Fic: Nemesis Part One (An X-Files/BBT crossover)
Title: Nemesis
Author: MrsVC
Word Count: 1489
Summary: Agents Penelope Fourby and Sheldon Cooper are assigned to the X-Files, the FBI division that deals with paranormal or unexplained events. When a second sun is discovered and a scientist goes missing, the agents are called in.
AN: Why, yes, this is an X-Files crossover with Mulder!Penny and Scully!Sheldon. Enjoy.
ALSO: EPIC LOVE AND THANKS TO fujiidom FOR HER AWESOME BETA-ING SKILLZ AND CHARACTERIZATION. &hearts
10:45 AM
Tuesday, November 6th, 2009
J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building
“Director Gablehouser?”
“Ah, agents, come in.” The door swung fully open and FBI Agents Cooper and Fourby entered their boss’ office. The smooth, dark wood of his desk gleamed in the dusty sunlight coming through the pulled blinds. “You’ve been requested.” The partners sat in the chairs before the older man. He removed his glasses and laid them on his blotter. “There’s been a strange object discovered on the outskirts of the solar system.”
“UFO?” questioned Agent Penelope Fourby. Her blond hair faded into the white sunshine as she leaned forward, taking the case file from the director’s hand.
“More like an unidentified satellite.”
“A satellite? Of what?” Agent Cooper wondered aloud. “Jupiter? Mars? What body is it orbiting?”
“According to the scientist who contacted us, it’s orbiting our Sun.”
“Another planet?” Fourby scoffed, “what are they calling us in for?” The director stood and turned toward his window, the sunshine illuminating the lines in his face as he let his eyes flick up to the source for a second.
“Not another planet, Agent. Another Sun.”
6:33 PM
Thursday, November 8th, 2009
Chicago, Illinois
“Where are we headed?” Cooper asked as Fourby drove them down the highway. They had left the Hoover Building with their assignment yesterday, driving through the night.
“Dr. Koothrapali works at the University of Chicago in their astrophysics department. He heard we take on abnormal cases and called us out when the discovery had taken place.” The rental car took a careful turn from the highway and down into a motel that had been reserved for them ahead of time. “We’re to meet him tomorrow morning at the University.”
“You don’t think this is just a case of simple, scientific discovery, do you? You think this has to do with extraterrestrials or some other fanciful notion.”
“You yourself told me that they were explaining to everything in the known universe. You told me there were unified theories in the making; equations to solve every facet of the universe.”
“Yes, equations, proof, something tangible, logical, and usually scientific in nature. Something conceivable within the fabric of the universe.”
“Wasn’t it said once that ‘if man can conceive it, man can achieve it?’”
“This isn’t the idea of inventing interchangeable parts, Fourby,” Cooper huffed. He grabbed his bags from the trunk and moved to allow his partner to enter the motel lobby. “This is the continuation of the work of Newton, Einstein, Smoot.”
“Smoot?” she looked back at him to gain only a disapproving look.
“This is a major scientific breakthrough.” Fourby looked up at his eyes but they never faltered.
“I have to know, Cooper. There has to be something other than cold science to explain this universe.”
“Then find a religion,” he finished, before disappearing into his hotel room.
9:00 AM
Friday, November 9th, 2009
University of Chicago, Dr. Rajesh Koothrapali’s office
“Agents,” the scientist greeted, raising up from his chair enough to shake their hands before sinking back down. “This is my pleasure.”
“Dr. Koothrapali,” Cooper nodded in greeting.
“I called you out here, as I’m sure you’ve heard, because of this new celestial body. I’m the head astrophysicist here and I spotted the object myself.”
“If I may ask, why call in the FBI? Isn’t this a discovery that should be reported within your field?” Fourby looked at the scientist rather intensely. Dr. Koothrapali looked toward Cooper to answer.
“The body itself is the problem.”
“Do you believe it to be alien in nature?” Fourby interjected. Cooper looked towards his partner with a certain disdain that spoke not of personal issues, but intellectual ones.
“This is the very dilemma that has caused friction among my scientists. The disagreement is boiling over from one central point: the argument of the origins of the body. Some of the physicists here do think it is alien in nature.”
