A Survivors Spirit

[Ashley Grey]

A Survivors Spirit

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"Cal, Xeno on our six! I'd never thought we run into so many Xenos in Kepler." A moment passed with no one saying anything. Caledon seemed to be unaware of what Ashley had said to him until now. "Oh my god! Hull integrity is failing! Try to shake them off in that cloud!" Warning lights began to flash as their Upholder entered the cloud.

Due to the low hull integrity a loud alarm sound started to fill the of silence in the cockpit. "Pull up Cal! Pull up! Asteroi--"
Ashley didn't have time to finish her sentence before the ship impacted.

Their Xeno attackers ignored them as soon as they had crashed into the asteroid leaving them to die a painful death to whatever lies deeper within that cloud. Both of the young Police Officers hadn't even thought about their "adventure" when they started their patrol in New York and followed a smuggler into Kepler. After a while Caledon woke up in and tried to talk to his sister who was still unconscious. Rousing her they checked the damage on to the ship.


It didn't take long for them to determine that they were lucky the ships hull was still holding. Weapons, lifesupport, shields were all offline. Luckily the thruster was still working if barely, so that they were able to change their course slightly.
"Cal, what happened?" Pain can be heard in Ashleys voice as she turned towards her brother."Looks like something was jamming our systems, and I lost control of the ship. I tried Ash, but we hit an asteroid a while back." "What happened after we.. we... drifted..." She slowed down talking as she saw something that might save them in the window.
"That is a, argh," coughing due to the pain she tried to continue, "a Battlecruiser. What the hell is it doing in here?"

"I don't know about any Navy forces dispatched out here... Has to be the LSF." Caledon carefully told his sister. "The only logical choice to save us would be to dock on the ship. Hopefully the LSF will help us. I'll initiate a manual docking sequence. You bring us in. And remember we only got the thruster to maneuver. " "We're almost out of fuel for that as well, its been leaking. But I'm not sure its the best idea... We're in the middle of nowhere, and that ship shouldn't be here."
"I know, I don't like it either. But it's our only chance of survival. Bring us in, please, slowly and steady. The ship is barely holding up."

The upholder started to thrust towards the Battlecruiser until it arrived at the docking bay. Ashley sent the docking request but no response came back. "They don't answer. I'll try again." Again she sends the request. Although this time the hangar doors opened. "We did it, we survived." The ship got picked up by the logistics arms in the hangar and was brought to a landing pad. A few robots marched towards the damaged ship and started to repair it. With the beginning of the repairs they opened the cockpit and slowly left the ship, helping each other to get out. "Where are the mechanics? Are there only the robots, where's the personnel?" Ashley paused for a moment, scratching her head. "Anyways, let us not worry and go to the infirmary before we pass out again." "Maybe they're running a skeleton crew, testing out an automated ship, I don't know. Right now, all I care about is getting you to the medbay, you're hurt bad."Caledon said as he supported his sisters weight

Both of them walked through the empty halls towards the infirmary. "My sixth sense is going crazy. There's no way we docked without anyone noticing us. Somethings wrong here Ash." "I know. It's also a bit creepy, why is there no one around?" They stopped talking for a while and slowly continued to walk, constantly supporting each other.

The halls were cold, Ashley started to shiver and suddenly stops. "I, ... I can't *cough* continue." Ashley said with heavy breathing. As she started to tumble a hand grabbed her and prevented her from falling on the ground. "The infirmary is just ahead. We're going to take care of you." "Thank you. I already thought *coughs* it's the end. We thought it's *coughs* a ghost ship." "No, this isn't a ghost ship. Actually we're a small crew and most of them are on patrol. Tell me, how did you two found this Battlecruiser? Our position is not listed anywhere and there aren't any patrols scheduled to arrive in the next days."

The man looked like a LSF agent but something wasn't quite right about him. He had a slight grin on his face while he talked to the siblings. "We got attacked by some Xenos and they left us drifting into the cloud. The last thing I can remember before I saw the ship was that we hit an asteroid. I'm willing to tell you more, though *coughs* I don't feel good at them moment. Can we please go to the infirmary, before I collapse again?" "Sure, I don't want you to die on me." Caledon seemed to be able to walk without support of the agent whereas Ashley was in dire need of the supporting stability of the agent.

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