While Luna spends her time chatting with the three astronauts onboard Columbia on the three-day trip back to Earth, the humans still on the planet have to deal with the fallout her appearance has caused. Unfortunately for Charlie, that fallout starts for him as Soviet interest .
Now they're after him. He'll have to avoid, evade, and straight-up fight the full might the Soviet spy machine can bring to bear upon one man. Hopefully it'll be enough to keep him out of their clutches.
For if they can't have him, they'll do their best to make sure no one else can, either.
Featured (briefly) 9/23/14!
Sequel here!
Oneshot-- When Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the moon, he finds something Unexpected with a capital U. And it's very much alive-- and equally curious.
Now that first contact is finished with, now what? Unfortunately, things don't go as anyone had planned-- but today was just that kind of day; the kind where everything was unexpected.
As Luna begins to learn about Earth and its various-- problems, Charlie Duke has much bigger problems. He's now the only qualified xenologist on Earth, and the Russians want him. And they're willing to go to great lengths to get him.
With Luna now on Earth, everyone's having to do a little adjusting. Governments scramble, religions proclaim, and mobs form. But among it all, the attack on board the Hornet raises an important question: who is responsible? And what do they want?