Returning to Liberty

[Strobel]

Chapter Two - Behind enemy lines

The turning of the capsule and the simple '€žAffirmative'€œ from the computers voice it was sure that her dangerous attempt had begun. Seconds felt like minutes, minutes like hours but finally that unknown object passed the life pod and the exhaust gases hit Sonyas shelter in space.
What she knew was that those gases reacting to the pods shields created that phenomenon that brought her out here and with luck, this time she would end somewhere in charted space from Sirius. It took some seconds but than the strange phenomenon appeared again and started pulling the capsule inside. Directly after it entered that 'tunnel' the pod started to rotate like it has done before and within a minute the forces were so strong that the woman inside fainted even after her elite flight training she had in Liberty.

As she regained consciousness a bright light hit her eyes and Sonya couldn't see anything. Blinking her view fell to the computer screen right in front of her. It showed geographic information, atmospheric read outs and '€“ that was the most interesting part about it '€“ human life forms which were closing in on her position.

'Looks like who ever this is already knows that I'm here.'

It took her a while to unbuckle herself from the seat but after a couple of minutes she was free. After that the woman grabbed the survival bag pack and programmed the computer for self destruct. Nobody should be allowed to see the data her life pod gathered while she was out in the unknown.
The last step before exiting the vessel was to blow out the hatch. Even if the strangers coming her war already seemed to know somebody was here with the sound of the explosion nearly everybody on this planet would be informed now, there was a visitor on the planet.

Luckily for Sonya her pod crashed in a large forest and so there was enough cover for her to put some distance between her and the capsule. Outside she could breath fresh air and was able to smell a lot of different aromas from the woods, the plants, the moss.
For a few seconds she looked at the pod right next to her, it really was badly damaged from the flight but it kept her alive. During that moment she got kind of sentimental because that ship saved her life but now she had to kill it.
The buzzing sound of the reactor on overload reminded her to get away from the pod right now and so she began to run deeper in the forest. After Sonya put 200 meters distance between her and the ship the explosion caught her and pushed her down on the ground.

"Right over there,'€œ a voice was yelling. "Seems like what ever crashed here exploded after the re-entry.'€œ In the same moment a group of men dressed in all black walked by her position within a couple of steps and the LSF agent laying ground immediately knew where she was.

'The Order' was slamming in her head. 'Why does it have to be a planet of the Order?'

---