Chapter 3: A Visitor From The Sky

Based on the markings on the rock, 12 days had now passed since Melanie and I were first castaway onto this deserted island. I'm beginning to think some supernatural phenomena is why no one had found us yet. Our cruise line had been sailing off the shores of the Bahamas after all. Were the legends of the Bermuda Triangle real? Perhaps this is some sort of pocket dimension. I don't know, worst case I suppose we could try and build our own ship and sail away eventually.

Despite this mystery however, I really had nothing else to complain about in my current situation. Rather, I felt I was in a position that most men would find quite admirable. That night as I lay down on the grass of the field of our usual campsite, I was looking up at another beautiful night sky under the stars. From Orion's belt to the Ursa Major, all the constellations could be seen almost perfectly.

Next to me on the grassy field also lying down was a cute girl whose eyes also gleamed as she looked up at the constellations. Sure… Melanie could get over excited about certain things, but I didn't mind too much. She's got her own charms to her. It honestly felt like something out of a romantic dream as she held onto my right hand tightly while we both used our other hand to point at the constellations.

"Which one's that one?" I asked pointing to one of the stars in the sky.

"That's Betelgeuse, the largest star in the observable universe."

"And that one?"

"That's Polaris, the north star. 7th star on the handle of the small dipper."

Perhaps I was being a bit prejudice still but it still amazed me how knowledgeable Melanie was on certain things despite being as sheltered as she claimed.

"And what about that one?" I said pointing to another bright star that appeared directly above us.

"Ahhh that one, yes that one is uhhh… is uhhh…"

"Ah, so there are even stars surrrriiiivvvvalllll extraoorrdddinnnaairreeee Melanie Suwi doesn't know the name of!" I said chuckling a bit.

"Xavier that one is…"

"It's alright just admit it, if you don't know you don't know."

"No No Xavier that one is…"

"But I bet a realllll Survival Extraordinaireeeee would know."

"Xavier, that star is coming right at us."

"I'm pretty sure that's not a star's nam… wait a minute."

I turned to my side and realized Melanie was no longer holding onto my hand. In fact… not just her hand, but every part of Melanie's body was gone from where it was. I looked up and noticed the light I thought was a star appeared to be a spherical object that was falling fast towards me.

"Oh shit Oh shit Oh shit!" I said quickly getting up and running away from the campsite towards Melanie who had already run off in the distance. I managed to barely make it to where she was diving over a bush.

**Boooooooom**

The spherical object that looked like a spaceship about 10 feet in diameter landed just about 20 feet behind where the campfire was.

"What… what the hell? What is that a Saiyan spaceship? No… no way… it can't be. That's copyrighted."

"Holy…" Melanie said as we both stared at the sphere, "you think… you think that's from Namek?"

"You watched Dragonball Z?"

"Well yeah duhhhh… this is the part where Prince Vegeta came to romance his King Goku for the first time."

"Nevermind, forget I asked."

We stared at the spaceship for another 5 minutes before Melanie hoped over the bush we were hiding behind and started walking towards the sphere.

"Wait…are you sure that's a good idea?"

"It'll be fine, a survival extraordinaire is brave enough for anything!" Melanie exclaimed approaching the space ship. Meekly I followed behind her.

"HELLO?" Melanie said tapping on the space ship's tinted windows.

No response.

"Well I guess we'll have to wait a bit before finding out what's inside. These things must be pretty advanced, it's not like there's be a button that says "open the spaceship" on it."

"Yes there is!" Melanie said squatting down and pointing to the backside of the spaceship.

"What?"

I squatted down as well to look at where she was pointing.

"Press the button to open the Spaceship" the text with a red button below it read.

"What the hell, is this thing safe? What if it had landed on that?"

"No one cares about those kind of details Xavier!" Melanie said. She reached out her hand and pressed the button.

