In the Spring of 1982 on a cool evening in Nazareth Pennsylvania, a twelve year old David Seyfried peered out his bedroom window. Just on the horizon line a glowing orb broke through an ominous scarlet mist. It seemed to shiver and wain as it sped toward the frightened child's backyard breaking through a swing-set before landing with a heavy thud sending up little poofs of dandelion seedlings.
David silently crept out his window touching his socked feet to the gritty surface of the back porch roof, from there with a sharp puff of air he pushed himself on to the soft grass below.
His active imagination was already sending his young mind images of formidable space monsters, so he quietly crawled on his belly over to the object just to be safe.
Upon closer inspection, the thing appeared quite like an old oversized footlocker covered with peculiar symbols. It's surface was cold to the touch as David's left hand stuck to it briefly before he pulled it abruptly away.
The boy bent over allowing his right to ear hover close to the object hoping to catch some type of sound from it. He did!
From within he could hear a faint voice. It sounded like the voice of a young woman.
"Hey! If anybody can hear me, get me outta this dang thing"!
David felt the electricity of a gripping erie excitement surge over him. "This is it"! He thought to himself. "A real alien has crashed in my backyard! and I get to help her"!
He was on his pajama clad knees giving no care to the moist green stains he felt spreading through the fabric. He straightened up his torso tall, reaching toward what looked like a latch on the side of the "space trunk".
"I am earth's representative right now" He whispered to himself, as he bent the metal latch (so it was) upward. The turn made a thin shrill metallic creak as a cold steam waved off the surface of the box like wild tentacles.
"I will help you I am a friend". Said He as he lifted the trunk's lid.
A large puff of cold fog billowed out as the door swung open to rest on it's hinges about an inch from the freshly cut lawn. The inside of the trunk lid was a bank of portioned chambers full of wires and circuit boards, and in the center was a clear jar from which snaked out tubes running through all the chambers. The jar contained a brown liquid that looked like chocolate milk.
None of that could distract young David from the obvious point of interest in the trunk however; the main portion was lined with what looked like purple velvet cushioning. It, like the outside of the trunk was covered in a thin layer of frost, and laying there was a young pale woman with black hair cut into bangs just above her eyes. She was wearing a florescent green head-band and a metallic gold jump-suit. The boy's heart skipped a beat as the girl opened her mouth to speak!
"Phew! that was pretty flashed out in there there little guy! Thanks for crackin' this thing open"! She sounded pleasant though her breathing was a bit labored.
David, though terribly nervous knelt closer to the trunk, mustered up all the courage he could and spoke.
"Huh H-Hullo! Um I-I am David Seyfried. Welcome to earth ma'am"!
The strange girl from the sky grabbed the sides of the trunk with completely normal looking human hands, rose up to sit and let out a long sigh.
"Hello David, my name is Emily Siegrist. Sorry about landing in such a dramatic way in your backyard and for destroying your swing-set like that".
Emily removed a tube from an opening in the side of her jump-suit, and dusted her self off a bit.
"That's how I got food when I was locked in this thing. Chocolate milk you know; it's my favorite; though it's not the same taken intravenously"!
Dave liked her right away. She was so full of life, though he felt a little faint, it was all very overwhelming to have a girl land in your backyard inside a space trunk hooked up to a chocolate milk jar!
For the next several hours before David's normal wake up time, Emily told him all about where she came from.
"Now David" She began. "This is all going to sound very strange, but it's very true. Do you think you can listen to my story and promise to pay very close attention"?
David's eyes were as wide as sand dollars as he nodded smiling broadly.
Emily continued. "I live in a parallel dimension to yours on a planet very similar to this, but my world is called Zurp-Nodgule Seven"!
David didn't even blink as he listened intently to her every word.
"On my planet I am a professional musician and recording artist; but I've been getting pretty bored with the music in my dimension. That's why I decided to travel to the earth in 1982 just for fun! I didn't even tell anyone where I went. The inter-dimensional rock star let out a little giggle.
She continued. "David, depending on your level of creativity and your ability to sing, I'd like to teach you how to make electronic music with a small computer from thirty years in the future. I happen to have one with me; then when you're old enough we can start a band called "Puppet Hawk", start a style of music called "Plush Wave", then take over the world. Would you like that"?
"Yes please" Said the boy. So it began.
