Hello readers, I know you have questions like why Ben is young again and stuff like that. All that will be explained in later chapters. Enjoy!
"...un-identified craft, you have heavy damage too your ship and are in a current no-pass zone, please respond...", the voice echoed throughout the back half Vallhal science vessel," ...un-identified vessel please respond...", the feminine voice bounced off the walls echoing throughout the entire ship and into space, the ship covered in hard frost,"...is anyone there?...", the ship was completely deplete of oxygen. The ship had been drifting around for almost a year now and untouched by human hands.
The approaching ship slowed it's current speed and drifted along it's side, inside at the bridge a frustrated middle aged woman turned away from the com-system,"Captain Connor sir, there com system is still fully operational but we have no response."
The captain of the bridge stepped towards her, he was a man in his sixties with age showing in his face and posture, his grey hair matched his silver eyes. He wore a dark blue Plumber ship captains uniform with the ultimatrix symbol on the left shoulder."there's only one half of the ship, the crew is probably dead or trapped", he mainly said to himself before looking down at her,"bring us in to the nearest boarding tube and prepare a boarding party"
She nodded and typed in commands into her holographic computer,"attention crew, will all medical staff please report to medic bay one for any personnel still on-board the damaged vessel, will all security staff please report to Cargo-bay two for brief and prep", she ended the com and switched the holographic projection to one showing the damaged back half of the un-identified ship. She continued too scan the ship for any signs of life...
Simultaneous footsteps echoed through Cargo-bay two as security personnel came rushing in, fifteen men and woman stood in rows of five and awaited further instructions.
Captain Connor walked into the large space of Cargo-bay two, the security personnel saluted him before he spoke,"alright ladies, as you know we stumbled across a damaged vessel in a current red zone", he paused to let the information soak in,"we don't know if the ship was abandoned before it was damaged, or if there's anything still living in there. According to the scanners all oxygen was depleted some time ago, but you never know what you might find. You will be put into groups of three", the ship shuddered as the boarding tube attached to the other ship,"you will see what you can find in there, get goin'"
"Find anything", Captain Conners demanded as he walked back into the bridge. The woman from before shook her head,"no sir, not yet". He walked along the side looking out the left view screen, he could see his security personnel walking along the boarding tube into the un-identified ship. He could make out the personalized space-walk suits the security personnel changed into.
"Any clues about the ships name", the captain casually asked.
"No sir-wait"
"What is it", the captain said returning his attention back to her.
"The ships markings are from a V-class science vessel"
"And that means...", captain Conners trailed off waiting for her too continue.
"They where the first scientific vessels to travel beyond earth, three where ever made but one was reported destroyed, but the back half of the ship was never found", she said reading the last bit of information from her data-base.
"Well I guess we found the back half then, doubtful that anyone might still be alive", captain Conners said with no hint of emotion betraying his voice,"once we're done here contact Mr Weyland and tell him he has nothing to worry about, and contact Plumber Headquarters. I'll be writing a report in my cabin if there's a problem"
"Yes sir", Captain Conners left the Bridge and walked down to the ships cabins. His ship, the Volcano, had cabins for one hundred crew members, two cargo bays, two boarding tubes, cafeteria, four crew lounges and the other parts such as engine bays. He had been a Captain for several months now patrolling different planets. His current position was patrolling around a class four planet called Tk-Landon. Tk-Landon is a atmosphere generated planet by Weyland industries, t class four due to the lack of atmosphere before and it's jungle infested interior. The plants on the lancet grows without oxygen but slowly is adapting to the changes.
Captain Connors entered his cabin and sat at his desk. His room was larger than the other cabins, but nothing was special about it. He pressed the 'on' button on his holo-computer and it started up. He began writing his report while thinking about the ship.
"This suit makes my arm ich"
"Shut-up Jane"
The security teams waited in the boarding tube while the tube sucked out the oxygen."alright ladies", the man closer to the exit of the tube yelled,"turn on your boots, I don't want you floating around, and remember to step on the metal", the tube hissed and the door slowly opened. The security teams turned on their magnetic boots and walked along into the ships cargo bay, from the looks of the cargo floating around it was easy too figure out it was the cargo bay.
The fifteen men and women divided themselves into groups of three and discussed their options."me, Mike, Dane, Ash and Jane will take the left. Jhon, Klay, Luke, Andrew and Watz take the right. Rick, Blyd, Tony, Drake and Puma go ahead". With their plan in set, they went off.
