Colony Ch 1: Alien Planet

Rowan watched the newbies leave. "Tough guys," he said to himself. "Let's hope they're half as right as they think they are." Part of him wished he mad made a friend on this voyage. As part of the officer corp, he knew it would be bad to get attached to any of the troops, but it also made it hard for them to trust him.

Well, one battle would sort out the trusting from the decomposing.

He drew one of his pistols, and checked it's battery for the seventh time.

[TheBlindMime]

Damn, Troy thought as the guy left the room, Now I can't play the badboy card to impress her.

"Just give it up troy, the stuff he's explaining could save your life." Rodriguez moaned.

"Fine." Troy's eyes quickly glazed over as the General continued answering seemingly moronic questions. He just hoped the majority of these guys were trained to aim their guns before firing. Elites my ass. Troy slowly began plotting a way to attract rodriguez's sister again, he wasn't giving up that easily.

[Gineko]

Cut short in his lecture the General turned beet red in anger. "We'll see where you end up in the ranks, gentlemen." he grumbled under his breath. He pressed another button and the lights came back on. He saw another flicker in the corner. Staring at the source he said "If there are no further ques..." he tilted his head inquisitively. He walked up to the left side of the wall, staring straight into the eyes of a man he didn't know.
"What's your name soldier?" He asked, fingering his tazer. The 'man' looked up at him and at a moments pause said "Adalan."
"Adalan what?"
"Adalan Herny"
"No, Adalan, sir."
"Adalan, sir."
The General glared at him, then around the room. "Has anyone seen Adalan before now? Anyone? In the corador or at meals maybe?" There was a general mutter of negative. "No? Well then..." In a flash he swept out his tazer and fired one shot into Adalan's head, which turned out to be his chest as the shocked Ueto fell to the ground dead. The girl who had been making out in the back screamed, the other Ueto looked down in horror but managed to keep his appearance human, though he let out a mental scream that only Esentu could truely hear.
The general smirked and resheathed his Tazer. "Someone clean this mess up. You know your mission, dissmissed." He left through the same door he came from.

Karen stared at the dead Ueto, then at the General. "That was completely idiotic, how can you call that a debreifing? Stupid overlarge toad..."

Diego ground his claws into the floor out of anger, then looked sypathetically at the fallen Ueto, What a waste of life...

The Ueto who had not been shot began to pick up his fellow's body. If he could cry he would have done so now. He gave Esantu a sad, meaningful look, then without saying anything carried the body through a door on his right.

[Mintaro]

Vance was working the makeshift punching bag with Paul when the rest of his little enterage entered the the 'gym'. They looked excited and nervouse respectivly.

Neal spoke first, "Oh man you missed it! One of those alien freaks was on the ship! Totally disguised as a human."

Lesley followed him up, "How can you be excited about this!? If there is one of them there have to be more."

Paul looked up from his spot holding the bag and turned to address his freinds. Only to have it slam into him and knock him sprawling onto the ground. Vance laughed jovilly and moved away from the bag. He rolled his shoulder as he spoke to his freinds. "Its alright boys. We know who each other is. As long as we stay together on the planet we'll be ok. Anyone we don't know we keep away from us. At least until we figure out how to tell if their human or not."

Paul picked himself up as gracefully as possible and responded at last. "So what do we do, just be compleatly paranoid?"

"If we have to be. We have a mission, and we are going to pull it off even if we are the only four left. Get your gear and meet me back here in thirty minutes. Stay in your bunk teams. Be suspiciouse if your partner so much as goes to the bathroom. Anytime your out of sight is a risk." With that said Vance motioned for Paul to follow him out of the room and headed off towards the bunks.

[Ryu Kurai]

Astarat would have growled at the sight of the Ueto's death, had he not been so used to seeing it already and had he not been focused on staying as quiet as he normally was. He simply brooded, noting that the captain had worn an outfit not similar to the other humans. He grinned. He could see the soft parts on the general that the clothes weren't covering. The neck... He would remember that one.

[TheBlindMime]

"Well Rodriguez with a few hours left till what could be our deaths what do you want to do, cause I know what I want to do."

Rodriguez responded by whipping out his pistol. "I swear to god if you say my sister you wont even get a chance to step on the planet."