“And your opinion, doctor?” Fourby nosed in. She crossed her leg, causing him to gulp nervously.
“My opinion is the most controversial of all. I believe we have discovered physical proof of Nemesis.”
“The Twin Sun, the brown dwarf brother.”
“Precisely, Agent Cooper. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE mission was deployed on the first of the month. Nemesis has been widely debated by scientist but we believed the WISE telescope would easily spot the dark Nemesis. It is my assumption that we have already discovered the Nemesis star.”
“This brown dwarf, why don’t we see it?”
“A brown dwarf, Agent Forby, does not emit light, like our sun. And do not let the dwarf fool you, the body would be several times the size of Jupiter.”
“If this is the Nemesis star, what does this mean?”
“It means terrible times are to come again,” Dr. Koothrapali sighed as the door opened and another scientist poked his head in. “This is my colleague, Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. He is a theoretical physicist working in conjunction with me and my team. Dr. Hofstadter.” Dr. Koothrapali shook hands with the smaller, bespectacled man. He leaned towards the agents, shaking their hands in turn.
“This all still doesn’t explain why we have been called out,” Forby asked pointedly, letting her hard gaze slip over the two men.
“I think I can help answer that, Agent…?”
“I’m Penny Forby, this is Sheldon Cooper.”
“The problem is our missing scientist.”
“Missing scientist?”
“Yes, my fiancée, Dr. Leslie Winkle. She’s part of the team that is working on the physics behind this new discovery. She was last seen here the first of November, the day the WISE mission was launched.”
“You suspect foul play?” Cooper questioned. Dr. Hofstadter turned and began to walk down the hall, back to the mission lab.
“We aren’t sure what has happened. Some believe it was some a crazed Apocalyptic nut-bag, others says it was aliens, some still claim it was the government,” Hofstadter whispered. He slid his access card through the reader before ushering the agents into the lab.
“Leslie and I have been working out the gravitational pull of Nemesis, while Howard Wolowitz here had been attempting to build a ship that could make the journey from Earth to Nemesis.” A skinny, pale man came forward and shook their hands.
“At its best point, Nemesis can be found no more than half a light-year from the Sun, however, that is the point when Nemesis would affect gravity.”
“Gravity? As in the Earth's pull goes haywire and we all shoot off into space?” Fourby said.
“More like a thousand meteors from the Oort Cloud would shower onto to Earth, causing another mass extinction.”
“Another?”
“In 1984,” Hofstadter began as Wolowitz returned to his station, “palaeontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski devised a theory for Nemesis, claiming it was the culprit behind the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and another meteoric bombardment 35 million years ago. In their paper, they asserted that the orbit of Nemesis would come close enough to the Sun to cause mass mayhem once every 25 to 30 million years.”
“If this great big time bomb was ticking away in the sky, why haven’t we heard about it before now?”
“No definitive wobble.”
“Wobble?”
“Nemesis’ gravity would assert a pull on the Sun, just as Earth does, causing the planet to wobble slightly. Without evidence of a wobble, the existence of an orbiting satellite cannot be assumed or proven,” Cooper explained as Hofstadter ran his key through the reader outside of Leslie’s office door.
“Sun's just got his sea legs," Fourby scoffed under her breath, loud enough only for Cooper to catch her snark. "How long have you had these card readers?” she asked as the signal beeped and Dr. Hofstadter opened the door.
“They’re newly installed, after the WISE mission was launched and Leslie was taken. Better security.” The door shut behind them. “Leslie and I weren’t working on just the gravity of Nemesis. Our work was more on the effects that this gravity would have on the Oort Cloud. We have determined that once the Nemesis star’s gravity reaches the Oort Cloud, the hypothetical belt of meteors and comets roughly a light-year from the sun, said comets and meteors are going to rocket onto the Earth for thousands of years.”
“And you believe this information was dangerous enough for someone to take Leslie?” Fourby asked, stepping closer.
“Yes, there’s that, but even more so because we are part of the select few who know Nemesis’ current location.”
“Which is?” Cooper stepped forward, casting a quick glance at his partner.
“We give it three days,” Dr. Hofstadter sighed before turning to look at a picture on her desk.
“Three days?”
