UNG Log Galactic Calendar 20300 09/15 - We have been assigned a crew member from the Galactic Council as a recommendation primarily to work security, tracking and to help with the exploring of new planets on the research vessel Vol-II. The Death Worlder was selected due to his expertise in survival. I have been tasked with studying this new crew member as this is a new race that has made contact with the Galactic community as well studying any new planets. They come from a planet called Terra or Earth as they call it, but from the initial reports this planet is supposedly the most strange of all the planets in the known Universe. They have what's called Oceans, and lakes that are filled with dihydrogen monoxide and an extremely heavy gravity compared to many planets. The planet can get hot and cold, and deadly flora and fauna from early reports. However though we still know very little if anything really about these creatures;but could something let alone a sentient being survive on that Death Planet. For this reason their planet has been called a death world, and called deathworlders themselves as a nickname for their race. The Terran or human, comes from a country called Australia. I hope we made all of the accommodations that are required by Galactic Codes and Regulations. We are to pick up our new human at the Galactic Port on Tauf.
UNG Log Galactic Calendar 20300 09/16- As we made our final check on supplies and the rest of the crew that were on leave started to make their back on the ship, an Alien that I never saw before started to make their approach to the ship. From the stories that I have heard about the Terrans, this must be our new crew member. Tall, bipedal, a light brown hair with gold on its head, with no other significant amount of fur just on its head, and green eyes, this definitely must be our human. The other races that were at the port stopped and were looking at this mysterious alien that they had only heard stories about that lived beyond the outer rim of controlled space. Though from what I have heard the stories about the humans, makes them sound like they are more myth than a living thing. As he approached he was about my height, which was about 1.8 meters in height.
With a slight bow, “Hello! You must be Chris Johnson from Australia. I’m Sulv Yun the head researcher, and one of the medical staff for the ship. ”
Bowing back “Pleasure to meet youSulv, people call me CJ.” Holding his hand I heard that this was a formal greeting from their planet, and grasping mine it nearly broke mine in the process.
“Shall we go inside and get you set up, and meet the rest of the crew. But first here you go, this your ship access card for the ship and it is your ID badge; so make sure you keep it on you at all times.
Making their way through the ship on a quick tour, and finally to CJ’s quarters.
“Here are your quarters, we tried to make it as close to home as possible with the temperature. If you need adjusting here are the controls for it. Do you mind if I ask what the temperature is for Terrans?”
“Well really any temperature as long it falls between 120 degrees Celsius in dry heat and - 68 degrees Celsius with proper clothing and for a short time. But we prefer like 4 and 35 degree Celsius.”
“Wait what? So basically below freezing and boiling water.”
“ Yeah he even professions where some of us fight fires.”
“Oh like with robots and stuff, that understandable.”
“We send in humans to do those jobs, not robots.”
“No, I understand that. What is wrong with your race? I must study you, so come into the lab.”
Before CJ could say anything, he was being pulled out of the room into the hallway to the lab for testing. In the lab, Sulv was asking a bunch of questions about the human race with little success. Taking a device that looked like a gun, Sulv injects something into CJ's forearm.
“Just a bio chip, it gives the location, and vitals of you. So in case you get lost while you are collecting samples we can find you. This is standard procedure for all crew members, and once you are done or transfer vessals we take it out.”
Running through some of the questions, such as basic human biology.
“ So mean to tell me that your young grow teeth at a young age, then lose them and gain a new set of teeth?”
“Yeah pretty much, we call the first set our baby teeth and our second set our adult teeth.”
“That sounds completely fake, but I'll take your word for it. Well we are done for now, until later. I think the crew should be in the mess hall for the mission parameters.”
CJ started to make his way down to the mess hall. A lot of stares were pointed at him. The captain of the ship, Glun Fa of the planet Ual; similar to a bat crossed with a human but shorter in stature, started to make introductions. As CJ looked around he noticed that there weren't that many in the crew.
UNG Log Galactic Calendar 20300 09/20-
CJ looks around to find a seat and many of the crew members freaked out with his scanning of the room like a predator, who is looking for a prey. To many of the crew they are freaked out about this because many of them come from a vegetarian diet and would typically be the prey.
“Hey CJ over here! Come have a seat.”
CJ sees Sulv waving her hand in the air, and a few other crew members sitting with her. Sulv comes from the planet Rula, a mostly aquatic planet from what he has heard where their species turns from male to female, and vice versa.
With a slight smile he says “Good morning, everyone.” A few of the other crew members start to feel uneasy with a predator type race with forward facing eyes and baring his teeth. A few crew members start to feel uneasy until Sulv says “We are sorry if we offended you for coming over here.”
CJ with a bit of puzzlement says, “None of you offended me; but why would say something so weird?”
