"WHAT THE FUCK?! COME BACK! NO, YOU CAN'T FUCKING DO THIS TO ME!?!" Abel yells up into the sky as the ship blasts up, up and away.
"NO NO NO NO! WHAT THE HELL?!" Hibiki yells looking up to the sky in confusion and desperation.
"MOTHERFUCKER! WHAT?!" Mohan yells, shaking his fist at the sky.
"BOSTA" Luh yells, clenching and shaking her fist a little.
As everyone freaks out in confusion and anger, Elena looks up to the sky in complete shock, being left completely speechless by what just happened. Then suddenly Hibiki heard something, it was barely audible but it was a clear whooshing sound as if a giant hawk was swooping down. Hibiki then tackles Abel to the ground.
"WHAT THE FUCK!? WHAT ARE YOU DOIN-" Abel yells but then a large, 4-winged, and 2-toned alien swoops right above the two, just barely missing both of them.
"LET'S GET GOING BEFORE IT CIRCLES BACK!" Elena yells getting her gun ready as Mohan helps Hibiki and Abel up.
"YUP LET'S GO!" Abel says staying at the back with his gun at the ready.
"How the hell did you know there was something there???" Luh asks Hibiki, completely shocked.
"I just heard a noise and had a hunch I guess," Hibiki says as they continue to crouch through the tall grass while they see the shadow of the alien in the sky, stalking them. As they do they encounter a bunch of small, almost lizard-like aliens.
"Omg, they are so adorable!" Luh says going to aliens to pet one, when it runs away along with the others back into their burrows. "Hey wait, come back, I swear I'm friendly-" Luh says.
"Sure, friendly .. " Mohan says.
"Shut up Mohan," Luh says, rolling her eyes. "We can't stay hidden in the grass forever cause the high grass is about to end. We gotta figure out a way to make it to the treeline cause the second we leave the grass we die. Any of y'all got a plan?"
"Well we could sacrifice Abel, you know for the greater good," Elena says.
"Shut up Elena," Abel says, flipping her off before he turns to Hibiki. "You got any ideas?" Abel asks him.
"Uhm well, it's pretty smart since it's still stalking us up there but uh . . . Mohan, do you have any of those smaller rover things?" Hibiki asks him as he turns towards him.
"Ya, I got some of those small rovers, you thinking of using it as a distraction?" Mohan asks him.
"Ya maybe if we lure it out with that we could scare it off from chasing us, using Abel and Elena's guns. What do you guys think?" Hibiki asks, turning to the group.
"Hmm ya, I could see that working," Elena says nodding.
"Let's go for it!" Luh says giving a thumbs up.
"Alright then," Mohan says as he takes out the small rover, it was a little larger than a large dog and resembled a Roomba. Mohan pilots the rover out into the open fields and just as predicted, the same whooshing sound is heard, and the alien lands. The alien prods the Rover curiously before going in to bite it but before it could, both Elena and Abel shoot at the alien. The alien cries out in pain and flies off, their plan has worked and they run across the open savannah to get to the safety of the treeline but right as they do, they hear the whooshing again.
"Wait what didn't we scare it off???" Abel yells as they run
"Uh ya but I guess it didn't get scared so just fucking run!" Mohan yells back at Abel.
The alien swoops down but the duck and it misses by an inch. Hibiki looks around the savannah and he sees a massive burrow but gets an idea.
"GUYS RUN TO THE HOLE!" Hibiki yells pointing to the hole, the others trust him and they run towards the hole, and as they do the alien swoops back down. The second it gets in range to snap up the crew, it ends up right above the hole. Right then a massive worm alien with 2 large forearms and a long worm-like body bursts up and chomps down on the flying alien, dragging it into the burrow as the flying alien screeches. They all look at Hibiki shocked but questions would have to wait as they were still out in the open. So they run into the jungle.
"Alright we need to find some shelter for tonight, if this place is anything like Earth then the big creatures will come out at night," Hibiki says, still slightly out of breath from earlier.
"Ya you're probably right, I was able to get a quick scan of this area when we were descending onto the planet," Luh says as she takes out a tablet and shows a map of the savannah and part of the forest. "There's a cave about a 20-minute walk from here," Luh says pointing out the cave on the map.
"Ok then let's get going," Elena says, once again leading the way to the cave. After about 25 minutes of walking, they arrived at the cave that Luh had shown them.
"Oh finally, I can rest. My legs feel like jelly" Luh says as the group enters the cave. Mohan set up some lights throughout the cave, it was luckily completely empty.
