Miya Chapter 3 - Retrieval Attempt By Neptune Miya meets some soldiers As Botar circled Earth in his star cruiser, he was hopeful that he wouldn't find the renegade Miya here. Botar was from the same heavy gravity planet as Miya, which would make him super-human on Earth. However, the yellow sun that would drastically increase Miya's strength and invulnerability would have no effect on him. Unfortunately, readings from his computers indicated a concentration of elements native only to his world in a single location in the United States. His only hope in a face-to- face confrontation would be his force field generator holstered at his side. The weapon would encase her in an unbreakable field without harming her, to enable him to transport her back home for processing. Botar was interrupted in his thinking when a long-dead satellite collided violently with the hull of his cruiser. The heavy construction of the cruiser spared his life, but the sheer velocity at impact crippled his vehicle and sent it plummeting Earthward. Botar could do nothing to stop the descent, but attempted to control it to land as close as possible to the remains of Miya's ship. Miya looked up to see a fiery object falling from the sky a few miles behind her, close to where she had originally landed. As she studied the object more closely, she could make out the shape of a star cruiser from her planet. She immediately knew why it must be here, and screamed in rage, "Why can't they just leave me alone?!" She clenched her fists and then broke into a super-speed sprint in the direction of the fireball. "I'll kill you all before I let you take me away from here!!" she screamed as she raced toward the cruiser. NASA had immediately notified all of the armed forces and the President upon seeing the object for the first time as it raced Earthward. NASA projected that the small object was going to impact in a non-populated area, so the news was kept from the media. In response to the NASA warning, the local National Guard unit immediately dispatched two tanks to the area to secure the area and await the scientific teams. The tanks were sent in case any radiation was present from the object that would be dangerous to people without protection. Botar's ship impacted ground in a rocky outcropping, further damaging the ship. When he was able to shake off the effects of the crash, he attempted to establish communications with his squadron. The dead silence he received in his communication system revealed that the system must be dead. Botar frowned and thought to himself, "Great - I'm stranded here by myself with a super-woman that will not be happy to see me." Botar fingered his weapon and exited the vehicle to begin his search for the renegade Miya. Miya raced up the valley toward the fallen ship. She was excited to see the heavy damage it had sustained, and was hopeful that the inhabitants of the craft were still inside. When she reached the ship, blind fury took over and she became determined to use her new strength to destroy the ship along with everyone inside it. Miya grasped the first part of the hull she could reach and pulled with all her might. The hard outer hull crumpled in her grip and then tore away in jagged pieces as she pulled. Miya continued to tear and punch her way through the ship's hull, with her rage making her oblivious to the fact that her muscles were pumping up amazingly. Sweat glistened all over her body and ran over her engorged muscles as she slowly tore her way into the ship. Botar had exited the ship minutes before and was brought back to the scene by the curious sound of metal tearing. He was shocked to see a beautiful woman tearing his ship apart with her bare hands. He was immediately smitten by her perfect body glowing with a sheen of perspiration from her exertions, while terrified by the raw power she was exhibiting on his ship. He could tell that Miya had not seen him, and decided that discretion was the better part of valor. He decided that there would be no shame in shooting this super-woman in the back from a distance. "Besides," he thought to himself, "it's not like I'm trying to kill her." Suddenly, a loud noise erupted from behind Botar. A tank rolled into view and stopped not too far from them. A human voice boomed out of the megaphone, "Drop the weapon now, sir!" Miya and Botar both turned in the direction of the tank. When Botar returned his attention in Miya's direction, she was smiling at him like a jungle cat smiles at its prey. Before Botar could activate his weapon, Miya had flung a beachball sized rock at Botar with incredible speed. The rock impacted Botar in the chest, knocking him backwards in the air. The weapon was not hit, but it flew from his grasp and down into a shallow valley in the rocks. Miya let forth with a bloodthirsty roar, and grabbed the largest piece of the ship's hull that she had already torn off. Then she lifted it over her head and moved toward Botar's prone form. The commander of the first tank was confused by what he had just seen, but was cognizant enough to realize that the man laying under that rock (thrown by the woman?!?) was in big trouble. As he then watched the woman carrying the huge piece of metal over head and moving toward the man, he realized that he was going to have to act. He radioed to the second tank to intervene, and the second tank suddenly burst into view very close to Botar's prone body. "Cease and desist immediately, or we will open fire!" came the voice of the commander of the second tank over its megaphone. Miya stopped in her tracks and eyed the tank. She lowered the large chunk of metal in front of her and moved her hands toward the edges. Then she started to crush the metal into a crude ball. The metal whined loudly as her arms and flexing pectorals continued to reduce the large, flat strip of metal into a crude ball. When the metal had formed the round shape she wanted, she concentrated on compressing the ball further. Her pectorals jumped into sharp relief as she attempted to compress the already dense spheroid object. She could feel the burn in her pectorals increasing as she applied more and more pressure to the ball. Finally, when the burn in her pectorals became too great, she threw her head back and released the pressure on the ball. When she refocused a few seconds later, the ball in her hand was about the size of the rock she had hit Botar with earlier. Miya began to toss the metal ball up and down