“Well you are baring your fangs, that usually means aggression for many creatures especially if they are going to eat another creature.”
CJ starts to laugh, “Ohh the smile, no the smile doesn’t mean aggression or we are going to eat you. It just means happiness for my race. So when a human smiles back at you, they are happy with you. That is my apology not yours; I should have been more sensitive.”
The other crew members start to feel a little more at ease and start to ask him questions about what Earth is like. The only thing that came out of their mouth was “That can’t be true, no species could survive that, or you must be making that up like every other race makes stuff up to make theirs sound better.”
Many sol cycles went by and the crew started to become more comfortable and trusting of their new crew member. As they made their approach to the planet that they are to be researching, many of the crew started to become more and more tense as they approached the planet. Apparently there was another research crew that went missing on the planet a few solar cycles, and the Galactic council has been trying to figure out why this is happened. Which is why this crew was sent to figure out what is going on. The last transmission from the last crew, had yelling and screaming then it cut out.
As they made their final approach for the planet, Capt. Glun Fa held a meeting and went over the objectives of the mission, worst case scenarios, and the duration of the mission. As well what they were here to do, and find out about the planet and the lost crew.
UNG Log Galactic Calendar 20300 10/13-
“Hey Sulv, today is the 13th on the Galactic Calendar right?”
“Yeah, why do you ask CJ?”
“And it's a Friday on Earth, during October. Just great.”
“Yeah CJ? What’s the big deal, it's just a day on Earth right.”
“This is gonna fucking suck so much.”
“Don’t worry about it. It's just old human superstition nothing to be worried about.”
Pulling out a crude long primitive weapon, a knife from what it was called.
“Why are you bringing that it’s way too primitive for this day in age.”
“Well sometimes, it's best to go old school when the shit hits the fan.”
As the ship started to make it’s landing the planet was like a dense jungle. They started to make their approach to the last known area of the old ship. The Vol-II started to make it’s landing in an open area, the systems started to blare with warning signals then with a giant thud the ship was on the planet. CJ, Sulv, Krac, and Daunl started to head out with the hovercraft to head out to the old sight. Sulv and Daunl were the main researchers, and CJ and Krac were on security. The old ship was 45 km away from the Vol - II. As they approached the wreck everyone was more alert to the surrounding area. The ship was being overgrown by the jungle, and it definitely had seen better days. On the hull of the ship it said “Vol - I”
“Yep, fuck this. First assignment, and I’m in an Alien fucking movie. Great fucking luck, I swear if a face hugger gets me I’m gonna be pissed. Then its gonna pop out of my chest, and then acid blood. This is such bullshit.” The other crew members were looking at CJ if he had gone crazy, cause he was talking to himself. But when he shot a glare at them they were too afraid to ask, but they were all thinking ‘I don’t want to see him pissed.’ As they unpacked the vehicle, and started to head inside they noticed some claw marks and areas that looked like that it had been shot at.
“Hey CJ, why were you talking to yourself? Are you feeling ok?”
“I’m ok, Sulv humans sometimes do that, it's just ranting. You know just getting some feelings off our chest.”
Krac asks “Hey CJ what do you make of this?”
“I don’t, but my guess would be it would have been something fairly large going by the prints on the ground and those claw marks. So it must be at least two meters tall at the minimum. By the looks of those blaster marks they did put up a fight, so maybe there are survivors, let's just be on alert for now.” CJ was the first to go in followed by Sulv and Daunl, and Krac taking up the rear. As they make it through the cargo hold, CJ hears footsteps. They start to make their way toward the sound, and out pops a small ape like creature that got spooked by the team. They continued onward in the ship, and made it to the bridge. Sulv and Daunl start to turn it on and to see if it works and to see if they got an idea of what is going on.
A hologram pops up, with what appears to be the Captain. It was really scratchy so it didn’t come out correctly.
“This Captain ---- , we landed on planet XY217---, all seems to be going well. The researchers ------. High hopes for the planet is expected.”
“Daunte, anything else about the logs?”
“Sorry Krac, alot of it completely scrambled, it's gonna take some time. Hey CJ, you and Sulv check the researchers lab and see if you find anything else. We are gonna try to get this bucket of bolts to fly or at least partly operational.”
“Sure…. Daunte.” as CJ and Sulv start walking away CJ says under his breath “Sure lets split up, in a run down ship nothing can go wrong with that. Breaking the first rule of horror films, don’t split up.” He let out a big sigh.
As they exited the room, Daunte radios the Capt. “All here Cap. trying to figure out what's going on. How is the rest of the research going?”
There was no response, Daunte tries again all he hears is interference. “Must be the ship or the magnetic fields or the mountains messing with radio.”
