They slept on the shuttle that night, Vir curled up in the corner with waffles, and Sunny lying on her back staring out the window at the vast expanse of stars. It had been a nicer view of space on her planet, but Earth was just so remote and the stars were distant. There was only one moon, and no closely neighboring planets. The Drev home world was, in fact, the moon of a much larger planet, so the night sky was practically ablaze at night. Earth sat in an inky black void, so alone.

Humans, so alone. She looked over at Vir who lay curled up on his side asleep arm draped over the dog. She had caused him a lot of trouble, she hadn't understood just how much trouble, and instead of being with his human family, he had chosen to stay in the shuttle with her as what? A show of solidarity to the alien that tore of his leg?

The thought made her a little sick. And then his family had been made at HIM for keeping her. That confused her. Of course the old grey human and the young dark hair human were nice enough to at least meet her, but she could still see their apprehension.

And then there was Vir himself, was he still afraid of her? He had almost said as much, and that thought confused her, and hurt her more than it should. He seemed to act so normal most of the time.

She didn't sleep at all that night, instead watching as the stars spun in the sky.

The sky faded to a soft yellow, than pink, and then blue before Vir awoke, stretching himself out beside his dog. The dog yawned, and its ears came back arching its back a little.

He looked up at Sunny giving her the bright sort of smile he was known for. You wouldn't have thought yesterday was a terrible one by looking at his expression. Wouldn't have known his PTSD had struck with a vengeance.

"What do you think Sunny, some breakfast?"

She tilted her head a little, "And where do we get that?"

"At the house of course." He responded. His voice was calm and nonchalant, but she thought she detected a flash of something in his remaining eye. His posture was stiff and cool. Sunny made no argument pushing the door to the shuttle open allowing a cool morning breeze to wash over them. He stopped sunny at the top of the ramp. Pulling out the pegs they had attached, and then left, on the back of her armor when attaching the machine gun.

He levered himself upwards resting his weight on the pegs before patting her back, "Come on Sunny, let's go." With a modicum of apprehension, Sunny charged into the trees with the dog running beside her and the human balancing at her back. She slowed as she came into the yard.

A strange alien scene, with an unusual structure, and a soft carpet of short trimmed grass. Flashes of moon white human faces in the window peering out at them with suspicion and distrust. Vir stayed right where he was leaning on Sunny's shoulder like he belonged there since the beginning of time.

The dog lay in the grass at Sunny's feet. Snuffling around in the dirt occasionally licking it's paw.

Krill was the first one to notice floating down from the porch to land on the grass.

"Are you feeling well, Captain?"

Captain Vir dropped down from her back, "Very good, thank you for asking. Are they having breakfast?"

"Yes, the other humans are feeding."

Vir rolled his eyes, "Why do you always have to make things sound so weird." The human wondered heading up the stairs and into the house closing the door behind him just a crack. As soon as he walked in Sunny heard voices raising slightly. There was wild gesticulating as the humans spoke with each other. Sunny looked away trying not to listen in on their arguing.

She thought of her headphones left aboard the shuttle.

And then a soft whispering sound. She turned her head quite suddenly just in time to see the two white faces vanish back behind the corner of the house with a squeal. They looked like the small creatures she had seen the day before, but these..... these must be human kits, she was beginning to see the resemblance. They had larger heads and bigger eyes than their adult iterations, but they had the same skin and same hair pattern.

Curiously, she walked in that direction leaving imprints in the grass from her passing. The whispering grew louder, and she poked her head around the corner to find two of the human kits sitting in the grass by the house wide eyed and whispering. In front of the house, Sunny could hear more of the kits screaming

The little blonde one squealed quietly in fear, and the little dark haired one almost screamed as Sunny loomed over them, blocking out the rising sun.

The little blonde one glanced around for escape then turned her eyes to Sunny, "My momma said you hurt Uncle Adam, is that true?" Despite the question, she didn't seem worried.

Sunny tilted her head a little, "Yes, tiny human, I did."

The human blinked, "You're a girl!"

Sunny tilted her head the other direction, "Yes?"

The little girl tilted her head, "Did you say sorry?

"Yes, I did."

The child tilted her head to the side in contemplation for a long moment and then shrugged, "Ok." She jumped up from the ground and looked up at sunny. The tiny creature was wearing green army pants and tiny black boots with a yellow shirt. She stood about as tall as Krill meaning Sunny dwarfed her by almost 4 feet, "My name is Kimber, what's your name?"

Sunny was a tiny bit surprised at the small human, and couldn't help but admiring her bravery. Unlike the other adult humans, the tiny human didn't seem to worry.

"Sunny."

"That's a pretty name, I had a goldfish named Sunny once, but he died, and we had to flush him down the toilet."

Sunny listened to the tiny human ramble quite confused and fascinated by its, either, bravery, or sheer stupidity.