“Until the meteors hit.”
AN: Part II
Author: MrsVC
Word Count: 1489
Summary: Agents Penelope Fourby and Sheldon Cooper are assigned to the X-Files, the FBI division that deals with paranormal or unexplained events. When a second sun is discovered and a scientist goes missing, the agents are called in.
AN: Why, yes, this is an X-Files crossover with Mulder!Penny and Scully!Sheldon. Enjoy.
ALSO: EPIC LOVE AND THANKS TO fujiidom FOR HER AWESOME BETA-ING SKILLZ AND CHARACTERIZATION. &hearts
10:45 AM
Tuesday, November 6th, 2009
J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building
“Director Gablehouser?”
“Ah, agents, come in.” The door swung fully open and FBI Agents Cooper and Fourby entered their boss’ office. The smooth, dark wood of his desk gleamed in the dusty sunlight coming through the pulled blinds. “You’ve been requested.” The partners sat in the chairs before the older man. He removed his glasses and laid them on his blotter. “There’s been a strange object discovered on the outskirts of the solar system.”
“UFO?” questioned Agent Penelope Fourby. Her blond hair faded into the white sunshine as she leaned forward, taking the case file from the director’s hand.
“More like an unidentified satellite.”
“A satellite? Of what?” Agent Cooper wondered aloud. “Jupiter? Mars? What body is it orbiting?”
“According to the scientist who contacted us, it’s orbiting our Sun.”
“Another planet?” Fourby scoffed, “what are they calling us in for?” The director stood and turned toward his window, the sunshine illuminating the lines in his face as he let his eyes flick up to the source for a second.
“Not another planet, Agent. Another Sun.”
6:33 PM
Thursday, November 8th, 2009
Chicago, Illinois
“Where are we headed?” Cooper asked as Fourby drove them down the highway. They had left the Hoover Building with their assignment yesterday, driving through the night.
“Dr. Koothrapali works at the University of Chicago in their astrophysics department. He heard we take on abnormal cases and called us out when the discovery had taken place.” The rental car took a careful turn from the highway and down into a motel that had been reserved for them ahead of time. “We’re to meet him tomorrow morning at the University.”
“You don’t think this is just a case of simple, scientific discovery, do you? You think this has to do with extraterrestrials or some other fanciful notion.”
“You yourself told me that they were explaining to everything in the known universe. You told me there were unified theories in the making; equations to solve every facet of the universe.”
“Yes, equations, proof, something tangible, logical, and usually scientific in nature. Something conceivable within the fabric of the universe.”
“Wasn’t it said once that ‘if man can conceive it, man can achieve it?’”
“This isn’t the idea of inventing interchangeable parts, Fourby,” Cooper huffed. He grabbed his bags from the trunk and moved to allow his partner to enter the motel lobby. “This is the continuation of the work of Newton, Einstein, Smoot.”
“Smoot?” she looked back at him to gain only a disapproving look.
“This is a major scientific breakthrough.” Fourby looked up at his eyes but they never faltered.
“I have to know, Cooper. There has to be something other than cold science to explain this universe.”
“Then find a religion,” he finished, before disappearing into his hotel room.
9:00 AM
Friday, November 9th, 2009
University of Chicago, Dr. Rajesh Koothrapali’s office
“Agents,” the scientist greeted, raising up from his chair enough to shake their hands before sinking back down. “This is my pleasure.”
“Dr. Koothrapali,” Cooper nodded in greeting.
“I called you out here, as I’m sure you’ve heard, because of this new celestial body. I’m the head astrophysicist here and I spotted the object myself.”
“If I may ask, why call in the FBI? Isn’t this a discovery that should be reported within your field?” Fourby looked at the scientist rather intensely. Dr. Koothrapali looked toward Cooper to answer.
“The body itself is the problem.”
“Do you believe it to be alien in nature?” Fourby interjected. Cooper looked towards his partner with a certain disdain that spoke not of personal issues, but intellectual ones.
“This is the very dilemma that has caused friction among my scientists. The disagreement is boiling over from one central point: the argument of the origins of the body. Some of the physicists here do think it is alien in nature.”
“And your opinion, doctor?” Fourby nosed in. She crossed her leg, causing him to gulp nervously.