in her right hand. She winked at the tank and shouted, "Not if I open fire on you first!" Then she cocked her arm back and fired a fastball at the second tank. Botar saw the impact and the resulting explosion as his ship's hull fragment easily tore through the armor plating of the tank, with the resulting sparks setting off the tank's stored ammunition. The heat flash that rolled over him seconds later from the explosion helped him to regain his senses. He shifted his body and rolled the rock off of his chest with some difficulty. He ran a quick inventory of his vital organs and surmised that he likely had some internal injuries and/or bleeding in the chest area. Also, his lungs hurt every time he tried to draw a breath. He knew that it wouldn't be hard for the woman to finish the job on him, so he tried to get up and get back his weapon. He rose to his hands and knees and started looking around for the weapon. The first tank commander acted quickly upon seeing the explosion from the second tank. "Fire!" he shouted to the weapons officer seated next to him. The weapons officer looked up at the commander incredulously and asked, "At what and with what, sir?" The commander screamed back at him, "At her soldier, and with everything you've got! Unless you want to end up like those poor SOBs over there!" With that, he pointed to the burning hunk of metal that had once been there comrades' vehicle. The young weapons officer yelled, "Yes, sir!" and loaded an armor piercing round into the main barrel. He then aimed the round into the beautiful chest of the woman and fired. Miya saw the flash from the tank's main gun and quickly surmised what was happening. She bent over into a most muscular "crab" pose to brace for impact. She smiled to herself as she could see her pumped pectoral muscles expanding forward in sharp definition. The shell struck her flexed body and detonated. The armor piercing shell had little effect on her flexed muscles, but the explosion drove her backwards several steps and knocked her over. Miya shook her fist at the tank and yelled, "Hey, that hurt!" The tank commander witnessed and reported the impact, and then waited for the smoke to clear. When it had dissipated, he saw the woman sitting up and shaking her fist at the tank. Before he could order a second volley, he watched the woman rise to her feet and then launch herself up in the air toward the tank. Miya reached the tank almost immediately and leapt up to the turret area of the tank. She reached down to the barrel of the main gun with her left hand and began to pull upwards. Miya's hand crushed the portion of the barrel she was holding and gave her an excellent grip. Then she looked down at her left bicep as she began to curl the metal upwards. She was pleased to see it expanding and her favorite vein appearing along the peak. The metal barrel shrieked as it was slowly bent upwards to ninety degrees by the strength of Miya's one arm. After she had bent it straight up, she continued to push the barrel over on itself with the same arm. Her left tricep jumped into view as she finally bent the barrel back over on itself completely, reducing the length of the barrel by half. Miya then removed her hand and made a fist to flex her bicep. She slowly brought the fist up into the flex, admiring the expansion of her glorious muscle and the appearance of that sexy vein running over the peak. After a few seconds of rapt admiration of herself, she looked back at the turret and cooed, "Time to work legs..." Miya squatted down and ran her hands into the joint between the turret and the base of the tank. She slowly started to rise up using only her legs. The huge metal turret began to rise slowly until it reached the limit of the buffer space in the channel hinge joint. The upward progress stopped as the specially reinforced metal resisted Miya's spectacular leg muscles. Miya pouted and redoubled her efforts. She looked down at her inflating quads and screamed, "Come on!" at her legs. She continued to strain, looking for a burst of strength from her incredible legs and relishing the burn growing within them. Suddenly, the metal gave way in the joint and the turret flew upward. Because Miya was at full flex when the metal gave way, she ended up accidentally peeling the whole turret off the tank in one motion. The turret flipped over once and fell onto the ground alongside the tank. Miya stood in place for a moment with her eyes closed while the delicious burn subsided from her legs. Then she opened her eyes and looked down into the tank at the three pairs of fearful eyes looking up at her. She smiled at the men and broke into a repeat of the most muscular pose that had resisted the armor piercing shell. "What do you think?" she asked them as she willed her muscles to flex larger than they ever had before. She smiled when her fantastic pose had the desired effect of making the three men cower in fear. Satisfied with herself, she turned to where Botar had been and shouted, "Now it's your turn, alien!" Unfortunately for Miya, Botar was gone. The rock that she had thrown at him was on the ground, but the man that had been underneath it was gone. Miya roared with rage and turned back to the men in the tank. She glared at the men and said, "You guys cost me time, and let him get away. Don't move or I will kill you all!" Miya jumped off the tank and ran back over to the star cruiser. She went through the hole she had created in the hull and set the auto destruct sequence in Botar's ship. Then she exited the ship and selected a boulder that was approximately the same size as the turret she had forcibly removed from the tank. She bent over and lifted the rock off of the ground, smiling as she effortlessly pressed it over her head. She then walked back over to the tank with the rock still held overhead, and leaped up to where she had been standing before. She looked down at the petrified men and began to slowly press the rock up and down over her head. When she had completed enough repetitions that the men began squirming anew with fear, she drove the rock down through the tank opening and on top of the helpless men. Miya smiled and flexed both of her mighty biceps. She screamed to the trees around the clearing, "You too will die next time I see you, alien!" Then she turned and jogged off in the direction of her original objective, Washington DC. Botar saw the whole display from his hiding place in the trees and shuddered...