Derek had arrived at a seat and decided instead of sitting in the far back he would try to get into the military tent hence why he came in the first place. Casually strolling in a man in uniform looked at him and smiled. "Well boy looks like you get to see me in action today." Derek smiled and let out a chuckle. "Seems risky to me Dad."
Eric opened his eyes, to his surprise the truck swerved out of the way and missed him by a hair. He started off in the same direction as before. After awhile of walking he stumbled up to what appeared to be some kind of police station. He quietly roamed around the area scoping out the place. " Huh.. Wonder what all the commotions about" He whispered to him self. He had seen the men that appeared to be soldiers. In Fear that he would be caught and maybe even jailed because of being on a government station he tried to stay out of everyones way, so as not to be detected.
Originally posted by K O T O R
Aubrey's voice trailed out over the soldier's heads, and echoed across the halls.
"Get a move on! I mean, honestly, these guys have been gone months, and you Yellowbellies are walking around like your at a funeral!" Aubrey had no idea what was on that ship, and what on odd choice of words to use. Aubrey shook his head, and jumped down on the large box he was using to shout at them all. Slowly, he walked towards the gate, keeping a finger on his trigger, but not shouldering his rifle. A small group of civilians, about five or six, gathered at the entrance.
"Well... Apparently this things bigger than we thought it would be." Aubre sighed, and looked at the watch on his wrist. Five more hours, and they'd know what this supposed 'new' species was. They'd probably be screwed over... I mean, jeez, it came from space; Aubrey thought, and flipped his rifle around on the shoulder string, so it dangled on his back.
"Sergeant," Aubrey called, running up and saluting sharply. "Can I go get a drink, sir? To calm my nerves." The Sergeant looked Aubrey up and down, and then nodded firmly.
"Go ahead, son. Be back by the time we open this hunk-a-junk up, and don't get plastered." The Sergeant warned, and Aubrey laughed, nodded, and headed back for the entrance, walking straight through the crowd and heading for the bar.
((Outbreak will occur in five or six posts.))
Derek looked at his watch. "One hour till they go in and do their thing." Derek's father looked at him and sighed. "I wish you could go in with me.. well how about i bring pictures of everything onboard?" Derek laughed. "If you can pull that off then you would be bumped from my role model to my god."
Laying flat on his back under a cargo truck Eric heard the supposed Father and Son Speaking. "Damn, I wonder what they mean by that. Where the heck could he be going.?" He still just stayed on his back listening to the two men speak. " Take pictures of what. They goin to space or something?" He began rolling under the truck to get a better spot. He saw a opening that was perfect, Eric started slideing over but on his way there he cut his hand on a broken bottle while crawling " Oh ******!" He cried out foolishly as blood ran down his hand. "Crap I hope no one heard that"
Derek's father breathed in deep and aimed his weapon at the lower area of the truck. "Get out from under there before I decide to shoot you anyway." Derek just laughed as he realized someone tried to sneak onto a public viewing of a space lander.. or maybe he was trying to get onboard. "Let him go Dad he won't hurt anything."
Eric Freaked out as the man aimed his weapon. " Yo man I don't know whats goin on. Ive been knocked out for like 24 Hours." He said while he slid out and revealed him self, As if that was his Cocky excuse. He got on both of his legs and held his bleeding hand. "Could you guys tell me whats going on?"
Derek's father let out a loud laugh. "They found a new species in the universe and they are showing us what they found." Derek chimed in afterwards. "Yeah and they are sending in a hazmat in case the creature is hostile."
Before more detail on the operation could be given a loud boom came over the speakers and a deep scratchy voice started to speak. "This Col. Avery Johnson, all hazmat and registered marine units report to your stations on the double." The speakers cut off and Derek's father grabbed his weapon and ran to his postion without even as much as a goodbye.
Eric ripped some cloth off of his pant legs. "Oh I guess that makes sense, I feel pretty dumb" Eric began laughing," I thought this was some kind of Government meeting. I was afraid you guys would skin me if I was cought"Still laughing. "Any ways my names Eri....." He could not get out his full name, The boom over the speakers was to loud and it sounded as if men were panicking. " Excuse me sir, But is this normal?"
