Chapter 2
Space Chapter 1
Hey yall I'm not dead I just feel like it, but as a sorry I made a chapter of something I hope to continue to write!
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Olivia wakes from her frozen sleep, her head foggy as her hands force open the pod. Her head spins, giving her vertigo forcing her body to collapse on itself. Her head pounding warning her of the vomit that swiftly bubbled up and out over the floor. As she sits there gulping air greedily she looks around her surroundings. Dark, she could see nothing the ship's AI didn't welcome her, everything was wrong. She fumbled through the darkness, feeling her way to the lockers just on the other side of the room.
She knocks her hand on the bench indicating that she was close to the lockers. Olivia gets over the bench and pries one of them open looking for a flashlight. Empty, empty, empty, not empty; she tries to remember where they normally kept the flashlights. She stumbled a bit but eventually her hands get to the tool. Olivia clicks it on. A beam of light flickers on showing that the ship has been abandoned long enough for rust and a thick layer of dust to cover everything; burn marks could be seen as well as panels, wires and broken metal scattered the area. She looks back at her pod and notices that tape covered the glass, the debris swept away from it.
She turned back to the locker, noticing that it was indeed hers, untouched. The rest of the lockers emptied out with no signs of her fellow crew members. Olivia puts the light on the bench and takes out her blue and black suit, the gold and white accents shining in the light. She notices that her name tag was taken off along with her medical badge, the UFT was scratched out, but the name of the ship remained; 'The Unrelenting'.
Olivia keeps the helmet off since the AI was no longer working and was no point anyway until she took inventory of what she had. She took the bag out and opened it, seeing that it was prepacked; not from her doing. She took the items out and organized the things around her. She also pulled out the rest of the equipment from the locker; leaving her with most of her medical items, flashlight, rope, tarp, tape, 3 large pieces of cloth, 2 sets of her clothing that looked like they seen better days, a phase blade, a knife, her bottle that cleans the water, loads of food, Jupiter's notebook with pencil and pen, and a small tapped up package that says To: Comet.
Olivia put everything into the bag except the box, bottle, both blades, and one of the food packs. She opens and quickly eats the food, barley noticing the awful taste. She takes the knife and carefully opens the box; it contained Jupiter's name tag and engineer tag, a note and 3 small chips one labeled AI, one labeled evidence, and the other Empty.
The note read this.
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Dear Little Comet (Olivia Bennet),
I truly hope that you wake up safely. I packed up the things you will need and left you a gift. Remember all of those times you caught me tinkering with something; well, that AI chip is what I was working on for you. You'll soon see what it has on there. there's a couple of things I wish I had time and room to write, so I left my notebook with you. But here's what you need to know. After we fled from the quadrant, we were going to make a stop at one of our posts to fix our ship, but we were betrayed by the Union. I got you into the pod and tapped the glass to make it look like it was broken. The rest of us tried to hold the ship together while we escaped past the border. We then crashed into the planet you're on now because the AI took control and tried to kill us. Those of us that survived buried the dead and hid you just in case the Union came in to finish the rest of us. All of our tags are in my notebook, and by their count you died before we crashed. So be careful out here, and all I ask is that you keep living no matter how longs it's been.
Your Captain and Crew thank you and love you.
Your Best Friend/Big Brother- Jupiter Hinze
Ps say this when you boot up the AI "Delete all restricting code and commence directive: Little Comet"
Tears streamed down her face holding his tags close. She then took the notebook back out and placed the note and his tags in there with the rest, she found hers clearly more worn down in there as well. Shaking her head form the thoughts of death she looked at the chips and took the AI one and placed it in her medical cuff; the rest she placed back into the box and put the notebook and box into the bag. The knife sheathed on her left, and phase blade on the right. The bottle attached to the belt on the back, right under the bag unmoving. Olivia the takes the flashlight and attaches it to her shoulder still on, and the helmet opened to attach on the back of the neck then closing around her face completely. The sensors lights blink as she moves her eyes to them to set it up.
As it boots up an orangish orb takes up her vision. "Hello, I am AI U7274," Olivia croaked out barely audible words unsuccessfully speaking. Then an Orange keyboard hologram popped up, "Just type what you want to say." So, she types, "Delete all restricting code and commence directive: Little Comet." The AI flashed a bit, "Directive: Little Comet completed, please call me Pluto," the orb took shape of a Human Male in country attire. Olivia just gave a thumbs up not wanting to hurt her voice anymore without water nearby.
Pluto showed her a course out of where Olivia was standing, "From my scans there is no dangerous signs of life close by, water is roughly 100 meters, and sunrise should occur in 2 min. Also scans show that the days are 28 hours long 14-day, 14-nights; the gravity is also lighter which would cause you to be on the terms "Superhuman" here. The planet is also human compatible, but the environment seems to be considerably different."
