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THE DARKNESS BETWEEN WORLDS

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WRITTEN BY Benjamin Jessica Jonathan Y Tirou Jonathan D Chaunru Irene Rassie

thank you, To all of my wonderful students, whose incredible imagination and beautiful enthusiasm enabled the success of this class.

And to Linkedkey, for taking a chance on such a bold and bizarre program

- Matthew thompson

TABLE OF CONTENTS The Beginning

Ch 1

Encounter in the Violet Nebula

Ch 2

Battle with the Cocoon

Ch 3

Fool's End

Ch 4

The hunt on Roman's dock Ch 5 Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ

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Battle for the Bridge

Ch 7

The Final Βαττλε

Ch 8

What you are about to read is a living, breathing story that was written by actual students. I provided a setting, they provided the characters.

We embarked on a dangerous voyage into unknown space to face a mysterious threat.

This is our story.

CHAPTER ONE The Begining

Jonathan D. Fool’s end When my character was walking towards a large rectangular building with his teammates, he sees a party with different species : Humans, Asaris, Turians and…Drakarians. My character earned a lot of money by cooking for participants and by playing card games.

Finally, we earned, I think, 30 thousand dollars. We’ve got enough money to repare our ship and buy some blasters and grenade bombs, one of my character’s teammate’s tools for attacking people that are bad, like Drakarians.

(I know…yeah…there’s not enough words in this text…)

Jessica My character name is Annabeth, She just turned 16 recently. She has blond hair and dark gray eyes. Her type of species is called Asar that lives on a planet called Castallen. She lives with her 2 stepbrothers, stepmother and her father. The reason she has a stepmother is because her mom died in a car crash so now she has a stepmother. It may sound weird(cause she’s so young) but she’s an astronaut that explores the universe and planets. In her ship she is a scientist so she’s pretty smart. She works on a spaceship. Usually her mission is said publicly so it's pretty rare that she has a secret mission.

Day 1 : So this when everything begins. Annabeth was sleeping in her bed when her alarm blared. She sat up groggily and slowly got dressed. Suddenly there was a small ding. Annabeth turned around to see the reason. She checked her phone and discovered that there was a message.

The message said” This is a secret mission, don't tell anyone.” Annabeth was so surprised that she almost dropped her phone. You see usually her missions are out for the public to see. She calmed down and continued reading, the message said ”We can’t tell you anymore but get ready to leave on May 4 at 9:30AM. A car will pick you up on that day.” So she went to pack her stuff.

On the last day Annabeth got ready to leave she didn't tell anyone even her dad(who she trusted the most). She said that she didn't feel good so she needed to go to the hospital as an excuse. On that day there were a lot of good-byes(all assuming she was sick). At exactly 9:30 a car arrived to pick Annabet up. Annabeth took her stuff and took one last look at her family and went in the

car. She was sad to leave her family cause she knew once you went on a mission it takes a lot of time to come and go back home.

Characters Name: Heilosis status: Heilosis is 1 of the 11 living species on Mars 1 of the 3 humanoid species the Ceritos he’s 22 and has a pet named Jesisoto who is 1 of the 5 friendly species the Kunisatos.

Cerito description: humanoid reptilian like with human emotions.

Jesisoto has 6 legs has a crocodile like mouth with no teeth and a small tipped edge on his nose with cat eyes and fur. He also has a round ended tail with wings on his back.

Kunisato description: pretty much a dragon with fur.

Heilosis is tall with a salamander like head except he has a pouch in the back of his head which has a toxic substance made from heat he absorbs, he has a spiky tail, along with sharp claws for close combat and climbing things he also has improved jump height to help him climb up steeper things like mountains on Mars, he has red orange green and yellow scales. the day before the mission: Heilosis is excited but also nervous because the other people on this mission would be afraid of him but he’s actually quite shy. “What am I going to do what am I going to what happens if they think i’m insane or creepy or even maybe mean.” Heilosis whispered while shaking nervously as he packed up his clothes and and equipment to enhance his ability to climb and fight by using a hard glove with sharpened fingertips and one for his tail he also carried a translator which he puts in his mask for communication. After that he goes to his parents house so they could take care of Jesisoto for what Heilosis thought was going to be a short mission and heads off to the location were he will start his Epic journey.

The last day before his first ever secret mission, Bobby decided to use the time with his friend Bob. His friend Bob has a very different character than him. For example Bobby doesn't like to talk to strangers but Bob does. Bobby is a scientist that works for BMW daily and does missions to save the world, but something was changed today. It was the last day that he would be on earth for a while but it is a SECRET. This Turian decided to go to the Nurburgring circuit and set some lap time with his brand new BMW 1 of 8 edition m8 gran coupe.

Chuanru Chen

Jonathan D Description of my character My character is a Turian and was born in the sea. It’s name is Magnifier Thefuture and he is now twenty years old. He had discovered all the secrets of liquid; he knows all about potions, he’s a master of mixing things up and uses electronics working under water. He’s like a fish and a tiger. Magnifier is very aggressive and really strong. He is all covered with black, white and orange hair. We always said that Mr. Thefuture was the fastest creature in the galaxy and he is working as scientist.

Things he likes the most are potions and programming. He knows how to make potions that when you drink them, your skin would grow up in just a minute when injured. He can also make ones that are useful for wars; these potions can make you a lot of energy: you can even brake a tree with only two hands!

Programming is his favourite job. Magnifier had programmed robots that worked like real humans.

What Magnifier dislikes the most is fire. Fire makes him angry because once he was born, his parents were killed by some creatures that used fire as attacking armour. Magnifier had raged since he had knew this news because he had invented a potion that had much better attack. That’s why he had been so aggressive.

Finally, M. Thefuture is very afraid of smoke. Everybody don’t, except him. He thought smoke was real danger: he could see nothing, he could smell the worst smell ever. When he sees smoke, the first thing he does is…run. Even the smell of poop is better than the smell of smoke.

The Beginning

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Black straight hair Brown eyes Engineer Kind Funny Enjoyable helpful

Last Day at Home

Irene was very surprised to figure out that she was going on a mysterious mission since most of her missions were very public. Since she didn’t know where she was heading, she was confused about what to pack. Irene just packed her usual items that she packs for every mission. She packed her clothes, her toothbrush, her engineering tools, her flashlight etc. Of course she cannot forget her passport. She was curious why nobody notified her more information about this secret mission. Later that night Irene got notified that she was going to leave the next morning. She was shocked since she normally gets an email about when she is leaving a week before she actually leaves. Now Irene was really starting to wonder about where she is going to go next.

By : Irene Zhao

Jonathan D Description of my character My character is a Turian and was born in the sea. It’s name is Magnifier Thefuture and he is now twenty years old. He had discovered all the secrets of liquid; he knows all about potions, he’s a master of mixing things up and uses electronics working under water. He’s like a fish and a tiger.

Magnifier is very aggressive and really strong. He is all covered with black, white and orange hair. We always said that Mr. Thefuture was the fastest creature in the galaxy and he is working as scientist.

Things he likes the most are potions and programming. He knows how to make potions that when you drink them, your skin would grow up in just a minute when injured. He can also make ones that are useful for wars; these potions can make you a lot of energy: you can even brake a tree with only two hands!

Programming is his favourite job. Magnifier had programmed robots that worked like real humans.

What Magnifier dislikes the most is fire. Fire makes him angry because once he was born, his parents were killed by some creatures that used fire as attacking armour. Magnifier had raged since he had knew this news because he had invented a potion that had much better attack. That’s why he had been so aggressive.

Finally, M. Thefuture is very afraid of smoke. Everybody don’t, except him. He thought smoke was real danger: he could see nothing, he could smell the worst smell ever. When he sees smoke, the first thing he does is…run. Even the smell of poop is better than the smell of smoke.

Rassie -

I was reading in the library when I saw a bird perch on top of a shelf. On its head, there was a symbol that made me quite curious. I stepped forward and whistled to call it over. The bird flew onto a lower shelf and handed me a roll of paper with a ribbon that tied it together. There was my name written on the ribbon in neat, cursive writing. I had always admired how people could write in cursive so well. I could only print but it still wasn’t as neat as some people that could print and every time I make an attempt to write cursive, it looks somewhat like the scribbles of a baby. I thanked the bird and gave it a piece of bread to show my gratitude. I had eaten a sandwich for lunch but I hadn't finished it yet. I quickly went to a quiet corner of the library so I could easily concentrate on the letter that was in my hand. I always find that when i’m in loud places that are crowded with people, I am extremely nervous and I can’t concentrate correctly. I sat on the most comfortable couch and started to untie the ribbon from the letter. I quickly read through the letter and I can’t believe what I see.

Dear Ms. (name), I am writing to you from the Department of Spacecraft to inform you that you have been chosen to participate in a tremendously secret mission. You must not tell a soul about your task.

You will be working with a spacecraft called the Enterprise and the members there will be like your family as you work on this mission. They’ll help you when needed and they’ll be by your side the whole time. You will be working in the Science Department with other beings like yourself. I hope to get a response from the bird that sent you this letter.

Looking forward to meeting you, The head of the Department of Spacecraft.

I quickly read it again to make sure that I had read it correctly. I then pinched myself to make sure this wasn’t a dream or something like that. I tend to day-dream quite a lot so I was surprised to find that this was real, and that I wasn’t in another of my silly day-dreams. I looked up to find that the bird hadn’t left and it was perched up upon the arm of the couch. I searched through my bag and pulled out a piece of parchment and a pen. I wrote a message saying that I would happily accept that offer and that they could pick me up from the library when they desired. I was quite excited but also nervous about this new mission.

I don’t want to get hurt but I looked forward to meeting new beings like me.

