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The sounds of thousands of feet marching through the alien ship could be heard from every direction, as men and women grabbed everything that didn't look like it belonged on the ground.
Strange handheld devices that could be compared to guns but didn't have the necessary triggers that were needed to fire them.
Swords and daggers that were colorfully decorated, were being taken by the scavengers who decided that they needed another weapon.
Kirito ignored the excited vices of the soldiers and civilians who were drawing the various designs and emblems that covered the inside of the alien ship.
He could feel his heart beating faster with every passing second, but he forced himself to calm down before he began to panic.
It had been hours since they started to explore the ship and luckily for everyone nothing out of the ordinary had happened, that was until one of the teams failed to report in.
Again this wasn't out of the ordinary, because as good as the help screens were they weren't able to bypass certain things, so he was forced to come here and look for the missing people.
His help screen stopped at fifteen, there were fifteen lifeless bodies of innocent men and women in front of him, their corpses were torn apart and scattered as if they were an animal's chew toy.
He carefully walked closer to the bodies and felt his instincts whisper to him.
He began to look around, maybe an animal had seen the team and thought that they were food, or perhaps the team had accidentally activated one of the ship's defenses.
He looked for any signs that proved to him that his instincts were wrong, he used his help screen to search for anything that might hint at another possibility and he prayed that there was something else.
Because if the team hadn't been killed by an animal or some kind of trap then that meant that there was someone or something else in the ship with them.
His help screen began to beep before it zoomed into something that was stuck inside of a woman's neck.
Kirito carefully pulled what looked like a needle out of the corpse and sent both the image of the needle and the images of the corpses to everyone.
He couldn't allow himself to hesitate any longer, because the longer he doubted his instinct more people would die.
The world seemed to slow down as his body moved on its own, he quickly jumped to the left and used his left hand to push himself away from the wall while at the same time, he used his right hand to draw his sword.
the sound of something hitting the sword forced him to move faster, he almost thought that he was safe when he managed to step lightly on the ceiling, except his body once again moved before he could even realize what was happening.
Over and over again, the sound of something hitting the edge of his sword reached his ears, but he was only able to hear it because of his enhanced senses.
Kirito moved left- right-up-down, he turned his body and forced himself to twist in ways that would have broken him if he wasn't so resistant.
he threw the needle in the direction that the attacks were coming from and in the split second that it took for his attacker to dodge he sprinted towards him.
Kirito barely caught a glimpse of what looked like a tall beautiful woman, who disappeared into the background.
He swung his sword and sent wave after wave of energy through his sword and into the surrounding area, but no matter what he did he neither heard nor saw anything being hit by his attacks.
Kirito felt the uneasy air around him, he listened to the sounds of the salvage teams who were trying to escape before the alien woman attacked them.
He ignored the panic-filled voices of the people and listened to the roars and moans of the animals who didn't care about the Humans that were inside the ship.
Again his instincts were telling him that something was wrong, but he didn't understand why his mind was so focused on the moans and oars of the creatures.
Kirito ran towards the entrance of Aincrad, his feet were moving so fast that anyone that saw him would say that he was flying.
The animals were headed towards the entrance of the ship.
Kirito felt his breath stop as he was forced to watch as several creatures nearly crushed the people that he was supposed to protect.
He couldn't help but exhale in relief when the barrier stretched itself and pulled everyone back into Aincrad before the doors of the castle closed behind them.
Kirito felt his eyes begin to harden, he was now completely alone with whoever, or better said whatever wanted him dead.
He was about to walk towards the entrance of the ship when he felt the familiar sensation of danger, he threw himself onto the ground and rolled to the side.
He could hear something hitting the area where he had stood just seconds earlier, but he didn't allow himself to slow down not even to think about how he barely avoided dying again.
He rolled over and over again and when he realized that he was no longer being shot at he ran towards the direction that his would-be killer was.
He quickly cut the distance and saw not one but four strange creatures with long heads, who were wearing armor similar to the ones that were scattered throughout the ship.
He wanted to talk to them, to ask them why they were attacking him. why they had tried to kill the salvage teams?" but whatever questions he had were thrown away when the aliens drew their swords and charged at him.
Kirito didn't hesitate and met them in battle but before either side would meet the sounds of gunfire erouped behind him.
Kirito could only watch as the alien's bodies seemed to turn into water and vanished from sight, he didn't move even as his reinforcements continued to bathe the area around him with gunfire.
"Filthy Zenos." he heard on of the men say as he walked to his side.
"Are you okay sir?" the soldier asked him.
'What was that?" Kirito asked the man.
"That was an Eldar, something that looks Human but it isn't." the man answers him.
Kirito wanted to ask the soldier something but again he was forced to stay quiet when a blue light filled the inside of the ship, it was as if something was trying to get in, but it couldn't for some reason.
"Alright, you know what to do." Kirito heard the soldier say to his men before they started to search the area for anything that wasn't supposed to be there.
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Let me clear up a few things, Aincrad or the World Ship is now full of everyone that couldn't abandon the Imperial ships.
The reason doesn't matter the point is that they couldn't.
These people were running out of food and water, and they expected to die forgotten, but then they were rescued by the players.
They are nowhere near the number that would have been in those ships, but there are still a lot of people.
The good thing about this is that the Plyers haven't run into anyone dangerous, because everyone that was dangerous left the ship with everyone else.
Unfortunately for them, the Craft World that they found isn't safe to touch, the Craft World is the size of a planet and from both the Players and the Imperial's point of view it belongs to them because they found it.
Even if the Eldar don't agree.