One Man’s Dream - Yanni
She exhaled, the night was cool and a welcome change from the heat the day was lousy with. Sitting on the dusty ground she couldn’t help but look at the stars that were thickly poured across the desolate desert’s sky. “Is that what space looks like?” She asked the Corvette next to her.
“No.”
She had expected him to tell her what space was like but he remained quiet and she turned her attentions back to the pitch black roadway in the valley below and the occasional faint streak across the light smattered sky.
“In space its like being in a completely empty world with no up nor down nor any other orientation. The stars and planets are so far they seem like mere visual sensor malfunctions.”
Messina pulled her jacket tighter around herself, colder from the warmly lit imaginings of space from science fiction novels being shown to be nothing more than a veneer thinner than the paper they had been printed on. The car showed no emotions. He simply continued to sit in his earthly disguise, pointed toward the valley and the old highway as if looking out through his dimmed headlights.
“But once you get close to something and feel the light that was once a pinprick... Its like gravity is beckoning you in, embracing you in colour so blindingly different from the immeasurable emptiness once you start planetfall. Even after hundreds and thousands of landings there is no happiness, no relief like final approach and the first scrapings of an atmosphere.”
“Is it disappointing when you land?”
Button Up - Camphor
Messina was floating on her back in the cool water of the pool. She was smiling, it was absolutely perfect out here in the desert. She began to wonder if maybe she should move out this way when she finally retired. It would be worth it if she got to see such a beautiful corona again. “Hey Tracks, does the moon ever get a corona where you’re from?”
He had been dosing she realised and kind of felt bad. He stirred back to waking. “Hmm? No, but Cybertron doesn’t have a “moon” as your planet does, not one that is lit from behind by a star.”
“Really?”
“Mmhmm. You really have a lot of beautiful things here we didn’t.”
More Than This - Charlie Hunter Quartet
She smiled and took his hand, he gently tugged her out of the chair she was sitting in and pulled her closer, hoping he didn’t mess up too badly, but he’d studied several videos from the internet, this dancing business couldn’t be all that hard. It was just a matter of minor movements flowing together and she easily let him take the lead. It was actually rather pleasant, it gave him a good yet subtle opportunity to study her more minute details. She had three freckles under her right eye and a small scar under her left ear which he barely noticed through the wafty scent of the jasmine stained air and her chilled and reedy perfume.
Hang in There Charlie - Sleep Station
We briefly leave Messina and Tracks to join Alexis and Starscream
“Hey Star?”
“What?”
“I got this feeling we ain’t going to come back.”
“We aren’t.”
“Well damn. You’re a gas tank half empty kind of guy.”
“Since when have I ever seemed the least bit optimistic and idiotic?”
“When we shot off into the night sky, you seemed optimistic then.”
“I was.”
Purify - Balligomingo
She sighed as she peeked over the edge of the deck from the top of the ladder. Noone. Perfect. Moving as stealthly as she could she slipped over to her plane, her partner in crime tonight. “Star, it’s a new moon, we’re going to touch the Milky Way tonight!” She pulled herself up fluidly and settled into the cockpit switching on the systems and turning them to night settings before using as little gas as possible to taxi her fighter to a more isolated tarmac before quickly taking off straight for the stars.
Seperated - Yoko Kanno
We rejoin Messina and Tracks.
She looked out the living room window to the garage which only had one Corvette residing in it at the moment. She couldn’t think of what it would be like when he really would be gone and not merely at the Autobot’s base. But she had to tell him, she knew she did. She just didn’t want to. But when she saw the lights flood the driveway and heard the low rumble of his engine she steeled herself, gripping her mug of tea tightly in the dark room. Taking a deep breath she watched as his headlights went out. She knew if she was going to do it she had to do it now or she would never find the courage to. And she doubted they would remain friends if she withheld this any longer.
Sycorax Encounter
The city complex stretched before them in the brilliantly shining waters. The moonlight bounced around on the surrounding ocean as they slowly began their descent.