As she did, the window of the spaceship began to recede its layers. Slowly as it did, to our great surprise, we saw lying on her side, a naked young woman about our age with red hair.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He…hello?" Melanie said poking at the face of the girl.

"You awake?"

The girl's face twitched a little but was otherwise non-reactionary.

"What… what should we… What the hell!?!??!!"

Before I could finish my question however, I had to rapidly cover my eyes as Melanie immediately began squeezing the girl's breasts.

"This should work!"

"No no Melanie, I'm pretty sure that's harassment."

"Oh please, you're probably enjoying this yuri segment."

"That's beside the point."

Despite her best effort though, the naked girl still did not wake up.

"Damn I was sure that would work."

"She looks pretty sleepy, let's just get some clothes from the cave to put on her before she..."

Before I could finish my sentence however, the girl suddenly sat up. Her long red hair covered her breast area as she stared deadpan at me and Melanie who had fallen down backwards at the sudden movement.

"…"

"…"

Melanie and I stared at her for about a minute before I finally broke the silence.

"H…Hey how's it going?"

"Good," the girl replied in a soft deadpan voice.

"…"

"…"

We sat there for about another minute staring at each other in silence.

"Ahem… well... anyways, my name's Xavier, and this here's Melanie. What's your name?"

"Fiona," she said once again in a soft deadpan voice.

"Right right! Fiona, that's a nice name. Say where'd you come from with a space ship like that? It kind of looks like a Saiyan spaceship! Aha ha ha."

"…"

"…"

"Wow you suck at talking to women!" Melanie said.

"Shut… shut up I'm trying my best okay."

"Don't worry Fiona! I'm a lot less awkward than ole Xavier here. Let's get to know each other and become friends!" Melanie said going up and giving Fiona a hug.

"Let's get you out of whatever this thing is and into some clothes!"

"I'm embarrassed," the red haired girl said with the same expression and tone as before.

"Eh?"

"…"

"…"

"I'm naked."

"Yeah that's right! You are naked aren't you!" Melanie said as she walked up to me and pushed me out of the way onto the ground.

"Xavier you pervert, go get her some cloth at once!"

"Oww… okay okay I'm going," I said dusting myself off the ground.

"No need," Fiona said. She then pressed on a part of the spaceship. Hidden inside was a compartment with a black t-shirt and some jeans in it.

"Well that's convenient."

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When things finally settled a bit, Fiona sat down at the campfire next to Melanie and me.

"So…" I began, "Where are you from Fiona? Don't tell me you're actually from outer space or something are you haha, that'd be pretty silly."

"I am," she replied with still the same deadpan expression.

"…"

"…"

"What!?!?!?!" Melanie and I shouted in unison.

"No way, are you from a faraway galaxy?" Melanie squealed. "Like some sort of super intelligent life form?"

"Yes"

"…"

"…"

"Okay, well if that's true, would you mind telling us exactly where you're from?" I asked, "And for that matter how you understand what we're saying then?"

"I'm from Canada."

"…"

"…"

"That's on earth."

"Oh, I see,"

Despite the ridiculousness of the statement, Fiona's facial expression was so monotone that I really didn't know how to react. Besides me, this seemed to be true for Melanie as well.

"Uh huh… okay sorry Fiona! Will you excuse us for a second," I said pulling Melanie to the side.

"Okay, I think she might be a little how do I put this nicely,"

"Special?"

"Yeah sure… we'll go with that."

"No she's not silly, I bet that's what everyone in Canada sounds like!"

"That's just prejudice, have you even been to Canada?"

"Of course I have! The people there are all like Bonjour, Poutine Tres Bien! And stuff like that."

"…alright I'm going to ignore that you just offended a whole country. Anyways, let's just keep asking her questions for now. It seems she's harmless at least."

Melanie nodded in agreement, however as we both turned to walk back to our spot next to where Fiona was, we saw no redhead girl in sight.

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"FIONA! FIONA!" I shouted as Melanie and I searched around the island. It was nighttime but luckily the stars at least gave us some light of the surrounding areas.

