Chapter 2: Arrival on Antiga

After that we left the planet, with some data disks that a group of men with Captain Raynor, who recently joined us, got from the Jacobs installation. We were heading to a planet called Antiga Prime, a planet that has a beautiful breathable atmosphere, to give relief to the Antigan people there. Life on the ship was kinda cramped at first, and not being able to see anything but metal, but I got used to it after a while. There were good things around the ship, like the food was great and also the recreation room was a lot of fun as well, for it had a holographic arcade game, a huge TV and a built in bar. But one of the best things that happened by chance was that my mates, except for Caleb who was in another ship, were in the same bunkroom, number 52.

During a late night I was walking back to my room from the Rec room (as we like to call it), just as I saw my metallic bunkroom door I found out that I left my jersey at one of the tables, so I turned round and bumped into a woman similar to my age.

"Oh sorry… it was my fault, are you alright?" I stuttered

"Yea…I'm alright, anyway my name is Angela, people call me Angel. I'm a marine, Mar Sara Regiment, what's your name?"

"Well…my name is Alex, I'm in that regiment as well, I haven't noticed you before. Where were you going?"

"I was just looking around the ship, seeing where everything is."

"Can I join you?"

"Yea, Sure"

For the next minute I didn't care about my jersey, I would pick it up later. We walked all around the ship, and found out that some of the corridors were not as skinny as some of the main ones and also looked at the gigantic engines that made this big hunk of metal move. As we were looking around I had a look at Angel, she had long red hair with deep blue eyes and a long slim body. Finally when we came to the end of our 'tour', right in front of my bunkroom.

"So, this is it right?" I said.

"Yea, so I'll see you later." She said in a happy voice.

"See ya."

The next few days on the ship was quite boring, for there wasn't any thing to talk about in the cafeteria anymore, the only thing keeping us from cabin fever was the annual Tri-Core Wrestling, and the quartermaster still champion. But Angel and me had developed a beautiful friendship, and there was a lot to talk about, for she used to be the 'bad girl' back at home, or what remained as home. Finally we arrived at our destination, Antiga Prime.

We got briefed before we got assigned barracks, later tomorrow 2 squads of marines will accompany Captain Raynor to relieve Lieutenant Sarah Kerrigan who was dispatched earlier to scout the area around the Antigan base. Angel and Me were assigned in one of those squads.

During the day, I bumped into Caleb while walking to my bunkroom, in the same barracks that was at Mar Sara. Some buildings have a special feature that allows them to lift off and 'glide' to their destination, but when they are in space they can pick up speed. For safety reasons we travel in other ships. "Hey Caleb, how was the trip eh?"

"Boring, as usual."

As we were talking, Angel walked into the room and said, "hi Alex, who's this?"

"Oh I almost forgot, Caleb, this is Angela"

We all pasted pleasantries and Caleb was gob smacked

"We all have to report to the Briefing room immediately, that includes you Caleb."

So we all ran towards the briefing room, amazingly the corridors were wider than the ones in the ship that I was in, but it's a good change anyway.