Ben walked out the bathroom and back into the room he fell asleep in, it wasn't empty this time as he saw Mute standing in the middle of the room facing the back of the ship, Ben stopped and stared at this strange man, he didn't mean to stare but Ben was trying to figure out what he was staring at. Ben didn't see anything at all, just the back of the ship, and Mute just looked at it. Ben almost jumped out of his skin when Mute spoke, "there's a dent"

"huh-what?", Ben was taken completely off guard, did he know he was staring at him this whole time? This guy really is weird...and a dent? "a dent?", he asked walking over beside Mute.

"yes, over there", he pointed to a small panel, "top left next to that panel"

Ben could see it now, the tiniest dent in the metal above the panel, "okay...what about it"

"it's bothering me", wow, you don't say, Ben sarcastically added in his head.

"it's just a dent"

"I know it's just...I'm bored", Ben chuckled at that, he didn't think a trained plumber for dangerous missions like this could get bored, especially sat it aloud.

"did you try sleeping?"

He glanced to Ben giving him a strange look, "I don't sleep well in space, its too quiet"

"yeah i get what you mean, the quiet drives my mom crazy. Not me though I can sleep through pretty much anything"

"well that's something we don't have in common", Ben wanted to change the subject, but before he could say anything else the ship com system beeped to life.

"alright ladies the Vallhala is directly ahead, gear up!", the pilot yelled through the com's, Mute flashed a smile while turning to Ben.

"better get ready", he said before walking away. Ben watched him leave, confusion still written all over his face.

"what a strange guy", Ben mumbled quietly to himself.

The 'Falcon' soared through the dark part of space. The vessel Vallhala floated aimlessly through space, the engines shut down about an hour ago so the ship wouldn't go anywhere soon. The pilot watched the ship grow as they approached, he checked for any signs of an exterior attack or forced entry on the ship. The only thing out of place was a breach in what looked like a lab - lab equipment floating out into space. He circled the ship to inspect any other damage, there was one more blow in what looked to be the crew cabin, there two unlucky chaps where in that cabin when it got breached, their frozen bodies floated passed the pilots view. The pilot found a hanger bay near him, but the doors where sealed shut and no communications where up. Instead he flew to what he called the 'pipeline' (the part of a ship where other rescue ships can fly in and board, it was a safety precaution for most ships in case there ever was an emergency like this). He flew close enough for the boarding grapple to grab hold of the ship.

The com system beeped to life once again, "alright ladies and gents, we are bordered and ready too see whats inside. We have two breaches in what might be a lab and a crew cabin so stay wary, from what it looks like on the outside don't get you hopes up, good luck", the coms fell silent.

Ben stiffened at the part, he wasn't religious but he prayed to god everyone was alright. He shook the thought away, he had to stay focused. Ben and the rest of the team where in front of the pipeline tube, the door hissed open and revealed a tube from the 'Falcon' to the Vallhala. Ben waited for all the team members to pass through before he went, they passed through the tunnel glancing out the visible material into space, it was kinda cool and creepy out in space, he remembered a quote from a movie he watched once, 'no one can hear you scream in space', now he was freaked out even more. He stopped behind Mute, Tank was fiddling with the door panel trying to get it open.

"are you okay?", asked Mute looking at Ben with concern.

"yeah, why?"

"you look creep'd out", wow, can he read minds too.

"just remembered something from a movie-you sure don't live up to your name do you", Ben said changing the subject, when Ben first heard his nickname he expected him to actually be mute, but he'd talked to him more than anyone else.

"don't know, it's just...nothing, just feeling talkative I guess", nothing? Ben wouldn't have it. The door to the Vallhala hissed open, one by one they entered the Vallhala, once again Ben was the last to enter. Ben entered the ship and looked at his surroundings, it was basically a small room, the Vallhala was actually a large ship, but this room made it appear small.

