Since You’ve Been Gone
category:Original
update time:2025/3/19 1:54:37
Latest chapter:Chapter 4: Second Glance
Well, they finally did it. This strange, misfit group of abductees fought off their alien captors, hijacked a ship, and returned back to Earth in... mostly one piece. But there''''s this thing about relativity -- when you''''re going close to the speed of light, time slows down for you in relation to the outside world. Ketty already had a vague idea of that, considering that his companions were a Lithuanian cavalry officer, a ''''70s cowboy wanna-be, and a dated, if lovable, bull of a scoutmaster, not to mention the somewhat pathetic alien pilot they''''d... well, let''''s not sugarcoat it, put a gun to the head of and very politely forced to fly them back or face a grisly death in the uncaring void of space. But stepping off that ship and tasting sweet, fresh air for the first time in months, it didn''''t really occur to him that he''''d been inadvertently jerked fifteen years into the future, crashed down in a completely different state hundreds of miles away (I swear, it''''s like the concept of American soil is magnetic to alien spaceships), and had basically no way of proving his identity to anyone, given that he''''d gotten the worst of their xenos captors'''' experimentation and was now decidedly more fluffy than usual. He was just happy to be home, beyond that extraterrestrial nightmare and out of their grasp.