And the little creature kept talking about a million miles a minute. Sunny didn't really understand what the creature was trying to say most of the time, and watched only half listening as Kimber talked, and then suddenly jumped up and grabbed her hand. Sunny had to duck a little, so the small creature could still reach as she dragged her into the backyard.

Sunny didn't know what to do, she was worried that if she made any sudden moves around the tiny creature that she would break it in half. Just behind her the second tiny creature was following eyes wide. He seemed to be a little more apprehensive, Sunny had yet to understand which of them the smart one was.

She was dragged across the backyard, and past the windows where the adult humans were still waving their hands at each other and over to a row of buckets. Kimber let go of her hand and reached down into one of them puling a string of strange plants from its depths. She held them up to Sunny with the human equivalent of a big smile, "See these are clover chains, I made them ALL by myself, and I'll probably be able to reach the moon when I'm done."

Sunny eyed the buckets skeptically, and then took a closer look at the plants. Some type of clover, knotted together by their stems. Sunny very much hoped the small human didn't plan on climbing these when she was done. She looked around at the ground wondering again if the human understood just how much of this she would need to get to the moon. Sure there were large patches of the stuff everywhere, but, really?

"You have four arms, so you ca help me.' The tiny human was saying, plopping herself down in the grass where she began to tie even more of the clover together. When Sunny didn't immediately do anything, the tiny human leaped up in exasperation, grabbed her hand, and pulled her down to sit in the grass. Sunny went to the ground in an uncoordinated mess.

Drev weren't actually known for sitting around like this, so it was a rather awkward position Sunny found herself in, feet sticking straight out in front of her in the grass right on top of one of the clover patches. Kimber patted her arm, Sunny was still taller than her sitting down, and then began instructing Sunny on making the clover chains.

She didn't really no one else to do other than follow the human's instructions. And with both sets of hands she began tying the little green stems together. It smelled nice, she wondered if she would be able to eat it. Regardless of the answer, she assumed that the tiny human would not be so happy with that outcome.

Kimber looked up at Sunny after a few minutes, "You're my friend now..... OH! I want you to meet my brother too, stay here!" She leaped to her feet and ran towards the house vanishing through the cracked door, leaving the other child and her sitting in awkward silence working on the clover chains.

A few seconds later, Kimber came walking slowly down the stairs with a bundle in her arms.

She walked slowly and carefully across the yard stopping before Sunny, "This is my brother."

Sunny leaned her head over to look and was surprised to find and even smaller human kit bundled in a set of blankets.

"Here" Kimber said holding out her brother, and then setting him down in one of Sonny's oversized hands. As big as she was, she could hold the tiny human snuggly in one of her upper hands. It was very warm to the touch and yawned largely snuggling itself down into Sunny's palm.

Sunny had never liked kits much, but this one was pretty cute.

She held the creature in one of her hands while working for the tiny human with her other hands. Kimber seemed quite pleased at the outcome.

That's when the human voices became audible.

"Where is Kimber?"

"Wasn't she out front with the other kids?"

"Wait, Michel, where is Michel!"

The humans burst suddenly from the backdoor of the house racing down into the grass and stopping in their tracks upon seeing Sunny, a Drev sitting in the grass making clover chains with two children.

Vir paused close by serious face broken by a smile and approached as the other humans stared, "Sunny have you seen..... ah, there he is."

Sunny twisted to face the humans, and the tiny human kit was just visible in one of her huge hands. Vir reached over and picked the kit up causing it to whine and whimper in protest, "Thanks Sunny." He walked back to the other humans handing the baby over to one of the females standing confused and terrified at the front. She took the kit with relief and some measure of confusion as Sunny rose to her feet.

Kimber leaped up and grabbed her hand again, "Momma, Look! Me and Sunny are making clover chains to get to the moon, Sonny's real good because she has four hands."

The humans just stared for a long moment before the human standing next to Kimber's mother shrugged his shoulders, and walked over. He looked up at her, "Sunny is it?" He held out a hand, "I'm Jared, Kimber's father. Thanks for keeping her entertained."

Sunny took the human's hand with one of hers, "I like your tiny human, she's brave."

A couple other humans approached Sunny, some looking sheepish, others embarrassed, others nervous. David and Mr. Vir seemed to have warmed up to Sunny Even more since yesterday. The only human left standing was mother Vir at the top of the porch with her arms crossed a frown over her mouth.

The Captain stood at some distance from the group staring his mother down arms crossed waffles sitting at his feet. His metal foot glittered in the light of the Sun a constant reminder of what he had lost.

Sunny had the feeling it was going to take a lot more than clover chains to win over this human.

A lot more.

Excerpt from Sunny's playlist

AC/DC: Back in Black

The Veer Union: Living Not Alive

Zayde Wolf: Gladiator

Aerosmith: Dream on

JAXSON GAMBLE: Warrior