"Alright I'll get to work on setting up the sleeping area and stuff, can someone get some firewood?" Mohan asks as he starts setting up the sleeping area.
"I'll go do it I guess" Abel grumbles as he leaves the cave. In the meanwhile Mohan sets up the sleeping area with help from Elena while Hibiki makes some field notes Luh starts drawing a map of the areas they explored so far. After about 10 minutes Abel returns with the firewood and they make a campfire in the cave as everyone starts taking out their rations and congregating around the campfire. An awkward silence fell over the area but it wasn't long before Abel broke the silence.
"So I already know we are all thinking this but Hibiki how the fuck did you know that worm-looking thing was even there?!" he asks Hibiki.
"Well uh I didn't, my original plan was to go into the hole but it worked out in the end." Hibiki says, rubbing the back of his head.
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"So what you're saying is that you had no clue what you were doing and nearly got us all killed?!" Elena says clenching her fist.
"Well uh ya but I mean it all worked out in the end," Hibiki says before he's cut off by Mohan.
"Well what if it didn't, we could've all gotten eaten by that worm thing bro," Mohan says clenching his own fists.
"YA EXACTLY YOU FUCKING DUMBASS YOU COULDVE GOTTEN US ALL KILLED-" Abel yells loudly before his mouth is covered by Elena.
"Don't be so loud, we don't wanna attract anything" Elena says before taking a deep breath.
"Guys calm down, if it wasn't for Hibiki we would've 100% died. It was a big risk but it worked out in the end. Right now we need to focus on survival." Luh says, putting a hand on Hibiki's shoulder.
"She's not wrong, we gotta figure out how to get off this planet right now." Mohan says, letting out a sigh.
Elena takes a couple of deep breaths thinking before nodding in agreement with the group.
"Ya sure I guess she's not wrong," Abel says reluctantly.
Hibiki lets out a sigh of relief before speaking up. "So how are we going to even get off this planet?" Hibiki asks.
"Well, it'll probably take them about 2 weeks for them to send a rescue ship and it'll probably take it at least a month to get here since they're made to be faster," Elena says.
"So we gotta survive at least a month and a half here," Hibiki says, his voice trailing off.
"Yup, does anyone here know any type of survival stuff? I mean other than the basic training we got at NASA" Elena says looking around.
No one raises their hand but then Abel raises his hand and everyone looks at him shocked.
"No fucking way that ABEL of all people knows how to survive better than any of us," Luh says
"Well, my dad-" Abel starts before he's cut off by Mohan.
"It's cause his dad probably took him camping all the time," He says
"How the hell did you know that-" Abel responds before being cut off again by Hibiki.
"Cause you're the only American here," Hibiki says nonchalantly.
"Ya fair enough," Abel says, shrugging.
"Well then Mr.survivalist, what should we do tomorrow?" Elena says in an annoyed tone.
"Well we gotta find water obviously so tomorrow we look for water, then we'll make a shelter by the water. For food, we should ration until we, by we I mean Hibiki, figure out what's safe to eat here" Abel responds quickly so he's not cut off again.
"Well for water, there's a river system about 3 km due north," Luh says pointing to it on the tablet.
"Huh that's pretty convenient, well let's get some sleep then. We got a lot of walking tomorrow" Elena says before going into her sleeping bag and promptly falling asleep.
"Night," Mohan says before also going to sleep.
"Ya, whatever I guess I'll also go to sleep, night." Abel says as he, along with Hibiki and Luh also go to sleep.
The next morning Hibiki wakes up to loud chirps and screeches from outside.
"Huh, what's that-" he's cut off by 3 creatures entering the cave. They were quite strange-looking aliens, they had 2 large arms, sharp teeth, and surprisingly no eyes. These creatures were around the size of a large dog. Hibiki slowly backs away to wake up Abel, noticing that the creatures haven't detected them yet. He shakes Abel and he turns on his side.
"5 more minutes mum" Abel mumbles sleepily.
"I'm not your mum Abel, wake up" Hibiki whispers but these creatures hear him whisper. The aliens turn their heads to Hibiki and sniff the air slowly approaching.
"C'mon Abel, wake the hell up. I don't wanna die!" Hibiki whispers again, shaking Abel more. Abel continued to not wake up. In sheer desperation, Hibiki uses his rationed water and pours it on Abel's face.
"AH, WHAT THE HELL, I'M GONNA BEAT YOU TO DEATH-" Abel yells at the top of his fucking lungs as he sits up. This sends the aliens into a frenzy and they run toward them, screeching loudly which alerts more of these aliens as at least 3 more enter the cave. "WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE THINGS?!" Abel yells, getting his gun and starting to shoot but the bullets seem to bounce off the creatures. The gunshots combined with Abel's unintelligible screaming wake up the rest of the group.