CJ and Sulv made it to the research lab, Sulv started collecting data from the computers and what little specism that she could find. CJ was rumingain through cabinets and drawers. Sulv was at the computer when a log went off.
“This is Head Research -----, it has been a few sols and we have made contact with something we don’t know what it is but it is at least----------------. We decided to lock ourselves in the ship to stay safe but, --------------- we don’t know how long our supplies will last. So we have been rationing.”
Catching CJ’s attention, he asks “Hey Sulv, are there any more recordings ?”
Looking very frightened, she says, “Yes”
“Play the ones after that one.”
They both moved closer to the hologram.
“We have run out of food, and are growing more hungry. We tried to fix the ship but the monsters have continued to try----------------- make repairs but they continue------------. They took out the pilot and engineer for the ship. So we are doomed to this planet.”
Scrolling through the next log, “ I am all that is left, if any one sees this message get off this planet immediately.” Then a scream, the hologram goes blank and the end of the message.
“Is there an earlier message?”
“Hold on let me see. Ahh got it.”
“Head Researcher Zulx, planet XY 217 is a fascinating planet we have already made------------------- . We found a---------------- when exposed and mutated helps heal and------------- . Truly this an extraordinary leap forward.”
“One of our crew came across what we called----------------- , which is a large --------------- that is an apex predator. He was badly hurt so we --------- our experiment to see if it -------- heal him. With great joy it healed him immediately, and he was back on his feet in no time.”
“This one is dated a few sols, after that one.”
“The treatment was a resounding ---------- but our crew member ---------- this sol. We --------- body rejected the treatment. ------------- was to bury him out far from the camp.”
With dread in his voice, CJ asks Sulv to play the next hologram.
“A few-------- saw something that looked like ------------- in the forest. But ----------- is dead. The wild life---------- is acting strange now. Like ----------- ominous.”
CJ turns away from Sulv and yells out, “Woo fuck yeah, finally get to kill zombies. I’ve waited all of my life for this shit. Holy shit we got zombies, we are so fucked right now.”
Sulv looked puzzled, and asked “What is a zombie? Is it something humans used to hunt?”
CJ lets out a weird laugh, “ Nah, zombies are an old human folktale or myth where humans are undead, and they hunger for flesh. The only problem is, what kind of zombie. Slow moving or fast running, intelligent hunt you down type zombie. Play the next one.”
“Ok CJ here is the last one.”
“Some of the crew tried to confront the ------------ one of them was bitten. We immediately tried ------------. They soon began to have ------ problems. A few hours later ----------- was buried as well. What is going on?”
CJ rubs his chin, and says play back the screaming one. They watch it in slow motion. His face turns pale, and immediately grabs the radio and calls for Kauv.
“We have to get back to the ship now, immediately so gather your stuff and wait by the hanger bay and put your filter mask on to be on the safe side. If you see anything, and it doesn’t answer, shoot to kill but aim for the head.”
“This planet is a biohazard, we have to get off it now. Put on your air purifier mask as well.”
Sulv turns to CJ and asks, “What did you see?”
“In the hologram, the researcher was attacked by a fast moving zombie. But there were more and they had growths on them.”
“Wait, what do you mean?”
“It means the whole planet is infected, this means many of the animals and inhabitants are infected or could be infected. By the looks of the dead ones, they have a fungus look to them. Which means this virus is fungal based.”
They both head to the hanger, to be reunited with their other team members. CJ calls on the radio to Voll -II, and only static.
Then they hear gun fire, yelling, and then a large explosion.
CJ turns the corner and sees Kauv fighting off the living dead but it was too many of them, and the other researcher in a panic mode backing away from Kauv. CJ grabs Daunl and they head further inside the ship, and hide in one of the quarters. CJ makes a quiet motion, and the horde noise because louder and louder heading toward their door. Daunl starts to cry, CJ puts his hand over Daunl beak, and says very quietly “ You have to be quiet, or we are dead.” Finally the horde has reached the hallway, and slowly starts to pass the door, until finally it becomes quiet.
CJ says very quietly, “Ok we are going to head to the armoury and get some weapons. We are going to take the vents in the ship. So it is imperative to stay as quiet as possible. Ok?’
They find an air vent as they start to enter the vents, and Sulv starts to freak out.
“I can't, I hate tight spaces, I can’t do it.”
CJ says, “I don’t like it either, but would you rather be dead or alive?”
“I would much rather be alive”
“Good you made up your mind so get in the vent.”
Slowly and quietly they make their way through the vents to the armoury. They look around to see what is available to use.
“I can’t do this CJ, I am a researcher not a fighter.”
“Well I’m a human that has never trained for this, but here I am so deal with Daunl.”
Checking the time, Sulv says it's probably dark by now and should rest for now. They pull out a hologram map of the area from their current location to their ship.
