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Emanuel looked up and smirked. "Really, now? The laser gun didn't give you that 'stay back we might be dangerous' vibe?" He said.

Vega turned on the ship's speaker, tweaking the volume until it was low enough, then handed the small input device to Beta. "Here."

"Probably." Emanuel shrugged and leaned back, looking back at his phone. "Or there's someone in there and that fire was intentional. I mean, if whoever - or, y'know, whatever - is in whatever this invisible ship is, they may very well be unfriendly."

"I don't know." Vega replied. "Tell them that we aren't here to cause trouble and that we need to them peacefully leave us be."

Vega nodded, watching the humans. "As good as we can hope for." He said.

Emanuel jumped up and looked around carefully. "Whoa, okay, nope." He made his way over to Stephanie and gripped her arm. "So, uh, definitely someone in there. M-maybe we should go.."

Emanuel rushed after Stephanie, only stopping when she did, though hesitantly. He hid between two trees near her and waited. "What are we doing? Why aren't we, like, getting to safety?" He whispered to her.

"Ah ha, see? Danger averted." Vega sighed. "Now let's go before they decide to come back." He started up the ship as he waited for Beta to take their seat.

"Y-yeah, and dangerous…" Emanuel watched the grass and foliage in he clearing get blown around by the strong wind and smoke coming from seemingly nowhere. Then, he glanced at Stephanie. "You wanna see if we can follow it? We can't see the ship but we can clearly see its exhaust, and..maybe we can see its shape in the light's reflect once it's in the sky."

Vega scanned the area once more, double checking before finding a place that had to be void of humans. Once he found it, the ship was off again.

Emanuel waited until the smoke was high into the sky to leave his hiding place. As he'd hoped, there was a particular shape glinting in the sunlight above the trees. "Come on!" He glanced at Stephanie. "Unless you've got a vehicle, we're gonna have to seriously haul it to keep up with that thing."

Vega took a relieved breath as he let himself relax in his seat. "We'll be fine, now, right?" He asked Beta, keeping his eyes on the sky as the ship guided him.

"Then led the way so we can follow that ship!" Emanuel smiled. He narrowed his eyes at the sky, noting which way the smoke and the ship's shape was going before they disappeared.

Emanuel reach the car a few moments after her. "Dude, you're fast." He huffed as he buckled himself in. "Also, nice ride. Now let's hurry up…" He leaned forward in time to catch the sun shining in the clouds in a rather unnatural way. "I can still see it."

Vega's new coordinates seemed a little farther than the previous landing site, but he supposed it was just the system getting used to the way the planet's energy interacted with it. He realized that both he and Beta would need to do the same soon.

Emanuel watched the sky, then looked around the streets to see which way they could go without driving straight through a building. "Take a right at that stop sign." He said, pointing ahead.

Vega took a look below, making a curious sound. There were colorful objects moving along grey paths, weaving between buildings, some stopped on the path's edges. "Beta, what are those things zipping around down there? They look like artificials; Tillion doesn't use that kind of transport."

"Cay-ars. Well, I've heard stranger." Vega shrugged and put his attention back to the sky. It wasn't much longer until they reached their destination, a large area with many more trees than the field. Perfect.

Emanuel kept giving directions where needed until they were driving on a rather empty road. He silently panicked when he lost the ship for a moment, but then he saw movement in the treetops to their left, where the road swerved into a parking lot for a walking trail. "That's it; I think they're landing in there." He said, pointing to the forest.

"Good idea." Emanuel nodded. He unbuckled, ready to go when she was.

It was a bit difficult finding a space open enough to land safely, but Vega managed it. The ship touched down in another clearing, far smaller than the other, hence the difficult landing, and Vega scanned the area.
Living beings detected
Majority docile
No humans detected
"Hm. This should go much better than before." He stood from his seat and looked contently at Beta. "Let's get our gear and check the immediate area before moving on."

Vega went to the back of the ship to gather his mobile scouting gear. He opened the dock and stuck his head out, sniffing the air and looking around carefully. "Hmm. The air smells rather nice. Almost like my home, but less refreshing."

"What do you think these aliens look like?" Emanuel asked Stephanie, looking out the window in case the ship took off again for some reason. "Like, TV always poses them as these gross, mean-looking creatures, but what if they just look like us?"

"What does your home smell like?" Vega asked. He stepped down the small ramp carefully, brushing his feet against the grass before fully stepping out.

Emanuel stepped out as well, leaving his Bluetooth in the car so it wouldn't snag on anything. He crossed the lot and pushed a branch out of the way. "Welp, shall we? It didn't look like it was too far away."

"Mint…like the blackmint on Tillion and Tetoa?" Vega wondered as he started up his equipment. The device on his arm beeped as he synced it up with the mobile gear.

Emanuel nodded, silently aggreeing to her rules. He pushed through the foliage and kept going in the direction the ship had landed.

Once the gear was properly set up, it was automatically scanning the area. He hummed in satisfaction that the planet wasn't messing with his equipment as much as he expected, though he'd be sure to watch for changes. He crouched down to scan the grass… Healthy, clean, nothing toxic or otherwise dangerous to him or Beta. He headed over to start on the trees.

Emanuel took in a breath when he saw something of odd color and shape up ahead and to the right. Not knowing if Stephanie spotted it, he almost told her to look, but remembered not to speak and pointed through the trees instead.