Chapter 2
This is the main part of the story. Enjoy reading!
I was running through the train station to catch the last train this night to the outskirts of the city. Every Wednesday is was the same story: my lectures ended very late and I always stayed a little longer to study together with some classmates and in the end I had to run to catch my train. It was really time to look for a place in the city centre. I was a second semester engineering student, one of only female students, but I was the only one still living with my parents. This was always a reason for my fellow classmates to make fun of me, but right now there was nothing I could do about it.
I finally reached my platform and the train was still standing there; what a relief. Apart from me there was just one other person on it. I sat down a few rows away from that person; he was somehow suspicious. Right after I sat down the doors closed and the train started moving. I slowly relaxed and looked at my watch. It was half past one in the morning. Normally I was studying on the train, but I was dead tired and so I tried to catch up with some sleep. It seemed only to be five seconds or so when I woke up again. Out of the blue the other person was sitting across from me staring at me. If I wasn't that tired, I would have screamed, but instead I just inhaled sharply and quickly got my legs out of his way. The first few seconds I was amazed by his choice of clothing. It seemed like he just threw together some currents trends but the outcome was so hideous I wasn't able to speak.
"I need your help." I raised both of my eyebrows and gave him a questioning look.
"Help with what?"
"You need to come with me."
"That's not going to happen!"
A mad grin appeared on his face which made me cringe. I got up certain to change my seat, but the man grabbed my arm violently.
"Get off me!" I tried to break free, but he was way stronger than me and I had no chance. The panic spread like poison through my body and the adrenalin rushed through my veins, but before I could do anything to defend me he snapped his fingers and my surroundings disappeared.
Finally he let go of me and I stumbled backwards. The floor was very uneven and the light was almost completely gone, apart from a light dimmer from the high ceiling.
"What in earth is this? Where are we?" The man seemed to be very relaxed for the situation.
"Well, how do I explain it to you?"
"Just spit it out!"
"If you wish. You're in the 24th century on an earth like planet at the edge of the galaxy. In orbit around us is a star ship named USS Enterprise and from this ship there are a few officers on this planet. The ship's doctor is in this very cave and she's hurt. I want you to help her." I was completely baffled and wanted to ask questions, but a bright light appeared and he was gone. I started looking around in the cave, but in the dim light I couldn't see anything. After a few minutes I remembered my phone in my pocket and I used its light as a flashlight.
Indeed there was someone, just a few metres away from me. When I came closer I saw a woman lying on the stone floor. She was unconscious and I noticed a significant amount of blood on the floor next to her. "Can you hear me?" She didn't answer and when I kneeled down next to her I saw her eyes closed and her mouth half open. Her left foot was caught in a gap between two stones. Obviously she must have knocked her head on the stone floor and got a concussion. Before I started helping her I checked out my surroundings. Their position was in the middle of the cave and the walls were about ten metres in each direction. There the floor was more even and it seemed to be a better place to take care of the woman. Before I moved her I checked her breathing and heartbeat and both seemed to be fine. The woman was really heavy and I could hardly lift her but one step at a time I managed to move her to the wall. In school I learned a bit about first aid, but this definitely exceeded my powers.
Nevertheless I started to work. At first I took off my jacket and wrapped the woman in it, because her skin was really cold. I looked around to find something I could fix the deep cut on her head with, but there was only mine and her clothing. Since she needed all her clothing to stay warm I used the t-shirt I was wearing under my blouse and ripped it into pieces. Before I wrapped on of the pieces around her head it came to my mind that the cut was way too deep to be closed with that pathetic piece of cloth. Instead I got a sewing kit and a lighter out of my bag. I used the lighter to disinfect the needle and threaded a piece of black thread. My hand was shaking when I set the first stitch but my extensive sewing experience made me do neat stitches, although I was scared to death to do something wrong. After the last stitch the bleeding slowed down, which told me it wasn't completely wrong what I did and therefore, I confidently wrapped the piece of cloth around her head. In the end the woman didn't look like she was close to death anymore, but nevertheless I still checked the rest of her body for other injuries. As far as I could tell her legs were intact. The ankle was maybe twisted, but there was nothing I could do about it and it wasn't that dangerous. On her hands were a few cuts, but they were barely deep enough to bleed so I just wrapped the rest of the cloth around without stitching. When I saw the empty case at her belt I remembered she was holding something before I moved her. I wasn't entirely sure I could leave her alone, but after I checked her breathing and heartbeat another time I climbed over the stones to place where I found her.
It took me only five minutes to find the small device, but I had no idea what it was, nor did I know how to use it. It looked a bit like a phone, but it was bigger and completely covered with buttons; it also had a weird looking thing attached to the top. I removed it and it started blinking und beeping, so I put it back immediately. My next priority was to find a way out of the cave and to find water. I still had a full bottle in my bag but that wasn't enough for two people. My head was running wild with different scenarios of what would happen if this cave had no exit, but I tried to ignore them. Instead I looked at my phone only to see that the battery was running fairly low so I turned it to flight mood to have light of a few more hours. After I went back to where the woman was lying I took my water bottle out of my bag and placed it over the flashlight of my phone. The cave was now illuminated in a dim light, but it was enough to see the opposite walls as shadows. The woman was still unconscious but I would have wondered if she woke up that quickly. I laid the weird device next to her on the ground in, case she woke up while I was away and started looking for it, and closely observed the walls of the cave. And indeed I could find a crack in the wall about fifty metres away from me.
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