“Hey Danuel did you see if the craft was destroyed?”
“I don’t know, I was too scared to pay attention to anything.
“Ok in the morning we let's try to get to the hovercraft it is not destroyed cause if it is we have a long walk to make. But for now let’s rest, and take turns keeping watch.”
Sulv offered to watch first, then CJ, and finally Danul.
UNG Log Galactic Calendar 20300 10/14-
Early in the Sol, as the Sun was coming up. Small little creaks and pops went around the ship.
“Hey Danul, does the ship have enough power to take off?”
“Sorry Sulv, just enough to power on but that’s really about it.”
As they looked through the armoury, they gathered what little they could find : an outdated blaster, and a multi burst rifle (mb rifle).
Pulling out some old clothing, CJ starts cutting them up into long strips.
“CJ what are you doing? We could need those for later.”
He grabs Sulv's arm and starts to warp around the forearm parts with thin pieces of metal, and he starts to explain.
“What I am doing is creating homemade arm protectors. This will give you ample protection here and defense. So if one of those things tries to bite you; you can use this as a guard.”
“You don’t expect this to work do you?”
“ Well Danuel, my race has used similar ones in the past, so yeah maybe it will work or would you rather have some kind of protection or none at all.”
Sulv looks amazed as she admires the ingenuity of the human. She wouldn’t have thought of that. He starts to do the same thing to himself. Then he starts to wrap the lower part of their legs as well.
“So here is the plan, gather as much food and water as possible and anything useful for survival. Everything else is useless.”
As they gathered their supplies, they were about to head out.
“Ok first off stay as quiet as possible no unwanted sounds so hand signals only ok. We don’t want anything to know we are here. Secondly we should use the emergency exit not the hanger as it may be flooded with zombies Thirdly if the hovercraft is damaged from the explosion then we make a break for the trees. Lastly if you get bitten or overrunned by zombies while either going to the hovercraft or the forest we can’t save you. At this point we work at my speed. Does everyone understand?”
They both looked at CJ like they knew how high the stakes were. As they exited out the armoury into the hallway they could hear some noises. To the right so they went the other way making their way the corridors as fast and as quietly as possible. CJ was taking the lead and Sulv was in the back. As they made their way to the emergency exit they heard a whisper.
“Hello? Are you one of the rescue teams?”
Looking up in the vent, Sulv recognized the other Head Researcher from the VOL - I ship hologram.
CJ says, “ We are getting off this planet, our ship is not too far. If you want to get off this planet now is the time.”
The Researcher started to come down from the vents. They started to open the emergency exit, and a small ladder slid out to the forest floor below. As they started to make their way down, CJ could see the hovercraft in flames still making noises, which was attracting the zombies. CJ pointed to the forest, and they started to make their way in the open field. Then they heard crying, they stopped and saw the Vol - I researcher crying.
“Please I can’t go in there, it's too dangerous.”
The researcher was freaking out, and started to make loud noises. The zombies started to turn around, and started to make a 100 yard sprint towards them.
Sulv tries to pick up the VOL -I researcher then Sulv feels something grab on her arm. It was CJ and Danuel. They were dragging her away.
“Please no, he's afraid we can’t leave him.”
“We can’t take him, if we do we are dead. So come one lets go!”
As they start to make it into the forest, Sulv turns around and sees the researcher being eaten alive. They keep running and running, easily keeping pace with CJ as they are much quicker than he is. They keep running and running in the direction of their ship, Danuel and Sulv start to lag behind CJ. Danuel starts thinking how can this human who is slower than us keep running longer than us, and not show that he is tired.
Danuel says to CJ, “ We have to stop, we can’t run anymore.”
CJ turns around and sees his crew mates breathing more heavily than he is. He then pulls out the mapp, and it reads that from their current location they still have another 40 km to go.
“We can’t stop now, we have a ways to go for the ship.”
“Well you can but we can't. We have to take a break.”
He doesn't want to leave his friends behind taking a long exasperated breath, “Ok let's take a 30 min break but be on alert.”
As they are sitting backs to one another, Daunel asks CJ “ How is it that you are not faster than us but you can still keep running long past us?”
“You’re right, humans are not very fast to the animals on our planet and even compared to other Alien races; but one thing we got going for us is endurance. Our ancestors when hunting would chase down their prey, until it either gave up and accepted its death from us or it was runned to death.”
Sulv adds into the conversation, “So basically your race can run long distances without getting tired and that’s how your ancestors hunted?”
Daunel asks, “ How far can humans run non stop?”
“Many of us can run 27 miles non stop as a race, and others have done 100 mile races over two or three days.”
“ You make it sound like you humans can not be stopped.”
