MoonGlow: Alien Duty

A Story by Abishai100

Amlan/Ezzy head to the moon on the Sulaco and meet 'Ms. Alien' and share a strange 'conspiracy-potential' journal for Earth-dualism.

A fun summertime space-fantasy fable inspired loosely by the somewhat haunting The Astronaut's Wife (Johnny Depp). Thanks for reading,

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Amlan/Ezzy were to be the first father-daughter duo in space, on the Apollo-19 mission to the moon, the first since the complex Apollo-18 mission which created strange media chatter. The space-shuttle to the moon, the Sulaco, was a finely-designed vessel.

CAPTAIN SATAIN: I'm a cool space-pirate of the skies, going to this moon-mission with Ezzy as Facebook-diplomats (Facebook).

His daughter Ezzy would comprise the first father-daughter duo of moon-travel in human history, and it'd mark a return to moon-graces for NASA and the Sulaco would boast all the amenities affording the safety/sanity for a child-in-space. Everything was more or less 'Facebook-primed' for media-success!

AMLAN: Isn't the lunar surface immaculate, my darling Ezzy?
EZZY: Yeah!

When the two disembarked from the Sulaco and began roaming/exploring, they found a strange underground passageway or built 'staircase' which led to a lair which was inhabited by a rather attractive female 'Xenomorph' (semi-insect) human-sized alien who introduced herself and explained that she'd been on the moon for her Martian species, spying on human civilization but threatened by a strange/eerie unknown 'menace' on the moon, a glowing bioluminescent serpent which turned her 'off' from otherwise human civilization sci-fi storytelling enchantments.

AMLAN: You have a hand-crafted human-world toy chess set, Ms. Alien?
ALIEN: Indeed, Captain Satan, and you and your darling-daughter ('Ezzy') are free to play with it (or with me!).

AMLAN: Wow...maybe Ezzy'd like to see us draw a 'cool' stalemate-chess condition (a media-message for peace with Mars!).

ALIEN: Cool.

EZZY: Glow-snake, daddy!

AMLAN: I see it, darling; but I've got a special flame-gun on the Sulaco; let's get it and save Ms. Alien from all this stranger.

EZZY: Yeah.

ALIEN: Thanks so much, you two; I don't know how to thank you now, Captain Satan.

AMLAN: Well, why don't you return with us to Earth (for media-diplomacy of Mars)?

EZZY: Yeah!

AMERICAN PRESIDENT: The return of Amlan/Ezzy alongside their new 'Martian' girlfriend parallels the discovery of Stargate.

That's right, folks. The scientists of Cairo discovered a strange dimensions-portal 'device' buried in the grounds of the ruins of Ancient Egypt and turned it on after restoring it, and through the portal came a strange alien insect dragon being who introduced himself as Endymion and demanded to challenge now-successful Captain Amlan Satan in a 'friendly' game of chess.

ENDYMION: I've got a terrific queen-knight 'style' of chessplay which will require a stalemate-IQ from you.
AMLAN: I've played chess all my life, Endymion; I'm drawing a rook-bishop double-line maneuver for positions-balance!
ENDYMION: Seems we'll draw that stalemate-condition I'd sought after all, Satan.
AMLAN: I suppose this diplomacy-game was a prologue to some exile-haven you seek on Earth as alternative to war?

ENDYMION: Decisions.

ALIEN: How'd you draw that stalemate against Endymion, sweetheart?
AMLAN: Let's just think I'd been motivated by Ezzy and my newfound friendship with you, Ms. Alien!

ALIEN: What's Endymion's schema, Amlan?
AMLAN: Me thinks he sought to justify some Earth-ocean abyss isolationist-exile with our stalemate-chess display, Ms. Alien.

ALIEN: As an alternative to war-invasion, Satan?
AMLAN: Yeah...there's a strangeness to all this social-media age journalism, sweetheart; maybe Endymion planted that snake.

ALIEN: Maybe he'd sought to either be a messenger of negotiations (for Facebook?)...or an adversary of sanity.

EZZY: Yeah!

ENDYMION: With this grandly wrought civilization schema, with the deception-snake I planted on the moon, I can pursue my Earth-ocean underwater deep-abyss isolationist-exile immortality on this blue planet while Satan/Ezzy and their Martian 'girlfriend' pursue the more diplomacy-oriented social-media course for 'alien-IQ' aboveground; this was my vision all along (ha!) --- to draw architecture out of the 'darkened' maelstrom in this challenged solar-system.