I am an Asari in disguise. I had moved to Earth when my planet was invaded and then destroyed by the Dakarians.I have brown hair and dark green eyes. I get my looks from my dad. Me and my mother had moved here to flee from the danger of our planet.

My father had been one of the people who stayed behind to protect the planet. My mother used her special abilities to make our appearance change into the appearance of a human being. I quickly got used to the ways of the human. I discovered that humans were pretty similar to us in many ways. They had libraries which I loved. I spend all of my free time in the library, learning new things that I hadn’t known before. Every time I left the library, I knew something I didn’t know when I entered the library. I had read half of the books in the entire library. The librarian likes me and she says that I'm very entertaining and interesting. I liked her too because she wasn’t one to judge people and she always listened intently to my stories. She always had this treat called chocolate and I adore it. Every time I eat it though, I think of my dad and how he would have loved the sweet treat just as much as I loved it. As humans say, me and my father are sweet-tooths.

My mother had rented an apartment that was the perfect size for the two of us. There were two bedrooms, one washroom, one kitchen, a living room, a dining room and a balcony. The balcony was full of flowers and other plants that me and my mother planted when we first moved in. The living room had a comfortable, grey couch and a television. I found that the television is extremely fascinating and I spent quite a lot of time observing it and seeing how the screen would move every time you pressed a button on this thing called a remote control. I read in a book that said that this was the doing of electricity. The kitchen was also very fascinating. The stove would shoot fire every time you turned a knob, and the fridge let out a gust of cool air every time you opened its door. The dining room had a table and chairs that were pretty similar to the ones we had at our old house. There was this beautiful object called a chandelier that would resemble the sun when you clicked a switch. My bedroom was painted a light shade of blue and it had this thing called a bed. It was so bouncy that I used it as my bouncy-castle. My mother’s room was painted a shade of faded green that I found quite beautiful. Then, there was the washroom. I found the washroom the most interesting room of all. The sink let out rivers of water when you turned the valve.

The shower let out a shower of rain fall on your face and you could adjust the temperature of the water just by pushing down on a handle. The toilet was quite interesting. When you pushed a lever, the water in the hole would spin around like a tornado type of thing. I had read in a book that the water would flow into the sewers which fascinates me alot.

I was in the middle of a day-dream when the bird used its beak and tapped my shoulder. I quickly snapped out of it and found that I had gotten carried away and forgot to send the bird away with the letter. I finished writing it and read through it a few times, correcting the things I didn’t like until I was content with what I wrote.

Dear Department of Spacecraft, I would be more than happy to accept your invitation. I’ve got a few questions and I was wondering if you could answer them when you come and pick me up. I will be at the library and you can come anytime you like and I should be there.

See you then, (Name).

I tied the letter on the bird’s leg and it flew away. I went home and started packing my things. My mother wasn’t home from work yet so the house was calm and peaceful. I couldn’t imagine my mother’s expression if I told her what I was up to. I went to the kitchen and got to work, cooking the last dinner in a while. I made lots of different foods that my mother liked to have.

The house smelled amazing when I was finished. I didn’t know, but my mother had entered when I was almost finished cooking and just sat there, taking in the scent of the delicious food I had made. I learned how to cook with my mother at my old home. We always enjoyed baking cookies and making a mess. I read lots of cook books to learn new recipes that I could attempt to make. I put the last dish on the table and finally realised that my mother was sitting at the table. I was so concentrated in cooking that I hadn’t noticed her entry. I saw that her face was tear stained and her eyes were red and puffy.

But she had a bright and wide smile painted on her face. “Are you alright?” I asked my mother. She just nodded and gave me a bigger smile. “ My little girl is all grown up, that’s all” she replied softly. I couldn’t imagine how she would feel when I left for the mission. She would cry and she would feel lonely. I don’t know how I could handle that if I were her. She already lost her

husband, my dad and she wouldn’t want to lose me too. I told her to start eating and so we dug in and soon enough, we were full of food.

I said that I was going to go to sleep. The minute my head hit the pillow, I started sobbing, thinking of my mother and how sad she would be if I left. I didn’t want her to be lonely but I had to do something other than to sit and read in the library all day. I thought of how I would be able to help save earth so that it wouldn’t be like my own planet. My father would be proud of my act of braveness. I cried myself to sleep and I was in a dreamless slumber…

The day of the departure…

I woke up really early the next day and I wrote a note that said that I was going somewhere and wouldn’t be coming back in a while. I hid it in a cupboard in my room and then I made a coffee for my mom that contained a potion that made you lose your memories. I didn’t want my mom to get worried so if she didn’t know that she had a daughter, she wouldn’t be worried. I didn’t know if I would die or not so if I died, my mother would carry on with life as if nothing happened, and if I did come back, I would restore her memories. When I thought about my mother not knowing I existed, I felt really hurt and sad. I didn’t want my mother to be sad and I thought about my dad. He would have said that my choice was the right choice and that he was proud of me. One single tear rolled down my cheek as I opened the door and walked out. I was heading to the library, where I said I would meet the members of the department. I was excited but I was still grieving on my departure and how I left my mother without saying goodbye.

I waited for an hour and finally, the group came in a spacecraft that was invisible to those who didn’t have missions. Since I had a mission, I could see the spacecraft perfectly well. It was humongous and I couldn't believe my eyes. It had huge wings like an eagle and the door was humongous! I was greeted by a woman martian and we went inside. My eyes practically popped out of my head when I saw the inside of the ship. The interior was even more amazing than the exterior! There were more than a million controls. There was not one space that didn’t have either buttons, levers or knobs. There was a room with fans everywhere because some species of aliens loved the cold. There was also a room with heaters everywhere because some species of aliens loved the heat. A long staircase stretched up in a spiral, so we were able to grab books from the many shelves of books within the library. There wasn’t one book in the world that wasn’t there. The lady told me to make myself at home and so I did. The first thing I did was go to the library. I grabbed a stack of books and walked to a table to start to read them. Half an hour had passed and I finished my tall stack of books. The books magically flew back to their places which wasn’t a surprise because the library in my old planet would do the same as this. I went to find a new set of books but I saw the little bird fly up to me. I whistled again to call it down to me and so it flew up to me. It held another letter which read that I would have to head to a room to meet some other members of the crew. I still had a little bit of time to finish reading another stack of books but i chose to go explore the rest of the ship with the little bird. I walked out of the library and went to many other humongous rooms with many interesting things hiding within the walls. The bird followed me for a little while before flying back to its home. I was then called to go to the meeting to meet the people I was so excited to meet. I ran down the hall and entered the gigantic room to find a table with chairs tucked in the sides. I sat down and the meeting began…

Liam is a student who is 22 years and he studied at Harvard University. Liam’s parents has both die by accident when he was 2 years old so he has grown up with his grandma in New York. Liam is very good at study since childhood, he is very smart and everyone who knew him think he is a genius and because of his excellent mark he accepted by Harvard University easily. Two weeks ago, Liam was invite by a mystery organization of the world, they told Liam that they predicted that after a period of time there will be a war between different race and they will also get a lot of dangerous missions and they need people like Liam go to help them. After Liam think about it over and over, he decide to go and help. It is the night before to go, Liam haven’t tell his grandma yet and he also can’t tell anyone because he need to keep it secret, so he lie to her grandma and say that their school is going to exchange the students to another school in London and he is one of them so he will go to England for several months. The next day, when his grandma woke up, Liam was already on his way.

My Character Name:Jonathan Species:Asari Date of Birth:3096 March 18 Favourite food:Sushi Job:Engineer

The Beginning By Jonathan Yao It was a beautiful sunny day when I came out of his house, he looked around and decided to take a walk.

It was the day before his mysterious mission aboard the Starship Enterprise and he was the Chief Engineer. He felt a bit nervous because he wanted to know if the adventure involved Drakanians because they were the adversaries of humans and he was on a human vessel and because he didn’t know whether not the Drakanians were going to blow up his beloved engine on the Enterprise. He looked around, birds were flying, the grass smelled very fresh. Oh look I says it is my favourite ice cream shop, maybe I should go and see if they have my favourite ice cream flavour. Hello my old pal, do you have any vanilla ice cream by any chance. His friend whose name was Henry and was human said vanilla ice cream? Henry chuckled to himself and said you really think I didn’t predict that you were going to come here? Of course I have vanilla ice cream. Thanks Henry. After he ate his super delicious vanilla ice cream. He said thanks Henry and went back to the beautiful outside and slowly continued his way back to his house.

The beginning Tirou Character; Name: I, Species: Human, Likes: Sleeping, exercising I was sleeping. I liked sleeping because it lets him relax and destroy every worrying thought I had. And I did worry, going to space. I was not scared of going to space, I went to space once before, but I was tired only for an Earth week. But this time, I received a letter from the president of the United States. I read that I could die in this space exploration and I do not like to take big or small risks if I was using his life to gamble. I planned to sleep in and not go to space after all. But I still had one day, before I had to go to space. I thought about going to space again.

Maybe it wasn’t that bad. I went out on a morning run to think about it. I didn’t want to die wIn I was only 12! I went down to the space arcade. There were lots of kids who wanted to go to space, but they never got the chance to go to space. They can only play the spaceship simulator games at the arcade. I went into the arcade. I used to go there when I was 10. I got out 5 bucks and went to the arcade. There were only 5 kids tIre. I didn’t expect a lot. TIre are only 8 billion people on Earth, a trillion people have gone to space and live permanently on another planet. I went inside the arcade to practice being in space. I thought about his parents. TIy were at work, in space cooperating with aliens to make a very special potion. After 5 hours of training, I went to sleep. Sleep cleared I’s worries, but I was still afraid. >> To be continued

CHAPTER TWO Encounter in the Violet Nebula

Jessica

Day 2 : Encounter of the Violet Nebula.

