The Terrain ship USS Nimrod sailed through space. The crew on the bridge were monitoring the systems.


“Report please” asked Timmy Samson, captain of the ship.


“All systems are online sir” replied Yuki Dedrick, systems officer on board the ship.


 


Several hours passed, then the shift turn over call was made. The crew went to their quarters as the secondary crew took over, second in command Joyce Holme asked for a systems report too. Again, all systems were online. Kristen Scrivener, a member of the currently off duty crew couldn’t get to sleep, so she got up and strolled to the mess hall. Once there she sat down at a table, after a few minutes she looked out of the window, and saw something. She got up and ran up to the bridge.


Kristen Scrivener finally got to the deck and busted into the bridge. Several of the crew turned round.


“Kristen Scrivener, what are you doing up here?” asked Joyce Holme.


“Captain, There’s an asteroid on course to hit us.” She said.

“Kristen Scrivener, is this really true?” asked Joyce Holme in surprise.


“Yes sir” she replied.


“I’ve detected the asteroid sir” interrupted Ursula Buchholz, the radar ensign on the ship “it’s approximately 17.72 kilometres to the starboard sir”


“All hands brace for impact!” barked the captain.


Crunch! Crack! Whoosh!


“Captain, were venting atmosphere” commented one of the crew.


“Attempting to close bulkheads sir!” yelled another “there closing sir”


Several crew members were still behind the bulkheads when they closed, trying to get through before they were wiped away by the decompression, into the deep, dark, cold space were they suffocated and froze to death. On the contrary though, a handful of the asteroid fragments made it through the bulkheads before they shut.


“Our orbit’s deteriorated” reported Raf Aarden “were going to hit the planet Gariolicantas!”


Set the star ship’s pose to re entery!” bellowed the captain.


Timmy Samson charged into the bridge.


“Joyce, report!” he screamed at him.


“An asteroid just hit us sir, we’ve lost engines and three starboard compartments and we are to hit Gariolicantas in 14 hours and 26 minutes captain” replied Joyce.


“Were to hit Gariolicantas in fourteen hours from now?!”


“Yes captain”


“And no engines?!”


“That too”


Timmy was speechless at the scenario they were in.


“I’m taking command.” Timmy finally said.


“yes, captain” responded Joyce as he got off of the chair.

The USS Nimrod started to enter the atmosphere above

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“Brace for re-entry!” repeated Timmy for the sixth time.


Flames roared around the ship as it entered the atmosphere. For a while, the re-entry was sound, the ship coming in far too quickly, but no physical damage was present apart from on the starboard. This continued for a while until the strain on the damaged engine was too much. A portion of the engine was ripped off. Several of the blades in the turbofan engine hit the hull and tore huge, daggered holes in it. (The ship has a turbofan, an Alcubierre driveand liquid fuel engine) The ship was still far too high up for an atmosphere humans could breathe, and so personnel in that section suffocated and the decompression sucked them out of the ship, so for three long minutes, those unlucky people couldn’t breathe and were falling down towards the planet. The bulkheads closed, sealing of the damaged compartments. However, one of the blades stopped a bulkhead from shutting, meaning that the atmosphere continued to leak.


“Attempting to override the computer sir!” called out Thaddeus Church.


The doors finally closed, but not before several more personnel were thrown out.


“we will hit the planet’s surface in 14 minutes and 43 seconds sir!” informed Samuel Mhodes.


“Brace for impact!” shouted Timmy.

The U.S.S. Nimrod came roaring down onto the desert ground of the planet.


Smash! Bang! Argh!


Most of the crew were unconscious.

Timmy finally woke up, he looked around and saw the rest of the crew, most of them unconscious. One was wrapping his arm with a bandage and was holding his forehead, the rest were still in their seats, foreheads in the consoles, blood all over them and ripped skin.


“Yu Hong, how long have I been unconscious for?”


“About 3 hours.” He replied.


The ship was in bad shape, all the windows were shattered, lights were off and most systems were destroyed.


 


Dania Connolly walked down a corridor, she wasn’t very injured by the crash. She came across a closed bulkhead. There was a fragment of the asteroid lying on the floor. She leant towards it.


“Weird, it looks like it has an opening.” She whispered to herself.


Just as she said that, a claw came from it and jabbed here hand.


She screamed, blood drained from here hand but here blood wasn’t the only liquid there, there was a sticky, silvery metallic liquid sticking to her hand, it started to move into her wound and then once it vanished, a new transparent liquid sprouted from all over her.


 


Several more personnel grouped together and went towards the armoury, then towards the airlock. They went through it and saw the form of the devil himself.

“My god.” Said Arlie Walters to himself.


“Hurconicanials!” yelled one of his men.


“Hernak Umberzalk Terrain Nelik Galk!” called out one of the hurconicanials.


Instantly, several hurconicanials posed there weapons and fired some shots and the corridors walls.


“Good god!” responded Arlie Walters to the shots as he and his men took cover behind the walls.


“Hernak Nelik Terrain!” called the same hurconicanial.


Several of the hurconicanials fired at the wall which Arlie and his men were hiding behind. The shots vaporised small, inch thick holes into the hull and one hit Arlie in his wrist


“AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!” he screamed in pain as he watched his hand fall from his now vaporised wrist. He fell down beside his hand as blood rushed out his arm. The world started to go black, he has taking heavy breaths and he couldn’t clearly see nor hear. He watched him men try to save him but to no prevail, he rolled over and saw a hurconicanial point its gun towards him and fire. His face was now vaporised too as well as another man’s leg as he was right behind him, trying to bandage his arm. In a matter of minutes, all his men were dead.


Katie Ware was walking down the corridor when she saw Dania Connolly lying on the floor, shivering in fear.


“Don’t worry!” Katie quickly said to her.


“Help me!” she said.


“I’m trying to, just stay still.” replied Katie.


“Help me!” she said again “Help Me! Help Me! Help Me!” though by this time her voice was mumbled.


Katie continued to get the goo off of Dania.


Dania blew a huge, animal like sound from her nose. Then, she opened her mouth and her tongue quickly extended out, it had a horn on its end, and it stabbed Katie.


“AAARRRGGGHHH!” she yelled in agony as a silvery, metallic liquid entered her wound. A goo then came up from Katie’s skin as she dropped to the floor.

A number of Hurconicanials boarded the Nimrod after fighting against a weak defence. Several soldiers on board heard the battle outside and rushed down the corridor to stop the Hurconicanials from getting past. Another battle started, there were a few casualties on the Hurconicanials side and most of the soldiers were dead. The remaining soldiers were forced to surrender. A few minutes after they surrendered, a strange, black creature charged in. It ran up to a Hurconicanial and fired its tongue at it, opening a huge wound into its chest.


“GAAARRRAALLLKKKAAK!” roared the Hurconicanial as a silvery metallic liquid poured into his wound.


The Hurconicanials started charging to get out.


“What in the devils name?” asked one of the soldiers.


Suddenly, the rest of the soldiers fired upon the Hurconicanials.


Then, a second black creature ran in and stabbed another Hurconicanial, the soldiers and black creatures continued to do so until there were no more Hurconicanials in the corridor that were standing. The black creatures then turned on the soldiers.


The soldiers started to fire on the creatures but to no prevail. The bullets just bounced off of the creatures armoured exoskeletons. One of the creatures charged at Conrad Leverenz, it opened its gob as it thrusted at him. Conrad shoved the muzzle of his gun up the creature’s throat and opened fire and another soldier fired up the others opening mouth. The creatures were dead.