Hello people. Im typing on a new keyboard so yeah, i might type more than normal so this should be longer. Chapter 2 is up.

CH 2 - Betrayal From Within

"Commanders log 2693, Day two after the crash. The schedule for today consists of finishing forward base construction. The men are, I guess the word would be, awake. Nobody got much sleep but after surviving that crash and everyone you know dying, I don't think anyone is tired. On the bright side,my scouting squad managed to get comms operational on their end and they reported in. They arived at the crash site 3 hours ahead of schedule, unfortunatly there are no signs o life, they have begun digging through the wreckage to find food, water, drinks, weapons, and other essentials. I asked them to look into the ships generator and maybe see about setting it up to ship power. If it works then ill send a second small squad out to work on the cabling from the ship to the base. That should give us all the power we will need and maybe a way to set up a direct route to the ship and back. End log."

The 628th CO, Commander Jackal, does one of these logs almost every week. Nobody else does them but he likes to keep a record of how things are working. After the recording of his log, Commander Jackal gets his officers uniform on and heads out to get a report from first Lieutenant Kirdy about the inspection he ran.

"Kirdy, whats the news?"

"Ah C-Commander, Sir!" Kirdy rubs the back of his neck and shuffles around some thingson the table hes usng as a desk. 1st Lt Kirdy is, in simple terms, the 628th's secretary. He is usually found behind a desk and barely knows how to handle a DC-15s standard issue small blaster rifle. The only reason he made it to where he is now is his intelect and his ability to keep records under just about any circumstance.

"I, Uhh-, I finished the uhm, inspection you asked for sir, All of the troopers weapons are accounted for, sir."

"Alright Kirdy, now what about your equipment who inspected that?"

"I-i did sir, it checks out just like everyone elses. Sir." Kirdyturns to leave but gets stopped by Commander Jackal putting a hand on his shoulder and turning him around.

"Kirdy, If you inspect your own gear then that takes away the point of the inspection, Ill send Sharp to take a look at it. OH and before I forget, Do you still have that DC-15s rifle i made you carry around?"

"Y-yes sir."

"Give it here, we are a bit short on weapons and can use all the gear we can, your thermal detonator too, we may need it." As he says it the commander goes to reach for Kirdys thermal detonator and notices its missing already. "First Lieutenant Kirdy, Where is your thermal detonator charge?"

"S-sir?"

"Your thermal detonator Kirdy. Where is it?"

"I-I-I-I lost is sir, in the crash. Im sorry sir."

"Kirdy, I tell you to hold on to these things for a reason, now what if someone gets hurt by a stray charge thant may go off? Ahh whatever, Ill tell the men to be careful for a thermal detonator in the wreckage, but I dont want to see you loose equipment again. Ill send sharp by soon to inspect your gear."

"Sir, yes sir,"

As commander Jackal leaves he manages to intercept Captain Sharp. Grabbing the captain by the arm the commander turns him around to talk to him in private.

"Commander, sir. What do you need?"

"Sharp im having you run inspection for lieutenant Kirdys equipment. Make sure you check and find out when his thermal detonator was removed and used. He told me he lost it during the crash, I don't know if I beleive him."

"Sir, Lieutenant Kirdy is never on the feild and always behind a desk, what would he use his detonator for?"

"I don't know, Thats why im having you check it out."

"Yes sir." With a salute captain Sharp leaves to inspect Lieutenant Kirdys gear.

15 hours of building a base and organizing troops later

As Commander sharp enters his tent for the night he notices the communicator he left is flashing a red light showing that he has a message waiting. He turns it on to play the message.

His scout leader Garrot has left a message with the commander.

"Commander, when you get this message try to contact us. We have made it to the engine room, the generator works and we've managed to get it started, fortunatly. Bad news is, the engine itself shows signs of sabatoge. It seems the control terminal blew up before the crash. Still no sings of life, but we found the armoury. Another unfortunate thing is that the armoury is sealed shut and we cant open it. We are going to resume our search and working on the armoury door sir. CT-Scout-6842-Garrot out."

After hearing this the commander sends his own message back explaining the suspicions they have about lieutenant Kirdy. Upon conclusion, he lays down in his bed and drifts to darkness.

Unlike the first night, this night is not dreamless.

In the commanders dream he is back on the ship still flying. Checking the time on his helmets HUD he realises that it is the hour the ship crashed and he was running load up load out drills. The only thing was he wasnt at the hangar preforming drills, he was by the engine bay as a guard. He looked down and immediatly recognized what was going on. He was remembering a guard duty simulation that was to stop sabatoge or damage to the engines from another trooper. He could tell because the gun was a training DC-15a stun blaster marked down for simulation room A2160 on the Republic Venator Class cruiser, ID number 316842 lovingly named, 'The manager'. He hadn't been on the ship for nearly 3 years since his advanced training with the 17th Command battalion when he was still just a recruit. He remembered this day vividly, to the point where he is lucky it hasn't been diagnosed as PTSD and got him discharged. This was the day he learned what war was really like.

And he did not NOT want to relive it.

Fortunatly for him Jackal is a vivid dreamer and can, more or less, control his dreams to the point of putting it out of his mind and forcing himself to not dream.

Something was wrong.

Jackal couldn't control his dream, he lost his hold on reality and slipped into a memory.

END CHAPTER 2

Well people, here it is. Chapter 2. Its been a while coming what with chapter one going up 7 days ago. The next chapter will be day 3 and the rest of his dream. I know its a cliffhangar. I HATE cliffhangars but they are good story tools. Keep people coming back for more. Its a human instint I bleive, to find out all we can. So yeah check back.