"alright", tank stated, "we'll be splitting in too teams of two, if we split up the better chance we have of finding something sooner", made sense, more people they had spread out the better chance of finding someone. "the teams are me and Crane, the twins, Kyle and Roman, Mike and Riley", the only two left where Ben and Mute, Tank just nodded to them both, they got the message. "right, let's see what we find", the door slid open and everyone went their separate ways, Ben and Mute watched them go their ways and decided to go down the only hall un-occupied, Ben could hear Mute follow him from behind. They walked all the way until they came across a door, it open. Mute tapped Ben on the shoulder and gazed to where Mute was looking, there was something on the wall up ahead, it looked like...blood, Ben tensed at the thought.

"I'll go check it out, you check what's on the other side of that door", Ben nodded and a mute walked away, Ben raised the ultimatrix and turned to Big Chill, with a flash of green Big Chill stood tall, he went intangible through the door. On the other side was a storage room, Ben sighed, it wasn't what he was hoping for, he went out and changed back into Ben. He walked to where Mute disappeared to, he walked until he got to the end of the hallway. His stomach did somersaults when he saw the blood, it defiantly was blood on the wall with a feint hand print. The way the blood was smeared told Ben who ever it was went to his right, he followed his instincts and went right, he walked slowly watching the light flicker, something must be wrong with the power.

"There you are", came a voice that made Ben yelp in fear and surprise, Mute was just around the next corner and scared the crap out of him.

"Crap Mute!", Ben whisper-yelled to him, Mute just chuckled at Bens fright.

"sorry", he apologized to the Jumpy Ben. Ben calmed himself down, he was thankful he didn't scream."I followed blood"

"yeah I know", Ben said walking beside him, they saw more blood, this person was determined to get to where ever he is in this state. The blood stopped and the person along with it. Ben gagged at the sight, there lay a man in a security outfit with a huge hole in his chest, Ben turned away and clenched his eyes shut, he forced himself not to vomit, but how could someone not at a sight like that. Ben gathered what strength he had left and looked to mute who knelt beside the body.

"wha-what are you d-doing", Ben asked keeping himself from gagging back.

Mute pointed at the hole, "something was in him", he stated.

"what do you me-mean"

"the ribs are bent out, something broke out of his chest", Ben didn't know of any aliens that lived inside of people's chest, maybe he swallowed something. "there's nothing else we can do for this man now", he said getting up and walking onward, Ben looked at the mans body once more before moving around him and moving with Mute.

"Shit", Mike said aloud,"here's another one", he said to Riley pointing at a dead body with a hole in his chest. They went their separate way from the rest of the team, they went up what they thought was the way to the hanger bay, instead they found themselves in a room with people tied to machines, all in a row with holes in their chest.

"these people were here against their will", she said fiddling with the metallic straps, "they where tied to these, defiantly an illegal ship", she then looked at the glass tubes over the holes in their chest, "what the hell where people doing in here-"

BANG!

Ben and Mute Jumped at the sound of a single gunshot. There was a moment of silence before more rang out, the once silent ship became consumed in gunshots. Mute sprung into action, running through a maze of corridors leaving Ben behind, when Ben realized he was alone he called out and ran, "hey! Wait!"

BANG!

The first gunshot came from one of the twins, Sam. He and his brother Danny were walking down a hallway to the cargo bay, they noticed a few bodies lay scattered all over the place, some with holes in the chest. Also, next to the ones with holes in their chests was what they thought were the 'Aliens' aboard the ship. These weird spider looking things with long tails either lay dead next to the person they probably attacked or on their face.

These things must be the ones making people's chest explode, but why are they dead? It doesn't make sense-Bang! Sam and Danny spun around to be met by something non human. And that's when Sam pulled out his revolver and shot.

Riley and Mike were running towards the sound of shots, they were looking at some weird alien things when the first shot rang out. They ran as fast as their legs could carry them when something long with a sharp-tipped end came down from the ceiling and stabbed right through Mikes chest, Blood splattered on a stunned Riley's face as the attacker hissed at her.