Annabeth and the driver arrived at the entrance of a big white dome, it was called Central Command. They usually went here before a mission so it wasn’t much a surprise to her. The driver and Annabeth entered the white dome. Inside was packed with crowds of people.

Annabeth walked aimlessly in the crowd when the crowd started to part in front of her. A man that looked of the age 40-50 came through the crowd : Captain James Keys. He hopped on the stadium and everyone went silent. Above the Captain a map was forming above his head. It was a 3 dimension map. The Captain said “I believe you guys all received the message I sent you guys. It must have been nagging you for a while why it's a secret. Today I will explain the mission.” Captain Keys pointed to the map and continued to talk” You see the place purple dot I'm pointing at. That is the place where the drakarions live. We received a weird message lately” Captain Keys pressed a button and a weird squeaky sound came from the microphone. Captain keys said “We discovered that this is the drakarions language. It says “Help us! Save us!

Please!”Captain continued “If we save the drakarions, we might be able to improve our relationship. It’s a secret cause the public might not like it if we die.” So they went on the Enterprise, The Pillar Autumn and The Karma.They got ready to take off. The reason we don’t really like Drakarions is because of Asari’s talk by minds. But the Drakarions scream to block our communication. They took off to Nebula. When they approached Nebula there was a swirling cloud of dust. They couldn’t communicate to the other ships and the home base. They entered Nebula. Next to them they couldn’t see the Pillar Autumn and the Karma was barely visible in the dust. They had to be guided by sensors to find the way to Nebula. Slowly there was

less dust. Then through the dust there’s a ship that looks incomplete. It looked almost like a cocoon. They landed on the cocoon and got off the ship. The floor was like sticky goo. They walked through a corridor in the ship. There were glowing yellow lights on the side of the walls.

The walls looked sticky and bumpy. Jonathan Y smashes his hammer on the wall. A sort of greenish blue goo liquid comes out of the walls. In front of them there’s a big chamber. And in the middle of the chamber there’s a throne. Behind the throne there is a throne. Loud pulse.

Everyone goes to do something. Annebeth takes a pillow out of her bag and starts to sleep. Then they hear gunshot sounds. Captain Keys comes out of a door and shouts “RUN!” They start running. Creatures start attacking them. Annabeth and her companions take out their weapons and start attacking the creatures. Annabeth takes out her gun but realizes that she forgot to bring her gun. So she ran with her group. They scrambled on the space shuttle but it won’t take off.

The engineers fix the problems and the lights go out but at least the shuttle starts moving. The shuttle moves faster and faster. The shuttle lands in the ship and everyone runs to get their weapons. Everywones confused of where the captain went(the Captain sacrificed himself). A big black column that shoots lasers beams emerges from the cocoon. The Pillar Autumn is attacked by the laser beams and explodes. The cocoon spins around as the beam attacks.

Once on the ship and the commander starts speaking he tells us to listen to a buzzing sound and says that the drakarians were asking for help and that this was our chance to connect and that we have their location and that we where to go there. Then as we go to our space ships we all meet and see the other crew members of the Enterprise after we enter the pink nebula there is no radio communication and this is worrying if this occurs to be a trap bringing my sword with me. When we are at the door the door kind of dissolves and we go in and it’s really bumpy but luckily we were ok and some reason John had the bright idea to smash the wall and liquid came out kind of burning are shoes and we continue once we arrive and are in a large room the commanders all go in a separate room.I decide to get some of the stuff the doors made of to possibly make something deadly for later as I cut it the same thing that kind of burned are shoes burned my shoulder and then we here the noise but this time monsters started dropping from the ceiling and the commanders had just came out from the rooms and the others started evacuating while I had my guard and once everyone else had gone I would follow first a monster came at me and scraped my arm but I defended I was in pain waiting I was thinking of shooting the enemies down but John wouldn’t let so I tried to get on one to make it crash and then i’d jump on another one but it swiped back hitting my stomach after a bit we all evacuate but we are are slowed but the tower of autumn took the beams and was destroyed in front of are eyes as we went back in everyone else was panicking and I decided that we were going to need that squishy stuff that doors where made of.

Chaunru At the start of the next day Bobby drove his Inext to the Enterprise (their spaceship). Once they were there their captain talked to them about the most dangerous and secret mission they will ever do. They decided to go and save a Jamakain ship in the middle of the violet nebula. By their calculation they could get there faster than other Jamakin ships, but Bobby remembered that the Jamakin are not truth worthy. Since they sent a help message 100 years ago and it was fake, Bobby was scared and angry, but he needed to stay calm if it was a true message. Once they landed by that wrecked and weird looking ship him and his colleague decided to take a look from the inside of the ship. From now on they couldn’t communicate with others, but the crew members. They discovered that it was like a tropical forest but weirder, so one of them decided to smash a hammer to the walls and a bleu toxic liquid came out. Another information about the ship is the fact that it is dark and they can’t see the roof. Sendly a noise came from the dark chamber and now Bobby was almost 100 % sure that the creature was not friendly at all. Since their captain got killed. They all went straight back to their ship, but the door was closed, so they had to defend themself until one of them figured out how to open the door. Once they arrived at their ship the navigator was ready to go. Now Bobby need to prepare to fight these stupid creature.

Jonathan D Encounter to the Violet Nebula Encounter in the Violet. Nebula.

Magnifier is returning in his space ship with his teammates. The Drakarians are ready to attack.

Something red is spinning around them and they think the Drakarians will attack with light, laser or gigantic bomb. Magnifier has no idea what to do. He just wants to help. People and aliens in the Violet Nebula are all stressed and ready to attack.

The Encounter in the Violet Nebula By Jonathan Yao Today is the day of my mysterious mission. When I went to Central Command I met a lot of my colleagues then Captain James Keys of the Starship Pillar of Autumn made an announcement saying that there was a Drakarian ship stuck in the neutral zone. The neutral zone was the space in between the Federation which was made out of the Asari,Tarians, and Humans and the Drakarian Empire. There we got a distress call (which I think was not true) which said Help me Save us and repeated it in an endless loop. I was a bit nervous because of the telepathic abilities the Drakanians have, their telepathic abilities are much stronger than the Asari’s telepathic abilities and was used against the Asari in a war. Captain Keys said that this might balance the relationship with Humans and Drakanians if we saved this ship. So off we went to the spot where the Drakanian ship was stranded(or at least Captain Keys thinks it is). Once we arrived we went into this nebula it felt like going through sand then we saw it. It looks like a Cocoon but in the Nebula there was some kind of field which prevented us from contacting our base and made it hard to contact another ship. Then the Commander of our ship who was Commander Maranda(who was an Asari) selected me and a few other members including one of my other close friend Tiruo. There we went into the Cocoon the entrance looked like some sort of membrane that was alive and it would open.

When we went inside we left our pilot Gideon behind and went through this corridor. There I got a gun and a very big hammer I smashed the hammer through the wall and this gas started coming out, melting the tips of our boots. Then we went into this Chamber then the 2 commanders and the captain went in these tunnels and a membrane blocked the way in. I felt very scared because what if they took our leaders as hostages and then forced us to hand over our ships, the password to deactivate the Federation's Security, and how the ship’s weapons worked. Then Benjamin got some of the membrane and then we heard some of these weird noises, after that we heard Captain Keys started firing his blaster and then he got out of the membrane and said RUN!! There I ran as fast as I could. I took out 2 drakarians and then got cut and had 6 hearts remaining. Then Jonathan D started squeezing this bulb thing because there was a membrane thing behind us and then the membrane moved there we quickly piled in the shuttle pod and went back to the Enterprise. There we were caught by a tractor beam but luckily I was an engineer and I diverted some of the life support to engines. Then we were back on our feet and started going back to the Enterprise. The Enterprise and the other 2 ships saw the tractor beam and started to charge their weapons.

But then Captain James Keys intercepted our Tractor beam and the Kurma Shuttlepod tractor beam and was pulled into the Cocoon. Then the Cocoon had this super powerful weapon and attacked the Pillar of Autumn and made a hole inside of them. I was horrified. Then the Kurma Shuttle and the Enterprise shuttle got back to the 2 ships. Then I was planning on getting myself healed but the Cocoon locked there super weapon on us and started charging the weapon.

Encounter in the Violet Nebula Irene was still wondering what was happening even when she got to the ship at 8am in the morning. She was super familiar with the ship since she was on it very often. Then Irene heard a loud wave of sound coming from her left. She started following the sound. After she entered the room, she saw all of the people that she has worked with before. She spotted a few familiar faces, and went over to talk to them about the secret mission that she wasn’t sure about. Right when Irenen was going to say something the room fell into silence. Now Irene was even more confused about what was going on. Then she felt all of the eyes in the room fall on her. Now Irene knew what was happening. The captain was waiting for her to shake his hand.

Irene wished she had paid more attention. Now she was so embarrassed.

I entered a room full of people. Some were intelligent Asari people like me. Some were strong Turians and there were a few humans within the group. The room was the central command station. It was humongous . The room was practically the size of two of my apartments. I was greeted by some other beings which I thought were very kind of them because I didn’t even know them. The boss explained what we had to do. She said that the mission would be extremely dangerous and that we would have to stick together as a group and help one another. A few of the other members were chosen ,including me, to go to the Violet Nebula. I felt a little scared but then I thought about my brave father, and how he sacrificed his life to help save our planet. I wanted to make him proud, even if he didn’t see it. We went into a space shuttle that was fairly tiny compared to the other ships. This shuttle was made only for transportation which meant it didn’t have any weapons to defend ourselves with, attached to it.

