The Rogue Officer

[Wolfs Ghost]

Austin glanced up from shifting through the old piles of rubble on the ground near the entrance, there was a loud humming sound, and suddenly a bright flash of lights lit up the entire inside of the room he was on.

He quickly shut his eyes, nearly paralyzed from the sudden blinding light. You could say it was his stupidity to look directly up at the light bulb, which was an industrial flood light.

After a few minutes passed by, he finally came to his senses. "God damn it Ensign. Could have gave a damn warning or something." He shouted in Aleski's general direction, rubbing his eyes for a few more seconds before stopping and blinking.

He looked over to his right to see a skeleton laying sprawled out on the metal flooring. The sight of it made him shudder a bit, but curiosity won him over easily and he began to walk over to it moving things out of his way gently as if not to disturb a sleeping giant.

Finally reaching the skeleton, he knelt down and gently poked at it with his bare hand. Without warning the part of the skeleton he had touched turned to dust, which made Austin jump a bit and fall backwards, scrambling away quickly, until he realized that an extremely old skeleton had just scared him by turning to dust. He chuckled lightly a bit and pushed himself to his feet, glancing around until he found a Communications system.

"Ah ha." He said happily as he moved towards it.

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