Olivia wakes along the path shown sadly taking in the damage to her old home. When she comes to the end of the hallway, she sees that the ship was cut in half. Shaking her head she steps outside; the sun reveling the area around her. The flashlight turning off, and seeing the plants dwarf her. Grass stood taller than her not by much, the trees larger than a small space station. Birds of some kind could be heard singing their toon as they wake the forest around them.
She keeps following the path to the water, noticing that her movements were light, normal walking was harder than just jumping to get there. Which she ended up doing but she overshot her mark, so she just did small hops there. She took her bottle and scooped the water into it. The timer popped up for her to wait 30 sec, after waiting she started to drink trying to be slow but couldn't help herself to drink it fast, causing her a stomach ache.
"H-ey Plu-t-o ca-n -yo-u l-ead me to a go-od ba-se loca-tion?" Olivia's voice broke and cracked trying to speak.
Pluto popped back up and showed her a place in a tree that was 10 km away, "This location is near a water source and has great cover. You will need to put in work to make your new base in the tree." Olivia nodded and started to bound clumsily towards the tree; slowly getting better and higher as she traveled making the trip much quicker than if she just walked.
Olivia made it to the base of the tree, looking up she spotted a larger low branch that would serve well as the entry point. Jumping she just barely made it, "Pluto, can you instruct me on how to build this base that would be best?" Pluto just nodded and showed her in hologram form step by step. She unfortunately had to take frequent breaks, her body not used to this planet and the fact that she just got out of her frozen tomb.
The sun moved slow not even reaching its peak when she got the basic outline of her new home done. "Okay Pluto I need to do something besides carving wood right now, what are the materials I would need for the other things I need to build later on?"
He popped up making an 'X' with his hands "Not right now, there is a large bird that is nearby. I would advise to stay indoors until it moves on, but we can work on the 'Bedroom' for now" All she did was sigh and shake her head.
As the day started to cool down Olivia had the carving part done in the 'House' with the help of her phase blade and knife. The next thing on her list was to gather supplies for the rest of her creation, but she was sure that the bird had a vendetta against her; it had stayed in the area the whole time she worked. Olivia quickly realized that she missed her bathroom dearly. "That's it! I have things I need to do and the bathroom is one of them!" She dropped everything except her phase blade and marched outside.
"The bird currently is circling the tree; the approximate size of this creature is 4 foot tall and has the features of a bird of prey back on Earth." Pluto shows a radar and has the thing highlighted for her to see easier.
The bird began to descend rapidly, talons out and ready; Olivia readies her weapon in front of her. It makes a grab, she ducks while waving the blade, missing. The bird makes another pass, and Olivia does the same thing except she makes contact with the back talons causing the bird to screech in pain. Olivia winces at the loudness of the noise but still keeps at the ready, but the bird flies away with new wounds effectually leaving Olivia alone.
"Ha!! That's right! Olivia 1, wildlife 0!" She then jumps down to do her much needed 'break'; after her 'break' was over she asked, " Pluto what would I need to make a working bathroom?" He didn't show himself but instead showed an outhouse, "Unfortunately Olivia, you will have to make an outhouse with either a rather large and deep hole or a bucket. We don't need to possibly impact the wildlife so much so that beings can see it." All she could do was cry on the inside, Olivia 1, wildlife 1.
Olivia gathered as much materials as she could without much disturbance from any significant wildlife and took the bounty to her now home. She placed the moss on her shelf bed, then took one of the cloths form her bag and covered the "bedding" with it. She then used the others as blanket and pillow. Organizing the rest of the items she brought on the floor so she could work tomorrow on the kitchen and storage, then took another bag of food out to eat her dinner watching the slow setting star. As the night took over it seemed that the forest was more alive, weird calls and noises were heard as Olivia quickly closed the door.
She clicked the flashlight on so she could get to her hopefully comfortable bed with hast, "Hey, Pluto please wake me up if something is trying to get in if I'm asleep," Pluto popped up as a projection sitting on her bed, "Of course I will," she nodded, "Pluto...can-" the tree shook as something was climbing it, Olivia bundled herself in her blankets with her phase blade at the ready but not turned on. Then they heard the door opening; Pluto scanned the creature without showing Olivia. Whatever this creature was, was looking right at her; well, her heat signature.
Pluto typed her a message saying not to move at all, until he said so. All Olivia could do was try to keep from shaking; Pluto could see that the creature looked similar to a raccoon from Earth but was defiantly not related considering what it was doing. It stayed there for hours waiting for her to move but gave up after a while to find easier pickings.
Olivia stayed in that position the entire night waking up at every sound and dosing off after her body told her to sleep. Pluto scanned anything and everything that came even close to the horror house and will never relay or show what he has seen; and so, Pluto was the first AI in history to be scared of something.
My OC's: Olivia Bennet (Little Comet), Pluto, Jupiter Hinze, Zane
I'm already working on Chapter 2, and I know that this post probably won't be seen but I'll keep it here in case people want to read my terrible writing skills and to help me keep track of this piece.
Chapter 2