Caelan sits down on the center couch of the living area and some of the fatigue fades from the recent fights. They groan in frustration while rubbing their face because everything that happened was chaotic for a few seconds. "That was Kolton's first beast extermination mission... What a mess."
"That's straight up awful for him but now, We know these creatures are living underground." Graham felt sorry for Kolton- His body goes limp as soon as he sits down from his injuries and all that fighting. He barely has any stamina but this place is currently in a huge mess from the crash. "I'm sorry for the mess..."
"The mess is fine, Just take care of yourself..." Caelan can see his body is pretty beaten up and being held up by his insanely high endurance. This actually worries them about Graham's health even if they just met. It's not clear that Graham's body has faster recovery speed than normal super humans.
"I have a regenerative ability, I'm going to be better in a... few.... Hours ..." Graham says while his body slowly goes limp from exhaustion. He's slowly falling asleep while he's talking to Caelan. The pain and fatigue starts to fade as his mind slips into his resting state. It's clear that he fought through a lot of pain after surviving that crash.
Caelan is left to think about the reveal of such creatures that live underground. They never thought such things existed outside primeval beasts, something else has them concerned. Graham's hand has red blood on it!? That's why he was confused about their blood but what does that mean? Today was already odd, this layers more onto it.
Meanwhile, As Caelan and Graham regained their strength in the living area. Alloy is setting up a machine with repairs and trying to get it working. She doesn't like using a lab or spending long periods of time using this android body but Graham is currently recovering, So she has no choice.
The lab was prepared for a crash because of the small chance that would've happened. It's luckily slightly damaged in comparison to other parts in this ship, some repairs are needed on some machines like the one that's being fixed currently. She's planning to do DNA tests on some samples gathered outside.
"Finally, That took way longer than it should've." Alloy turns around to check the samples as she was extracting DNA from it. The process is a bit tricky to get a decent yield of genetic material from these samples. She's glad that tubes didn't crack during the crash, Making more causes their workshop to heat up too much.
She takes some of this extracted DNA to put into the lab's DNA analyzer. The machine starts its analysis of these samples and Alloy directly gets the results which surprises her but suddenly, The door opens. Leslie leans through the door. "Hey Alloy, What's with the Kitchen's power being off?"
"Ah! Oh... That's because It's in emergency mode from the ship crashing." Alloy jumped from Leslie's sudden appearance. She was very focused about this new data but this gives her a chance to inform a crew member. She beckons Leslie to enter the lab fully. "I have something very shocking to show you!"
"Okay? I just wanted to cook some food but If it's important..." Leslie seems a bit concerned but Alloy is giving off an excited tone about whatever this is. She walks into the lab and notices that a few things are more messy in the lab than last time with some tubes on the middle table.
"I took some DNA samples from that beast and Kolton then I started comparing their DNA, Just look at this." Alloy turns on a screen of the Lab's main computer and leads Leslie to it. There's three weird shapes but each one is the same even the colors. "Have you ever seen an image of abstract code?"
"Wait, Abstract code comes in shapes like this? Why are there three of the same?" Leslie is pretty shocked at seeing that abstract code has shapes. It's a very weird thing to think about, the source of their powers are these weird shapes. There's a lot more about her powers that she doesn't know if she didn't even know this much.
"Yup! All three are from different samples, Kolton has the same code as the primeval beast, even the plant life." Alloy nods and adds labels to each shape for Leslie. The samples are from different sources but have different DNA while the same abstract code. "I've never seen something like this happen on any other planet, It's something very fascinating."
"Uh, Yeah but I just wanted to cook some food." Leslie didn't really expect to learn this going here but she just wants to cook a meal. This reveal does concern her about the nature of the life forms on this planet. It's been awhile since any of them ate anything since crashing, She doesn't like not doing nothing for the crew.
"I'm currently done with the lab, So I will swap their status modes." Alloy goes quiet for a second to change the settings. She doesn't want the crew to get hungry but this is needed for reserving the ship's remaining power. The ship's power supply was pretty drained by the crash. She appears in her projection form to Leslie. "When you're done, Could you meet me outside?"
"Why do you want to meet up outside?" Leslie raises an eyebrow at this request. This is new for Alloy to ask from her for the few days they knew each other. The weird nature of this AI causes some concern but there's no real reason to distrust Alloy.
"The outside security systems are offline and we have no idea if something is trying to break it." Alloy doesn't know what's going on outside, So something could be trying to break into the ship. She wants to stand guard with someone. "I hope you enjoy the food, We might be able to get spices on this planet!"
"Huh, That makes sense... Well, See you outside." Leslie felt like she was being too paranoid about Alloy. This AI seems pretty friendly and caring but being this life-like is a bit odd. She steps out of the lab to head towards their kitchen. It's going to be a longer adventure on this weird planet. Having a nice meal before more chaos breaks out should be good. "I can't wait for some steak with some flavor..."