He thought of every possible way it could work but couldn’t even imagine it working with the knowledge he possessed. Though he’s an engineering student still going to university, he could not understand how it worked. To him, the ship and this whole invasion was in the realm of science fiction.
Gray shook his head getting his head out of the clouds and back into reality. He then slowly crept into the giant open hanger taking each step cautiously. Thinking to himself about saving or avenging his mother motivated him.
Even though Gray seemed calm and cautious on the outside he was burning with hatred on the inside. He thought ‘What happens if they have guns or are stronger than me, what will I do?’
“Well, it’s too late to back out now. I’m already in the ship.” He spoke to himself in a low voice to boost his courage.
Looking around, he found himself in a huge empty hanger bay. There were no Mechs or aliens around.
“Where are they?” He asked in a confused and quiet tone. “I better hurry up and look around to see what I can find.”
He searched the large and empty hanger finding nothing but empty space, there was nothing he could take with him. The inside and the outside of the ship had strange circuit-like lines embedded in the walls, that emitted a comfortable blue light.
“Dammit was this a waste of time? There’s nothing here.” He said in an exasperated tone.
Thinking to himself ‘I better get out of here before I get caught.’
He then started to make his way out of the hanger bay, but then a strange sound came from his side.
When that happened Gray jumped to his side and assumed some kind of strange karate stance. After some time, he noticed that it was a small hatch that opened next to him. He took a few steps back, then the hatch closed.
“Phew… it’s an automatic door.” Gray spoke in a hushed tone after he breathed out a sigh of relief.
Shaking from all the excitement and adrenaline that was rapidly flowing through his veins. He then started to examine the automatic hatch. It was roughly a square meter in diameter.
‘It seems these aliens are quite small.’ thinking to himself. Still, embarrassed about his earlier actions. ‘Well, it’s better to be safe than sorry’ Gray thought well trying to console himself.
He took a few steps forward and the little hatch opened again.
Gray then bent down to look at what was inside this strange hatch. As he got closer to it, he noticed that it smelled a little. ‘So, the aliens stink huh?’ Gray thought jokingly.
Looking into the hatch he did not see any aliens, the only thing he saw was a cramped and dimly lit hallway. ‘This kind of reminds me of those alien horror movies. Damn, I hope this isn’t a trap they set up for me so they could hunt me for entertainment.’ Gray thought as he shivered.
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“Man, up Gray. Let’s just get this over with.” He mumbled to encourage himself.
He slowly got onto his knees and crawled into the dimly lit hallway. As soon as he got into the hallway the hatch behind him closed.
Gray looked back and gulped, he slowly crawled down the cramped and dimly lit hallway. Noticing that the air was becoming humid and the smell became more pungent. Eventually, he got to another hatch at the end of it.
When the hatch slid open, he found it to be some kind of lift system. ‘Is this some sort of elevator?’ he thought while scoffing at the familiar sight. He moved back a little and the lift door closed again.
After some time entered the lift.
The sliding door of the lift closed and it started going up. He thought to himself ‘Is this some kind of ghost ship or something?’
He cautiously waited in the small lift system for anything to happen. Luckily for him, the only thing that did happen was the sliding door of the lift opening. Gray on the other hand panicked as he noticed his surroundings. ‘Damn, there is nowhere to hide or turn in this cramped hallway.’
“I’m doing a dangerous thing here exploring this ship, I might even die. No, I probably will die. Whatever… if I die, I die, I’ve never been a coward in life and I’m not going to start now. Besides, I still haven’t seen the faces of the bastards who got my mother.” Gray spoke as he motivated himself again.
Soon that thought ended when the lift stopped and its doors opened, Gray then got hit with the most horrid smell he had ever smelled in his life. He couldn’t help but cuss while covering his nose.
“What the hell?” He asked with his hand over his nose.
Keeping his voice down, he slowly looked around and noticed a strange clear slime on the floor that took on a disgusting blue color from the lights of the ship.
“Is that horrid smell coming from that stuff? I hope it’s not poisonous?” Gray questioned himself as he left the lift and continued to crawl on the ground while getting himself covered in the otherworldly smelly slime.
He looked around to find himself in the same-looking hallway as before, the only difference was that there was a hatch on the side. ‘Should I go straight or left?’ He thought and decided ‘I’ll go straight and see where that leads too?’
After Gray made up his mind, he went straight, when he got to the hatch, it opened and he slowly crawled through it. To his surprise he found himself at the top of the hanger bay, he looked around to find nothing; just like his first try. However, he did notice that five slime trails led to a drop.
He started to think. ‘It was impossible for them to just drop down because I did not find any slime trails at the bottom of the hanger.’ The more he looked around the more clues he found. ‘It seems that these trails lead to what is supposed to be where those alien Mechs were parked.’ thinking of this, he decided not to waste any more time and went back into the hallway.
The hatch behind him closed and the air started to smell again. Gray started to curse the aliens for leaving such smelly slime trails, thinking of this, he imagined that the aliens were slug-like in appearance.
He finally got to the hatch that was on his left but now was on his right because he was facing the other way this time. Upon detecting his presence the hatch opened.
He then slowly crawled into it and found that it had a longer hallway than the previous one’s.
The deeper Gray got, the fouler it smelt because He was crawling on all fours like a baby. One of his hands accidentally slipped on the slime and he fell face-first into it.
“Bla... tu… tuu... tu!”
“I got some in my mouth, it tastes terrible. My tongue is burning. Oh, it hurts and the taste; is killing me.”
Gray’s tongue started to go numb and he gradually lost his sense of taste, the thought of losing his taste did not stop him from moving forward.
“Thankfully I can’t taste that trash anymore.” He spoke in an annoying tone because of his numb tongue.
Gray got closer to the end of the hallway, the hatch slowly opened to reveal a dimly lit control room with an alien suspended in the middle of it, with some kind of headgear holding it up.
A low-pitched growling sound came from it; it seemed not to have noticed Gray behind it.
Grey observed for a bit and noticed that it seemed to be asleep. It looked uglier than he imagined it to be. It had a slug-like body with a bulging spinal cord and long bony arms with four fingers, it did not have any legs.
By the looks of it, it used its arms to crawl around. As Gray was looking from behind, he did not get to see its face. It was suspended in the air by some robotic arm thing while wearing headgear or so he thought. The more he looked at it the more his killing intent arose. He was getting ready for the kill.