What was going on? Fear was still racing through him, but it hadn't vaporized him, or eaten him, or something far worse yet. Jason opened his other eye, first looking over to Nick, who seemed unhurt, but was staying as still as he was on the ground. His eyes quickly returned to his captor and for the first time, he actually looked at them, at what was clearly a woman. With a few moments to actually take in the alien's appearance, he looked her up and down. The black armor was similar to the hull of the ship but slightly duller, more interestingly to his teenage mind was how tightly the suit was on the alien's figure. He was as scared as ever, but he couldn't help it as his eyes roamed alone the much taller creature's curves, from her long legs, to her wide hips and up to her narrow waist. The ridges along the armor hid some of her figure, but for the most part, it seemed like it was skin tight on her. His gaze moved still higher, lingering on what would have been an enormous rack on any other woman, but seemed fit the alien's body perfectly. Along one hip there was some sort of box-like device. The only thing he couldn't make out was any details of her face. The flat faced helmet didn't hint at anything, and the swept back nature of it didn't help.
Jason didn't know what to do, or what to expect. He was at least a bit grateful that his attacker wasn't some complete monster. The helmeted head looked from him and then down at Nick. Then to Jason's renewed shock and fear, as the alien looked back at him and her other hand reached forward, not to grab his chest, it went lower, moving between his legs and cupping his crotch. A flash of terror bolted through him, at the sudden idea of her crushing him in her strong grip, but she didn't. Instead, her touch was almost gentle, as if she was trying to confirm that he did have something between his legs. At feeling something though her hand didn't move away, it tightened slightly, as if examining him through his pants. The feeling wasn't entirely unpleasant, and in other circumstances, Jason would be thrilled to have a woman grabbing at his crotch, he just never had an alien in mind.