"Two intruders. Deck Three, near the starboard observation window."
"Any idea how they got there? We're at standard altitude."
"Gravitational anomaly when they showed up. Air displacement equal to an area of roughly ten square feet."
"Some kind of teleport then."
"Doing a search on their clothing. Only thing we have for certain is that weird headpiece that the older one is wearing."
"There's a match for that?" asked Maria Hill as the still image was magnified to a close-up of the headgear.
"That's the word 'oil' in Chinese. Also Japanese."
"Oil? As in gasoline?" asked Maria Hill. "So they're Chinese?"
"Or Japanese, or from that area - maybe."
"What have you gotten on their spoken language?" asked Hill.
"That's another weird part," said the SHIELD agent. "So far, we've had translators report it as English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Latverian, and Tagalog."
Hill broke off watching the image of the two intruders to stare momentarily at the agent.
"We've contacted Quartermain's division as this looks like 'Black Cat' stuff," noted the Agent.
"Espers or magic or that sort of thing," said Maria Hill with considerable distaste.
She wasn't the only one who found that aliens or superscience to be nearly infinitely preferable to anything that was on the "abra cadabra" end of things. Unfortunately, you had to deal with the things you had to deal with.
"Damn we're high up," said Naruto, peering out the window. "I think this is even higher than when Gamabunta jumps."
"Interesting place. I could swear we're being watched but I don't sense any chakra at all nearby," mused Jiraiya.
"Then how are we so high up?" asked Naruto.
"A method of flight that doesn't use chakra," said Jiraiya thoughtfully. "That would be of use against chakra sensors. Limited though because they could still sense chakra sources."
"Do you suppose they have ramen?" asked Naruto.
"We have an analysis of their language," said one of the technicians, glancing up at her current commander. "Listening directly ends up with that weird translation effect. Recording and playback sounds like a different language altogether. Looks like a very odd version of a Chinese-Japanese-Korean polyglot. Possibly some form of regional dialect developed from a trade based language."
"It's not a code then?" asked Maria Hill.
"Not likely," said the technician.
"So, teleporters, translation mechanism of some kind, non-hostile as far as we can tell," said Nick Fury, briskly striding out onto the walkway. "Have we made any attempt at contact yet?"
"Just about to," said Maria Hill.
Read the comments on this episode
(Posted Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:31)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.