Chapter 3 Contact.

Act 1 Return.

I was back, it took 2 galactic cycles to get to the closest Nest-world, and share everything I know with the matriarch there and get some updates from the greater vibranty society. and then comeback, what I returned to was surprising. . .

It was now a quarter as large as the dwarf blue star. . . but I don't feel any signs of activity from it and from how it's orbiting that close to the star, it looks like it's sunbathing. I moved towards the beacon system that younger sister had left.

Well that's a surprise, the girl did a good job giving everything an ID. I started going through the looped vibrations, and learned what's been happening to the stellar fuana up to the moment the kid left the system. it was eating the rings when she left. . . there's no asteroid ring on the smaller gas giant anymore.

An entire ring shouldn't be enough, for it to become that large. I used the records she left and compared it to what my scans are telling me and yes it had eaten more than 10% of the mass of this system. . . Atleast it hasn't eaten any of the celestial bodies, that would have been bad. even though every planet here is barren it wouldn't be good to have a terravoir this near any nest or nursery world.

How about I try communicating with it? from the research I've done in every planet I visited the larger the organism the smarter they usually are, if given enough time to develop. . . even those Turtles I've met where larger than me but as I suspected there technological path where very different.

As I thought of how to approach the large stellar fuana, I worked on my ship, adding protection and adding instant boosters. but then I felt something even on the barely livable moon, I felt the movement of the stellar fauna and then as I looked up I saw an eye looking down on me. . .

Act 2 Communication.

I was looking down on a moon, it was a special moon as it's the only one that seemed to be able to house life, because it had a sea worth of water. . . it even has growing green moss like stuff in it's black rocky coasts. So I never touched it, and kept any asteroids from coming close from it.

And kept it in the goldilocks zone of this system. . . And yes after eating the ring of that gas giant I've finally gained enough of myself to think normally. and finally made an internal clock.

But I think I've grown a little insane as I started to see things. As I'm looking at a really big snake humanoid like upper body, it had 2 pairs of arms one pair was much larger than the other.

There arms where ant like as if they're wearing a carapace and there head was large smooth, with two large black. . . Wait is it wearing a spacesuit? And is that big circular thing a spaceship?

Before I could think of what I could try doing, the suspected alien space traveler. Immediately slithered into its spaceship and flew towards the other side of the moon.

"Hwurh?" Huh? Alright, what should I do? Really thought it'll be another few. . . Yeah no Idea how long it would taken, I stopped counting when my internal clock told me its been over a century, but I thought I need to atleast be half as big as little Azula.

Well now or never I guess. I felt determined as I felt inside of me and looked for a new pull. . . I've already memorized the gravitational pull of everything within this system and as I felt for it. . . I found it a new pull within the star system.

I followed it, and my body moved on its own. I was swimming through space as easily as any whale can swim through the seas.

But as I moved, and followed the alien spaceship it started moving faster leaving the moons gravitational well and started to freely circle towards a larger barren planet.

It turned around and drove towards me. I didn't slow, because I've learned, I was a momentum sponge, it's the reason I can just smash into asteroids without breaking them and or becoming paste.

It didn't slow down either but as it gotten closer, it was suddenly slowed by my orbit. . . But it didn't stopped and kept moving and then landing on my nose.

I was about to use one of my whiskers to move there ship but then I felt vibrations. . . It kinda tickles, and then I saw an images.

It was in my head but it was as clear as any 4k wallpaper. . . It was an image of a planet, and not just any barren this one was alive. . . Green meadows.

Weird animals that was similar but different to those I know, an orange almost red sun, a blue sky. . . And a village? Of snake girls? I saw maybe ten? No twelve human like girls with a snake tail for feets and different vivid colored long hair, and there was those bigger ones like the one I saw, they were wearing the suits.

The images cycled, I was seeing an alien civilization. Something every human that ventured away from the Sol system had dreamed of. . .

And then as I kept watching, enjoying the images of this alien civilization I heard a voice.