Ben ran towards where Mute disappeared to, he was to fast for Ben to keep up with. Ben ran in directions he thought would lead him towards the gunshots. He ran through a door that opened almost as fast as he ran. He stopped when he realized, this isn't right? The room he was in looked like the engine room judging by the warm hum, how did I get here! He hated that there wasn't a map or anything of this damn ship.

Clank

A metallic clank came ahead of him, the gunshots weren't as loud in here as in the hallways. But something was moving around in here, he heard shuffling just behind what Ben thought was big generators. Ben moved towards the sounds, he rounded the generator and found nothing, the moving stopped. Sudden movement behind him made him slam down on the Ultimatrix, "Spider monkey!", he said as he turned around. What ever was there was moving fast along the wall towards Ben, a sudden long tail with a sharp end came flying towards his chest, he saw this coming and dodged the attack. He shot webs at the tail that struck the metal ground, a fierce hiss came from his attacker as he shot more webs towards it in the shadows. He saw the webs hit his target and more hiss's came his way. He heard his webs snapping as the creature squirmed around, Ben shot as many webs all over the now trapped creature, soon it's whole body ad tail was pinned by his webs, "that wasn't so hard", he said turning back into Ben, the green light faded and left a grinning Ben in its place. He froze immediately when a hiss sound and hot breath went down his neck.

Danny reloaded his M4, three un identified creatures with long tails ambushed them-"AHHHHH"-Danny looked to Same, his world paused as he watched a sharp end of a tail go through His brothers right shoulder. He was brought back to reality when Tank and Crane came into the room shooting at the other two aliens. Danny lifted his rifle and shot in the shadows where the tail extended from, it fell limp and so did Sam. He ran over to his brother and pulled him up,"we gotta go!"

Ben turned around and looked at another Alien, this one was right in from of him. It was standing upright, the Alien is vaguely bipedal in form, though it adopt a more hunched. The Alien has segmented, blade-tipped tail. It has a elongated, smooth cylindrical skull, but possess no visible eyes, the creature has webbed, six fingered two long middle fingers and a pair of thumbs. And almost looked like the form of a person.

The Alien hissed at Ben who jumped back waiting for an attack, he lifted the Ultimatrix as it lifted its tail. Ben was about to press down on the Ultimatrix when it struck its tail. Ben put up his arm in attempt to black the attack, but it had a sharp tail that would cut right through him. It's tail struck the Ultimatrix on the arm that Ben tried to defend himself with.

There was a sudden burst of electrical energy that ran through the Alien and Ben, it hissed and pain as Ben cried out, the blue light surrounding them got smaller. As quick as a blink, the blue light burst with energy spreading across the ship. The light faded and Ben fell limp to the ground, the alien was gone.

The surviving members of the team raced back to the 'Falcon', they were almost there when Mute appeared ahead of them, they could see a large gash wound below his ribs, "Come on!" They yelled running past him, "let's get out of here!"

"Where's Ben!", the room became silent as a distant scream was heard and a blue field of energy knocked them to the ground. They got back up with difficulty as the ship started to shudder with explosions. Once on their feet a large shudder almost knocked them down again, explosions could be heard and they felt as the ship rocked back and forth. Riley grabbed Mutes arm and pulled him to the door leading to the docking pipe, "No! Wait", he said stopping her,"what about Ben! He could still be-"

"I'm sorry", she said as pushed him into the room, "we have to go!", the door hissed shut behind them as the shudders became more violent. They got back into the 'Falcon' and immediately the ship flew off back into safe space, they gazed out the window as they saw parts of the Vallhala blow up. It was over, only Mute, Riley, Tank and the twins made it back, one of the twins was badly injured, Mute looked over to the mourning survivors, all had their heads bowed and silent, "what do we tell Magister Tennyson and his family"

Ben sat curled into a ball of pain, the never ending sequence of explosions rocking the ship seemed so slow down, not that Ben would know. All he heard were the screeches and hisses that seemed to circle him, and yet ... out of everything a familiar voice soothed his mind with gentle, encouraging words.

"don't be afraid child I am here for you"