Troy paused for a moment, then replied as he smirked, "I just wanted to get some chow man, but the thought of eating-"

"Don't!"

"Lets just get our last supper alright man."

"Whatever you say parker, But I'm keeping my gun out." Rodriguez angrily replied as he followed him with his pistol out.

Rowan sat in the mess, slowly working his way through a small pile of burritos. Well, they were supposed to be burritos. They looked right... they sure didn't taste right. He could taste the reconstituted asparagus, he didn't care what any of the scientists said. Only a few hours to go, and he still didn't know who his final crew was going to be. He had a dozen last time. Six had come back... he'd gotten a medal for that. Fifty percent losses, and you were a god-damned hero.

He'd sent back the medal with the remains package back to Earth, so the families of the lost would have something to remember them by, and so he very specifically wouldn't have anything to remember them by. He'd sent all of his medals home. He hadn't earned them the way he'd wanted.

He scooped more jalapenos onto the burrito. Where the soil was good, jalapenoes were a cash crop. They were packed with ridiculous amounts of vitamins and antioxidants. Back in his home town, kids had jalapenoes on toast because fruit was too scarce to waste.

Maybe this time only three kids would get eviscerated, and he'd get two medals.

[Seeker]

Ki had been severely shocked when the General had shot the Oren. Not because it was there and disguised as human, Ki had expected them to try and infiltrate the ship, but because he had not noticed the Oren in the least. He had a feeling though that even if he hadn't been distracted he still wouldn't have noticed the disguise had been practically perfect.

Afterwards Ki had unconsciously started going over every soldier he could remember meeting on the ship. He only did this for few minutes before he came to his senses and resolved to try and be more alert and less distracted. Otherwise he could easily end up the same as that Oren.

Looking around Ki saw that most everyone had cleared out and he hadn't seen where either Karen or Rowan went. He made a mental note to try and speak with them before they deployed. Right now he decided that some time training in the gym would help him to focus his mind and body before that moment came. As he approached the doors to the gym the he saw Vance and another person, Paul he thought his name was, emerge and head towards the bunks. As they turned away Paul narrowed his eyes at Ki almost as if he thought Ki would lunge at him any second. Ki nodded but Paul quickly turned away continuing down the hall with Vance.

"I wonder what that was all about." Ki thought to himself as he entered the gym.

The thought was swiftly pushed away though as Ki began to go about his training regimen

[Gineko]

Karen shook her head. "Why can't we have a competent leader for a change?" she walked down the hall and up to her room. She finished packing her equipment into her bag and then decided to get some food. When she reached the mess hall, she looked at the selection. Compared to the food she could make on her own, this was worse than eating dirt. She sighed and took a bowl of ravioli, might as well try something she hadn't had before, that way she couldn't judge it from her own cooking. She chose a table by herself and started poking at her food, not really eating it.

[Mintaro]

Vance placed his duffel on his bed and zipped it up. It hadn't taken him long to pack it, it never did. He turned and saw Paul finishing up his bag as well. They made their beds and picked the bags up. Vance settled his gun against his back and then his duffle bag onto his shoulder. They moved out of the room and walked side by side down the corridor nodding to the troops they past. Giving them lookovers. Paul kept glaring at everyone. "Damnit Paul." Vance whispered. "Be less conspicuous." Paul nodded slightly and began not looking so hard at the people they passed. The moved by the mess hall doors and Vance motioned to stop. "We should get some food from here while we still can. Good high energy, high nutrient food." Vance smiled and winked at Paul in a knowing way.

Paul sighed in irritation. "I do not want to eat Potato's again. How the hell do you eat those things for every meal?"

Vance entered the room with Paul in toe. They moved down the food line and Vance grabbed the last two baked potatos. After exchanging a few quick words, and a couple salt packets, with a mess worker he managed to get two more raw potatos. Vance walked over to a table Paul had sat down at. Paul had what appeared to be a vegetable nutrient mush. Vance just snorted at it. "And you say potato's are weird. Eat like your in prison cause we gotta go." They ate their food as fast as they could and headed off again. Vance had the two raw potatos stuffed securly in the false pocket of his duffle. He wouldn't be caught eating anything he didn't know was safe.

When he made it back to the Gym his other freinds were waiting just outside the door. Well they were all here. Time to get ready for a good old fashioned paranoid wait out.