Colony Ch 1: Alien Planet

[Seeker]

Ki landed lightly on his feet and immediately charged forward towards the dummy. At the last second he leapt over the dummy and spun in midair quickly striking the dummy first with his left foot in the head and then with his right forearm on the shoulder. As he landed he collapsed his body rolling in a half-moon around the dummy to the right, leaping to an attack stance at the end and throwing two lightning fast punches into the dummies upper torso before again moving quickly to a different position.

This was the essence of Ki's fighting style strike and move and do both quickly, often, and with efficiency. If you weren't there when your opponent struck then you couldn't be hit. He also felt it better to land many strong blows rather than a few crushing blows, this would help to keep you from exhausting your own energy while wearing your opponent down. However Ki also favored the ability to change your fighting style when needed so as not to become predictable to an opponent.

Ki executed one final spin kick striking the dummy solidly in the back of the neck. He landed in a crouch position, coming smoothly to his feet just as the gym doors began to open.

[Gineko]

Everyone is going about their business. A cool female voice is heard over the com system: "We will be landing in thirty minutes time. Please make sure that all of your equip-" BOOM! There was a violent explosion from somewhere on the ship and every living thing was knocked to the ground. There was a siren screaming from somewhere and there were people yelling, the whole ship was shaking uncontrollably. WHAM! There was a second explosion and this time everyone felt the physical force of it as if it was in their own body. The lights failed and there was smoke and rubble falling from the walls and ceiling, someone was saying something over the com but it wasn't heard over the roaring of the ship as it fell from the sky. There was no longer an up or down, just a mass of bodies being thrown against one another as the ship hurdled toward Oreinz, as the people inside struggled to straighten themselves and get to the escape pods.

[TheBlindMime]

Parker was walking down the hallway rubbing his hands together in anticipation of some grub. "First I'm going to eat some chicken, or steak maybe they have steak today. That would be so good with the potatoes they are always shoving down our throats."

"Parker calm down man, we still have like 40 minutes." Rodriguez didn't seem very amped up about eating.

"C'mon rod you need to enjoy what we have here because for all we know those aliens eat sludge."

"Maybe we'll get lucky and the sludge will taste like rocky road."

Parker stopped and gave Rodriguez an evil eye, "If it does I will pay for everything in your retirement years. And I mean that." A voice came over the radio explained there time frame of 30 minutes when a sudden rift came through the entire ship. Parker lost his footing and as he fell his head rebounded off of a steel hand rail. His head felt as though it was being split by fire. His eyes couldn't even focus as he held himself against the ground with one hand the other clasped against the sharp pain in his skull.

As the second explosion ripped through the ship Rodriguez was prepared, pressing himself against the wall using the rail as leverage. As the ship evened out for a moment Rodgriguez jumped into action, pulling Parker to his feet as he began dragging him towards an escape pod. "Now thats why they tell all the new recruits to keep their braincases firmly enclosed within a helmet."

"Arghh..." It was all troy could say, he tried to force out a few curse words but it was of no use. For him the world seemed off, beyond the smoke and rubble there was a great haze surrounding it. It may have been the adrenaline in his veins or the sharp strike his head suffered, but the next few moments seemed like a blur to troy. Footsteps, screams, hallway after hallway. It was as if he was asleep. When he awoke, he found himself locked into a seat on an escape pod. Looking around he couldn't see Rodriguez. "Rodriguez talk to me man, where are you?"

No answer.

"Rodriguez, does anyone know where rodriguez is?" The reply was just a bunch of blank faces. He had lost the man who saved him, the only man he had respected in basic training, his friend was gone. He wondered if he would see him on the planet as he pressed his hand into the minor trickle of blood on his head.

(ooc: gineko since he's your brother bring him back if you wish.)

[BassDouken]

Esentu was knocked down by the first blast. The force of it as well as the second blast caused his concentration to be interrupted. His mental hallucination was broken as his Uteo form emerged as he lay prone on the ground. The only thing that had saved him was the fact that everyone else was falling around as well. He looked up as a large chunk of the wall fell forward and enveloped him. He quickly projected a force feild around him and the wall stopped inches from his chest. The rest of the wall fell around him, causing him to slip out of sight of any others around him. He rolled back through the wall and the chunks of ship rolled off of him. He reprojected his human from as he stood up. He surveyed the chaos arround him and looked to where everyone was running.

OREN, ESCAPE PODS! NOW!!! I'll get one just for us, if you can't find us get into one with humans in it. Just GET OFF THIS SHIP NOW! Esentu yelled at any Oren on board. He dashed off through all of the humans. Most seemed to be going to the port side of the ship. Esentu also went to the port side, but went a floor above everyone in hoped that more escape pods would be there. He was in luck because it was less populated than the floor below it. As he ran, he noticed the other Uteo from the Breifing Room incident. He looked at him for a minute and then the other looked back at him. They ran for an unused escape pod. A human was about to enter into a far one, but Esentu sent out a mental blast that knocked him back into the wall. He slumped down with a trail of blood marked on the wall. Pausing before the entrance to the escape pod, he took note of the number.