"FIONA! Xavier says he has maple syrup!"

"Okay, there's no way that'll..."

"Really?" A soft voice shouted from the distance.

"Alright, just be a walking stereotype then."

We began to walk towards the direction the voice came from. As we did, we saw in the distance a pyramid like object. It appeared to be a small tent.

"What the… Fiona?" I said approaching the tent, "where the hell did you get the tent?"

As we did, Fiona zipped open a part of the tent and peaked out her head.

"Lab Ship."

"What? What the hell are you talking about?"

"Maple syrup?"

"What? No… that was just to..."

"Here you go!" Melanie said excitedly. She reached into her backpack and took out a bottle of maple syrup and handed it to Fiona.

"What? Where the hell did you get that? And doesn't that get your books dirty?"

"No I have a special compartment for it!" Melanie said showing me the bottom part of her backpack that opened up. "What? You don't carry maple syrup with you at all times?"

"You may enter," Fiona said motioning us to enter to tent with still a deadpan expression. We did as she commanded. As we went into the tent and sat down next to her, she took the maple syrup bottle and took a huge swig.

"What… what the..."

As she did, Fiona's head started to shake violently as a grin began to grow wider and wider on her face with each shake of her head.

"Woahhhh okay holy shit that tastes so good," she said suddenly, "wow okay okay, yeah sorry about earlier, I can't talk at all when I don't have my maple syrup. I'm actually an android made in Canada. That's not the same place as here right? Honestly I have no idea where the hell this is, I ran away from my lab bwhahahahahahaha."

She started to laugh maniacally.

"Woah woah slow down slow down, why is your personality so different?"

"Huh? I just told you didn't I? I'm an android powered by maple syrup from Canada." She said. She then grabbed a part of her arm and yanked out a compartment.

"Holy…"

"See, it says right here, Fiona xD4 made in Alberta, Canada. Yeah long story on how I got here. I basically went rogue with one of the other experiments in the lab I'm from. Raiyan spaceship they said? Yeah I don't know, they said they named it that due to copyright or some crap. My creator was a real nerd. I don't have much time powered by maple syrup also, yeah sorry I'm not asking about you guys. My internal vocal abilities only function like this when I drink some maple syrup. I know!?!? Crazy. Enough rambling, ask your questions, I have to do my character infodump."

"That was pretty informative already to be honest."

"Yeah I mean not much to say I guess, the scientists who made me just programmed me with the brain of an average Canadian with this dumbass maple syrup limitation. Say is this your only bottle?"

Melanie nodded.

"I'm going to conserve this then so I can talk rapidly in an almost annoying way when I need to. I mean that's what happens when all your fast paced thoughts get bottled up and such isn't it? Yeah… oh and I know you're a pervert Xavier! I saw the way you looked at me when I first got off the spaceship. Anyway, I'm not really trying to drag the dialogue too much so in summary… in summary…"

She paused for a moment.

'…"

"…"

"What…? In summary…?"

Her facial expression however went back to its original deadpanness.

"What!?!? What the hell was that?"

"It sounded like a badass backstory!" Melanie said, "Quick quick Fiona, drink more of my maple syrup."

Fiona however stared as us blankly not taking another sip.

"Must conserve."

"…"

"…"

"Uhhh okay… sure I guess that's how this works. So how'd you end up here then from your lab? You said you ran away with the spaceship right?"

"Yes"

"…"

"…"

"I'm going to bed." Melanie said suddenly lying down on the ground of the tent.

"What?!? Shouldn't we at least get to know Fiona more and why she's here?"

"You want to stay up all night? I got the gist of it and non-syrup powered Fiona sounds more boring than most conversations on dating apps."

"Ah well… I can't argue that. Wait Melanie you use dating apps?"

"Hell yeah, sometimes I go on grindr and pose as a guy just to see…"

"Okayyyyy nevermind yeah let's just go to bed like you said."