So it begins....

I've decided that I'm going to participate in the National Novel Writing Month contest. Its a great excuse to get the juices flowing and try to actually bang out one of these ideas that has been bouncing around my brain for years.
On day two and 2,918 words in. Only 47,082 and 27days to go.

Here is an early excerpt...unedited mind you...

The Major squinted at the small capsule now just 50 yards or so below him and the com-link crackled again.

“…this really weird sound, I have to go closer… something up with my electrical going bat-sh*t. The ... thing is glowing... I have to get a sample…. are you seeing any of this… John?”

“Reed back away! That’s an order! What’s gotten into you?”

Abernathy was breathing heavy now. Something was happening. His eyes glared not believing what he was seeing. It nearly felt like his corneas would rip if he looked back at the command screen. He did, just to be sure everything was being recorded and set to the Darwin.

“… John it getting hot… holy sh*t! Ah no..!" Reed’s link blinked out again.

The green glow intensified and the object moved. Abernathy hit the reverse thrust and looked up to see if the Darwin had cleared the short horizon of the gray moon. “Sh*t!”

The glow became hot and a part of the thing seemed to detach or literally flow out from the spot under Reed’s capsule. Like a snaking tendril the thing wrapped around the capsule and flashed like a massive electric shock. The com system and all the electric glowed hot around Abernathy and then winked out into darkness.
The green white light from Reed’s burning capsule lit the Majors face as he gaped out at the scene of amazing discovery and destruction.

Reed’s capsule engulfed in the electric blue flame and Abernathy watched as the exterior hull simply pulled back and away from the point of contact. The capsule melted away rolling back around Reed's floating body. His simple white jumpsuit made a single silent puffy discharge as his body exploded in the vacuum. The light expanded into a flash as the machine and man were completely atomized and Abernathy uttered a single bitter bleating cry as the light splashed against his front window of his capsule and the heat hit him and he lost all feeling.

The brief wink of light scattered across the long massive arm of Saturn’s ring. And the A I navigator of the Darwin signaled a priority distress across the open sea of emptiness in the direction of Mars Command.