E-429. That's the number of the escape pod.

Esentu then sent a mental blast along the walls which sent smoke and steam spewing around the hallway. That should prevent unwanted guests. He thought to himself.

[Ryu Kurai]

Astarat pushed one of the Ueto he was with ahead of him, unsure as to where the escape pods would be located. He dashed after them, hoping that his comrade had at least some semblance of an idea where he was going.

The moment that the Oren recieved the message, Astarat nodded at the Ueto. Their group sped on towards the escape pods, Astarat ready to dispatch any soldiers with a well-placed needle.

Swallowing his second reconstituded burrito, Rowan cocked his ears. During the announcement, he could swear he heard a whistl...BOOM!

The first explosion bounced his hide off of the cieling, and the second one drove him back through his cafeteria table. The center of gravity within the ship was shifting, and he could feel himself sliding towards the kitchens. A moment later, momentum was carrying him towards the doors.

"Oh, yeah, this is SO much better that attacking a fortified city," he groused, digging his booted heels into the ground, and trying to hurl himself at the doors. He was reasonably sure he could take them on...

With a well-trained footbal shoulder, he managed to drive himself into the flimsy sheet-metal doors, and completely through them, into the hallway. At least here, he had some bulkheads to use for grip. "ANYONE WHO CAN HEAR ME," he roared in his best drill-seargent voice, which he had honed for the past few weeks, "GET YOUR DAMN ASSES TO THE ESCAPE PODS! FIRST COME FIRST SERVE, SO SHAKE IT!"

[Mintaro]

Vance and his group regained their feet after the ship was rocked with the first explosion. Even an experienced boxer like Vance had trouble with a surprise like that. They managed to get into the Gym and spotted another soldier inside. They called out for him to follow them and headed past the gym and out another door moving straight for the closest escape pod. They managed to make it inside with minimal injury and picked up a couple more people along the way. They locked themselves inside the front seats of the pod and everyone else filed in behind them.

When it finally filled up they hit the launch button and jettisoned themselves out to what they hoped was the safety of space. Vance was just happy he had grabbed those potatoes when he did. No telling when they will be able to find food on the planet. "First thing we do when we land is take control of the people in this pod." He thought to himself. "Make them all submit to some sort of test to prove they arn't aliens and then lead them to the rendezvous point....where the hell IS the rendezvous point. Oh well, Paul will know." Vance contented himself to trying to get the pod down to the surface in one piece.

[Gineko]

Karen was doing her best to keep her balance, she was being thrown all over the place and into people who just pushed her off of them and continued running and yelling. She reached the escape pods and tumbled into one, then fell unconscious.

The ship continued to fall, none of the pods had jettisoned yet and the ground was coming closer. They were off course and heading toward one of the heavily forested areas. In the last seconds before they scrapped the top of the trees three pods shot away from the ship, but not fast enough. The ship hit the trees and with many loud series of cracks it broke through the shield of trees. The escape pods that had left the ship were not hit with the majority of the force that the ship was but they still plummeted into the forest. After a few minutes the ship and the pods came to a rest at the forest floor.

OCC , Im sorry i wont be able to come on the rest of the week i got kicked out of the library at school. RYU can take over Thankx

[Seeker]

Just as the door opened there was a deafening BOOM! and an explosion, which sent Ki sprawling across the gym. As he regained his footing the second explosion rocked the ship, this time though Ki was able to keep his footing if only just.

As he found his balance he heard someone yell to him to follow and looked up in time to see Vance and his groupies rushing through the opposite gym doors. Ki quickly scooped up his scattered weapons and rushed to follow them.

Exiting the gym and entering into the chaos of the hallway Ki dashed after the group as they entered a pod at the far end of the hallway. Along the way he pushed a couple of soldiers to their feet and pushed them towards the escape pod as well. Finally he sprinted through the doors and buckled himself into his seat just in time for the pod to jettison.

[Ryu Kurai]

The pod that the Oren were in was thrown clear of the shuttle's impact only by the force of the shuttle itself. The well-made escape pod fortunately was able to withstand most of the tumbling, but the immense ammount of spinning upon impact and the fact that Astarat had not known to strap himself in and had braced himself against all sides of the pod before impact had rendered the occupants of all the surviving pods unconcious.

The remains of the Ship burned brightly in the night sky, a grim reminder of what had transpired, as the first of the pod's occupants awoke.

OOC: Basically, you guys decide the order in which you wake up. You're all in heavy jungle underbrush, save the upturned earth made from the pods grinding to a stop. Injuries and such are up to you.