(AU I've figured out, writing first chapter, not yet posted)
(This is what I'd think is Grace's Video Logs towards Earth, not actually part of any chapters)
"I met a human! Another human in space that isn't in the Hail Mary!" Grace exclaimed, a smile on his face.
Stratt's heart plummeted.
They didn't send another ship. What the hell was going on?
"They uh, call themselves, well, nothing. They won't tell me their name or remove their helmet, which— valid, actually." He stated to the camera. He waved his hand around.
"Seeing another human in space when your boss or files didn't say there's gonna be another spaceship is going to be terrifying. Maybe they're dopplegangers or pirates."
He clapped. "But! They're willing to give me their food. We're trying to figure out the Astrophage problem, and it looks like they know what to do, but not act on it."
"It's like remembering a video and understanding it enough to explain it, but not do it yourself." The way he explained it was easy for Stratt, at least.
"I've just been calling them sir or ma'am or just any titles, I guess. Anyways, yeah we're gonna start comparing stuff, just uh... bye." The video log ended. The researchers around her murmured. Did Stratt send another human? Did Grace go insane? None of them knew.
"All of you, quiet." She hissed at them. "Write down what you've found on the log. Click the next one." The researcher sitting next to the mouse nodded, he clicked the next video.
"Hey." Stratt— herself— the one in the video log greeted them. "This is Eva Stratt speaking. I told Grace to not look at the logs I'll record, since I'm an expert at it and I won't sabotage any videos.."
The Eva Stratt in the video looked younger, the age she launched Grace to space, it looked like she also had muscles like Grace because of the comas. But the space suit she wore wasn't the one made from their Earth. It was more futuristic.
The people around Director Stratt were having a fucking aneurism.
The Eva Stratt in the video inhaled deeply before exhaling.
"It's a role reversal. I'm the scientist sent to space from my timeline. My apologies for going into your timeline by accident. We have to wait for the Blip-A alien ship now, I can vaguely see it."
"Wait, blip what?" Grace stated in the background.
Stratt was going to also have an aneurism now.
