This is a tale of science fiction I wrote a few months ago. It doesn't have a main character, it is composed of little scenes telling the story of the sexy invasion of earth by the Amazon Vampires from Mars. It takes place in the near future after a terrible war has changed the face of the world as we know it.
It's one of my first published works. I hope you like it.
Comments are appreciated of course...
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JUNE 26TH 2046, former UN building, Geneva, Switzerland, Earth
Professor Emma Farnsworth, Operations General Director of the WASA (World Aeronautics and Space Administration), had been up all night preparing her big speech after the data sent by the MARS One Team had been confirmed. When the Spacecraft had left Earth orbit 26 months before, everybody was really excited about it but no one ever expected them to make this kind of discovery.
The main room of the United European, Pan-American and Asian States, UEPAS for short, parliament was crawling with the most preeminent journalists, politicians and scientists.
Her PA was finishing her introductory speech
"Under the patronage of the newly formed government of the UEPAS, we started working on the first inhabited flight to Mars both as a way to solve the energy crisis and to inspire a new hope in the population of our war torn planet. After months of preparation, in March 2044, the craft MARS One left Earth orbit crewed with a woman only panel of the brightest and more resilient scientists of our age... Three days ago they attained orbit and the day after a four woman expedition team landed on the surface. I leave the stand to Professor Emma Farnsworth my distinguished colleague to comment on the strange revelation we got in their last transmission."
That was her queue, she was more nervous than she'd ever been.
"Ladies and Gentleman," she started.
"Mars has been under our close scrutiny for the last century and a half and we've always thought of it as a small barren planet." She paused for effect. "Well ladies and gentleman, last night we have been proven wrong. Mars is in fact..." she paused for effect, again, "...inhabited."
The turmoil in the assembly took at least twenty minutes to calm down before she could resume he speech and answer the many questions that followed.
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JUNE 25TH 2046, MARS ONE spacecraft, orbiting Mars
When Captain Sarah Fry, commander of the WASA mission MARS One, entered the bridge of the spaceship, Sergeant Lihua Hien, her second in command and co-pilot, turned to greet her with a smile.
"We just got word from the surface, Captain; apparently they have been able to establish communication with the Amazons."
"Two questions: Amazons? And how the fuck did they manage that?"
"That's what they've started calling them, the delegations was only composed of female specimens and they look pretty fierce."
"Ah... terrible name if you ask me, anyway go on."
"Yeah, well the Ama... the locals have apparently some sort of telepathic ability and they have learned English overnight from the girls down there."
"Fuck me Sergeant, that's something else. But we'll come back to this later. I have this report to make for WASA command and I want you to walk me through it so I have the best image of the situation. What do we know so far about them?"
"So far not much, most of it is speculation. So in appearance they're pretty close to us except for their pointy ears, extremely pale skin and over developed fangs. Oddly they are extremely beautiful according to Earth's standards."
"I would leave that out of the report, this is too subjective, go on Sergeant."
"Apparently the Ama... locals have a nocturnal life, that's probably due to the absence of atmosphere on the planet making direct sunlight much more dangerous than on Earth. During day they hide underground. That would explain why we never even had a glimpse of their existence."
"Okay so what happened exactly yesterday?"
"As you already know, the crew was contacted at sundown yesterday night by a delegation of the Ama...Locals..."
"Amazons, okay we'll stick with the name for now. I still think it's a crappy name."
Coming from a traditional Beijing family, Lihua was always shocked by the captain's rough language but over the last two years she had grown used to it.
"So they made contact at sundown with Mars lander One. The girls inside first freaked out but they came around and, in breach of all protocols allowed one of the members of the delegation inside the airlock. The creature didn't seem affected by our atmosphere. Primary observations indicate that they don't need to breath. Apparently Major Pelletier had a minor in linguistics and she tried to communicate with the being but it didn't seem to go anywhere as it stayed silent for eight hours. The rest of the delegation is still outside the craft patiently waiting."
"And they started communicating when exactly?"
"Just an hour ago..."
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JUNE 24th Mars Lander One, Mars surface
The last rays of the sun had disappeared over the alien horizon twenty minutes ago, Major Pelletier, Astrophysics Ph D., had just gone through her checklist when she heard a knocking sound against the hull of the module. At first she thought it was a rock that had been lifted by the wind in the low gravity environment and thrown against them but then it came again, a clear knock on the hull and powerful at that. She rushed at the console to check the monitors and she saw them.
"It's impossible," she said out loud for herself as the rest of the crew was resting another part of the module.