We entered the Violet Nebula and everyone saw this huge ship that we assumed was a Drakarian ship. It was ten times bigger than the ship we were aboard. It looked like a gigantic cocoon that wasn’t made of metal but some other material unlike our own ships.

We finally landed and made our way to the front of the ship, to the doorway. We armed ourselves and so I took a first aid kit in case of an emergency. I had been taught how to use the kit and what every object was made for when I was little because my mother had wanted me to know the basics.

We slowly made our way to the huge door that was attached to the huge cocoon and it slowly opened by itself… Well that’s suspicious. I took a step inside. The hallway looked disgusting. It had a goopy substance sticking on the walls and only the floors were lighted. It smelled terrible. I couldn’t see the ceiling which made me wonder if there was anything there. We made our way into the hall and we started slowly walking towards the interior of the ship. After walking for a few minutes, one of the members of the crew decided to smash a wall to see if it did any harm. I stepped back, afraid that something would burst through the walls. My assumption was correct. A slimy, green goop bursted through the hole that was now in the wall. The slime melted everything that was in its way. I wanted to take some of the goop to further observe it when we got back to the headquarters. I took out a tiny flask and scooped up a little portion of the substance. To my surprise, the slime quickly melted the glass flask and so I swiftly let go of the container so it wouldn’t burn me. We made our way to a room

with a gigantic throne upon some stairs. That made me feel a little uneasy. Questions started forming in my head as me and the other people started investigating the gigantic space. Why would there be a throne in the middle of nowhere? And where is the owner of that huge throne? The boss of the team and another being walked out and I wanted to follow them but I stayed put with the rest of the members. There were a few minutes of silence. There was only the sound of the goop dripping from the walls but other than that, it was pure silence.

Then, suddenly there was a sound that came from the ceiling so I looked up and found myself staring at thousands and thousands of red dots everywhere. I observed them closer, with my eagle like eyes, and realized that the red dots were actually thousands of pairs of eyes. I started to back up and the swarms of creatures dove down at us and tried to attack. Some of the crew members fought against them. We fought and fought, trying to defend ourselves all we could. It was no use. The creature came bursting towards us in every direction. There was no escape. When I thought that we would take our last breaths in this dangerous ship. Captain Keys came running through the door and shouted for us to follow him out of the room. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me and as I looked back, more and more swarms of those strange creatures came diving down at us. I was in a state of shock and fright.

I kept on running, seeing the other people running beside me. When we finally reached the place where we had entered, the door was closed and locked. I quickly searched through my mind, looking for a way to get the door open before the creatures came. I searched the room, trying to find an escape, but it didn’t help.I thought about the result if I ply the door open but that would take way too long. The things would come storming in by the time we ply the door open.

The creatures had arrived and they were attacking us. They were fierce but pretty small. They looked like insects and I thought that they looked absolutely disgusting. We were all fighting back but there were too many of them. One member of the team had found a way to open the door but I was too busy to look at how he had done it. I was defending myself when the door flew open and a few Drakarians made their way towards us. I was in a state of shock and it didn’t help that some ferocious Drakarian people had come in too. They attacked some other members and then another one came straight towards me. It kept towards me like a lion trying to catch its prey. I fumbled through my things trying to find something to help me in this horrible situation. tried to defend myself and found

a stick-like weapon I found in my clothes. I hadn’t realized what it was because I wasn’t paying attention. The creature jumped on top of me and then I tried using the object to help keep myself from getting injured but it didn’t work. It only made the being more angry and so it was more fierce.

The creature had claws that were longer than swords and it used them as blades. In the end, I practically had a hole in my stomach. There was a gash bigger than a soccer ball. My knees started to feel weak and I felt myself fall to the floor and then, I blacked out.

I heard some of the other members screaming… The battle was still going. I didn’t know how long I was unconscious for but I assume that it wasn’t for too long because everyone was still battling. I opened my eyes and sat up, suddenly remembering what was happening. The pain in my stomach had instantly returned once I got up on my feet. I didn’t know what had happened when I blacked out, but it looked like we were still battling the creatures. The battle looked and sounded brutal. You could hear the blades clashing together and the guns being shot to the creatures. There was blood everywhere and also the bodies of many of the creatures who were killed during the battle. The battle field smelled of gun powder and blood. I think that the creatures assumed that I was dead and that’s why they didn’t touch me when I was blacked out. Everyone was making their way towards the door so that’s what I did too.

I followed them to the door and I felt so much better when I smelled the fresh air. I ran back aboard the shuttle as quickly as possible to avoid further danger. I felt so much safer in the warm shuttle. I felt my knees become weaker. My body felt more heavy than usual. I was considered slim so that was strange. I felt that my suit was really damp and it was completely covered in a substance of red liquid.

I didn’t realize that it was actually all blood because I wasn’t in my own mind. I couldn’t think properly because of blood loss. Blood was gushing through the gash that was on my stomach like a waterfall. I had lost an enormous amount of blood because of the deep and nasty wound that was deeper than any wound I had ever seen. It was hurting crazy. I started feeling extremely dizzy and my head started to ache. My knees lost their balance and then I toppled over onto the floor. I completely blacked out again because of blood loss…

First, we arrive at the central command. Central Command is a spaceport where workers build their ships because it’s easier to make space ships in zero gravity. The Central Command was so cool, and every detail of it screamed technology. As I meet who I will be riding the Enterprise[The ship I shall be in.] with, I noticed Jonathan, one of my friends who was also going on the Enterprise with us. As we calm down and group together, I see a man coming, shaking our hands, and smiling. He went up to an elevated platform, introduced himself as Captain Keys James and showed us the reason we have been chosen and supposed to go on a journey. Apparently, there are two groups, the federal group and the Drakiarian group. The federal group involves humans, Asari[Our captain was Asari] and another species I do not remember. I am included as the federal group because I am human. The Drakiarians are often the bad guys and attack us. But Captain Keys told me that we received a message from the Drakarians. It sounded like a heart beating. Boomb, boomb. Boomb, boomb. Then Captain Keys used technology to translate the message. Drakarians speak telepathically, so we had to translate the message in voice form we could understand. It translated into “Help, please!” After a long explanation from Captain Keys, we boarded the ship, Enterprise. The Enterprise was actually a group of 3 ships. I really didn’t understand why the group of ships was called Enterprise since the lead ship was named Pillar of Autumn. When we entered the ship, Captain Keys sat down and explained that we are going into slip space. “Slipspace is used for long-distance travel. In order to go in slip space, we would have obtained a slipspace drive. We have one located on the Pillar of autumn. The message was translated from the neutral area, which is a space between the Drakarians and the federal group. If we manage to help them, we might truce and prevent a likely war that we can’t win.” Captain Keys explained. I and Jonathan weren’t that concerned because even if a war begins, it’s 3 species to 1. As we enter a violet nebula, our visions were blurred. We no longer could see the Pillar of Autumn anymore. Then we located a ship. It was where the Drakarian message came from. But this ship didn’t follow our technology, and the ship was like, a cocoon. And the ship looks rather alive, not built, but grown. I, Jonathan and some other people were chosen to enter the cocoon ship. We went into a small mini space pods to get there. As we entered the door of the ship, which opens and closes like a mouth with spit and slime, we saw another door. Jonathan brought a hammer and splashed the door. Then the Drakarians ambushed us. Benjamin had a sharp sword, and I had only a stun bomb. Jonathan came armed with a laser blaster. We managed to fight those Drakarians back, but Benjamin took quite a lot of harm, and Jonathan and the others took a little. I was safe, but missing my stun bomb. After the fighting, I was exhausted, so I didn’t remember anything after the battle. But I knew that someone mentioned that Captain Keys sacrificed himself, and told us to go to the ship. But I did notice that when I was back on the ship that Captain Keys was gone, still in the cocoon ship. As we summarised the events of today, the cocoon showed us it's artillery, and there was a tractor beam controlling us. As we struggled to back to the enterprise, the tractor beam dragged us back. The engineers, me, Jonathan and the others, tried to get the ship back to full speed, and somehow, we managed to regroup in our spaceship. The cocoon gave up on us, charged their laser cannon, and blasted our lead ship, Pillar of Autumn so hard, there was almost a big hole there.