Checking the map, he sees a shortcut that can cut down on time but could be more dangerous in the process.
“Ok looking at the map, and the pace that we go we should be able to make it the ship within two or three sols at our current path. However if we cut through the mountain here it will cut out a day, but it will be harder.”
As they thought about it, Danuel says “ The sooner we got out of here the better.”
“Ok, let's make a run to the mountain but we are going to have to go more slowly so that we don’t get any unnecessary injuries. Keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious.”
As they started to make their way toward the mountain, everyone was on edge while in the forest.
“Hey Sulv, my guess is there are tribes here when I think about it.That was a large horde, for such a small crew, but still too large for even tribes.”
“Yeah I think you're right Danuel. That would explain why it was so large, because the VOL - I is about the same size crew as ours.”
“Either way, let's be careful like CJ said.”
As they were making their way to the base of the mountain they had to stop at the river which was in their way now. Looking up and down, CJ sees a small pass to get over the river. Then a tig snap, CJ turns around and starts looking.
“Ok guys, move very slowly and put your hands up in the air.”
“Look towards the forest and up at the tree tops.”
As Danuel turns his head toward the trees he sees them.
“Sulv, I think you were right about the tribe's people.”
A young tribes person comes to them, and starts to make weird sounds like clicking and clicking sounds. The crew were unsure of what was going on, and then again the tribe's men started to click and clock with their mouth and pointing. CJ looks at the tribesman, and starts to click and clock back at the tribesman mimicking the sounds.
Always wanting to use this word, Sulv says “What the fuck are you doing? Don’t piss them off.”
“On my word, run to the bridge and get to the otherside of the forest, don't stop for nothing.”
“Looking at their necklaces, it’s skulls and by my guess it could have been a crew member.”
Then all of a sudden, CJ yells out “NOW!!!”
They start to make a run for it, CJ fires his rifle as well Danuel with the pistol. The tribe's people start to zip line out of the trees. They start to cross the bridge, as everyone crosses the bridge he could see a small horde of zombies coming behind the tribe's people and throws a small explosive at the bridge cables. Then a large explosion goes off, destroying the bridge. As they continued to run through the forest they could hear screaming and yelling in the wake of the village.
“Keep running, don’t stop. Whatever you do, don't stop.”
After about an hour of running, Sulv exasperated “Please we need to stop, and the sun is going down.”
Turning around, “Ok, let's get up in the tree.”
As they set up camp, Danuel asks “What were you saying to them? And how do you know their language?”
“Well I was figuring out what they were saying, and adjusting a Bushman’s and Aborignal Language to their language and I was getting the general understanding of the language. When I noticed the ID tag that we are given, and the skull that's when I knew we had to get out of there. So either they were going to eat us, sacrifice us, or go to take our stuff and kill us.”
“Well from what you could understand, what did they say?”
In a dark and heavy voice as if death was about to take him CJ said, “The dead are hungry gods, to be worshipped.”
After that everything went quiet, very little animals were making noises and the bone chilling reminder that they were on a hostile planet. Sulv pulled out a radio, and tried to contact the ship, still nothing but static.
“Must be the mountain that is blocking the radio signal.”
UNG Log Galactic Calendar 20300 10/15- As they continued the trek up the mountain, the air began to become thinner and thinner. The groups paced and slowed down to a snail's pace stopping every hour or 45 minutes to catch their breath. Checking the map, he noticed that they were almost at the top just a few hundred meters to go. As they reached the top Danuel asked to stop one more time, but CJ insisted that they have to keep going and not lose pace.
Sulv yells at CJ, “We have to stop, we are not indestructible machines like humans are, we don’t come from a death world like you come from. We need to stop to catch our breath, and drink some water.”
Seeing that everyone was at each other's throats, he said “Ok drink some water. I’m assuming you feel nauseous.”
“You are experiencing altitude sickness, it’s ok it will pass soon enough once we get down off the mountain. That’s why I wanted to keep pushing, but Sulv right we have to stop and take a quick break. Sulv, pass me the radio.”
Tossing the radio, CJ calls the ship still static. After a few minutes of resting they continued on to the top. As they made a summit, CJ pulled out the scope to see the craft was still there but it looked like no one was there. He again tried the radio, and to no luck only static again.
“Shit this could be bad.”
“No one is picking up the radio, and nobody's there by the looks of it.”
Passing it to Sulv, she says “Wait no, I see a few crew members. Wait what’s going on?” She became very silent, then let out a small cry.
“The crew were being turned into those things, by those fucking tribes people. We have to save them.”
As Sulv starts to make her way down, CJ stops Sulv from going down.
“They are dead Sulv, we can’t do anything for them now.”
Then a realization hit Sulv hard and she finally broke down.
“We are going to die here aren’t we?”