“My opinion is the most controversial of all. I believe we have discovered physical proof of Nemesis.”
“The Twin Sun, the brown dwarf brother.”
“Precisely, Agent Cooper. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE mission was deployed on the first of the month. Nemesis has been widely debated by scientist but we believed the WISE telescope would easily spot the dark Nemesis. It is my assumption that we have already discovered the Nemesis star.”
“This brown dwarf, why don’t we see it?”
“A brown dwarf, Agent Forby, does not emit light, like our sun. And do not let the dwarf fool you, the body would be several times the size of Jupiter.”
“If this is the Nemesis star, what does this mean?”
“It means terrible times are to come again,” Dr. Koothrapali sighed as the door opened and another scientist poked his head in. “This is my colleague, Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. He is a theoretical physicist working in conjunction with me and my team. Dr. Hofstadter.” Dr. Koothrapali shook hands with the smaller, bespectacled man. He leaned towards the agents, shaking their hands in turn.
“This all still doesn’t explain why we have been called out,” Forby asked pointedly, letting her hard gaze slip over the two men.
“I think I can help answer that, Agent…?”
“I’m Penny Forby, this is Sheldon Cooper.”
“The problem is our missing scientist.”
“Missing scientist?”
“Yes, my fiancée, Dr. Leslie Winkle. She’s part of the team that is working on the physics behind this new discovery. She was last seen here the first of November, the day the WISE mission was launched.”
“You suspect foul play?” Cooper questioned. Dr. Hofstadter turned and began to walk down the hall, back to the mission lab.
“We aren’t sure what has happened. Some believe it was some a crazed Apocalyptic nut-bag, others says it was aliens, some still claim it was the government,” Hofstadter whispered. He slid his access card through the reader before ushering the agents into the lab.
“Leslie and I have been working out the gravitational pull of Nemesis, while Howard Wolowitz here had been attempting to build a ship that could make the journey from Earth to Nemesis.” A skinny, pale man came forward and shook their hands.
“At its best point, Nemesis can be found no more than half a light-year from the Sun, however, that is the point when Nemesis would affect gravity.”
“Gravity? As in the Earth's pull goes haywire and we all shoot off into space?” Fourby said.
“More like a thousand meteors from the Oort Cloud would shower onto to Earth, causing another mass extinction.”
“Another?”
“In 1984,” Hofstadter began as Wolowitz returned to his station, “palaeontologists David Raup and John Sepkoski devised a theory for Nemesis, claiming it was the culprit behind the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and another meteoric bombardment 35 million years ago. In their paper, they asserted that the orbit of Nemesis would come close enough to the Sun to cause mass mayhem once every 25 to 30 million years.”
“If this great big time bomb was ticking away in the sky, why haven’t we heard about it before now?”
“No definitive wobble.”
“Wobble?”
“Nemesis’ gravity would assert a pull on the Sun, just as Earth does, causing the planet to wobble slightly. Without evidence of a wobble, the existence of an orbiting satellite cannot be assumed or proven,” Cooper explained as Hofstadter ran his key through the reader outside of Leslie’s office door.
“Sun's just got his sea legs," Fourby scoffed under her breath, loud enough only for Cooper to catch her snark. "How long have you had these card readers?” she asked as the signal beeped and Dr. Hofstadter opened the door.
“They’re newly installed, after the WISE mission was launched and Leslie was taken. Better security.” The door shut behind them. “Leslie and I weren’t working on just the gravity of Nemesis. Our work was more on the effects that this gravity would have on the Oort Cloud. We have determined that once the Nemesis star’s gravity reaches the Oort Cloud, the hypothetical belt of meteors and comets roughly a light-year from the sun, said comets and meteors are going to rocket onto the Earth for thousands of years.”
“And you believe this information was dangerous enough for someone to take Leslie?” Fourby asked, stepping closer.
“Yes, there’s that, but even more so because we are part of the select few who know Nemesis’ current location.”
“Which is?” Cooper stepped forward, casting a quick glance at his partner.
“We give it three days,” Dr. Hofstadter sighed before turning to look at a picture on her desk.
“Three days?”
“Until the meteors hit.”
AN: Part II