CHAPTER THREE Battle with the Cocoon

Jessica

Battle with the Cocoon The cocoon attacks towards the Enterprise. The Enterprise turns left and fires at the cocoon. Afew vibras fall off of the cocoon when the laser strikes. Meanwhile the Karma attacks the cocoon which has the same effect as when our ship attacked the cocoon. The Enterprise turns right, moves at nothing in particular, moves back and repairs the ship. The Karma turns toward the cocoon and continues to fire. As that happens the door to enter the cocoon opens and two drakarian vessel’s come out. The Enterprise turns left and fires at the cocoon and hits it then turns left again. One of the drakarian ships fired at the Karma. The Karma continues to attack the cocoon. The second drakarian ship attacks the Enterprise who does a little damage to the Enterprise. The Enterprise turns right and blasts the drakariann shuttle. They discover that they did more damage than they usually do because the closer they are, the more damage there isThe drakarian ship fires back at the Enterprise. Annabeth heals Benjamin. Jonathan D heals Jonathan Y. Chanru fails to heal herself. Rassie tries to heal herself and gets mid-success. Benjamin decides to go on a space pod. He slams the space pod on the drakarian space pod. His space pod is severely damaged but he can climb through the hole he made by the slam. He successfully manages to get into the vessel. There are many drakarian’s in the ship, they sit in a semicircle. But they don’t seem to notice Benjamin. Benjamin wants to go to the control panel, but he finds out that there are no control panels on the shuttle. He discovers that the drakarian’s control the ship by their minds. There Are wires connected from their heads to the ship. Benjamin goes to the main room and takes a wire out of a drakarian’s head. The drakaian wake up. From the look of his face he looks confused and surprised. He attacked Benjamin. But it doesn’t seem to be winning the fight. The Karm attacks the cocoon while the drakarian without Benjamin attacks the Karma. The Enterprise attack’s the drakarian shuttle with Benjamin. The shuttle explodes. Benjamin survives but he floats aimlessly in space. Luckily Gideon spots Benjamin, he flies towards Benjamin and scoops him up lightly. The Karma and the last drakarian vessel fire at each other. The cocoon’s laser gets

ready to blast at the Enterprise. The Enterprise fires at the cocoon. Then the Enterprise drives forward and the crew fix the cocoon. The cocoon fires at the Enterprise. The laser skims the side of the ship, it does a few damage. They discover that the laser beam didn't hit as hard as last time it blasted the laser beam. The drakarian shuttle attacked the Enterprise. The Karma returns back to fire at the cocoon. The crew on the Enterprise fix the ship then fire, barely missing the Karma. The drakarian shuttle shoots at the Enterprise and the Karma backs away in shock and surprise of what just happened. The Enterpriseturn left and blasted the drakarian ship then repaired the Enterprise. The drakarian shuttle explodes. The cocoon door opens again and two more drakarian shuttles appear out of the cocoon. The Enterprise blasts the already blasted shuttle then turns right and fires at the drakarian shuttle’s. The crew noticed at the corner of their eyes a few escape pods coming out of the Pillar of Autumn. The drakarian’s notice the escape pods too.

The drakarian ship’s tries to move toward the escape pods. Jonathan Y tries to contact the Karma to protect the escape pods, but it doesn't work. Gertrude says “Let me use the radio to contact the Karma” Gertrude takes the radio out of Jonathan Y’s hand. She asks Jonathan Y “What would you like to say to them?” Jonathan Y answered “Tell them to protect the escape pods.” Gertrude tells the Karma to protect the escape pods. But she didn't need to tell the Karma, because the Karma protected the escape pods anyway. The Enterprise turns left then moves right and then fires at the cocoon. Under the cocoon it seems to have some small explosions. The drakarian ship attacked the escape pods. Rassie and Jonathan D notice that if the drakarian ship attacks the escape pods again it might explode. The Karma attack is the drakarian shuttle’s. The Enterprise turns left and fires at the drakarian ships. The Karma manages to destroy one of the drakarian vessel’s. Gideon angles perfectly to destroy the other drakarian ship without hitting the Pillar of Autumn blocking it’s way. The Karma repairs the ship and gets repositioned to attack the cocoon again. The cocoon spins to attack again. The Enterprise turned right to repair the ship.

Meanwhile the Karmastart to attack the cocoon. The Enterprise and the Karma attack the cocoon. It is very badly damaged. The Pillar of Autumn starts to move toward the cocoon. The crew notices it is on

autopilot. We fire on the cocoon. There are many minor injuries on the cocoon. The cocoon starts to shoot lasers. The laser barely misses the ship. The Karma follows the escape pods. The Pillar of Autumn hits the cocoon and makes a massive explosion. The front of the cocoon splits open and explodes. The cocoon is very badly damaged. They get ready to destroy the cocoon once and for all. They take out all of their weapons. They are ready to fire at the cocoon when bright red alarms appear on the screen. Miranda appears at the doorway and screams “The captain is in that ship, you are not going to destroy that ship till he is off of the cocoon! You guys are crazy!” Miranda takes control of the ship and follows the escape pods. You see, when they send escape pods they usually have an asteroid, planet or something to land on for sure. They go through the Nebula’s cloud of dust. While they follow the space pods they discover that the help message is a lie. They want to go home but they can’t because they need a slip space drive and the slip space drive is on the Pillar of Autumn which has already exploded. To pass the time they heal the people who are injured. Rassie successfully heals Benjamin. Chanru heals herself which turns out to be a success. Jonathan D heals Rassie in success. The escape pods land on something. Gideon lands expertely on something. They discover the “something” is an asteroid. The ground is unusually hard. The color of the asteroid is grey and a rust res . Then as everyone starts to gather they hear a one side conversation.

After it sounds as if they're talking in the room next to them. They say “Yes, yes Algar the amazing. Then they see a little figure in the cloud of dut. He whispers “Their right in front of me, I don’t think they see me though I see them. They look kind of stupid too.

Benjamin As the cocoon charges we start to panic as we see the pillar of autumn get pierced by the lasar and then it lock on to us and we move out of the way and we shoot it later I decide to go in a mini drakarian ship and I find a bunch of weird stuff but I just look for a way to control the ship and then pull of a weird thing on a drakarians head but then out of nowhere my ship shoots the ship i’m in and i’m blasted luckily my crews pilot gets me back in as i’m injured and i’m just cold and feel nothing because of the electricity from the laser later the pillar of autumn is ramming the cocoon and we decide to blast it but miranda tells us that Captain keyes is still in there and that we would end up killing him and that made me suspicious because Captain Keyes would have told us to fire at the cocoon so that no drakarians live but we still listen.

Chaunru Once they were back in their ship he knew what was coming: a space battle. At this point he wanted his revenge for his tribe and all the dead soldiers that got killed by Drakarian.

He was so furious that he wanted to kill a drakarien with his bare hand. After he calmed down a bit he helped his crew fight against that gigantic cocoon. Then suddenly two gicarien ships popped out of the cocoon, so they decided to finish them off first and deal with the rest. Benjamin jumped to a small spaceship and tried to figure out how it worked to report back to the ship. After some other back and force bullet he saw the film of autumn fly straight at the cocoon and some escape pot going somewhere else. Then he remembered that there must be somewhere that escape goes because it needs to have a landing spot. Once the film of autumn went right through the cocoon they decided to follow the escape pods to a mysterious area.Â

Jonathan D The battle with the Cocoon We started a battle versus the Drakarians in our ship. The Drakarian’s big ship had a big laser that damages 3 lives to our ships. My character was preparing potions to heal his teammates and the other ones were in the battle communicating to each other.

Finally, there were small ships that were spread out of the Cocoon and tring to attack us. We were healing our ships and attacking these small drakarian ships.

At the end of the battle has ended by the Pillar of Autumn that has crashed right into the Cocoon’s back and made a massive damage to the Drakarians. Then, my character and his teammates won the battle!

Then, my character was very happy to beat the Drakarians. But then, he heard another voice comming from the radio of Gideon…

Battle with the Cocoon Irene During this intense battle, Irene was scared about what was going to happen. She was clueless about what to do since it was her first battle against the Cocoon. She knew that the Cocoon was a super dangerous ship that belonged to drakarians. She was also concerned when the captain and one of her friends tried to go on the ship and attack the drakarians. Irene’s mind filled up with questions like how they were going to get off or what will happen to them. Soon her friend made it back but she didn’t see the captain on the ship yet. Now Irene was filling up with even more questions about the Cocoon.

Rassie- I regained my consciousness in the middle of a humongous space battle. From what I observed from that moment, the ship was flying in many different directions and firing at random times. I could smell the smoke coming from outside mixing with the smell of blood. I smelled awful mixed together. Two terrible smells mixed together. I was observing my surroundings and I realized that I was still on the floor. There was a big puddle of blood surrounding my body that had come from my wound. Everyone was in a panic and members in the ship were running around and screaming at the top of their lungs. I thought that my eardrums would explode any minute if I didn’t cover my ears. My headache was pretty bad and I didn’t want it to become worse than it already was so I used my hand to prevent my ears from exploding. I took some bandages from the first aid kit and slowly and carefully wrapped the material around my waist, trying my best to prevent more blood loss. I realized that I had lost a lot of blood from that one wound and that there were little scratches scattered around my arms and legs. They didn’t hurt that much if you compared them to the long scratch on my stomach.

When I finished wrapping the fabric on my stomach, I stood up and looked out of the window. The Karma has moved forward, towards the giant cocoon. It was attacking the gigantic ship- like object with all it had. I suddenly felt that the ship was moving to the right and there was an impact as the ship fired and a smaller Drakarian ship was firing back at us. The ship fires again and then it moves forward. I could feel the ship repairing itself as I watched the Drakarian ship explode into millions of tiny pieces around us.

As I looked around at the tiny shreds of what was left of the Drakarian ship, I saw a figure floating in space.

It looked as if it were moving, or squirming around. It looked as if it were alive. As I watched the thing move around pathetically, I suddenly fell forward, as the ship swooped down to retrieve the moving object. Gideon, being the professional, steered the ship perfectly, retrieving the thing. As the thing entered, I realized that it was one of the members that had gone into the cocoon with me. I found that his name was Benjamin and that he had volunteered to go into the smaller Drakarian ship. I wouldn’t have gone in willingly so I think he’s fairly brave to do so. I think it would have been extremely dangerous to go into a stranger’s ship, not knowing where everything was.

Realizing that we were still in the middle of a space battle, and felt the fear come back to me as I looked out of the window and saw that the Karma was resuming the attack on the remaining Drakarian ship. The cocoon starts firing at us so we try to fire back. The ship was rattling as the attack was hitting us. I saw that our ship had fired and was now attempting to move forward, towards the cocoon. I felt the ship once again try to

repair itself from the damage that the Drakarians had done. I had a sense of uneasiness as we moved closer and closer to the cocoon.