Then Danuel says, “No we are going to make it. Somehow or some way we are going to make it, I know it.”
As the three of them start making it down the side of the mountain, about an hour onto the trek down. A snap is heard, and a roar bellows out from Sulv and a Zeno attacks her. It was a large feline wolf hybrid animal, the animal bites down on the backpack and shakes furiously from side to side. CJ tackles the Zeno and starts to stab the creature in the back of the neck. Sulv is tossed onto a large boulder and starts to tumble down the mountainside. Danuel starts to chase after Sulv, while CJ is finishing off the monstrous Zeno. He rushes down after Danuel, then he sees him standing over Sulv. He walks over to Sulv, and checks her pulse. It's very weak.
Danuel is in shock, “Can you save Sulv?”
CJ checks her body, for any more injuries and all he can see is her purple blood. He grabs her hand, and in a shaky voice asks “What do you want me to do?”
Wheezing she says, “I’m pretty messed up, so please let me die here with some dignity.”
CJ takes a deep breath, “Not today, not on my watch. Dunale, get me the first aid kit; we are gonna have a quick patch here. I hope you paid attention in biology class.”
The two of them start to work as quickly as possible and try to stabilize Sulv. After an hour or so, working on Sulv her pulse is still weak but it is stable. Danuel turns to CJ , with dread in his voice he tells CJ the condition of Sulv .
“She’s not gonna make the night, if we stay here. So we are gonna have to make it to the ship and get her to the med bay or, we can either leave her and a run for the ship -”
“No we can’t leave Sulv here to be turned into one of those things or be eaten by something.”
“Ok what’s the plan then CJ carry Sulv down the mountain?”
“Yeah we carry her down the mountain, no stopping for anything.”
Danuel shakes his head, “No we have a better chance if we do it ourselves and leave her behind. Sulv is at death's door, she's not going to make it.”
“Not me, I want to live and Sulv is going to slow you down and you are going to die out here if we take her.”
Danuel takes his bag, and starts to head down the mountain by himself, leaving CJ and Sulv behind to die. CJ fills his bag, with his and Sulv supplies and carries her on his back. He loads up any water, and extra ammo for his rifle. He starts to make his way down the mountain side.
Sulv is still wheezing with a weak voice, “You know Danuel was right. Leaving me behind is the most logical choice.”
“I don’t do logic sometimes, this is my how race is sometimes. We know what we have to do but we sometimes ignore it, and go with our instincts. But for now rest and focus on breathing and staying alive.”
“Ok CJ, but if we die I told you so.”
“And if we live, and get off this planet you owe me a drink.”
As quickly and quietly as possible, they continued their way down the mountain side. Each step was agonizing, as Sulv was getting heavier and heavier. His muscles felt like they were cramping but he knew he had to keep. As they crossed a small creek, he could see the clearing and the ship in the distance. As stealthy as he could, he moved slower and slower to the ship fearing that there could be traps around the ship. Crouching close to a tree, he pulled out his rifle and checked the surrounding area.
“This was too easy, and it's way too quiet.”
Pow!Pow!Pow!Pow!Pow!Pow! Yelling and came from the otherside of the forest. Then CJ could see the horde move over to the noise. At this moment he sprinted toward the ship, knowing that this was his chance. His legs, back, and lungs ached as he made his way to the ship. In the distance, he could see Danuel running towards him a bite mark on his neck.
He was yelling at CJ, “Don’t leave me!”
CJ pulled out his rifle, and Pow the bullet, ripped through Danuel's leg. He was now laying on the ground, crawling towards the ship he pleaded to CJ, “Save me please!” But the horde of zombies were making their way closer to Danuel until they were almost on him.
CJ yells out, “Remember what I said, if you are bitten or being overrun by the horde you are on your own. This is called survival of the fittest.”
CJ promptly heads inside and closes the hanger door behind him. As the hanger closes he could Danuel last scream and then nothing. Rushing to the cockpit, he starts up the ship and it starts to take off on auto pilot. He rushes Sulv to the med bay, and the on board medic robot starts to take over. At the same time he starts the decontamination of the ship and for the both of them. As they enter space, he starts to have a sigh of relief. He walks back to the cockpit, and sees a red dot on the ship's screen.
“Computer is something on this ship?”
“Yes CJ, an unidentified organism is on board.”
“Near the med bay, by crewmen Sulv.”
“Seal the med bay, plot a course to the nearest council military base, station, or ship. And alert them of the situation. And computer if something happens to me, let Sulv know that she still owes me a drink and it was a pleasure being friends. Do you have all of that?”
“Lock the bridge, only myself and Sulv are allowed to have access to the bridge.”
“Give me the location of the intruder.”
“Level 3, 2 nd corridor.”
