terrible english overload:
Olivia and Herene were driving the black van. The road was surrounded by an uneven grassy terrain, with sparse trees and some occasional small wood: there was an UFO somewhere in there.
"How come our scientists had to research the AK-47? It's the most common weapon ever, it's even on some country’s flag", asked Herene; "Dunno, it certainly seems silly" answered Olivia.
Herene steered off-road, and the van started bouncing harshly; "It really isn't meant for driving here; sadly the Mudranger is out of gas after about 500 meters".
Then suddenly, after a small hill, the UFO appeared to their sight. It was a big shiny object, metallic-looking; the overall shape was that of a cross. Herene removed her foot from the gas but didn't break, the van slowly came to a halt just next to the unknown vessel. "Ooooh shit. We're only two people even though this van has room for six ..err four".
The two agents, quivering with tension, stepped off the van into the tall grass and reached the side of the UFO. A sudden mechanical noise resounded from inside. Olivia reached the corner of the metallic shape: "Maybe there is a door on the other side?", she muttered to Herene. She instinctively checked on her colleague and shockingly noticed that Herene looked frozen, with the eyes wide open. Herene raised her gun and started shooting around, her face contracted into an unnatural expression. Olivia flattened against the wall of the UFO; luckily no gunshot hit her. Herene then, just as suddenly as she started shooting, dropped her firearm and runned away, behind the strange vessel corner. Olivia heard once again the mechanical sound. Then she heard another sound, like air being violently sucked out of something, followed by Herene’s scream.
Olivia immediately looked behind the corner: some meters behind the UFO’s mass there was a creature, humanoid in shape and minute, like a children, but with a very big head. It was giving its back to Olivia: “Should I really take a shot?” asked Olivia to herself. She just took the shot.
The bullet hit the thing right in the head. Olivia saw the “little grey man” collapsing in the grass with a moan. She started to run to it, like she was possessed; she passed before the whole face of the alien craft: “Herene had probably been killed right there, a bunch of meters on my left, behind some invisible door”, she thought.
Olivia was over the collapsed creature. She had just run for a dozen meters but she was panting and sweating like never before in her life. But she didn’t stop for a second, she mechanically picked up a gun-looking object and the corpse of the creature, and started to head back to the van. Once again traversing all the face of the UFO: “Herene is lying there, hidden by that metal wall, dead or worse”, Olivia said to herself.
She turned the corner and she finally saw the van. It must have been no more than 25 meters from where the alien was shot to the van, but at that time it seemed like an unimaginable distance. A cosmic distance.
Olivia started to cover the small patch of tall grass that separated her from the black vehicle: “There is no sound at all. Was the wilderness always this silent?”, she suddenly realized. Maybe it was just her sense of hearing, so focused on any unconventional sound that it was suppressing any other sound. The thought of hearing again that mechanical sound followed by the air-sucking sound, tormented her at every step.
She mounted on the vehicle, she dropped the grey extraterrestrial body on the backseat, green blood was dripping on her black suit, and she started driving.
Time stopped making much sense after that for Olivia. She remembers the van bouncing like crazy through the wilderness, then the road. As she finally started crossing other cars, she exited the trance. She stopped the vehicle on the side of the street and checked the back: the corpse was still there, silent and lifeless; she wouldn’t have been surprised if she had found the creature alive, staring back at her.
She finally calmed down. “I have to take a shit like there’s no tomorrow”. She checked again the extraterrestrial: that thing costed the life of her friend and colleague, it was an evolved alien life form, the first ever X-Com had its hands on. She told herself that it was worth it.