The Karma is resuming the battle with the cocoon as we start the battle with the smaller Drakarian ship. It starts firing at us and I feel the rattling underneath my feet, as our ship shakes from the impact of the fire.

Our ship starts to fire back but to my surprise, the Drakarian ship dodges the blast and I watch in pure shock as the laser fires towards the Karma. I was feeling a mix of negative and positive emotions. I felt pure shock, I felt afraid for the Karma, I felt angry about this battle, I was worried about the ending of the battle and sadness when I thought about the Pillar of Autumn and how it got destroyed.

I was awaiting the explosion of the Karma. I shut my eyes, thinking of what would happen if the Karma got hit. After a few moments in shock and sadness, I removed my hands from my eyes. I was surprised to see that the ship was there. In fact, it still looked completely the same as before our ship released the fire. I felt a rush of relief and happiness. But that feeling quickly faded as I remembered what was happening around me.

The ship makes a sharp turn left and fires at the Drakarian ship. When the laser hit the ship, it exploded just like the other Drakarian that tried to attack us. And that’s why you never mess with the Enterprise and its crew! As we were all cheering at the defeat of the ship, two more Drakarian ships came out of the cocoon.

‘Boy, this better be good’ I thought to myself.

We fire at the ship and then turn right. We then fire again, taking a lot of damage to the tiny ship. While I was observing the fight, I saw a few escape pods being released from the Pillar of Autumn. I watch as the tiny missile-like objects fly towards something. One of the crew members tried to send a message and I saw that it had failed. Then Gertrude stormed in and sent the message instead of the other person. I heard them send a message about protecting the escape pods from damage.

After the message was sent, our ship turned left, and then right. The ship fired yet again and I saw the damage it gave the cocoon. The cocoon looked terrible. Far worse than before. The front was completely horrible. The door was practically torn off and there was a huge hole and smoke was coming out of the hole.

It looked worse than ever. I wouldn’t want to be on that ship.

As everyone was distracted by the cocoon’s damage, the Drakarian ship was taking advantage of the time. It started attacking the tiny escape pods. The escape pods looked pretty badly damaged. Everyone seemed to

notice the damage taken by the escape pods and our ship started to turn left and then it fired at the Drakarian ship. It didn’t work and so the Drakarian ship was gaining on the tiny escape pods. It was extremely close to the tiny things. Our ship turned left and fired again. This time, it struck the ship and it exploded just like the other ships.

Everyone watched as the escape pods escaped and continued to move forward as if nothing had happened.

Then a laser shot towards our ship from the cocoon. We had just managed to dodge the beam. It still shook the ship slightly, a little like an earthquake. We turned to the right and repaired the ship from the little damage the laser had caused. We then fired at the cocoon. We repaired the ship once more and then fired.

After we fired, our ship started to move forward. As we were moving forward, I noticed that the Pillar of Autumn was slowly moving forward. I thought that the passengers had all escaped from the ship? Unless… the ship was on autopilot. We fire once more and then we repair the ship. We start moving backwards, awa6 from the cocoon. The Pillar of Autumn continues to move forward, towards the front of the cocoon. There was suddenly a gigantic explosion that sent an enormous force that our ship rattled. The Pillar of Autumn had crashed into the cocoon and now the front of the cocoon was completely open. It looked even worse than when we did damage to it. We were about to fire at the cocoon once again, but just as we were going to press the button the fire, Miranda came running into the room to stop the fire.

I wasn’t really paying attention to what she was saying because I was in the middle of observing the cocoon.

I couldn’t take my eyes off the scene because it looked completely ruined. I was still thinking about the goop inside the ship and how it could just melt the flask and everything in its way. I really wanted to take more experiments on the substance.

When Miranda was almost done explaining why she didn’t let us fire, I started listening. I caught a few words. She said that Captain Keyes wasn’t dead and that he was still in the ship. She said that there was no way we could go home. I thought about Captain Keyes. He would have told us to fire at him and the ship. I was thinking really hard and then I thought about Miranda. She must be hiding something from us.

I walked towards the infirmary to get my injuries healed. I hadn’t been paying attention to the wound because I was too caught up on the scenes that took place around me. When I finally remembered, I felt it ache. The nurse healed it and I felt so much better. But it wasn’t completely gone. There was still a long scar of where the scratch had been. But it looked so much better than before.

As I headed back, we landed on the surface of an asteroid that was red and grey. When I stepped on the ground, it was unnaturally hard and it looked like iron. The asteroid wasn’t that big. I started walking around and exploring the place. Wherever I set foot upon, it felt like I was walking downhill. I thought of when I was little, and me, my father, and my mother would go sledding when it was cold enough. I thought that my father would adore this planet. We would have so much fun sledding that I would refuse to leave even when it became dark. I started feeling tears flood in my eyes. I didn’t want to cry so I tried to keep them in. I managed to keep all the tears in, but my eyes still looked glassy. I felt happy as I remembered my childhood but I also felt a flood of sadness as I remembered that my father wasn’t with me anymore.

I was in another world as I thought of those happy memories I had had before this mission and all the violence had started. I didn’t seem to hear the small being talking. But when it approached us, I finally realized her. How strange...

Battle with the cocoon By Jonathan Yao Then we started firing at the Cocoon, I really wanted to get myself healed so we had a healing round, at the end pretty much everyone was back to normal. Then the Cocoon used the super weapon and fired it on the Enterprise luckily we weren’t that damaged like the Pillar of Autumn.

Then the Cocoon sent one Mini-Drakarian ship at us and another to the Karma. I was really depressed because they were all around us and we couldn’t focus ouro fire on the Cocoon. All of a sudden Benjamin had an idea. Then he was going to disable the Drakarian from the inside. He asked for volunteers to come with him but no one came. Because that would mean the Enterprise being destroyed. Because we have a valuable friend on board we couldn’t destroy the ship which meant Enterprise would have to be severely damaged! When Benjamin got on board he saw several Drakarians on board the ship. It looked as if they were controlling the ship with their minds because there were tubes stuck attached to the Drakarian’s heads and they didn’t seem to notice Benjamin on board. So Benjamin searched around the ship and couldn’t find anything that useful. Then he unplugged a tube attached to one of the Drakarian’s head, the Drakarian at first looked really confused then he and Benjamin started a fist fight. Then we had to blast that ship apart so we did and Benjamin was down to 4 hearts. Then Benjamin safely got on board the Enterprise. Now we tried to help the Karma by firing at the ship that was after it but we missed and nearly hit it. After that the Karma destroyed the Mini Drakarian ship after it. Then the Drakarian ships started charging their super weapon and aimed it at us. I felt really annoyed because why not the Karma what did we do to get it mad? Anyways we this time moved forwards and the Drakarian ship fired at us. Normally when it fired at us it would take 3 hearts away from our ship but this time it only scraped our hull and took away 1 heart. Why? Questioned the crew. Thanks to all the brilliant Engineers we figured out that when the Drakarians fired their super weapon and we moved backwards or forwards it would only take away 1 heart. When me and the Engineers figured this out I was deeply relieved. Now we fired at the Cocoon making it’s front look very battered up. Now the most annoying part happened. The Pillar of Autumn actually had some alive people in it, who used the Pillar of Autumn and set an Autopilot collision course at the Cocoon and went to the escape pods. Then the Cocoon sent 2 mini-ships and sent them after the escape pods. I tried communicating to the Karma saying protect the escape pods but I was bad so then Gertrude told them that . We hit one of the Mini ships and then it hit us then the Karma hit one of the mini ships and then it hit the Karma I found this really annoying because we couldn't focus our fire on the Cocoon we HAVE to save the escape pods because they are living people. We fired at the mini ships but the mini ships focused their fires on the escape pods and they hit 2 of them. If they hit the same ones again then they would be destroyed so before the mini ships got a chance to fire again the Karma and the Enterprise destroyed all of them. Then the Pillar of Autumn started going towards the Cocoon but the Enterprise was in the way but luckily our awesome pilot Gideon got us out of this Crisis

and the Pillar of Autumn crashed into the Cocoon making it look even more damaged. Then when we were going to focus all fire on the Cocoon our Commander Miranda told us to stop because Captain Keys might be there. The escape pods have a location on where to go so the Karma and the Enterprise all followed it. This genius on the Pillar of Autumn detected this Asteroid and wanted to land on there so we went and landed on it. The good thing was that no matter where you go it feels like you are going down hill. For example if you are going east it feels like going down hill and if you are now going west it feels like going down hill too! It would only take you 2-3 hours to walk around this asteroid and come back to your original spot.

Our scientists confirmed that this was an Iron Asteroid. And our communications officers heard a sound it was as if a person was communicating to someone else with a phone. But when you listened closely it sounded as if you could hear it without the communicator device. Now we saw a black figure talking and on the communicator device we heard I think I stumbled upon them they look kind of stupid I was really offended when I heard this becuase I am not stupid(well in the game I am not at least).