CJ starts to make his way to the armoury, loads up and puts on protective gear. He makes his way down the Level 3, 2 nd corridor, and prepares himself for the worst.
“On my signal open the door.”
He takes a deep breath, “Now!”
Off in the distance he sees something familiar, blood dripping down its face and dead eyes it was the Danuel. He must of at the last minute used the emergency exit to get on the ship. Danuel had some flesh hanging off his bones, and he took a few steps toward CJ then started to rush towards CJ. He fires a few shots but he was too quick, and finally leaps on to CJ trying to bite him. CJ takes the rifle and wedges it between Danuel's mouth. CJ is yelling then kicks Danuel away, but loses the gun in the process and pulls out his knife. Again Danuel rushes CJ, he is then tackled to the ground by CJ. While struggling CJ pins one of Danuel's arms to the floor and chokes him with the other. CJ stabs Danuel in the head and Danuel stops moving. He takes the dead body, drags it into the airlock, and flushes the body out into the cold empty abyss of space. CJ makes his way to the med, and sees Sulv still lying in the bed.
“Hey, doc is Sulv gonna make it?”
“Oh yes, crew member Sulv should make a full recovery however Sulv will have long term damages.But a better equipped ship will do a much better job than I can .”
“Is there any fungal, virus, or bacterial infections, where Sulv may come back to life and try to kill me?”
“No foerign infections that I detected.”
“Good cause I’m tired of killing stuff. Now get me a check up as well.”
The robot starts testing his blood, decontaminating him and the ship again.
“All clean crewmember CJ.”
UNG Log Galactic Calendar 20300 10/16-
“This is the Galactic Destroyer Zon al is anyone there?”
“Yes, this crew member CJ Williamson of the research vessel VOL - II. I have an injured crew member, please exercise caution as the ship was exposed to an unknown pathogen. Do not touch blood or bodily fluids, with open wounds, and don’t let anything bite you or scratch you.”
“Understood, be prepared to be boarded.”
As the destroyer started its docking procedure, and the security team in hazmat suits started to board the ship. As they entered, CJ greeted them at the airlock looking pretty banged up to say the least. As he guided them to the med bay, he explained the ongoing situation. So the ship was put into quarantine till the inside was completely cleaned out. As they reached the med bay, Sulv was put into restraints and was gagged to be on the safe side as well her research was confiscated. CJ immediately started to protest saying that this was unnecessary, and uncalled for treatment for his crew member. It became so tense that he started to fight, the security team took 6 members to hold him down and to calm him down explaining that this was just a precaution that needed to be taken. As they entered the destroyer, they were immediately decontaminated and checked for anything suspicious. To their relief they passed with flying colors, CJ was to debrief the Captain of the ship of what happened, and to get everything on transcript. After he gave his testimony to the Captain, she stands up with something in her claws.
The Capt was holding up the research that was found on Sulv, from the Vol - I.
“You know, CJ this research would help turn the war in our favor with G’lang. We could now heal our soldiers much faster, and now they could fight harder without the worry of dying; or better yet have an army that could be under our command and not be bothered with minor injuries. To think an undying, unfeeling, unflinching army is a general’s wet dream.”
“Captain, I beg of you to destroy that research, it's not worth it trust me. You think you could control the undead; you are out of your mind if you think that. They can’t be controlled and they can’t tell who is friend and who is foe. So trust me, destroy it.”
“However this research is now under military control and your thoughts and feelings mean little here. You know crewmember CJ, do you know why the Vol - II was sent to planet XY 217? It was to gather and complete the research from Vol - I.”
“That’s why the council sent your crew to that planet and others to that planet. They knew it infested, they knew it was a suicide mission, and if the crew failed they would just try again and again until they got what they wanted. So you see you and your crew were expendable.”
What the Captain said hit CJ like a ton of bricks, as everything started to make sense.
“So why take a human and not some other race?”
The Captain of the Destroyer walked around the conference table, toward CJ and sat on the table in front of CJ. The Captain was establishing her clear dominance over CJ.
“Well we heard the myths and legends about a super race of aliens that: couldn’t be killed, that could go farther than any other race, that in all intensive purposes knew how to survive any situation that was thrown at. That’s why you were selected for this crew, because your race is a survivor race. Though to be honest we thought they were lies, we never thought those stories would actually be true. We thought you would die there like the rest of the crews.”
Clenching his fists into balls, and with anger in his voice CJ looks up toward the Captain.
“Did Sulv know about this?”
Moving closer to CJ, the Captain whispers to CJ “Yes, it was Sulv idea all along.”
Backing away from CJ, with smugness in her voice “Sulv had a feeling that the stories were true, and wanted to personally see if they were. Because if the stories were true, then we had an absolute chance of getting these samples; and as well to see an actual deathworlder in action. So pretty soon the war with the G’lang will be over, peace would be returned back the Galaxy, and it’s all thanks to you.”
