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End of the world
*I peer over your shoulder* A fog? What in the world is creating that? I've never seen a fog this far beneath the surface. *I take another step forward and slip, falling hard onto the ground. The water causes me to slide down towards the fog. I scream as I pass you quickly as the ground seems to tilt more. I try to grab onto the rocks beside me but they only slip out of my hands. One sharp rock that I grab onto, slices my palm and makes me yelp as I slide into the fog*
* Mike follows as quickly as he can and finds Lacy has slid up against a piece of metal that blocks the path. It's smooth, rounded and extends upward. Mike helps lacy up. The floor under them is a bit more level but the ceiling has disappeared. As far as they can see upward the smooth metal wall extends....the fog swirls around them as high as their shoulders.Mike shines his light upward and far above their heads an opening appears in the metal. It could be a hatch. *
*I find my flashlight the look around for my knife. I find it and quickly sheath it, holding my cut hand close to my body. I look upwards and takes in a sharp breath when I see the hatch* Do we dare try to go in this thing?
* Mike is bandaging her hand after cleaning the wound as he answers.*Well, I think I should. Not sure we should I don't want you to risk it. If you want go in promise me you won't go off ahead alone, okay? I don't want you hurt again.
And you think I'm going to let you go I without me? You must be joking. And no I've learned my lesson, no wandering off. *I look up at the hatch* There must be another way in...that hatch is too high up and there is nothing for us to use to climb up to it.
Sure there is...* Mike takes a slim rope and grappling hook from his pack. *
I knew we might be climbing around in caves.
*I gently place my hand against the metal* It's so cold to the touch. It scares me, Mike...I don't like this.
Humm...neither do I. From what the computer says this has been here a long time. Before I go in let's get some readings on the inside.* Mike takes one of his custom made pistols changes the magazine and fits a tricorder-probe into the barrel. He fires it upward into the ship and takes out the tricorder/receiver. The screen lights up. *
*I remove my hand quickly* Ouch! Something stabbed my finger. * I look down and see blood pooling on my middle finger. I suck on it while I look back at the flat surface and move closer to you*
Anything there? Here let me see that.* Mike takes her hand and switches the sensor to medical mode allowing a drop of her blood to drop onto the pad.*
Nothing foreign in the blood, I was afraid it had injected you or something. Here let me inject you with a nano probe and then seal the wound.
*I run my other hand against the side* It's like the ship is collecting information on us...maybe to see if we are a threat? *I withdraw my hand, not wanting to get pricked a second time, and look at you* Oh sure...
We'll soon see...I hope.[probably won't be back on tonight. We have a sick cat, I think she may pass tonight but you know, I don't know.]
*I let you fix my finger then look upwards, tugging onto the rope to make sure that it was safe then begin to climb up the side towards the hatch* Would be so much easier if I had my wings..(Oh no...poor kitty...extra love from me)
Wait, let me get atmosphere readings before you go in. There's a lot of moisture around here. I'd bet that fog's due to whatever's in there.
*I stop a little bit below the hatch and look down at you* I feel like I'm in a bad horror movie.
Hummm...now that you mention it....Any way, yeah. Light oxygen so we'll have to watch that. Lots of moisture in the air, 90% humidity.
* As we're talking another streamer of fog spills out of the ship and drifts downward toward the floor washing around Lacy. *
*I lower my head and close my eyes as it washes over me, making my hair stick to my face and the back of the neck. I shiver as it touched my skin not because it was cold but because it was so sudden and scared me.*
Well, it6's breathable. I'd ask if you think we should go in but since you're already climbing the rope...* Mike takes the rope and begins to climb up behind her.*
*I open my eyes and finish climbing, swinging my leg over and inside. I peer in just as a light comes inside the ship. I crawl in and land on the metal platform beneath me and wait for you*
* We stand and look around at the strange even weird surroundings. The inside of the ship is made up of wide curves and loops. Standing in the doorway we look down an almost tube-like corridor that widens out in places and constricts again farther along. The metal changes colors in places and looks almost organic in it's makeup. The fog swirls about our knees and carpets the entire area at about that depth with places where it seems to wave upward or drop. There are apparently air currents as we can see them in the fog...moisture runs down the walls.*
Well this place is quite umm...interesting? If that is the right word for it though I'm not too sure. *I pull out my flashlight and switch it on, slowly making my way forward.*
* The ship is dim but seems to emanates an eerie light of it's own. Lacy's light illuminates their surroundings more clearly and glistens off the moisture that clings to each surface. *Humm...yes, interesting. Remember that horror movie you mentioned? I'm beginning to wonder if we've wandered into one.
And it ticks me off. I love this world.
Okay we'll hope whatever...or whoever is here...or this is that they're friendly.
Watch your step.
*I glance down as I step down a few steps but continue down the hallway to what looked like the first door to my right. I press my back up against the cold wet wall and keep my light trained on the closed door, waiting for you to catch up and to be the one to push open the door. I pull out a gun and train it on the door.*
* When I touch the door it seems to withdraw into the wall disappearing from sight on all sides of the doorway. The door is round and Mike needs to duck his head as he steps through slowly gun in hand with light secured to his head. There are things hanging along the wall. *Looks like these may be some sort of vacuum suits. Mike takes one down (carefully). It seems that the crew is...or was vaguely human shaped. Shorter, wider the arms seem longer.
Humm, wonder...the arms, or forelimbs seem about as long as the legs, or back limbs. Could be they could choose to use the forelimbs as legs or arms??? I don't know.