Tirou We saw the damage they have done to the Pillar of Autumn, but all of our other ships are ok, so we decided to destroy the cocoon. We noticed the cocoons superweapon was the thing that heavily damages the Pillar of Autumn. As we aimed and shot at the cocoon, our spaceship got damaged at different levels. The cocoons superweapon deal about 30% of our ship’s damage resistance and if I Jonathan the engineers work hard enough, we can estimate the percentage of damage our space ship will take. As we argued about the things we should perform, I and Jonathan were repairing the ship, occasionally working out how much damage the next shot will cost us. We worked well, and we found a pattern of calculating the damage next shot. Especially Jonathan, because he is Asari, the most intelligent species most of the time. As we were repairing, the rest of our team was controlling the ship well. When the cocoon superweapon was full, I gulped and was a bit afraid. I estimated that the superweapon will do 30.22% of our shield power. The most they can do. But someone tilted our ship left, and the laser skimmed off the skin of the Enterprise, doing minimal damage of 9.98%. The cocoon also sent out mini ships to distract us and attack us. After some battle, Benjamin decided to hop in a space pod and do a short journey to a cocoon pod[mini ships from the cocoon]. He did not learn much, took serious harm, and only acquired knowledge about Drakarians use there mind to control the ship. As we were healed, we all gained stronger for some reason. The feeling was like having levelled up in a video game. But I didn’t pay much attention to that, because the Drakarian ship was almost broken. Then, the Pillar of Autumn which was heavily harmed launched escape pods. There was another ship to the left of our ship, [I forgot the name]who assisted us. As we shot at the cocoon ship, we almost shot it! The other ship knew it was dangerous, and we failed to contact them, and they went to protect the escape pods because the cocoon pods were going to the escape pods. The escape pods seemed that they can only survive two shots each, but the assisting ship and our ship barely managed to defend the escape pods. The Pillar of Autumn which is on auto pilot slammed into cocoon ship. As we attempted to finish off the cocoon, someone stopped our lasers, because they thought Captain Keys was alive and she did not like to kill Captain Keys. So we retreated and landed the escape pods so we can regroup in big ships. But we heard a species whispering from our radio thing that detects messages. They were talking about us as a dumb species and other things I could not translate. >> To be continued

CHAPTER FOUR Fool's End

Jessica

Fool’s End Annabeth and the crew were doing nothing in particular after the battle with the cocoon. While they were resting in the shuttle there was a sound that sounded like a conversation that got louder and louder when Algar the Amazing appeared. Algar was a very small Turian for his kind. The crew pins Algar down to the floor. Algar asks “What do you want?” Rassie asks for information. Algar says he can help them bring them to the asteroid. The crew doesn’t trust Algar so they go without him. They go in a cloud of dust.

Benjamin gets lost in the dust and so is Jonathan Y. Irene is not lost at all. They stop and look through the sandstorm. They see a building with a glowing sign. The sign says “Fool’s End” They hear music and the windows are flashing all kinds of lights. There are two big Turian guards in front of the building. They discuss what they should do. They want to attack the building. They charge into the building and find themselves in a party . The majority of the party are Turian and Asari. There are a few humans in the party. They turn to the right and the crew see’s a drakarion about 7 feet tall, dark green skin. The drakarion’s wearing a hat and a monocle. While it’s walking he says “Fresh meat”. There’s a band on the stage in front of them with a big crowd cheering and throwing money. Next to the band there’s Turian and Asari playing cards with a human in the middle. Then Asari comes next to the crew and claps Miranda on the back while saying “Hey, Miranda! Do you know me? I'm your cousin Roman” Then Roman and Miranda start to engage in a conversation. Then Miranda says “I need help for a ship repair, can you help me.” Roman says “Of course, but you need to give me money for the ship repair.” Miranda says “The federation can give as much money you want to have, as long as you can fix the ship.” Roman said “No, no, no the federation money and the money at Fool’s End are different. At Fool’s End we use money called chibows. You can earn money in many ways. I’ll give you all the options : Borrow chibows, steal chibows, ask nicely for chibows, play cards, fight in a pit to get chibows, do a performance on the stage and work in the kitchen.The ship repair would need 16000 chibows.Plus the extras things you want on the

ship.” Annabeth, JonathanY, Tiruo, Jonathan D, Irene and Chanru decided to go to the kitchen. Annabeth, Jonathan D, Jonathan Y and Chanru got 500 chibows each, Tiruo got his own soup(that he likes but not chef) Irene got nothing because her salad went on fire. They earned 3000 chibow altogether. Rassie earned 4000 chibows on stage. The crew members needed more money so they did different things this time. Annabeth pickpocketed 500 chobows. Benjamin went to the pit. Tiruo, Chanru, Rassie and the two Jonathan’s went to play cards. Irene asked nicely and when they added everything together they got 37000 chibows. Then when everywhere was relaxing the human that was gambling shouted to the crew members “RUN!!!”

Benjamin As we End at fools end we are stuck unless we get cheebo and I Heilosis is thinking of what to do I decide to first go to the kitchen since I can make some great rabbit stew and steak which the head chef is impressed and i’m very pleased with his response that he likes it and make a good amount of cheebo, and Maranda’s cousin comes over and tells us we need 14 thousand cheebo and we also wanted some upgrades which will be 16 thousand for a total of 30 thousand we need I go to the fighting pit where 2 people duel and whoever wins get the total amount of cheebo people placed on that fighter I go in paying with all my cheebo which was the 1 thousand I earned hoping to we and get cheebo I go against a oldhuman named greg I tried to sink in with my claws but he punched me so I thought <<So I thought this would be a equal duel but I guess it’s a fist fight>> and in return I punch him in the face and then kick him in the face as well winning the first match. At the second match I’m confused as I don’t see my opponent until a giant turian rushes me into the wall so I get up and kick him and then smack his face into the ground and shove him back and then doge him and lifting his feet making him ram into the wall and be victorious and later I find out that (inserts Irene's character name) had asked for some cheebo and they gave her some and had bet lot’s of cheebo on me and I ended up winning 10 thousand cheebo which was more then enough and as we all prepare to leave we find out that are pilot Gideon had spent 3 thousand cheebo and we were all a bit mad at him but then the man who worked at the card gambling table pointed a gun at us shot missed and told us to run leaving us confused.

Jonathan D. Fool’s end When my character was walking towards a large rectangular building with his teammates, he sees a

party with different species : Humans, Asaris, Turians and…​Drakarians​. My character earned a lot of money by cooking for participants and by playing card games.

Finally, we earned, I think, 30 thousand dollars. We’ve got enough money to repare our ship and buy some blasters and grenade bombs, one of my character’s teammate’s tools for attacking people that are bad, like Drakarians.

(I know…yeah…there’s not enough words in this text…)

Fool’s End By Jonathan Yao Now once we saw the black figure he announced himself as Algar the Amazing the owner of this asteroid and wanted to know what we were doing here he looked like a Turian but he was so small. We decided not to talk to him and capture him. Then we told him where the person he was communicating to was. I felt really excited now because we were going to blow/destroy up more Drakranians. Algar tried to describe the place but he said it would be better if he just showed us.

But we didn’t agree because this could be a trap. The drakrainians have sensors and should be able to know that we are here. So we put him in the Brig and left. I took 3rd place in the leading party. I took my blaster and a stun grenade then we went onto our journey. Once we went around and searched the Asteroid we found this building and from the building we could see lights and we could hear music. In front of the building there was a sign saying Fool’s end. I felt really puzzled because how could it say Fool’s End when there was a party. So this was really dangerous I guess. When we just saw the building we were silently running there were these Turian guards who guarded the front door, they looked at us and didn’t even get into a fighting position. They even scratched their nose?!?! Were they expecting us? I was ready to blast their heads off but one part of me thought. What if there were stronger Turian soldiers who were smarter and more aggressive than these 2 and if I attacked them will I get on the owner’s bad side? As a result I chose not to attack them and left them alone. They opened the door for us!

Why, how generous they are. One we went in there I was deciding to throw my stun grenade inside and then blast both of the Turian guard’s heads off until I realized there were more than 4 hundred people in there. We went outside and looked around. There were no ships!! It was basically you going to a restaurant and the parking lot had no cars or buses in it and when you go inside there are like 40 people in the restaurant. We sat down, there we saw some Turians, Asari, and a human in a black hood. They were playing cards. All of a sudden the Asari and Turians made a noise and they figure in the black hood shrugged as if to say what can I do and took all of the weird currency in the middle. All of a sudden someone came and said to our Commander: Miranda it is good to see you. Our Commander said do I know you? And the person who looked like an Asari said you must have forgotten me. We met each other when we were really little, I am your Cousin Roman. Our Commander said oh right right you are Cousin Roman. Roman said what brings you here. Miranda reluctantly told her story and in the story a Drakarian walked past us and used it’s telepathic abilities and said Fresh Meat. Then Roman said I am the right man here. I have this shipyard full of spare parts. Unfortunately the slip space drive is a bit expensive. Miranda said I am sure the Federation could pay you back. Unfortunately Feds(Federation money) are worthless here. You could work here and earn some Chibou(The money they use here). He gave us some options: 1. Borrow Chibou from Gleebo(The drakarian) if we can’t pay him back things are going to get bad.

2. Ask nicely 3. Steal/pick pockets 4. Play cards with shady man Now Roman brought us to a pit there in the bottom. We could see 2 Turians fighting. We could either gamble on which Turian would win or we could either be the fighter and go fight. If we chose to fight we could make a fortune and get damaged.

On the dance floor we could see a band we had an option to play with the band The kitchen chef wants some people to make food. We could also earn Chibou’s that way. If someone did something the next turn we couldn’t repeat it.

Roman informed us that he would be back soon with how much the repairs cost and asked if anyone wanted anything else? I said we would need more guns on the ship and someone else said that we would need guns where people can sit in and fire.

Gideon went to the dance floor and Gerturde fell asleep. Then we got to choose what to do pretty much everyone except for Rassie chose to go to the kitchen. Rassie chose to go and perform.