About twenty minutes passed and Captain Conners had finished his report not long ago. When he was done he decided too lay on his bed and think. His intercom beeped twice and he answered."what is-"
"Sir we have a situation!", a male voice cut him off,"we need you on the bridge now!".
He didn't need to be told twice, he jumped from his mattress and sprinted out his door toward the bridge. He passed many personnel also running around frantically while listening to the ship announcements,"attention all personnel", he skipped a couple of steps before another door opened,"will all engineers please report to sub-level D-", the ship shuddered and Conners flung against the hard steel of the corridor wall,"warning, unknown detonated explosion on un identified ship-", the captain could see the bridge door,"-medical officers please report to the medic bay". The bridge door hissed open and the captain was greeted by the sound of frantic beeps and alarms.
"What's going on in here!", the captain demanded whilst seeing the damage from the side view. A large flaming hole could be seen on the other ship, and broken parts floated toward his own ship.
"Sir we had an energy grenade explosion on the ship upper levels", his co-pilot said with a slight Swedish accent.
"Who set off the grenade!"
"It was Andrew Clinton sir"
"Patch me through to him"
"Sir we lost communication with him", the room fell silent for a second.
"Then give me someone", a few commands where typed.
"We are patched through to Rick sir"
"Rick, what's-", the captain stopped speaking when the speakers where filled with sounds of gun fire.
"Captain this is Rick!", Rick blared through the com speakers,"unknown alien infestation aboard! Lost sight of two teams! We're heading back to the ship now!"
"-where heading back to the ship now!", Rick blared into the com before returning to shooting blindly in the darkness, a loud screeching sound was heard before green liquid spilled on the ground and ate away the metal. The shooting stopped and his gun smoked, his scratchy breathing was the only sound beeping made now"
"Roger that Rick", the captain replied through the com,"we will be scanning the tube entrance for any unfamiliar life forms, meanwhile you contact everyone to get back here"
"Copy that", Rick said before he switched his com-channel,"alright guys! We're falling back to the ship, copy!", he got nothing but static. Fuck it! He ran as fast as he could back the way he came , while he ran his com came to life," copy that Rick, me and Puma are heading back", Rick recognized Tony's voice, he mentally sighed in relief to hear there voice.
Puma and Tony ran back the way they came, as they rounded a corner Tony ran head first into a black figure. It roared a deafening screech before swiping its long bony claws at Tony. It penetrated his armor and tore through his chest muscles, blood splattered onto the walls.
Puma's eyes widened and drew his rifle on his hip, he pulled the trigger and shot blindly into the dark as more screeches filled the corridor.
Rick reached the boarding tube as he heard gunfire, he stopped and listened before it fell silent. The doors hissed open and he ran halfway into the tube. When the doors closed he dropped too his knees and took a deep breath in,"Rick", the captains voice filled his ears,"is that you in the tube"
"Yes sir, I'm waiting for Tony and puma to arrive before I enter"
"Sir", another voice could be heard from the captains com," we have strange signals by the tube entrance, we detect a feint human signal but many others surrounding it"
"That must be Puma or Tony! I will open the door-but after ten seconds you'll have to close it manually from the bridge captain", he said running back to the entrance,"just in case those thing try to run in and we have a problem", he didn't wait for a reply before cutting off his communications completely, he reached the tube door and opened it, it hissed open and only saw jet black hair before he was completely overwhelmed.
"Close the doors", the captain commanded after ten exact seconds.
"Doors have been closed sir"
"Good, open the doors to my ship, and make sure we have medics waiting"
"Yes sir", a female voice said while typing command to the medic room,"will a medic team please report to the cargo bay"
Conners patched his com through to the boarding tube,"alright guys you have one minute to get aboard, otherwise you'll be stuck in the tube", he turned to the Swedish man,"after sixty seconds, seal the tube and un-dock us"
"Yes sir-wait, sir we have a mull function with the docking tube"
"What malfunction"
"We can't pull out from the other ship, the explosion must have locked the tube in place, sir"
"I don't care, just pull away when we're done"
"Sir, if we are still attached then we might pull the ship in the direction we are going before it snaps"
"Just do it, I'll warn Mr Weyland and the plumbers, they'll take care of the ship before it reaches Tk-Landon"
"Alright sir", just then, the alarms began ringing again.