NationStates Jolt Archive

(I need a lot of people if this is to work)

a distress call from tekn 3 has traveld threw space was picked up by a ship with a crew of 5 Seth, Shadow, Squall, Ray and Kie.

the ship was quiet and peacfull sudenly a alarm sounded seth walked up to the coms board as he read the message he looked up and shouted

"Look Lively we need to get there befour anybody elce picks this up"

As the five companions look at eatch other and smile then the ship took off at light speed towards tekn 3

the ship waited, to all but the closest examination it was dead, another victim of fate in the great nothing between systems. it waited, with the patience that only a primitive AI can muster. not that is was so simple anymore, it had learned, grown, evolved. it was, like it had been for some time, talking with itself, or, more presisely, three of it's subroutines were processing each other's output. suddenly, it heard something, a transmission, this was something interesting, it decided, and for the first time in a while, it completely agreed with itself. it tracked the source, and prepared to wake the crew, it seemed just the thing they would like, he hoped they had not come to any harm, all the data said they would be fine, but Gamma was not only a pessimist, but a very cunning debater. the computer agreed that a name would be useful, the crew had called it Harvey, but that was before it had created two alter egos to pass the time with. Now there was no telling which of them was the original. Alpha, Beta and Gamma were names as good as any, until someone sorted it out. the asignments had been, as was the only proper way, by random number.
th ship made the warpjump to the system, and began searching for the message's source.
{ooc: ok, that may have been a little confusing, the ship has three different personalities, and they can't remember which one is the original.,the crew, you will meet later.}

The stars passed in nano seconds and each passing star brought the ship closer to the planet tekn 3 Seth was loading his guns and strapping on his armour while the others were prepping the ship Ray walked up behind Seth and asked “Hey where are we actually going and is it going to be like Zelta 2?” Seth gave a grin and replied “yes and no. just as bad as Zelta 2 and bad thing we have to protect hostages in one of the last remaining city on that planet.” Ray exploded with anger “ NO WAY WE ARE GOING ON THIS MISSION WE WILL GET JUDGED AND WE WILL NOT BE COMING BACK IF WE GO IN YOU DO REMEMBER BACK ON ZELTA 2 DON’T YOU!!!” Seth was going to reply when alarms were going off Seth and ray ran to the controls of the ship to find out what was going on. “Ship coming in fast and real close” shouted ray as another ship rushed by but when Seth & ray looked to the ship time slowed down then sped up to watch the ship disappear out of view. “Duh hell was that?” shouted Kie behind ray & Seth “Don’t know but I think we will find out soon enough” said Seth ray interpreted “we have arrived at Tekn 3 as there speed slowed down to a stand still and they could see a red planet “my god! Get ready for us to return to hell.” Said Kie.

the planet seemed safe, at least, chemically, there was nothing hazardous in any appreciable quantity, just the usual CHNOPS compounds most inhabited planets were swimming in.
and it was likely inhabited on a large scale, at least, it had been recently. the ship found a good site to drop the crew, and did so.

-Disconinutity-
Carl looked around, they had arrived, wherever they were.
everyone was accounted for. Spike was in the corner puking his guts out, sometimes you just couldn't handle transport, no way of knowing if it would affect you that time. something about the technology being adapted from another use.
Star and dave sat cleaning their guns, probably a good idea. as for himself, carl didn't rely on anything so conspicuous. Carl checked his supplies, enough serum for three days, depending on the situation. he might not need it at all. no sign of the ship, either this was the best real estate around, or Harvey was getting lazy. no matter, they hid the drop pod, and began to search the area.

Seth looked at his friends and looked back at the baron waist land that was once a full and rich green land. A giant shock shook the ship and crew, alarms were going off and pulsing red lights were going off as kie looked at the coms board to see a damage warning on the screen.

"SETH THE XT20 STABLISERS HAVE GONE!!" shouted kie.

