Submission (#6697) Approved

'tic clack tic tic tic'
The keys of a mechanical keyboard softly broke the otherwise silent atmosphere of the office.
A pale white Terralien with a tiny ghost swirling inside his visor worked into the night to meet his deadline for the report he was editing and rewriting.

He felt frustrated by the eerie quiet and very gently with fingers far too long for him to be any less careful moved his mouse to his second computer screen to play some music. He had only just opened a new tab to start typing in the web address for 'Terra-Tube' when he came across a 'breaking news' article about a massive satellite crash.

"was that the loud boom I heard a few nights ago?" He wondered to himself as he clicked the article.
It described the event with limited details but the bigger concern was the sudden and explosive growth of strange plants. They seemed to grow at a frightening speed and to rather concerning sizes. Sone had even been reported to be aggressive!

The little ghost inside his visor made a somewhat concerned face as he started to follow leads into other reports on the plant growth. There wasn't a whole lot of information yet byt the reports of a strange and unusually large Terralien also intrigued him. What had happened? He knew he was quite absorbed in his work and had a tendency to sleep through much of the daylight hours when most people were awake to talk to he did have one friend he knew would also be up this late.

He tabbed over to a messenger application, Terracord, and clicked into the Direct messages of his only real friend. The icon was a bag of milk with a sad cartoon face. It always made him feel a little silly but that's just who his friend was; silly.

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Ghost Writer <2:42AM>
Hey Man you up?
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'wee shop channel is typing'
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As if the icon wasn't silly enough... The microbe Terralien was one of the most... Perplexing people Ghost had ever met

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Wee shop channel <2:43AM>
of course! Sleep is for the WEAK!
How's your report going?
do NOT tell me you're going to miss bowling tomorrow I will literally DIE
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Now, by 'bowling' his friend absolutely meant hanging out in a basement den of nerdy proportions and playing a motion controlled sport game that somehow always ended up with a controller flying somewhere it should not be.

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Ghost Writer <2:45AM>
Just finishing up the final checks. But I wanted to ask if you saw this wild news report? (LINK)
I heard a really loud boom a few nights ago and I thought it was thunder far away but do you think this is real?
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Wee shop channel <2:48AM>
you really do live under a rock. Yeah it's all over the news here. It's crazy stuff.
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Wee shop channel <2:49AM>
Hey wanna go do some investing? No one has a lot of information right now. We could get one hell of a story!
-I'm gonna go up to the crash site first to do some basic questioning, you with me?
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Ghost made a soft groaning sound. He really hated field work... But he had to admit, he was really curious and it honestly sounded like fun.
He typed a quick response before getting up to grab his camera bag.
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Ghost writer <2:50AM>
I'm in
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