*Before I step into the room I hear some scurrying noises to my leg.t I swing my light and my gun and train it on a shadow as whatever it belonged to disappeared.* Mike...there is something with us.
Great...it's like that scene in the Death Star's compactor.* Mike hangs the suit back up and steps out into the swirling fog. He turns up the light on his head to max intensity and sweeps it before them.*
See anything...?
It duck but it looked small, almost child size. *I point to where it had disappeared into a room four doors down from where we stood*
Okay....set your recorder and I will to. If it runs by again maybe we can get an image.* Mike eases toward the door, nervously watching the other unopened doors.*
*I quickly set my recorder with shaking hands then quickly follow you, staying close* What if its a ghost? I'm really freaked out Mike...maybe we should go back.
Well...at least all a ghost could do is scare us..* Mike looks back at her*
...or do you know something about ghosts I don't???
* He turns back to the door in question and touches it*
*I smile slightly* Well...if the ghost is mad enough or has enough strength they can throw things at us, grab us, hurt us...
Humm.....* The door contracts. There is another corridor behind it that proceeds deeper into the ship. This one slants downward. *
Well, that's interesting.
*I shine my flashlight the way we came then turn and head down the new corridor, keeping my back to the wall so no one can sneak up behind me.* This place is like a giant maze...looks small on the outside but huge inside.
We've seen that before...though I suppose being buried we may not see what we think we see. Ready to head down? I've got a tracker on that should get us out, unless of course the corridors shift. In that case we may have to..try something else.
What...blow our way out? *I giggle* I saw you pack some explosives before we came. *I shine my light* I hope I don't slide this time.
Please don't...the slants is deeper into the ship. Wait, here.* Mike pulls out a thin cord and ties an end to each of their belts. They now have a ten foot cord holding them together.*
Okay, now at least if we slide we slide together.
* They head off into the ever present fog.*
Is it just me or does the air seem thicker and warmer the farther down we go? I feel like its summer time in Arizona or something...*I wipe the sweat from my forehead, bruising my hair back into a ponytail quickly*
Maybe, can't tell. Is that.....??? Look at that, what is that????* Ahead of them the corridor reaches what looks like a giant well or silo. The cylindrical space reaches upward and downward before them. Appearing to be a round space maybe a hundred yards across and going up and down out of sight both ways a giant...something, seems to, "grow" in it. It looks a lot like a huge vine with limbs that reach to the walls. From the vine seem to grow bubble or balloon like extrusions. They are semitransparent. Inside them there seems to be many different types of creature....growing.
Most of these look large and have lots of claws, a few also show large teeth. *
Maybe it's just me, but this doesn't look good.
*A small form drops on Mike and latches onto his shoulder with long thin teeth. It looks a little like a cross between a spider and a badger. Teeth, and eight clawed feet.*
*I stare at the ting in front of us. I see something out of the corner of my eye fall and turn to see the creature grab onto you* Omg! Mike! *I reach for the creature to pull it off of you*
* Mike quickly slices the creature's head from it. The blood runs down from Mike's shoulder. He looks at it and shakes his head.*I'd forgotten how hard adventuring can be on clothes. Humm, what do you think? Cousin of our earlier problem? If all the...things on that vine or whatever it is...hatch, we'll likely lose this planet.
*I look down at the dead creature then glare up at the vines* I am NOT going to lose my home to a bunch of blood sucking mind controlling gross aliens! This is our home not theirs.
Wonder how this got here...and when. Well I think we can destroy it. Wonder if we can do anything else? I don't have any idea where it came from. Do you suppose this is also some form of colony ship, maybe from a species that was sending them out long, long ago? Could be thousands of years I suppose.
All I know is that if this is here, there may be others on other planets...possibly the ones the Doctor found. We have to record what we find and send it to him so that he can put together a team and go to the core of their planet to make sure that there aren't any of these things in their planet waiting for them. *I grab onto your arm* Mike...there is another one coming!
*I shine my light on the creature as it fell in front of me. It hisses then launches itself at me, grabbing onto my leg and biting in deep. I yelp and fall backwards, nearly hitting my head on the ship's wall behind me. The thing lets go then bites again, harder this time making me scream in pain*
*Mike decapitates this one also, kicks it's body into the pit before them. After bandaging Lacy he pulls out the mass of explosives he has in his pack and begins to attach a remote detonator. * Okay it might not be cool to wipe out an entire ship but we can feel guilty later, lets get out of here.
* He places the charge where the force will blow up and down the silo like space.*
*I climb to my feet and lean back against the wall for support, holding my leg up a bit as the blood seeped through the bandages.* What about the shadow I saw? What if they are still here and they are being forced to do this things bidding?
By who or what? The one eating the bats was miles from here and it didn't seem to understand anything but aggression. In other words it thought we were food to.As I said, we let these things out, with the numbers on that...vine or whatever it is we'll never be rid of them.
* Mike scoops her up and heads back up the corridor.*
*I glance back at the vines as you rush us out of there.* All right lets get out of here and blow this ship to kingdom come. *I look ahead of us* Do you think that thing ate the crew?
Dare to Dream
Books mentioned in this topic
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (other topics)Phoenix Rising (other topics)
The Janus Affair (other topics)
And it's wet...look at this.
* There is condensate water running down the walls of the tunnel. Mike steps ahead and aims his light farther down the tunnel. *
Look at this.
* Below them a fog is beginning to gather over the path *