So being shacked up with a group of somewhat mission obsessed companions and being restricted to the space available on a somewhat small warp capable ship after the successful completion of an over twenty four long mission without a break can be pretty stressful. So sure while I may come off at the overly sexy and laid back Starchilde the Traveler in reality I am also Topanga Ojeda a mixed Native American from a alternate future Earth.
Sadly I am a self proclaimed hedonist and while I work hard to conceal it I love nothing more than to get my good times on. No how to start getting to those good times, well I often under dress to the point of wearing nothing more than a severely revealing chemise to make my intentions to find a good time quite obvious. With my awareness honed to cosmic levels it’s easy to detect if I am ever in a dangerous situation. So I get to live the carefree life most of the time not that being said just to be clear that does not mean sex, sex and more sex.
No actually I love just kicking back and watching a good movie every now and then. Well in this particular case I was on a ship heading to back to Earth and I was shall we say just a little depressed. In honesty the last time I had been on Earth things had not been going so well. To make a long story short I had recently been recruited into a super hero group of sorts called the Wrecking Crew and things had to quickly escalated to a point where I had literally almost lost placed the entire planet Earth in danger. It had all been due to the chaotic group of individuals that I had been travelling with who had been trying to complete a mission vital to the survival of the planet. There inept actions had caused me in a span of less than three days to unleash more destructive power than I had ever used in my entire life before I had met them.
So had I ran from them well not exactly I had asked my only other paranormal friend who had been computer science professor named Slipstream who was an ancient alchemical paranormal metamorph. He was perhaps the most perceptive man I had ever met and I had considered him if not my intellectual equal someone whose experience and awareness gave him in insight that I strived to emulate. It was he that had convinced me to heighten my awareness to cosmic levels an ability he possessed naturally as well as teaching me the benefits of creating temporal cocoons. In fact he had even created an advanced sentient space craft named Vashar and had been exploring deep space. Oddly he was the one that been convinced that something was not exactly right with our quadrant of space. To make the story short as I am fond of saying to as he taught me to sum up we switched places. He took my place with the Wrecking Crew and assured me he would help them and in return I would continue his exploration of the sector of space and see if I could find out any information that might prove useful to the situation.
Now did that mean that being an energy being that I was truly trapped within this quadrant of space well to be honest not really but it did not really do anyone any good in the space sector if I just up and left as that would not solve the problem that had been imposed on everyone else trapped by the Thorans. Something was up that much I knew for sure so had Slipstream but neither of us had connected the emergence of the so called Outlaw Matter into this area of space and it being helped along by a so called Godling named Cthulhu to be the root of the evil.
Funny it’s always some Godling or some would be Godling with delusions of grandeur that always try their very best to ruin it for everyone else. So I had a lot on my mind and I did not want to try and burden my new companions with the complexities of my mind and I actually really doubted if they would even believe me if I had tried. That’s another thing I had learned during my journeys that in the past I had let my intellect drown those around me which often caused to see them as inferior since they could not keep up with me mentally. I had found that it often caused me to distance myself from others and just watch them as they literally made mistakes that I could have helped them perceive before they blindly walked right into them. I then ended up having to clean up a mess that I could have actually prevented if I had only just slowed down for a moment and gotten to really know those around me.
I had learned to slow down and learned to let others think I was nothing more than perhaps a moderately yet ditzy human woman who travelled the stars conveying messages around the quadrant. It had worked and in the process I had learned how to cope with ordinary people as one of them not someone who believed themselves to be better than and above them. Not that I wasn’t above the vast majority of people I encountered I had just had to learn that I while I might not be of this reality I could learn to live in it and had.
Now that lead me back to returning to Earth which I really had no desire to return to for the moment and I had planned to stay onboard the ship either way. Sure I downloaded some local information that I would sift through but what I had needed the year away in my own world had been to come to terms with the fact that I was once again in the thick of things and this time I was prepared but that everyone around me was so tight lipped that I was concerned that would fall into the trap of walking thru the field and not even smelling the roses. In truth I realized that we had gotten on the stop the plan of Cthulhu express train perhaps more than halfway to its destination and we might only have a few key chances to derail the train before silly Godling’s plan came to fruition.
Sure I kicked back for a year and let my mind ponder all of the ways we might be able to move up to first class and reach the conductor and convince him to stop the train. I also spend an equal about of time pondering my past on Earth. Of course rest of the time I spent enjoying all the pleasures of the flesh that my mind could conceive. Granted M had turned me down and Spectraman who in his guise as George had moved on to the bridge while Nialla was busy having her flesh ripped off not that I had been aware of that at the time. I also spent time recreating lifelike replicas of my Parents whom I worshipped and who had imprinted me when I was a child with all of their knowledge and memories even thought for most of my life I had been to angry to review them as I had always in the past anticipated my eventual return to them.
I had let my Parents teach me anew of the ways of our people and our roles as protectors of those less advanced than ourselves. Of our duty to uphold the sanctity of life unless that life that we disrupt poses a threat to the entire continuum. I finally faced the last sin that I had not been ready to face when I had taken the lives of lesser beings for money, profit and the chance to have a good time. The fact that I had been a child had never been an excuse or the fact that I had been exploited by paranormals who had not realized the true extent of my abilities. I should have known better and now I realized that I might very well be along with Star Phoenix eventually confronting be confronting a Godling than I need to be prepared and due to my gifts that had been bestowed upon me by my parents I finally was.
I had emerged from within my temporal cocoon and realized that after awhile something was not right M had been stalking around almost looking frantic as we had finally arrived on Earth and it as time to stop watching from the sidelines it was time suit up and put my game face on and help work to find the problems and work on a way to fix them. In other words while I still planned to make time to enjoy the pleasures of the world if for no other reason than to remind me of how important the things that most take for granted truly are. It had become apparent that I needed to start with those around me for as my old Professor Slipstream had often said “Before you try to take on the burdens of others seek first to alleviate the burdens within yourself so that by example you can become a shining beacon that will dispel the darkness within their souls by your very presence.” Truer words have I often heard spoken I am sure my Parents would have loved Slipstream I knew that I sure did.
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