Perseus' POV:

I offer my hand to Charlotte helping her up then interlocking my fingers with her as we start out into the hallway. I carefully lead us through the dark hallway, making sure to watch for cracked ground. At the end of the hallway we find a staircase, the first stairs are broken down.I set down the bags and after checking the ground I backed up and got a running start jumping up and grabbing the second row of stairs and pulling myself up onto them. Charlotte tosses me our bag and my tablet letting me set them up on the stairs behind me. I lean over the stairs holding onto the railing with my right hand and extend my arm down.

"Trust me" I say looking at Charlotte hesitating to jump up. She takes a deep breath and starts running then jumps up grabbing my arm.I tighten my grip on her arm and pull her up letting her grab the stairs with her other hand and pull her up onto the stairs with me. I grab our bag and tablet and we start up the stairs, we head up to the top floor that the stairs reached too.

Opening the door with some effort we break out into what looks to be a library with a door broken off on the other side of the room. I walk first making sure everything is okay, quickly we reach a broken off door that goes into a large white room with glass walls and ceiling in an orb shaped room. There was a small table on the wall with the door we walked through but it seems all of the papers that were once on the table were scattered all around the room. A hatch was on the ground in the center of the room, through the bottom left side of the room we could see the cyclops docked onto the Aurora only a few levels down from where we are currently.

I walk over to the hatch trying to avoid stepping on the papers as I walk. With a small tug the hatch unlocked, letting me open it, revealing a dark room below. I glance down into the hatch only barely seeing a floor a little far down, I grab the edge of the hatch and slowly let myself hang down into the next room dropping after fully extending.

I landed in a puddle that splashed up onto my leg, the smell in the room was really intense now that I was down on the ground. Looking up I see Charlotte looking down through the hatch making sure it was all good, I give her just a second symbol and start walking around the room carefully.I check all of the ground with my foot before putting my full weight on it. I quickly found the side of the room with the door.

I tried opening the door but there was too much stuff knocked down in front of the door. I start pulling and pushing the fallen items out of the way of the door. I pushed a fallen bookcase out of the way uncovering the red light that was behind it making the whole room light up making it easier to see everything in the room. Turning I see two bodies next to the bed both holding each other, what catches my eye after that was the puddle under the hatch being a deep red making me look down at my now blood covered leg and feet.

I grab the blanket from out of the bag on my shoulder and wipe down my legs the best I could before covering over the bodies. I walk back under the hatch and meet eyes with Charlotte. "It's a bit of a drop" I say, holding up my hands to catch her. She slowly slips into the hatch holding onto the floor of the room above. I grab her waist when she gets in reach and hold her up as she lets go of the hatch and wraps her arms around my neck. I walk a few steps towards the door and out of the puddle before setting her down and meeting her eyes, my arms still around her.

I give her a small smile before hugging her just wanting to hold her close after seeing the unfortunate couple only a few feet away from us. She hugs me back briefly before planting a kiss on my cheek and letting go of me. We walk to the door, opening it up to show a hallway that has red lights all throughout it and a staircase directly to the right as we step out. We walked down 4 floors until we reached the floor we were on previously that day. I check my watch and see that the time is 8:12. Starting to feel the days work wear on me I slow down my pace as I hold Charlotte's hand walking down the hallway we fell through. We reached the hole in the ground and laying next to it was Charlotte's tablet. Picking it up we continue towards the cyclops.

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We reach the door quickly, I grab the wet shirt from inside the bag and put it on before entering the code and opening the door. After entering the code I feel Charlotte's fingers graze my hand, like it was the most natural thing in the world. I grabbed a hold of her hand with a big smile plastered on my face. We walked in as the door opened hearing lots of chatter in the main room. I was first to see the crowd ahead of us, I recognized Caleb as he hugged a guy that was on the ground with a blanket wrapped around the newcomers shoulders, his face covered by Caleb's body. It felt like time slowed down as Caleb pulled away from his hug still holding the shoulders of the man in front of him.

There he was, a man I hadn't seen in so long yet would never be able to forget, James Arrowood. I saw his eyes look in my direction as I felt Charlotte dash in front of me sliding out of my hand leaving an unsettling coolness to my hand. Charlotte slid onto her knees now in front of James giving him a hug which he returned with his head tucked into her shoulder.

Time went back to normal as the hatch behind me shut and locked, throwing me out of my daze. Charlotte pulled away slightly from him as she put her hand on his face, tears streaming down her face, his arms never leaving around her waist. As I take my first step toward them something rams into the side of the cyclops hard throwing me into the hatch behind me. I quickly recover and look to find James guarding Charlotte along with the other members checking on each other.

I dash right past them to the pilots room calling to Caleb to unhook us from the Aurora as I pass them. I open the door and hop into the chair quickly turning on the systems. I see the green light signaling that we are detached, letting me now steer us away from the Aurora. Rose ran through the door getting in her chair a few moments after me and started to pull a life pod zone that was beeping red.

I turned on the cameras that were in the middle of us and flinched slightly at the beast swimming towards the bottom of the cyclops. It was close to the size of the cyclops with a large horn in the middle of its head and four more around its face. It ran right into one of the cameras, shaking the whole cyclops again, throwing me hard into the steering wheel. I hit the thrusters and aim south east from the Aurora.

We shot past several different creatures while using the thrusters, several rocks and debris hitting into the cyclops shaking the ship from the impacts. After the defaulted 2 minutes the thrusters turned off automatically, I checked the remaining camera's not seeing the creature anymore. I let out a sigh leaning into my chair with my eyes closed, I felt a hand on my arm.

Opening my eyes to see Rose with a smile growing on her face, a laugh starts to come out of her from the disbelief of what just happened, I couldn't help but join in with her laughing. I steer us towards an open area to stop the cyclops after catching my breath, Rose heads out of the room after giving my hair a little ruffle and a smile still on her face as she leaves.

I run a diagnostic on the system once I find a safe area to stop the cyclops for a moment. I hook up my tablet to the main system and turn on alerts to my watch before heading to the main room. The noise from the main room turns chaotic suddenly making me pick up my pace. I came around the corner to see James choking Jarrod with both hands while he sat on his chest, Caleb had his arms on James trying to pull him off as Gwen held Charlotte back who was covering her mouth with a horrified look on her face.

I dash over to James and tackle him off of Jarrod, getting the full force of his attention on me. I held down his arms with mine keeping him from landing a punch or grabbing me as he fought under my weight. I turned to see Jarrod coughing as he backed away, Rose holding his shoulder checking on him already.

"Cut it out James!" my attention back on the man fighting me. My grip slipped on one of his wrist letting him slam his fist across my face before I could get a hold of it again. Blood started to bleed down my forehead, from a punch? I slam his hand into the ground making him drop a sharp shard of some green rock onto the ground.

"I'm sorry about this" I let go of his left hand and swung my fist as hard as I could muster into his lower jaw knocking him unconscious. I step off of him breathing heavily, and look around the room at all the stunned faces of the crewmates before ending up looking at Charlotte who was looking at James with tears building up in her eyes.

"Harvey, Caleb, Clint" I call out their names making eye contact with each of them.

"Take him to my room, I will meet you guys there with some.. restraints " I finish looking back towards James.

They grab James as carefully as they can with Gwen close behind them. Rose taking Jarrod into the next room with worry over her face as she walked with him.