The crew of the Dack 69 were celebrating one of their best hulls their ship has ever brought back, drinks were overflowing, jokes were crossing lines and arguments and laughter merged. Then the emergency ping stopped all in their merriment. The monitor told them that it was some third rate world that just started putting their stakes with one working colony but the distress signal that they sent out was Alpha. Meaning "we'll take anything get us the fuck out" kinda distress. The crew of six just stared at the monitor in silence till it was eventually broken.
"Well tough luck but I say we did not see anything." Spades the ships engineer said in a obvious this is what we have to do tone.
"What the hell Spades there are people down their!" Jess the Ships cook reacted offended.
Spades rolled his eyes and could not help but notice that he was the one that just said what they all thought...the only one that could.
"I stand by my vote, we still go by you're rules eh Captain?"
Captain Velvin Quin nodded his head. "If someone contests then of course, you know how we work."
"Then I sure as hell contest!" Jess roared her nose flaring.
The rest of the crew just sighed, Spades was right they did want the same thing but it one thing to silently allow a thing to happen.
They decided to take the votes by going from who was next to Jess and so on. It did not matter what rank or station you were on the Dack everyone crew had one vote including the Captain.
The next vote was Drill-man Custer and after a long sigh and another look at the monitor he sided with Jess.
Then it was Doctor Willow the fembot medical staff they had on board, "It is only logical that we as a mining ship make priority is to ensure that any and all minerals and shipments we have to be brought back to sell and considering this haul is the largest we have had in our four year contract this seems obvious. We can however contact proper authorities and tell them of the distress signal performing our civic duty." She said all this in her usual monotone.
"Here here!" Spades said in response to the good doctors logical breakdown of their situation but Jess on the other hand began to argue saying that because she is an synthetic and lacks what is needed to make her vote her should be withdrawn.
The captain would have none however, every member gets a voice end of discussion.
Then came Co-Captain William but everyone just called him Billy cause of how young he was especially for his title.
"Let's just see whats down their real fast if we can help within reason then all for it but if it does jeopardize the haul and the ship then we bail...it's only decent."
The Captain nodded at this, "I agree but only if we go about this with caution and realism, we can't take anyone on board and we ain't losing my baby."
And that was that it was decided that the crew of the Dack 69 was to orbit above an unknown recently colonized world and provide assistance. The crew members that would go down were going to be Jess the chief for contesting the vote and Co-Captain Billy offered to help and supervise. Spades was gritting his teeth.
Jess and Billy were suited and geared up in their shuttle, they wore black skin tight protective that left little to the imagination, Jess's perky D cup breasts looked like two overly inflated black balloons on her chest thanks to the suit that was pratucally a second skin, her shelf of an ass was jiggling and completely exposed and she did not even want to look at her front...she hated going out but she was the one who made the biggest deal of this. Billy was having trouble of his own his sizable bulge was having trouble staying in place, the 4-6 tall man gave up trying to hide it long ago. Their helmets were bulbous glass bowls that actually were state of the art head ware. For defense they both had stun batons and flares if they got lost no real heavy hardware on this vessel, and lastly they both had radio contact with each other and the ship.
"Everything is green, we are descending to the colony." Billy reported back to the captain who confirmed that he heard.
Landing on the planet was simple, besides the one colony that was only a few large buildings that could have been stores or markets and clusters of tiny shacks that were homes there was not much going on this mostly dessert planet. There was a strange looking spire that seeing the logo on the outside belonged to the Agency the largest but most mysterious colonizing company in any system since men left earth. So this is one of their countless projects. They touched down on the flattened land they assumed was to be the trade center if they finished building. Getting out Billy and Jess feel unnerved that a place that looked like it was gonna be a booming place full of life was now barren.
They decided it best to head to what seemed like the colony hall, the doors were wide open and the power was off so they powered on the headlights of their helmets.
"Billy look." Jess said after they explored a bit inside, at first finding only furniture and paper scraps. What she was pointing at could only be described as a dissolved wall, it was being eaten away and drenched in thick white goo. Billy found it odd so he reached out to examine it but right when he touched the goo he recoiled back. Steam was rising off of his hand and in seconds his hand was bare his suit eaten to his wrist.
"Best we avoid that stuff." He said walking away with a new sense of wariness to the white thick goop that seemed oddly familiar. Well it seemed like something was obviously up here and neither crew member wanted to leave but the question was how should they proceed with their search?
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