M'Khari and his team went inside their ship. D'Carki and Tves stand in the holotable for the orientation, waiting for M'Khari to start it.
"Alright everyone, our goal is to get Item 1 and 2. They are placed on the same place so we are not that tight on the time frame. We will not split up when we are there but be prepared for what might happen." M'Khari told everyone. "The location of Items 1 and 2 is on our planet's moon, which means we have to be prepared for any and all threats that might arise. No one should die or be left out, remember this is just a part of a bigger plan"
"Understood" Tves replied.
"So we are going there?" D'Carki asked.
"In order for this to work, yes we will" He looked at his team, turns off the table. "That place isn't what it used to be and besides we were too young to remember what it was so treat it like any new planet you explore." M'Khari concluded.
He went into the cockpit to check if anything needs final calibration. M'Khari sat on the captain's chair, D'Carki and Tves sat on the pilot. D'Carki inputs the coordinates of where to retrieve Items 1 & 2. Tves drove the ship outside of the carrier and into the nearest warp point.
"Coordinates placed" D'Carki announced.
"Approaching warp point." Tves added.
"Punch it" M'Khari ordered.
"Jumping in 3... 2... 1... " Tves said as he moved the ship on the warp and made the jump.
His team went into the cockpit, seated unto their designated positions. Tves inputs the coordinates and they begin the journey.
The ship arrived on the designated coordinates. But the place had violent tornadoes and sand storms. M'Khari saw it and ordered to lower them into the surface, Tves tries his best to not get caught up in either of those catastrophes. They weaved and bank ever so careful, and when they were clear M'Khari ordered his team to launch a reconnaissance drone. The top of the ship opened and lifted a large drone, it light up and took off vertically. The drone zoomed around five hundred meters in proximity to where they were. It scanned for route, entry point, and potential threats to the team. On the ship D'Carki has the monitor to what the drone is scanning as well as its flight pattern.
"Life signs detected underground. Basing on the thermal pattern, it seems that they are quadrupedal specie." D'Carki informed.
"Distance to items?" He asked.
"About 300 meters" Tves answered.
"Fire the first volley of spears" He ordered.
Tves and D'Carki commanded on the computer. The tail of the ship opened up to reveal long metal spears, there were about three rows and five columns. Tves pressed the 'launch button'. The spears were not dropped on the planet via rocket but it was sent down freefall. The weight of the spears added by the gravitational force made the spears go down fast and hard on the area it was targeted. The surface were the creatures were did not have time to escape as the spear decimated them as soon as it hit the ground.
"Rescan for other life signs that poses a threat and fire when ready" He followed up.
"Rescanning" D'Carki stated. "No threat detected."
"Begin landing."
The ship landed. M'Khari's team begins to put on the necessary gear, stocking up on scanners, drills and guns. Everyone activated their helmets and opened the door. As they proceeded out, D'Carki was operating a drill rover. She was looking at her holowatch for the optimal entry point. After a few steps she reach to a halt and operated the rover to drill down, M'Khari and Tves prepares the rappel.
As the rover finished drilling, M'Khari hand D'Carki a rope. All of the went down the drilled hole, as they landed M'Khari and Tves took out what looks like an insecticide pump and shoot at the walls about five times. The pump shot out what looks like darts, as soon as they hit the ceiling those darts formed a force field to cover the hole. D'Carki looked at her holowatch.
They were now on what seems to be an anbandoned laboratory. The eery atmosphere and dust that fill the space, there were lights on the ceiling but there was no power so the team activated their torch to illuminate the room.
"Oxygen levels steady." She informed everyone. They then removed their helmets. She then changes her holowatch to display the blueprint of the underground.
"Can you locate Item 1?" M'Khari asked.
"Yes" She replied.
Tves opened his bag and took out what looks like a drone, he activated it and it flew away. "Reccon drone is away" he said.
The drone moved at a fast speed towards where Item 1 is located, which was a level below them. It scanned the room where Item 1 is placed to see if there is any danger, after deeming the room safe the drone sends a message that notify the location.
"Item 1 detected, It's directly underneath us" Tves told everyone.
"Alright prepare the drill" M'Khari ordered.
D'Carki and Tves drill about six holes in, placed a few explosive. They stepped back and detonated it which created a hole for them to go down. Tves looks over to see if the distance is long, seeing that it wasn't jumped down, the rest followed.
They saw Item 1, and it was sealed behind a glass door. D'Carki took out a laser glass cutter from her bag, Tves assisted in cutting the glass, M'Khari prepared a containment case for it. When the glass was cut and removed, M'Khari went inside and took the item.
"Item 1 secured. Proceed to Item 2" he ordered
Tves operated the drone to find Item, which quickly found and scanned the location of the item. The drone reported that Item 2 is about 300 meters east from their current location.
"Item 2 is at 300 meters due east"
"Let's go."
As they proceed down the corridor about twenty five meters away from Item 2, they hear a humming sound. Everyone became alert and draw out their guns. The hum got louder, and they saw four drones from both sides.
"EMP ready" M'Khari ordered. Both Tves and D'Carki readied the EMP, they activated it, which powered down the drones.
The EMP wasn't effective because as soon they powered down it activated it tried to restart itself. M'Khari seems to know that it won't work so he ordered to shoot all the drones, which they fell down hard.
"Advance forward, were almost there" M'Khair told his team.
They reached where Item 2 was placed, they saw a giant computer in the middle of the room.
"Item 2 is here but in order for it to be achieve its full power we need the key" D'Carki reminded M'Khari.
"Item 2 is underneath this computer." Tves informed him.
"Got it. You and D'Carki, spread out and look for that key"
Tves nodded and looked at D'Carki as they went away to search for something that wasn't stated in the original mission. They went out, D'Carki search other rooms in the area while Tves went a little farther away.
It took about a few minutes for M'Khari disassemble the computer. As soon as he saw it he took Item 2 out and stowed it away along with Item 1. D'Carki seemingly finished from her search comes up to M'Khari.
"I've search all the rooms aside from this one but it wasn't there." D'Carki informed him.
Meanwhile Tves seemed to find the location of the key but it wasn't there. There was however a giant hole in the ground.
"Guys. You won't believe what I'm seeing here... It's gone." Tves told everyone on his radio.
"That's okay Tves, meet us back at the rendezvous point" He instructed him. "D'Carki, report this to colony... Our hope is found."
D'Carki opened her communicator and broadcasted a message to their colony. "This is Explorer D'Carki under head explorer M'Khari. We found our designated items... we found our hope."
Both of the walked back to the ship. As they arrived they saw Tves by the door looking at them. D'Carki handed Item 4 to him, both smiled.
"We wait for Celestine, then we proceed as planned." M'Khari told his team and they smiled.
Tves closed the door and started the ship and took off to the outer atmosphere.