ALIEN SALVATION
The next morning Foss awakened in a dazed state, famished. Selkirk started his day hard their survival depended on it. Using a tree branch and a hangar wire he created a makeshift fishing line.
"Better hope you fishing is better than your piloting."-Foss mocked.
Selkirk headed back out to the escape vessel at sea.
I tried not too think about what little fresh water we had, or what little food we had, or even worse what might Foss do once his drugs had run out.
SNAPS!
Selkirk fishing line snapped. He had no choice but to return back to shore. No food this meant an angered Foss.
Foss fired his pistol round after round at something that turned up into the shallows. Selkirk walked over.
"C-Captain it's dead."-Selkirk
There was a deceased half burned metallic black biomechanical serpent like creature. The Alien. The Xenomorph. It's body lied in the small pool of water.
At that moment I knew what the unsaid dreaded cargo was. One answer sprung many more but I didn't have too much time to ponder on it.
SQUUAARRKK!
Selkirk used the makeshift fishing pole to stab the reptilian bird and finished it off by smashing it with a rock.
I just prayed for courage… and patience. And you comforted me. Promised me salvation would come. And it did in our dire hunger.
Selkirk cooked the bird, praying over it to the annoyance of Foss.
"Taste like dirt."-Foss complained.
Foss then took it a step further spitting the food out rising above Selkirk.
"Trynna poison me, you son of bitch?"-Foss
Ironic that he would accuse me of such knowing my faith and all that I've done to keep him alive. Even when he went against you Lord, and committed the ultimate sin.
Foss and Selkirk feud ended when the sky lit up with blinding fire and thunder. Both of them gazed up at the sky in awe.
Was that you my Lord?
INT. FOLLOWING DAY
The next morning we were awakened to the escape pod fully submerged and gone. The current had taken it away but brought in a second piece of the crashed Maru Nova.
You had answered my prayers for salvation. For if this was a piece of the Maru Nova then the ship itself must have landed. That means there would be food, fresh water, and a distress beacon. I feel to my knees in thanks.
Selkirk entered inside.
The fire and thunder we'd seen last night must've been the Maru burning through the atmosphere.
KRRRKKKK!
The haul was under rapid fire.
Who could be attacking?
It was Foss aiming his pistol down at Selkirk.
"Damn you, ALIEN slime."-Foss shouted.
When he pulled the trigger the gun had jammed.
"It's me Captain."-Selkirk
Foss had loss his reasoning and alluded me to be the alien cargo he dreaded. Foss tackled him in the small space. The two men wrestled around the corridor. Foss bit Selkirk reaching for his blade.
Please don't Lord? I don't want to have to do it. Is this really your testimony? Are you testing my strength?
The two were locked each struggling to gain an upper hand with the blade. Foss bit down harder, you could hear the aggressive growl in his voice. Selkirk then pinned him onto the wall stabbing through the chest.
I can't kill him Lord. But I don't have to save him.
Foss laid on the floor of the vessel. He bleed from the puncture wound in his chest and from the leakage in his arm. He was trapped their to die in his own insanity and that's the way Selkirk left him. A swarm of the scavenger birds flocked over, death was near and this meant a free meal for them.
Back at the shore Selkirk prayed.
I didn't locate the distress beacon inside of the second washed up piece of the Maru Nova but the vessel itself was somewhere on the island. At the moment this was my only salvation. There was nothing more on these shores. I would have to venture deeper into the jungle alone.
ISSUE #2