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Return messages and Final orders.
Chapter 3.
Compos Mentis: Able to think clearly and be in control of and responsible for your actions.
Music: Alliance - One Final Outpost. watch?v=OK_3Gfo3g2g
Dr. Ladkin was to say the least, euphoric! Finally, after a few days, they had the generators up and running again. Karla Hopps and her team of mechanics had worked nonstop since they arrived and now everything had fallen into place.
They had opened the portal again and the armored crate, they had sent through had come back to them again.
"We have established first contact with someone from the other side of the portal". He said euphorically as he turned to Sharla, who seemed surprised.
"I cannot believe it´s really happened. Not that we couldn´t make a portal, but the fact that there is an alien civilization there have responded. How many have not dreamed of making first contact and here you did it!" There was joy and recognition in Sharla´s voice over what Dr. Ladkin had just accomplished.
"Yes" he thought to himself, "So many years, so many times I´ve been ridiculed and almost had my dream crushed because of those incompetent, narrow-minded fools in the science community and yet I did the unthinkable".
Dr. Ladkin focused his eyes on the box and could see that the top was covered by a weak layer of frost and snow. "I wonder what kind of planet it has been on and where it has ended up to look like this." He thought. "What creatures are living there? What do they look like? What are they doing right now?" Thousands of thoughts went through his head.
The message had been delivered through the portal and now they were running for their lives. Lily looked over at her partner who was running as fast as he could next to her. For a Terran, he was fast. From behind, she could hear the bone chilling screams coming from "the white death" there was trying to catch them.
"Go" he said, between heavy breaths, as he pointed towards the gorge.
She looked at him again. "What?" She thought. "had she just heard him say, that she should leave him behind?".
She hesitated, by no means was she going to leave him behind. He yanked the visor on his helmet up, so that she can see his eyes as they looked at each other. In them she sees confidence, confidence that they will survive this, and that ultimate trust there existed between them.
"Catch the apple!" He says almost out of breath and she understood what he meant.
Lily sat her pace to her normal running speed and in a few seconds she was far ahead of him. As she ran, she pulled her XM-88 from her back so it was ready to be used.
Just before she reached the gorge, she put her feet's in the ice and made a sliding maneuver that made her stop about a foot from the edge, with ice and snow flying over it like a wave. As she raised her weapon, she heard the almost silent "paw" and saw a robotic grappling hook sail over her head on its way to the other side of the gorge.
Lily gasped, when she looked back towards Ten and saw just how many Cabits there were chasing him. Without hesitation, she began to shoot past him in an attempt to at least slow them down a little.
Tracer rounds flew close around Ten, finding their targets behind him and it was another proof of their huge confidence in each other that he did not cower or dodged the incoming fire, but kept running straight towards her.
When Ten came close enough, Lily stopped shooting and spread her arms out to the sides and made a high jump backwards over the edge. For a second she was in free fall, then Ten had his arms around her. She locked her legs around his waist and began shooting again over his head, as they flew across the gorge.
