The second law of thermodynamics teaches us this: entropy always increases. The universe, in its infinite wisdom, craves disorder, not as an act of destruction, but as a way to stabilize. Chaos is merely the reshuffling of stars to make the cosmos more sustainable. It’s a paradox, isn’t it? Disorder brings balance. And perhaps, that’s why I met her.
It started on a routine planetary exchange. I was stationed on Jyoti-N Science Station, assisting with the interstellar artifact showcase, a mathematical model. We unloaded our projects, holographic models, and energy modules onto the docking platforms and was waiting for our necessary quests to be assigned to us.
This delay, this infinitesimal disruption in my schedule, was the first domino in the cascade.
I wanted to kill time and hence went around the station, exploring he intricacies of the JytoiStation.
And that's when I met her outside the food delivery chamber, near the earth recreation park.
She stood in front of the park nexus, where bioluminescent flora danced with the light of distant stars. My core stuttered, a glitch in my otherwise unshakable programming. Recognition flickered, though I couldn’t place her. Had I seen her before, in another planet? Perhaps in Alocyious-SHD ? Or somewhere else? Another universe? No way, she's a human from this earth, I'm an alien from a far away planet of KEPLER 2112024.
I turned to my comrade. "Do you know who she is?" He didn’t. Of course, he didn’t.
Entropy, I thought. A random encounter, an anomaly in the cosmic fabric, yet it felt stable. Right. As though she had always been part of the system.
I couldn't quite deduce where I've met this particular human before. Now, I am mostly a solo alien, I venture from planet to planet, minding my own business and doing the quests that are given to me. But when I visited earth, not even quite earth, just outside the orbit at the station, it felt mysteriously alluring. It was as though a certain gravity was pulling.
When the moment came, it was uncalculated, impulsive. She was alone, for the first time, crossing a crystalline bridge. I stepped forward, my voice catching in my communication processor. "Excuse me." I believe that's how they greeted in earth.
In that moment, I saw it. She wasn't no ordinary human. She was an alien! Yes I'm sure! And when I finished my initial contact, I thought, no way, I can't just let her leave back to earth not knowing that it was an alien like me!
I called out again.
She was suprised, yes - I got her attention . I asked her frequency to her device, and she gave me her IG-Freq. Her movements were deliberate as she typed the sequence into my interface. Her laughter was cute, and harmonious.
Later, as her ship decended back into the earth, the rain of ionized particles falling like tears from the heavens, I felt an ache I couldn’t explain. Because when I searched up her frequency on my contact device, I saw the signs, she was really an alien, she was.. like me. Perhaps, the parallel world collision of 49291 AD brought her into this world. And she subsequently lost her nemory.
The evidence was clear: she was a seeker of the stars, like me.
Entropy brought us together, two random particles in an infinite expanse. Disorder for stability, chaos for the chance of something greater. And though I may never fully understand her, I know this: in the ever-shifting tides of the universe, she feels like balance.
Once our conversations initialised , I started to realise some things myself. She wasn't just any alien from EJ8, she was me! I was correct, the sheer coincidences and the core-X we share is no joke , only found in parallel universes. I confirmed that she landed from another universe in the collision and was left stranded. But even if the universe wasn't her home, she still had one at the far off edges of Andromeda - earth certainly was not where she was to grow up to be. Yes, I grew up on earth, but I left when I realised my true origins, and I decided it's time for her to realise it too.
"You’re not like the others," I told her one evening. "You’ve always felt different, haven’t you? Like you don’t quite belong here."
She looked at me, her eyes wide, searching. "How do you know that?"
Because I did. Somehow, I knew. The pieces fit too perfectly. Her instincts, her intuition, her unshakable connection to the stars, it all pointed to one truth. She wasn’t from here. She wasn’t human.
"You’re an alien," I said softly, almost afraid to break the fragile silence between us. "From EJ8, Your true identity is Solaris. Sol. You are Sol. And I am Lunarox, Luna.”
EJ8, a forgotten world on the edge of the Andromeda Cluster. A place of bioluminescent skies and sentient oceans. A world lost to time but still echoing in the DNA of its children.
At first, she laughed, brushing it off as one of my whimsical theories. But as I unraveled the threads, connecting her past to the anomalies she’d always dismissed, the laughter faded. Slowly, realization dawned.
"That’s why I’ve always felt... out of place," she whispered. Her voice trembled, not with fear, but with the weight of finally understanding something she’d carried her entire life.
"You’re not out of place," I assured her. "You’re exactly where you’re meant to be. The universe brought you here for a reason, maybe to meet me, maybe for something even bigger. But EJ8 didn’t lose you. It set you free."
In helping her see who she truly was, I felt my own perspective shift. I wasn’t just talking to a fellow dreamer anymore, I was talking to a being whose essence was written in the language of the stars. And somehow, that made everything between us feel even more infinite.
And now we journey together. Because, this isn't over! We have so much to discover. Since the realisation and reveal, we have focused on our energy on the discovery. We have decided to join hands and unravel the mysteries together.
What caused the incursion of our universe? Why did her universe get destroyed and why was she the only survivor? Why did EJ8 not pull her when it saw that one of it had crash landed on this universe? Why did it let it her fall on earth with no memory? Was it a way so that I could discover her?
What is the theory that runs this universe? Is this quantum gravity? Relativity? Or the theory of everything? Once we reach the necessary biological growth we will investigate. Free will? Our actions, are they written in the interstitial spaces between universes?
Well, there's a lot more questions that remain answering.
And we won't settle until we answer them.
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