'Mission EXL', en science fiction novelle

It was a hot August day. Everybody was gathered to see the impossible. The clock was ticking. There was a total silence, until the door opened, the door which had kept the crew indoors for hours, but now they were ready. The first person, who arrives, was Captain Moss. The silence broke and the journalists, photographers and fans were screaming out loud his name, trying to get contact, but the only thing Captain Moss was thinking of was the enormous thing, he was going to live in, for several years. It wasn’t his first travel to the space, but he had never been out there for so long. After him Mike, Irina and Dez arrives. People knew who they were, because they were the best. The four astronauts entered the spacecraft, with their head raised and their shoulders back. You could see how proud they were, in their eyes, but at that time they didn’t knew what kind of hidden, dangerous secrets, they were about to meet. They spend their seatbelts, and then their travel to a new and unknown planet began.

Three months later…

It was almost time. The planet were only a few hours away, but suddenly an unknown object flew directly into the spacecraft, and the entire spacecraft was pushed straight into the planet they were going to investigate. They all fainted. The first person who woke up, was Irina. She had a very bad heady, and she had great troubles stand up, without falling again, so she climbed to the kitchen, to get something to drink. And after a couple a minutes she was ready to think of what just happened. It took two hours to wake the other three astronauts, but luckily no one was seriously injured. They started to look at the damages after the fall. All the walls were completely wrinkled, like a crumbled paper, and you could see the scratches from the unknown object, but they didn’t find any holes. Irina checked the instrument panel and noticed that they didn’t had any fuel left, so she were glad they had a lots of extra tanks, but when she was going to fill the tank, she almost got a heart attack! Their entire extra box, with food, back-up batteries, fuel and so ever, was gone! It must have fallen of in the crash. And it wasn’t the only thing there had happened. They’ve lost contact with Earth base! Mike immediately began trying to fix it, but all the tools were in the extra box. And when they all thought it couldn’t get any worse a new attack was charged straight at them. Captain Moss thought that the only chance to survive was getting on their spacesuits and run outside and hide behind some rocks. They were just about to jump out of the spacecraft, when Dez told them all to be quiet. Suddenly they all saw them. They were not what they’ve expected them to be, all though they thought they only were a part of a dream, or you might say a nightmare. Irina was scared to death, and couldn’t stop crying. They came closer and closer. No matter what couldn’t the four astronauts escape from the unknown planet and it’s creatures. Dez couldn’t figure out if they looked like human being, or if it was just their uniforms. They all looked like each other, the only thing which separated them, were their weapons. Big, detailed and unnecessary dangerous looking weapons.