"Huh, what the hell is happening bro-" Mohan says before quickly getting out of his sleeping bag as one of the aliens pounces on it, ripping it to shreds. Elena gets right up and starts shooting.
"What the! They're bulletproof!" Elena yells putting the gun down before lowering Abel's gun too.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING BITCH-" Abel yells at her.
"Don't waste your bullets on these things" Elena says and Abel complies knowing she is correct. The aliens circle the group.
"Que Inferno" Luh mumbles under her breath before turning to Hibiki. "Got a plan or something?" Luh asks him.
"Nope, but they don't have eyes so maybe we can distract them with a noise and then run?" Hibiki suggests. Elena then throws a rock which makes a loud clunk further down the cave but the aliens don't flinch, instead the aliens charge in.
"WHAT THE FUCK, THAT DIDN'T WORK!?" Abel yells as he uses his gun to bash one of the aliens away. The alien quickly pounces back and tries to bite Abel but Abel shoots the inside of its mouth and kills the creature. The other creatures hearing its death quickly back off and run away.
"HAHAHA, THAT'S RIGHT YOU BITCHES RUN! HAHAHA-" Abel yells doing a little victory dance.
"HELL YA YOU DID IT! WHOOOO!" Mohan yells dapping up Abel. Abel continues to yell, and eventually, it becomes intelligible which is when Elena stops giving his celebration moment and karate chops the top of his head.
"Good job but shut up before something bigger comes," Elena says rolling her eyes. Hibiki meanwhile picks up the body of the alien and puts it in his backpack, which Luh notices.
"What are you doing?" Luh asks him, raising her eyebrow.
"Well if we want to survive here for the month we need to before a rescue ship comes here, we gotta figure out if we can eat them," Hibiki says nonchalantly.
"I am not eating that, it looks nasty as hell" she replies. "Wonder how you would season it though" she mumbles under her breath.
"I CALL COOKING IT, TRUST ME I SHALL CREATE THE MOST IMMACULATE CURRY!-" Mohan yells, pumping his fist in the air.
"Well, I gotta figure out if it's edible first-" Before Hibiki could even finish his sentence he was interrupted by Abel.
"NUH UH, I'M MAKING IT INTO BURGERS-" Abel yells back at Mohan. Everyone hearing this, turns and stares at him. An awkward silence falls before Luh breaks the silence.
"I think your cooking would probably kill us, I trust Mohan on this one," Luh says as Hibiki and Elena nod in agreement.
". . . damn that's harsh" Abel mutters rubbing the back of his head.
"Well let's get going now before some other ungodly alien pops up." Elena says as she goes front and leads once more while Abel stays at the back.
"Alright, the river is about 3 km due north so we just have to keep going forward." Luh says showing the tablet to Elena.
They trek through the jungle for about 2 km with no incident, they got pretty lucky so far. They then reach a part of the forest which seems like it's made out of a bamboo-like plant.
"Huh, are we in China or something?" Abel says jokingly before Elena gives him a look which he completely ignores and continues on his jolly way. They continue to walk when Luh sees something move.
"Pelo amor de deus" Luh mumbles, then a large limb, resembling the "bamboo" around them, shoots down towards them. Luh dodges and the limb impales the ground. Everyone sees this and immediately starts running, where the creature gives chase, you can barely even see it due to its insane camouflage.
"WHAT ARE WE RUNNING FROM?!" Abel yells in a confused tone.
"Obviously an alien dumbass" Luh grumbles in response.
"CAN'T WE JUST LIGHT IT UP?!" Abel yells
"You can't shoot something that you can't see dumbass" Mohan replies while just barely dodging another one of the creature's limbs. Hibiki sees the limb and notices it has a slightly darker coloration compared to the "bamboo". He then sees a limb up ahead and grabs the machete on Abel's side.
"MOHAN, CUT THE DARK GREEN ONE!" he says, tossing the machete to him. Mohan catches the machete and swings it at the dark green one and low and behold, Hibiki is correct as the creature screeches in pain and retreats.
"Nice one bro," Mohan says out of breath from running before dapping up Hibiki.
"Good work," Elena says, nodding her head a bit.
"I have no clue how you knew but I'm happy to be alive." Luh says giving a thumbs up, also very much outta breath. After this, the group continues onward and exits the "bamboo" forest. As they do they see the most glorious thing a thirsty and lost astronaut could. The river.