When we got back, we finished our tasks and the captain called a meeting before dinner. Everything was normal In the meeting and we all went to our dorms for a good night's rest. I wake up the next morning to the rushed sounds of people running down the halls and
screaming sirens of oxygen depleting. I put some clothes on and rush out of the room to go fix whatever happened.
I go in o2 to see Cindy fixing it and reuru behind her watching as if something would happen. "Hey Cindy and...," I look over nervously "re..uru." She gives me a cold stare, grunts, and looks over back at Cindy. Reuru and I aren't on good terms yet, I think she still thinks I'm guilty for what happened to Cindy and Bernard.
I leave Reuru and Cindy to their business and head out until I smell this weird odor. I walked near navigation as the smell grew stronger and more gross. To my sudden surprise Bell, Riley, and Bernard walk in behind me as I'm looking around the room. "Umm Polly, what are you doing?" Bell gives me a look of confusion while Bernard looks at me suspiciously. "Yeah what are you doing?" Riley chirps in. "Stay there, theirs this dead smell coming from somewhere and I don't think y'all
would want to see it.." I crouch down to unscrew some nails and open the vent.
"Are you going inside the vent! Are you crazy?" "well how else am I going to find where it is?" I chuckle as Bell makes a failed attempt at trying to stop me as her friends block her from going. I jump inside and crawl around a bit until I find it. I screamed so loud that everyone in the ship could hear me. "What's wrong, Polly! Did you find it?!?!"
"I...I....I found the captain's dead body!" Everyone is in navigation by now, but I don't think they heard me. I can barely hear them yelling back and forth about me going in the vents until...silence."Is everyone ok?" No one replies. "Hello? What's going on up there?" It reeks of a dead body really bad, I need to get this out of here. "I crawl back to the vent, covered in blood and dust, dragging the captain's body. I try to open the vent,' dang its jammed tight' I try one more but it won't budge.
I look up and the lights are off, its pitch black. I guess everyone went to fix the lights and forgot I was in here. I guess we'll have to find another loose vent to get you out of here, huh captain? Am I really that shocked by his death that I'm talking to a dead body?!?! Man, I really have gone insane.
I murmured some more until I finally found a loose enough vent to pry open. I look around for something to pry it with and look at the captain. "Sorry captain but i'll need this, please forgive me." I take his fingers to tilt it up a bit but not enough, I then take his arm, slide it under the vent, and pry it open. The vent swooshed open and made a loud smash against the floor. I hop out of the vent and grab what's now the captain's broken arm to pull him out. "Yikes I hope he forgives me for that."
I walk out of admin as the lights turn back on. I walk into Electrical to meet up with everyone forgetting about the body I'm dragging. When the doors open Everyone stares at me, "What, is there something on my face?" Riley and Cindy run to the bathroom and start puking while everyone else either puts their hand on their mouth or makes shocking looks.
"Polly look what you're holding." I looked over to see i'm holding the captain's dead body and realised what everyone's thinking. "ARE YOU CRAZY? WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING??!??!" Reuru starts flooding down tears and Kiori goes to comfort her. "Whyy.." She says in a shaky voice.."WhY WoUld yOu dO ThIs?!?!" I explain that this is why I went into the vent and found the body. Everyone started to believe me but was scared and hesitant to think of the dangers that now await them.