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Chapter 3 - Airlock 12

Haigan followed the team past the body and the biggest of the debris until they came to the side of the ship, the ships hull was bare metal with no paint or rust, its surface was smooth, it must have been the winds weathering it smooth or something. But he time of thinking was cut short as he saw something in the sand, it looked like a human head, but it was not Human. Instead of normal teeth there was sharp spearhead like teeth and the lower jaw looked like it had been broken and lowered for the massive teeth to even... be a thing. Haigan was about to call the rest of the team when he blinked and the head was gone.

He took in a breath and kept following the team, they walked for a few minutes until they came across to round metal disk, the disks edges kept the round door in the disk away from the winds and sands for the most part. Still it looked weathered and not working, it's control pad was sitting somewhere in the sand around the door without control pad the last wires were broken and snapped. But still the Sargent step closer and tried to grab the lip of the broken door and push it upwards, this worked due to her upgraded PSI suits Exo Skeleton, she then pushed down the other part with her boot and ordered the team to enter the room beyond.

The room beyond was dark and misty, Haigan and the rest of the team turned on their flash lights, the room had large lockers on the far side of the room, then at the back was a large suit bays with one suit still attached. Haigan looked at the ceiling to see a large vent, but it's cover was long gone, 'Must've came off in impact..' he thought as the Sargent reached for a row of switch's on the wall and flicked them.

The team felt the ship rattle as the lights of the room sparked alive, they heard a door open farther in the ship, then they heard the human sounding roar from deeper inside the ship.

"Sargent... what was that?!" Alveas voice rang in the Com as he looked at the doorway in the left corner of the room.

"It's probably nothing, maybe an old recording that was turned on due to the ship rattling.." The Sargent said as she steppped into out of the room into the hallway that the airlock connected to.

Haigan stared at the ruined wall panels, their light grey paint was long gone and was now replaced by a bare metal colouring with the reddish sand in the panels crevices making it have a rust looking colour around the edges. He could barely make out a large 12 number on the bent door of the air locks exit.

As Haigan stepped into the sand covered hallway he noticed the wall panels in the hallway were much more intact paint wise, then the airlock's, still they had the sand everywhere, every panel had sand in its edges and crevices. The only thing without sand in it was a small crate on the floor, it was painted deep red with a clear 4 painted on its top.

"We need to go down two levels, the air lock he were

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An hundred years ago.

Kile looked out of the Cockpits windows into the hills in the background, he had seen those things around the ship ever since it crashed, they stalked the area after survivors he guess, he saw one case a unlucky guy near by. The thing kept stapping him...