"Please! stop! Destroying, ship!" Huh? I regained my self and felt my whiskers holding onto the ship and holding it near one of my eyes.

Is this alien using some kind of vibration type communication? I quickly loosen my hold on the ship and then placed the tip of my whisker on one of its bulbs.

What are those? Fuel tanks? Damn really should have attended more space ship engineering courses. Really not sure where I can touch it without breaking it.

But as I was thinking I felt vibrations again and the ship deformed caving in on the bulb I placed my whisker on, I almost pulled it out cause I thought I was breaking it again.

But then I heard that voice again. "Stop! Okay!" I complied, atleast I understood I wasn't the one doing the breaking.

I saw more images, as I felt the vibrations becoming more stable and less spontaneous. . . The images was just amazing, different worlds, different stars an all new technological path! Beside boiling water! Amazing, using vibrations as the foundation of your civilization.

Well using vibrations as a power source was tried maybe thousands of time back home, but. . . I don't think I've ever even heard or seen it get this ridiculous! using amplified vibration to phase through space!

Remarkable! We barely achieved sublight speed using micro-star engines! And your telling me you can just skip the empty parts of space by vibrating fast enough!?

The images stopped as I was debating the reason why aliens never met, with humanity in the centuries I was alive. Where we just to stupid?

"Understand. . . Me, now? Do you understand me now Stellar alien?" I do? Wow she sounds. . . Mature? Serious? I'm not sure, it feels like I'm listening to an HR guidance officer.

I saw the tip of my whisker fully covered and the ship turned into a cylinder instead of the dinner plate earlier.

I used a smaller whisker to gently tap on the ship gently once. Hopefully she understands.

"Yes? Please, tap once for yes and twice for no. If you understand me" I tap once again. The vibrations are becoming odd as unlike before I only felt it on my head it has now spread up to the tip of my tail fin.

"Fantastic! I knew my theory was correct! Alright I need to do this right. . . Are you born here." Yes? I did wake up in that gas giant. And I saw my egg a few cycles ago. I tapped once.

"Alright that's. . . Complicated, are you from an egg?" Oh? Does she know what I am? I tapped once.

"I was right if your only two galactic cycles old and already this big. . . It means. . . Okay, are you alone." Hmm. . . Parents Huh? No I think I was left or more like I was being given the sea turtle treatment, my parents not taking care of their offsprings. I tapped once.

I felt her, relaxe? wait no. . . I just realized something, I wasn't talking to her like I would with a neural-focus, video chatting in my head, like back at home. no, it's different, it's more like using an intent translator, that experimental piece of crap a bunch of redbloods where trying to develop.

Well it's working, with her intent base communication tech and with the images she was somehow projecting in my head, I was able to understand more and more of her civilization, and with my yes and no responses she was getting closer in gauging my intelligence. . . but it does make me wonder, if I was still on the dragonfire and we meet something like me. . . I think being shot by kinetic torpedoes would be best outcome. and then ignored and reported to the higher ups.

Damn, becoming a type one was only the starting point isn't it? Ageless-Immortality, Really fast spaceships, Instant communications and information, and high-end batteries, really would make people arrogant doesn't it? that was my thoughts as I look at a what the elder was telling me is a nest-world, and unlike the nursery worlds she first showed me this one was. . . incredible. . .

A nexus world. . . something everyone only dreamed of back home, and when they actually tried it, they almost took an apple sized bite on earth. Atleast we made a land version of that sea trench. "Are you also, from an intelligent civilization?" it took me awhile as I felt through my internal senses and it was almost 5 cycles of this system which from what I roughly calculate would be around 10 years back on earth.

But I did it, with a controlled placing of my smallest whisker, I started to vibrate back to her ship. "I am, and thank you for finding me." my intent copied and stitched version of her vibrations, yet it was clear as I can get it. spoke back to her, I felt shock at first and then excitement from her. and then questions that I am not sure how to answer appeared.

Act 4 Education.

