Year 2019, december 31, 2:56 AM
"Alpha-9B, do you hear me, i repeat, Alpha-9B, do you hear me" a middle-age man's voice continiously spoken into the microphone
"Loud and clear Mr Wade, we are currently setting our feet onto the moon surface" another voice of a young man is transmitted to the space station on earth
"Good to know, your mission as mentioned before in the task list is to gather whatever information of the weird shaped rocks 2 kilometers from landing position, got it?"
"Roger that, although moon dust is still a problem but we will try to investigate the area as much as possible in about 4 days"
"We will be constantly observing you from the station, through these high resolution cameras that is attached to your suit so both side won't miss any details"
As the timer is set, they instantly rushed to investigating the moon's mystery
This Alpha-9B project is directed by Mr Wade- a scientist who is working at NASA and also the son of a former astronaut named Nel Emstrong. Wade's father had his first trip to the moon in the year 1969, and then became famous, he is called by social media with the title of "the moon's first step"
Despite recieving numbers of applause, Nel Emstrong decided to hide himself and limited his interactions to social media after he returned to earth which raise suspicions to the paparazzies. They rapidly knocked on his door, asked various questions and disrespected Emstrong's privacy which is mainly why he is pissed off and decided not to answer any of the questions.
Before his death, Emstrong hold Wade's hands, told his whole family that he will always love them wherever he goes and spoke these word: "do not disturb mother nature, our arrogant and doing has been hurting her since the age of modernization, we can not and must not push our act further or else, it would be the end of the world". He died shortly after that; However; the 17 years old mind is filled with questions and doubt after his father final speech as he was aware that these type of words is not his father usual way of talking
Haunted by his father last word, Wade studied Cosmology and is later accepted by NASA; he tried his best to research about his father former informations; however; as he suspected; the information was clearly missing, some data from Emstrong moon trip is cut off and hidden somewhere else. Knowing that NASA is trying to cover something up, he waited for his chance to be selected as the seventh moon landing director.
Back to the current state, the astronauts are having a hard time locating the weird shaped rock which was photographed by Apollo-12 2 years ago. The photo shows a series of mountains that is shaped like half of a curved human spine; although some proffessors stated that it is just a random form of the moon's geology, Wade didn't believe it, he was convinced that those spine-like mountains are related to his father's last word.
"Sir, we have aproached the location!" Said a member of the team
"Good! Place all the automatic drills on the surface, set a timer for it, and get out of the area immediately" said Wade
"You got it sir"
The team then did what Wade said and evacuated themself to safety spots.
"Activate in 3,2,1"
As the timer rang, the drills instantly created a giant hole and continued to go straight ahead until its power supply ran out.
"Holy hell..." The whole team was shocked
Lunar dust and moon rocks is blown into the air, which then fell to the ground creating a small rain of rocks. All the process took 4 hours including travel to the location, evacuate from the drilling spot and 30 seconds of mass drilling.
"It seems that there is no problem occured in the process sir"
"Excellent, slowly aproach the hole, tie a rope around a stiff rock, then drop yourself into the hole along with john and martha, Tim will stay on the surface to pull all of you out once we finished exploring or when there is an emergency"
"Copy that!"
The process is carried out smoothly, connection of cameras is stabled, the members slowly going down the hole with the hope of finding useful informations.
"Slow and steady win the race Martha, do not rush" said John
"I don't want to face the fact that your butt is directly above my head John" Martha unpleasantly responded
Upon hearing his 2 colleagues teasing, Tim giggled: "Come on guys, I really wanna see what kind of fantasy Mr Wade is mentioning"
"Little Timmie, just you know, you are still on the radio, pull that sh*t out again and i will gently punch you in the face once you got home" Said Wade as soon as little Timmie finished his sentence
"I apologize sir...." Timmie sadly replied
Nothing happened during the exploration and everything went along the plan; the team was excited to discover the inside of the moon and everyone was having the time of their life.
That was until; as soon as the team almost reach the bottom of the hole; all cameras and radio signal unexpectedly went down at the same time
"What!?" Wade immediately stopped sipping his coffee and anxiously stood up
The rest of the station was no better, most of them step out of their seats and doing their best to solve the issue
"Reconnect the signal! Do something!" He quickly ordered the staffs as he himself also tried to find a way to reconnect the radio
However; no matter how hard they did; there are no hope recovering the cameras
"Sir! There seems to be a disturbance in locating the camera signal!" Said a member of the station
"Damn it!" Wade smashed his coffee cup and break his glass table, causing the shards to scratch his skin as he rapidly shout into the microphone
"Radio signal, now!" He commanded him
Wade and the whole station panicked, everyone use maximum effort trying to connect the audio devices as their last hope
"Alpha-9B! Do you copy! Alpha-9B! Do you copy!"
"John! Tim! Martha! Anyone! Pick up the signal!"
But nobody was there...
As the strained atmosphere quickly covering the room, everybody ran out of solutions, they fell to the ground clutching their heads. Everything left is the noise of radio wave interference and a pitch black screen.
However...
As soon as Wade was about to claim that the project is a failure in dissappointment and nearly send a message to the space ship to call everyone home
"Mr Wade! Look!" One of the staff shouted
The screen began to flicker as it was making some noises
"Come on you son of a b*tch...show something!" Wade grinded his teeth
After about 30 seconds, the screen once again turned on, which cause everyone to cried out with joy.
"Yes! That's what I'm talking abo-"
However, all of them simultaneously hold their tounge shortly afterward
"Oh...dear...god...!" One of the staffs passed out
what was shown on the screen was a large pile of blood along with 4 corpses of the members, their bodies were horribly deformed
"John....Martha.... Are you there...?" Said Wade as his voice was trembling uncontrollably
"...Sir...." Tim's weak voice spoken into the radio as his mouth is filled with blood, his vocal cord was almost crushed and was gasping for air from the oxygen tank
"Tim! You are alive! Can you move? What do you see!" Wade speaks as he has just regained his consiousness
"...them..." Tim used his last effort to make voices coming out of his mouth
"Them? Who? Who do you see Tim?!"
"...the one woman... that should be...with him..."
"What?!?"
"When... Two of them meet...humankind...will face their consequences..."
"What?! Who meets!? And why do people face their consequences!?!" Wade confusingly screamed into the microphone as his head is filled with questions
"...from...the bible...L-" Tim's voice was cut off and the screen's image is replaced by a picture of an eye directly looking at them menacingly
"What...the f*ck" Wade slowly backed off and then fell onto the ground, his voice was trembled, his eyes constantly glared, his mind was going crazy; unable to speak, unable to think, unable to move, unable to catch a breath just like the rest of the station
The incident is concealed inside NASA, the death of those unfortunate astronauts is considered "oxygen tank leaked out" and the whole details of Alpha-9B trip was never released outside