Originally posted by Menetnashté
(First off sorry for correcting you here, brought up by marines couldn't help but correct your error. Marines are told never to put their finger on the trigger until they fire, so if they're spooked they don't gun down a friendly.Once again sorry for correcting you, hate to do it, just can't help it)
Silverin walked into the nearby locker room, where a bunch of the other human soldiers were talking about the ship. He kept his distance, seeing as him and the rest of the platoon didn't see eye to eye on a lot of things, but he stayed in hearing distance.
"Yeah, they're being over cautious, those stupid ****heads on the ship probably just fell out the damn ship, they're probably dead floating out in ****in' space." The Private said.
"Well, whatever the hell it is they're making it out to be a lot worse than it is, worse thing they're gonna find in there is a dead body." The Captain said.
Silverin opened up his locker and got out some essentials, then slammed it shut. He regretted slamming it the moment after, seeing as he'd drawn the attention of a Private, a Captain, and another Lance Corporal. The Captain laughed and gave Silverin a stern look, Silverin was of one of the more recent species that had come to earth and no one in his platoon or any others liked him. The three got closer, and were ready to knock the hell out of him, but Silverin got lucky and the Master Gunnery Sergeant came in, best of all he hated the captain.
"Jesus H. Christ! You little ****ers playin' dress up in here!" He yelled out, each word sending spit into Silverin's face. "Get your asses outta here! We're about to get word on that ship and I want all you worthless, disgraceful, piece of shit Marines in there!"
They did as told, and the Gunny held the Captain back. Silverin left and soon arrived at a small bar, he'd heard of from a staff sergeant. (KOTOR...obviously)
(o.O I hate you. Never talk to me again D= 😛)
Aubrey turned his head, when someone else walked in. He took another swig of his drink, and smiled.
"Hey there, Silver." Aubrey said, smiling. Normally, he'd speak in a more commanding tone, but outside of the base, he and Silver were just inter-species-friends. Aubrey could see a few people give Silver a stern, unwanting look, and a few murmmered to their neighbors. Aubrey knew, both here, and at the base, nobody really liked Silverin. Aubrey really didn't care, and besides, Silver just plain looked cool, plus he was nice. Aubrey waved him over to the seat next to him, and smiled.
"So, how's everything over there? I had to leave-" Before Aubrey finished, his Comm. boomed for all Marines to report to the base. Aubrey glanced at Silver, nodded, and darted for the door, out, and into the street lights again, moving at a slow jog.
Originally posted by Sarahmier
Eric ripped some cloth off of his pant legs. "Oh I guess that makes sense, I feel pretty dumb" Eric began laughing," I thought this was some kind of Government meeting. I was afraid you guys would skin me if I was cought"Still laughing. "Any ways my names Eri....." He could not get out his full name, The boom over the speakers was to loud and it sounded as if men were panicking. " Excuse me sir, But is this normal?"
Derek laughed. "yes it's normal, we are going to open the ship soon." He glanced at the ship. "I hope it's safe in there for all of them, of course all the early reports show that the new creature is not hostile."
"Nope just my dad and his team will be going inside to escort the new specimens out. We won't even ba able to see them for a few weeks until the studies are done." Derek look over at the ship and how earily quiet the ship seemed from such a distance. "You'd then the crew would have been ready by now, but with Deontanination and all..."
After the noise on the speaker sent a chill down his spine Eric regained his composure and extended his right hand to Derek. " Well thanks, my name is Eric..Eric Hatheway. But you can call me Eric or kid or pretty much anything." He began laughing. " Well." Eric said as he placed his hand on Derek's shoulder, to be friendly but not creepy. "I'm Sure that your father will be fine" He looked at Derek once more and gave him a quick grin.
Derek turned around and started to search the database for the man that just walked away. "The only way he could know about any of this would mean he intercepted the early transmissions... or he was on the ship." He clicked a small communication system. "There is an unknown target moving through the base.. he seems to know about the project.." He then looked up at Eric. "Nice to meet you mr. Hatheway, my name is Derek."
Eric became confused fast. "So what, that stuff you said was top secret?" He then gave Derek another quick once over. "So are you like a solider or something. Cause you would have some kind of authorization to get that kind of information." He said staring into Derek's eyes. "not that its any of my buisness. but, you guys are not worried about this launch right. Just an easy quick run?"