METROCITY
City Outskirts
Invincibelle arced towards the edge of a sizeable crater amidst several emergency vehicles. The police barely paid any attention as the giant blue-skinned woman landed gracefully. Citizens of Metrocity were a little too used to seeing superheroes flying around.
She had received a call from an old acquaintance, someone she knew before her transformation into Invincibelle, back in her days with the Xenoscience division. He wanted her expert opinion on what appeared to be a crashed alien craft.
In the center of the crater was a small metallic object, roughly cylindrical with an open hatch in the face of it. It was surrounded by machinery and computers while nearby a man in mostly-black armor and a red and gold helmet used a handheld scanner. Eva swooped down and hovered behind his left shoulder.
“Is it safe, Captain Alpha?”
He shifted the scanner to one hand and removed his helmet with the other as he turned to face her. Always the gallant gentlemen, taking off his helmet in the presence of a lady. Which Eva found a little disconcerting since he knew her from… before. “I think we both know it’s safer for you here than it is for me, Invincibelle.”
Eva landed next to him, although he still needed to look up to look her in the eye as she was a foot taller than him. “Well, what have we got here?”
“A vessel, only about one meter in length of non-terrestrial origin…” He paused, “…but you’re the expert. Why don’t you tell me what you see?”
Eva glanced around the crater. “Descent was at least partially-controlled otherwise we’d be standing in a bigger hole. But engines are too-small for long range travel so we’re looking at something launched from a larger vessel.
Alpha stood there with his arms crossed and nodded.
“Surface has some pits from micro-meteor impacts, but they look like they’ve been polished smooth. Probably from stellar dust particles, but it would take hundreds of thousands of years to erode that much in space.” She leaned over the open portal into the interior. “Some kind of stasis containment pod. Containing something dangerous judging from the number of back-up systems in place.” Captain Alpha was still just looking at her. “But you already knew all this because you’re a physicist and a sci-fi nerd, so why exactly did you call me in on this?”
“Because, of this” he said and lifted the side of the hatch to show some markings on the exterior. The markings looked familiar to Eva, then she realized what she was looking at. Some of the symbols were identical to the ones on the alien pod that had transformed her into Invincibelle years ago.
Invincibelle is an original character created by merle on DeviantArt.