CJ put his palms on the table, stood up and walked away to catch his breath facing away from the Captain.
“There is nothing to worry about CJ, you did your job and a fantastic one at that. We would have never succeeded if it wasn’t for you.”
“That’s a strong way of saying that, we call it a capitalized opportunity for achieving a goal by any means necessary.”
The Captain starts to walk toward CJ.
“If you don’t play ball, then Sulv dies and so do you. We heard about your race’s pack bonding ability, it would be a shame if something were to happen to Sulv.”
The Captain puts a claw on CJ's shoulder.
“You’re right Captain it would be a shame.”
Grabbing the Captain’s claw, he spins her toward him and stabs her in the abdomen.
“Seeing how you wanted to command these Zombies, you first have to be one as well ; there is still zombie blood on this weapon. So like you said Captain ‘a capitalized opportunity for achieving a goal by any means necessary.’ It should take a few minutes, so don’t worry.”
CJ pulls the knife out, and resheeves it. Then makes towards an exit, and starts to walk toward the bridge of the ship. Not knowing what to do, but was making it up along the way. As he neared the bridge, the two guards stopped him. He slashes them in the leg, and arms taking their weapons away from them a few handgrenades and pulse rifles. He immediately clears out the bridge, launching all of the emergency escape pods and troop transports into space toward planet XY 217. Then starts to fiddle with the controls and puts it on a crash course towards the planet, then promptly destroys the controls and most of the bridge. The ship starts to move toward the planet.
He starts to run through the ship, he can hear screaming it must be the zombie virus spreading. CJ runs into security, and a fire fight breaks out between him and two of the security crew on the destroyer. He is bogged down, and he can hear the horde in on behind him. He throws a grenade at the two security forces, and makes a run for the hanger. It is mass chaos, the whole crew is trying to fight off the zombies, or trying to hide from the zombies. It’s no use, the crew is slowly becoming eaten and turned into zombies. He finally makes his way to the hangar, as he boards and locks the airlock. He notices that several of the destroyer crew are in the Vol - II trying to open the bridge to escape.
“Computer, lock all emergency exits, and make sure no one gets on this ship. You three get off my ship.”
“Please don’t leave us to die on that ship with those things.”
The computer announces, “10 minutes till collision”
“Well you should have thought of that earlier.”
Cocking the rifle, and aiming it at them.
“Please! We didn’t know we swear we didn't know!”
Taking a deep breath, “To the left is an escape pod.”
The three crew members get inside of it and are sealed in, one of them asks “Where will this take us”
“To the planet below, good luck out there.”
Launching the pod, it starts to make its way toward the atmosphere of planet XY 217.
“Computer disengage, chart a course to the nearest friendly trade station, and disinfect this ship again.”
The ship disengages and starts to leave, from the distance he can see the destroyer ship, and starts to enter the atmosphere of Planet XY 217. He walks over to the research lab, and starts to copy and destroy all information on the virus, the planet XY 217, and the corruption that is going on in the Council.
UNG Log Galactic Calendar 2030 01/20-
The Galactic news turns on, “As the search continues for the Galactic Destroyer Zon al however it is now to be believed that the ship crashed onto Planet XY 217. New evidence that has come to light that shows the implications of Head Researcher Sulv Yun, Captain Laun of the Zon al Galactic Destroyer, and several of the council members and high ranking military officials were involved in top secret bio testing. Such testing was banned several cycles ago, as seeing it was deemed too dangerous to do which could have caused planet wide or galactic wide extinction for many races. As well as the disappearance of many research vessels and their crew that were sent to investigate and conduct research on Planet XY 217. Human CJ Williamson for the deathworld Earth or Terra, is a key witness to these allegations as it is his testimony which the council is listening to this Sol. If these stories check out, this would severely hurt the trade negotiations that are going on with Earth, and would put a dark stain on the Council and strain relations with the death world Terra. This would have forced the Council to pay reparations to the death worlder CJ Williamson, and a direct apology to the death world of Terra.”
UNG Log Galactic Calendar 2032 10/13-
Almost two cycles ago was the tragedy at Planet XY 217, which has now promptly been quarantined off from the rest of the galaxy for obvious reasons. CJ Williamson recently published a book over the experiences, and first hand accounts of what happened on the planet. The sales have been through the roof across the galaxy on wanting to hear his hellish adventure and survival on the zombie planet. Though leaving out a few key details here and there, the book has ultimately added more to the myth and stories of the deathworlders on the outer edge of controlled space. Sadly he was diagnosed with PTSD some time later, and has been open about it since the events had taken place.
