[ WP ] A man who has never seen nor heard of females before meets a woman who has never seen nor heard of males before

Foreword: Wow this turned out long, will have to break it up... 
 
 A bright light filled Kale's vision. he squinted and lifted his hand upwards toward a burning blue sky. 
 
 `` What the?'' He mumbled back into consciousness. Pulling his hand out of the way to reveal a burning white orb. `` GAH!'' He pushed it back and sat up, glancing at his surroundings. Fleshy lime colored plants basked in the harsh light of the silver orb, filling the air with a strange organic smell. Kale pulled in a whiff and studied the thin forest and soft ferny ground he was lying in. `` Where the hell am I?'' He muttered and stood, trying desperately to block the intense light all around him, brighter than anything he had ever seen, so bad it seemed to burn his skin like the stoves at home... home. 
 
 Kale's instincts took over again and he scanned the surroundings. He reached down and pulled the standard L8 Laser pistol from his belt and did a circle. The landscape was so alien. The sky was cerulean, not indigo, the sun was white not orange, and the plants were green instead of red. This was very odd. `` How did I get here?'' 
 
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 As Kale walked through the undergrowth he tried to piece together the moments before he woke up. He could recall, something to do with combat, fighting YES, he was a solder. He rubbed the hard black composite of his flight suit... a pilot. `` Gods!'' He groaned. `` My brain is like putty!'' He stopped as last operation came into focus. 
 
 `` We were fighting along the Kappa Rim.'' he managed. `` I was battling The Singularity at... Syntax IV I think, The Singularity... hmm... my ENEMY! yes, a machine race with one mind... okay, I was fighting, and my drive got shot out... Commander Kugall advised me not to jump back to the carrier but I was leaking fuel...'' The last few memories pulled themselves together in an instant. `` I ripped.'' Kale realized. `` Oh gods I ripped myself like an idiot!'' 
 
 A flashback of an academy class on tras-light propulsion entered Kale's head. he could n't remember the teacher's name. But the statement `` FTL drives are sensitive, never jump when it's damaged, or you might rip a hole right through reality, and spell a very rapid end to your military career.'' Echoed pretty clearly now. 
 
 `` I'm such an idiot.'' 
 
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 The silver sun set quickly, and soon Kale watched as a thin ring around the planet he was on come into focus in front of the twinkling stars. The ring was pale and blue, and left a creepy glow on the softly swaying plants. Something was n't natural about this place, everything seemed to have eyes, everything seemed to watch him as he hiked. 
 
 `` I just want to go back to Altair.'' he muttered. Kale had done a circle of his wake up spot, and quickly found the remains of his SJ-12 Inquisitor. It was only the cockpit section, a seed shaped capsule that held all the now fried controls. Unsurprising, the fighter was never designed for atmospheric flight anyway. Only the pod could take the heat of an emergency reentry. He stripped it for the long range emergency beacon, food packs, binoculars, First Aid kit and the tactical hatchet before disguising the rest in fleshy leaves and abandoning it. 
 
 `` Need to get my bearings.'' Kale informed the air. Looking around, he picked a tall plant, something he was calling a `` Barb Stalk'' for now. It was the only thing that seemed to grow more than five meters, and was just a huge vertical root with giant fuzzy thorns sticking out of the side. Perfect for climbing. 
 
 The stalk was hard unlike the other plants, and the fuzz held his boots as he climbed the ever narrowing trunk. Everything was so green here, even at night, the limey aura that clung to the landscape failed to cease. A cool gust shivered Kale's body through the suit as he reached the peak. Looking out, the hills rolled for kilometers, all the way to the horizon. Nothing seemed to be ahead of him, just darkness and trees. he glanced back, locating the rather tall hill with his craft on it. A large bright object was hovering above the area, spotlights trained on the spot he had left the Inquisitor. `` SHIT!'' he hissed. So much for this place being uninhabited. He considered running further away from the object, but then reconsidered. If this planet was used by The Singularity, then they already would have stripped it into a smooth, dead husk. This place must be some backwater Altarian base he had never heard of. There were thousands after all. 
 
 Quickly he hiked back the distance he had made. Annoying, but the promise of civilization was too tantalizing. Slowly, Kale approached the site. Now filled with lights. He skirted the edge of the glare, looking in as six figures examined the craft. 
 
 `` Does n't look Singularity.'' A high pitched voice spoke. Another next to him shrugged and kicked his pod, that bastard. 
 
 `` Yeah, looks like it's plenty dead.'' He hummed 
 
 `` O'Leary, do n't kick the Husk!'' A third hissed. `` You never know.'' 
 
 `` What do you think it came for?'' The shortest piped in. He almost laughed at the voice, he was n't sure if that guy had been either been kicked the balls or swallowed a chipmunk. `` The space inside is clearly for a pilot.'' 
 
 `` Probably to assimilate us, steal secrets from some unsuspecting civilian hiker.'' 
 
 `` But how would it get back?'' The one that shouted at O'Leary pointed out, he seemed to be commander, and like the others, had a strange accent, from the Delta Quadrant maybe? `` It has no engines.'' 
 
 `` Well it just proves The Singularity is a crappy engineer!'' Kale already hated O'Leary. 
 
 Kale watched silently as the squad bickered. He took a step forward satisfied they were safe. Crunch. 
 
 `` WHATWASTHAT!?'' Chipmunk squealed like a baby, flailing a strange looking rifle in his direction. Kale scurried back in surprise at the boy. he caught a glimpse of long hair twirling as he did. 
 
 Gods man calm down, what are you six? He wondered as the rest of the squad began to chuckle at Chipmunk. 
 
 `` Claire seriously you need to lax girl. There wo n't be an Obon left in this forest when you're done.'' Kale shook his head as he pulled the broken Barb Stalk sprout out of the rubber in his boot. Would n't wan na step on that in the morning...
