The Hatchling

It was all over the news and internet. KL5-1 would be the first remote probe to land on a comet orbiting the Earth. The comet, Superman-12, was roughly 10 feet wide and 20 feet long. Part of the universe for untold millennia it was a relative newcomer to our part of the galaxy. It was picked for the honor simply because it was there.  

It was an exercise in patience for the space community. After many breakdowns and fine-tuning, it was successfully landed on Superman-12 on April 12, 2014. The pictures it generated were sent back to Earth. Space geeks and scientists alike were in awe of them. Mineral samples were taken disturbing the space dust of time. The usual and unusual were gathered. When ufo conspiracy groups pointed out odd shapes or something similar it was given two seconds of credence. Then after two weeks of remote space exploration, it was successfully guided off Superman-12.     It was designed to break up in space and mostly burn when it hit Earth's atmosphere. The only solid piece to arrive back would be the atmospherically protected core containing the data and mineral samples. All would go to plan. They didn't count on an interplanetary hitchhiker drifting back with it.

The hitchhiker was a minuscule egg the size of a small seed. It had drifted for untold eons looking for a place to call home. When the legs of KL5-1 disturbed the surface of Superman-12 it immediately attached itself to one of them. Hibernating it only needed the right reasons to wake up. When the probe burned up it fell

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 21.12.2015
ISBN: 978-3-7396-2912-4

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