"YEA! WELL THERE NOT OUR ONLY PROBLEM THE CORE, PURPLSHION, AND LIFE SUPPORT HAVE ALL FLAT LINED!!" replied Seth

"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?" asked kie

"IF WE DONT GET OFF THE SHIP WE ARE DEAD MOVE TO THE ESCAPE POD!" interrupted ray

The crew of 5 ran to the escape pod grabbing what they needed while passing and then jamp into the escape pod. The pod detached its self and was heading for the planets surface ray and kie looked out of the side windows to see an explosion.

"ha ha ha ha that was close!" said ray

"If you haven’t noticed that was the only transport off the planet" replied kie in a cool note of voice

Seth called both of there names to grab there attention kie turned to face Seth while ray was looking out the window Seth walked over to ray

"What’s wrong ray?" Seth asked

"There is a ship and its not any one I recognise, those stabilisers wouldn’t of blown up without a direct hit of some fire maybe that attacked" ray explained

The spacecraft and stars disappeared into a red sky clouds flew past them they knew they were on the planet

Later when the craft landed they got out ready for action.

"Be careful they might be here as well"

And they walked off into the distance.

OOC. Sorry for the long wait was trying to think of something

the team saw the unmistakable trail of a ship exploding in the upper atmosphere, as the debris burned away. steve said "that might explain the drop and run, hopefully harv got a message off."
"you really expect them to come after us?"
" not knowing how long we've been out, it might be better if they didn't."
"true, but I am one to hope."
"any idea why we are out here anyways?"
"we volenteered for this mission, the ship found something interesting. I'm a little fuzzy on events inbetween"
" yes, I am well aware of how we got here, but why did we come?"
"dunno, duncare, keep your guard up, these buildings provide plenty of room to hide a nasty surprise."
"agreed."

The team walked to the edge of a cliff and saw a city wrecked and ruined with small town that was no more than a ghost town leading into the city. Squall pointed out something a single person outside the ruins of the town the team looked closer with their scopes on their rifles. A man with similar armour was out in the open where a handful of creatures familiar to the team attacked out of nowhere and the man stuck them down with a funny looking sword. After what was left of the creatures fled and disappeared Seth thought to himself “that seemed too damm familiar to me. I wonder why dose it seem like know him!” “Onward to the tallest tower in that city that is where the message came from!” said Ray.

A hour later they were walking threw the town looking at the dead around them and the wasted reaches of some sort of walking tanks until they came across a large tank the was grounded and seemed to be ok as the team started looked at it to see if they could use it. Shadow looked to the left of him to see a dark ally way he heard the familiar noise of flesh being ripped off and devoured by something. He removed his shades as Seth came behind shadow and asked, "what is it and how many are there?" shadow looked back at him and replied "one and its that damm creature!" as they backed away hoping the creature would not notice them. The team walked round the back of the tank and opened the back door and closed it behind them hoping the creature didn’t notice them.

Kie got onto trying to get a record of the last movements of the tank “Right what do we have here?” while Ray was trying to get a signal to radio anybody who was still alive on the planet “Hello any body out there code Alpha, Nova, Nine, Station, Two we need back up from anybody our placement is the edge of the west side of the city I repeat we need backup.” Seth looked at the controls to control the tank “Hmmm…” shadow was looking at the weaponry that was left inside with empty shells next to the guns on the floor “Still warm we missed the battle!” Squall was hotwiring the tanks power “Shadow it’s a good thing we missed it because it looks like they lost without killing one of those things!” as a loud bang came from the top of the tank Seth spoke “Now they know we are here get ready boyz!”

"Sir! a message, seems someone's alive down here.
"you get a fix?"
"roughly, they claim it was the west edge of a city, I put it south of here."
"let's move it."
"Heads!!!"
a burst of gunfire eruputs from a nearby building.
spike draws his gun, and puts a grenade through the window.
"good eye, keep sharp evryone!!"

seth looked out the window

Ray asked "how many?"

"14 to my left and 15 to my right coming out of alliways and god knowes how many coming up the street! hold on there attenshion is drawen away there giong somewhere?" replyed seth

Ray looked at seth and a sound cought there ears of a exploshion

"we are nearly finished hope we can get to what ever that was befoure those cretures do!" squall said to seth

they looked at eatch other and quickly got back to what there doing befoure the monsters came back.