In the void of space, embrace by the warmth of a blue star, me two aliens met. one from a civilization that had dispersed itself thought a Starfield yet young in the eyes of the other, a civilization who was barely a thousand centuries old.

And the other from a civilization that had been cultivating itself for more than 3 millennia, but had barely started leaving its home system. . .

I was human, now I'm. . . The more alien being between us two. Damn, from what that soul had told me she said I'll become an "elder" I thought she'll make me an elf or something not this!

My body shook, explosive reactions bursted within my scales. . . The gasses I've taken in reacting to my frustration of not becoming a beautiful elven, tree hugging, knife eared, fuckboy!

I felt vibration again from my, jelly like whiskers. . . I'm still unsure how my body works, but from what I see, I think my whiskers was made of liquid hydrogen wrapped in a thin layer of moldable pure metals.

"Are you okay? I scanned your body, and felt multiple cases of miniature hydrogen fusion events. . . "Abyss" Please tell me if you'll explode?"

I sent back the image of a laughing emoji, I already explained her what it means and what humor was. . . They had an equivalent but it's mostly geometry jokes I barely get.

Also when she didn't say "Abyss" no, everytime she call me an image of an vast empty portion of space appears, that only had a large white star. . . And oddly it translates to Abyss.

So yeah there way of naming themselves is based on images. . . Everytime I asked her name, she would show me the same thing, a group of young "Vibranty" playing with a ball made of grass laughing. Even the name of their race was an image of there proginitor the first Vibranty.

She looked more snake like, her head that of a multi-eyed cobra. her torso had three pairs of there slim, long fingered clawed arms. and her tail was longer than any of the other Vibranties I've seen from the images she had shared with me.

I keep telling her I don't understand, and she would keep telling me her name every time she calibrate her translator. . . it was the same images so I started to call her things related to the image and see if it would work that's how I came up with Vibranty after all.

"I promise! Joy!" I felt the vibrations on my bigger whisker, it was the one with receiver on it and my other smaller whisker had the transmitter and translator. . .

I'm still baffled at how her tech works. . . The Vibranties where masters of manipulating organic matter by using their natural ability to vibrate things quickly to use it to create artistic geometrical base tech powered by vibration. for example she repurposed her entire ship into a translator, big enough that she understand me and me her.

"It is not "Joy" Abyss. Also tell me more of "Humanity" She once again showed me of an image of my past life, a man in his 30s, sitting on a chair with a book on his lap with children around him listening to stories.

"Those smaller Humans are your hatchlings?" I felt her intent and that intent turning into words I understand.

"Yes, that memory, was me when I was still human, taking care of a nursery worth of gene-children." my reply was echoes of vibrations caused by controlled reaction on my whiskers. it took me almost 2 decades but I was good enough to reply well enough that the translator can take in my intent.

"Nursery? what a small clutch for a planet. your species must have been large." I felt her intent wrong but then I understood.

"This is only a small batch of children, there are more being taken care of by other caretakers." I gave her images of my memories of how a nursery doesn't mean an entire planet dedicated to child care and development like how her civilization does it but an area in a planet or space station where children taken care of.

"Oh I understand. . . this "Station" She showed me an image of an old habitat station I showed her. "Is this does humanity live in artificial livable moons?" huh? do they not have space-habs?

"It's smaller than a moon, closer to an asteroid in size. only able to accommodate four smaller families, comfortably." I gave her images of what it looked like inside and how the family can work and live in old space-hab.

"That's an old model, the newer space-hubs. can house a dozen families. has your civilization not developed the ability to make artificial residents in space near your planets?" a long paused ensued I was beginning to worry as I don't feel any vibration coming from her ship.

"I need a break "Abyss" I have nearly exhausted my fluid reserserves I would need to refill for 2 cycles." I looked at my internal clock and yes it has been 21 cycles again, and it means she needs to basically hibernate on that livable moon again.

I helped her, placing her ship on the moon, near a moss filled coast. "Thank you "Abyss" let us meet in 2 cycles again."