Colony Ch 1: Alien Planet

[Mintaro]

Vance woke up and looked around. It didn't look like anyone else had managed to awaken yet so he went ahead. And pressed the release button on his straps. He climbed out of his chair and awoke each of his for compatriots. They Climbed out of the pod. Waking up everyone on their way out. Vance looked around the jungle they had landed in. "Figures these animals would live in a jungle." Vance looked around and spotted this ship. He had Paul figure out where they had landed in relation to where they were supposed too. The distance was just that. A distance. It seemed the rendezvous spot would be closer then the landing spot. Though neither was close. After the last of the occupants of the pod had exited Vance informed them of the situation.

"Frankly what it comes down to is this. We are on an alien planet. With an alien species that can disguise themselves as humans. This brings me to our first order of business. Testing. Each of you will stand in a line and approach me. You will each in turn had your arm cut and bled. This is of course not a fool proof measure of finding out who is human and if any of you are not. But it is a start until we get an alien body." Vance gestures to his Friends and they all pull out their guns pointing them at the group. "Now, an orderly line would be lovely." He says as he pulls a knife out of his Friends leg scabbard.

[TheBlindMime]

Parker awoke after the grinding halt of the excape pods impact onto the ground. The shaking jolted him against, he saw the others getting up in a subtle haze. Releasing the seat restraints he slowly dragged himself to the door behind the others. They collected in a group right outside of the escape pod.

Parker sat holding his head with a first-aid rag as he slowly bled. He watched as the others appeared to let there paranoia consuming them. Almost all of their guns were drawn waiting for another person to make the first move. They had to cut there arms to prove themselves, Parker merely laughed. "I can one up that," he threw the bloodsoaked rag at the leader of the group. "I think that just about proves my humanity. Now what about yours?" Parker lifted his rifle and aimed it squarely between Vance's eyes. Parker wasn't going to move his rifle for anything, he just hoped the soldiers behind him were as human as he.

[Seeker]

Ki had been watching Vance's group and listening to his ridiculous command that everybody be "tested". He agreed that some of these soldiers might be aliens but this was not the way to go about finding them and there was no way he was going to cut himself for Mr. Paranoid and his cronies. It would be much better to find out who the aliens were without them knowing, better the enemy you knew than the one you didn't.

They hadn't yet moved towards him yet when Troy started the standoff though. Ki could see the way some of the others were giving Troy the eye and figured this could turn ugly quick unless a ranking officer showed up and soon at that. He knew the other pods had crashed nearby so maybe he could stall this until someone showed up.

Ki moved up alongside Troy and said in a level, calm voice, "Lets all just try to settle down. This isn't the way to go about this. The best thing to do now is find the others."

He glanced around trying to take everyone in, "We know the Oren caused that crash so they know we're here and are probably nearby. The longer we stand here the more chance they have of catching us unprepared."

Ki looked from Parker to Vance and said, "I don't about you two but I don't want to get shot by and alien because I was arguing about whether or not I was one. So what do you say?"

[Mintaro]

Vance took the rag and sniffed it. It was blood alright. One human down. Just then another man stepped forward.

"I don't about you two but I don't want to get shot by and alien because I was arguing about whether or not I was one. So what do you say?"

Vance just looked at him. He then raised his arm, and made a slow cut across it. Being careful not to hit any veins. The red blood slowly seeped out and Vance bound the wound with a handkerchief from his pocket. He then made a hand signal that everyone recognized as take aim. His team pointed their weapons at the one that had just spoke (Ki). Vance smiled at him and said simply "Well then you'll be next." Holding the knife out in front of him.

[BassDouken]

Esentu clutched his head as he regained conciousness. He pushed away a few wires that were dangling down from the top of the escape pod, at least what he thought was the top. He could no longer tell what side was supposed to be on top, but it didn't matter to him. He looked around and found the other Uteo as well as a few other Oren. He entered the Uteo's mind and woke him up. Get up. We crashed, and I have an idea. The humans should come searching here soon. Esentu and Iveol (the other Uteo) slipped out through a whole that was oppened up near the ground. They made their way to a depression in the ground. Iveol, make a projection above us, a rock or something. And watch what happens. Esentu concentrated, and one of the soldier's guns began to levitate above his hands and shot out into the center of the group. It just hung there in midair for a moment while the other humans just dumbfoundedly looked at it.