The woman created by Project Starfire entered the outer atmosphere, aerobraking over Australia as she shed her orbital velocity.  While she could handle the infrared radiation created from her reentry, the heat itself reached uncomfortable levels before she was moving slow enough for the flames to start dying down.  [i]I'll need to get some form of reentry shielding if I'm going to make a habit of traveling through space like this.[/i] she thought as she took a deep breath.  Indeed, it was the first breath she had taken while conscious, having only previously breathed through life support while unconscious and survived anaerobically while in space.  The sensation was strange, but not unpleasant.  [i]Well, humans did evolve to breath Earth's atmosphere.[/i]  she realized.  [i]If it was unpleasant, I doubt we would have survived long.[/i]

Once she was within a few miles off the ground she began controlling her movement through plasma jets, and started looking for a landing location.  There was a military base nearby, but as a secret project she shouldn't reveal herself to them so easily.  There was plenty of ocean in the area as well, if she wanted to just land and wait for the last of the radiation in her body to be absorbed.  Or she could land on one of the beaches nearby and pretend to just be another metahuman that was in need of money.  In fact, that wasn't far from the truth, and she kind of liked the idea of being a street performer.

She angled herself towards the boardwalk a mile away and started flying towards it when she saw a spaceship land in a park in town.  [i]I hope I don't have to deal with an alien invasion already.[/i] she thought, realizing how hungry and thirsty she was, having never really ate or drank, and having no nutrient input for several weeks.  Maybe they were just tourists, though.  She flew over to where an important looking man stood and landed twenty feet in front of him.  Recognizing the ship design as Rannian, she addressed them in that language.  "I hope you've come in peace," she said, speaking for the first time in her life, her throat a bit horse from dehydration.  "I don't want to have to stop an alien invader already."