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Unknown Horizons

After a few centuries in cryosleep, Faolan wakes up to memory loss and no one left aboard his vessel, though he quickly finds out that he is not alone, he must survive, find out what happened, and escape the vessel that he is on. But what happens when he finds out that the vessel is in the deep recesses of space?

Alex_Uribe · Sci-fi
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29 Chs

Second Contact

Faolan walked slowly, not wanting to be caught unawares. After seeing the dual hostile, he knew that this was not what he signed up for. Moving forward, he activated the light that was on his belt as well as the one that was on his pack. The darkness was now his enemy. As he was moving the song 'Bury Me With My Guns On' by Bobaflex came on and he started to feel more at ease.

"Wolf are you there, its Dr. Valencia." His transmitter suddenly lit his left side with light and the unexpected noise made him flinch.

"Present." He stated as he brought the transmitter up to his mouth like a walkie-talkie. He kept moving forward, not wanting to stop his progress as he entered a new room to the right in the corridor.

"That, thing of yours, is currently over Shark with its maw open. Is it going to kill her?" Dr. Valencia asked.

"Not unless it determines that its necessary, it is 95 percent machine." He responded. He kept looking around the room and came up to a body that was just starting the decomposition process. But it looked different. Keeping the transmitter in hand he kept the gun on the corpse as he kicked it. Once he kicked it, it sprang to life. Five tentacles came out and made the corpse lift into the air. As it started to move towards Faolan, he switched his rifle from single shot to three round burst. He opened fire on the torso of the creature. Due to the lower half falling off and the entrails hanging in the air.

"Ok good, because its been five minutes now, and I was worried."

Yea I bet you were, should be more worried about what happens if I die. Those wolves are programmed to kill every living thing if I fall. Between burst he responded to Dr. Valencia.

"Look doc" BANGBANGBANG "everything will be" BANGBANGBANG "fucking shit goddamn cocksucker motherfucker" BANGBANGBANG "Look everything will be fucking fine as long as I keep breathing, BANGBANGBANG "so leave me alone so I can focus on my job" BANGBANGBANG. Putting the transmitter back onto his waist he focused the weapon the one f the tentacles and opens fire. As the bullets tear through the flesh it starts to howl in pain, and the tentacle retracts into the back of the creature. Finally, some progress. He starts aiming at the limbs and opens fire, and once it falls to the ground, he grabs his short sword and thrusts it into the creature's skull. And pulls it out along with the spine as he grips the skull. The thing finally stopped moving. Sighing to himself he picks up his transmitter, and hails Dr. Valencia.

"I'm done. and as for what my Skoll is doing is checking for any mutations that would be similar to the growth that it found. Now if that is an issue, I can always issue it to tear out her throat." He stated.

"What?! No, you don't need to do that!" her voice comes out of the transmitter louder then normal.

"Then you do your job and keep everyone healthy till I can find a way for us to survive, and keep your damn trap shut while I do mine." He ended the transmission and placed the transmitter on his hip. Shaking his head he quickly reloaded as he found he only had two rounds left, one chambered and one in the mag. He left the spare bullet in the mag, in case he needed just one bullet. He quickly finished sweeping the room and finding that there was nothing of use, he exited and continued forward.