Meanwhile at the Kitchen Benjamin made a really good soup and when the Chef tasted it we could see a tear fall out of his eye and he gave Benjamin double pay(which was 1000 Chibou) then Jessica and I made normal food and the Chef gave us both $500. Tiruo made a frog soup which Chef came and smelled it, it smelled sort of weird. So Chef made Tiruo taste it, when Tiruo tasted it he was like yum not bad yeah this is good. So Chef gave him no pay but the frog soup. Now Jonathan D and Chanru all made normal food and got paid $500 each. Then when it came to Irene’s turn Chef smelled the air not because she made something that smelled he could smell smoke. Irene was supposed to make Salad but she accidently burnt it. The last we saw of her was that she was running to the door and Chef was throwing Salad on fire at her. Now Rassie was getting ready to perform. She was handed this weird instrument she didn’t know how to play but because her sharp was 3 she quickly learned how to play it then the crowd started cheering and throwing money. Then the band leader got interested in her and changed rhythm. At first Rassie couldn’t keep on but at the end she made it and kept on. Now Rassie earned $4000. Now we Roman came back with the list of how much it would cost so now Tiruo,Jonathan D,Rassie,Chanru, and I went to play cards. We earned 16000 Chibou, enough to buy a slip space drive. Then Jessica chose to go pick pocketing. Someone then saw the Drakarian named Gleebo talking to the hooded man and pointing to our crew. Jessica saw 2 strong Turians one of them had a box sticking out of his pocket. So Jessica tried to get the whole box but the Turian turned around not noticing her then she used her other hand and grabbed some Chibou from the Turina she took 1000 Chibou. Then Benjamin decided to go into the pit because his toughness was 3.

Irene decided to ask nicely and went up to some dressed fancily Asari women and asked if she could have some money Irene explained here story and the Asari women felt sorry for Irene and gave here some money she told her because here crewmate Benjamin was going into the pit they would give Irene more if Benjamin won. So Benjamin went in the pit and his opponent was this guy named Greg. Greg was really old so Benjamin easily won. He had 6 hearts and he earned

$2000 Chibou. Then he advanced to the next round where he won with 5 hearts remaining in total he had 4000 Chibou. Then Irene got 10000 Chibou from the Asari women. But because Gideon was dancing he spent a lot of 3000 Chibou so in total we had 34000 Chibou, enough to get everything we need. Jonathan D was holding our Chibou when the hooded man came and pointed a gun at Jonathan Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head. Chanru saw this. Jonathan D hit the hooded man making our Chibou go everywhere and then some gun shots came the hooded man fired at where they came.

And said run.

Fool’s End Irene It was about 3:00 in the afternoon when Irene heard some kind of argument from a speaker. She listened closely until it seemed like the voice was coming from the room next door. Irene then saw the smallest Turian she has ever seen. Soon everyone in the room noticed the little Turian and began to stare at it. After that the Turian began talking. It said that it owns the land that they were on and he asked what they were doing on the land. Soon everyone decided to just capture the little Turian just in case it was dangerous. After everyone caught the Turian, Irene saw another ship close to hers. Her and a few friends decided they should go on the ship and explore it. When they got on, They realised there was a party going on inside the ship. At first sight Irene noticed some details.

She saw a weird man playing card games with many asaris and Turians at one on the tables. She also saw a huge kitchen and a stage. The place almost looked like a busy restaurant to her. Moments later, Irene and the friends that went to explore the ship with her all decided to do something to get money or cheebo for their ship so they can upgrade it later on.

Their options were to ask nicely for cheebo, play cards with the weird guy sitting at the table, or work in the kitchen. Irene and most of her friends decided to work in the kitchen. It was by far the most confusing job that Irene has ever done in her life. Her task was to make a salad. She didn’t know what a salad was so she just grabbed a few ingredients from the fridge and started cooking. Just when Irene was almost done, she felt herself get burnt right on her back. Irene turned around and saw the boss of the kitchen about to throw a piece of lettuce at her. She spun back around and sprinted right out the door. Soon after Irene’s huge mistake in the kitchen, She decided to just ask politely for money instead of working for it. Irene looked and looked around for the perfect people to ask. Then she spotted a few feet away a small group of rich and fancy looking asari women. She slowly approached the women and explained her situation. Soon enough, Irene noticed one of the asaris handing her 1000 cheebo. After that Irene knew that she had picked the right people to ask.

Rassie- I looked at the small being. It was talking on a telephone. I leaned down eagerly trying to listen to what it was saying. After listening for a few minutes, I determined that it was talking about us. It realized our presents and said to us that he was Algar the Amazing! He said that he was the ruler of this asteroid ( which I doubt ) and he asked us why we were trespassing his territory. We didn’t answer his question and easily captured the creature. I observed it further and realized that it was the smallest Turian I’ve ever seen in my whole life! It was about 4’3 and was smaller than even me. We threatened the small being to give us information and it was terrified so it said that it could help us. I actually doubt that he knows what to do. I banish these thoughts from my mind and follow the others. We put him in a prison and started exploring the direction the creature had told us to go. There is an enormous sand storm and we’re stuck in the middle of it.

I push my way through the storm and continue following the others.

We keep on walking and then, the others suddenly come to a halt. I scrape the sand out of my hair and my eyes and I observe my surroundings. I see a sign that says “Fool’s End” and underneath, in smaller writing “ Home to the Bigabons”. I feel my curiosity step in as I walk towards the door. There is loud music that can be heard from the inside and it seems that everyone inside is having fun at a party. The other members decide to charge at the door. As we enter, the music gets louder as we are inside. I see about 400 people inside.

Some are dancing, some eating and drinking, and some are working. I hear the others plot about intruding and then attacking but then I see Miranda walking inside without attacking. I follow her lead and walk around. I see that most of the beings here are Turian and Asari. There are a few human beings scattered amongst the crowd.

I follow the other members to the right and I see a huge Drakarian being. It has dark green skin. It’s wearing monocles, a tiny hat, a button down suit jacket and a tie. There is suddenly a steam of silver smoke that comes out of its ( I assume ) mouth. I realize that he is holding a tube in one of his clips. He walks by and I hear him say something along the line as “ Fresh meat “ which sends a shiver down my spine. I observe my surroundings once again and realize that there is a band on stage, and people playing cards at a table nearby.

Suddenly, a large silhouette stands up and lets out a scream and then sits back down with a sigh. ‘ He must have lost the card game ‘ I thought to myself. My father used to play cards and he would never lose.

I was in the middle of a memory from before i came so I didn’t realize a male human being that was smoking a cigarette and smirking. He had won the card game and was now holding a bunch of ,what looked like, money. He looked shady and he had an evil expression, plastered on his face. I turned my attention to a

Turian bar worker that was sliding around the place and talking to the customers at the table. ‘ He seems nice’ I thought to myself. Then, I looked past his head, and I saw a large Asari man screaming at people in a place which I assume is the kitchen because he had a chef’s hat sitting on his head. The hat looked like it was about to fall from his head. It was hanging on for dear life. Just as I was sure the hat was going to fall off from the way he was shaking his head back and forth in frustration, I saw Miranda plop herself on a chair, at a large, round table. I followed her lead and did the same. I was just about to shift my attention towards the kitchen again when an Asari man claps Miranda on the shoulder, scaring the living death out of me. He was larger than Miranda.

Miranda looked confused and then she asked him if she knew him. He said that he was her cousin… I doubt that. Miranda didn’t even know him! How could he be related to her if she didn’t know him and has never seen him?! I doubt he’s ever seen her!! I felt extremely uneasy towards this guy. He said his name was Roman and he said that he could help us with the Slip Space Drive. Does he even know what it is?! He engaged himself in a conversation with Miranda. He said that it would cost a lot to build the Drive. I interrupted their conversation, asking how much it would cost. He said that money had no value but that he would accept this thing called Chibos. I guess those are the type of money they use here.

All the members came towards the table and sat themselves down. We brainstormed ideas on how to earn Chibos. We had about seven ideas. First idea was to ask Gleebo, the Drakarian man that we had encountered before, and borrow some Chibos from him. Second, there was to ask nicely, but I doubt anyone would like to give money to strangers willingly. Third, we could pickpocket, which in my opinion is really risky. Fourth, we could gamble money at the card table, by playing a card game. Fifth, we could fight this monster called “ Karnak the unkillable”. Sixth, there was to give a concert with the stage crew. Lastly, there was to work at the kitchen with the Asari man that I had seen screaming at people.

I think for a moment, and then I decide to perform with the stage crew. That was one of the least risky ones to choose. I see the others walking towards the kitchen. I guess most of them chose to go there. I walk towards the stage and they welcome me with cheers. I’ve never performed to people other than my family, so I’m extremely nervous. I play an instrument for a little bit and I think I do pretty well considering all the cheers coming from the crowd below. The spotlight shines upon me and then, everyone starts to cheer at the top of their lungs. I get a little bit fidgety and nervous but I keep going. The band leader steps towards me, holding the same instrument that was in my hands. He starts to play a tune and I work out that he’s challenging me. I try playing the same sound as him, but it doesn’t work that well. I play another tune and the

crowd starts shouting that I made a better tune than the leader. The band leader comes over to me and says that I did really well and that the crowd loved me. I was so proud of myself for not freaking out that much. He congratulated me and handed me an envelope with 4,000 Chibo placed within! I’m so happy that I practically skip to the table. I hand the Chibos to Miranda and she flashes a bright smile in my direction.

Everyone comes back from their work stations and Roman walks over to us. He’s holding a notepad, which I assume, holds the calculations for the Slip Space Drive. He counts the Chibo and tells Miranda something that I can’t make out. Miranda turns towards us and tells us that we still don’t have enough Chibos to build the Drive.

I make my way towards the card table. I sit down and look at my cards. They’re pretty decent cards. I put down four hundred Chibos. I play against the shady man and he seems pretty frustrated. I play for a little while longer and I end up walking away with six hundred Chibos instead of four hundred. Therefore, I’ve won about two hundred Chibos more. I won against the shady man and he seemed pretty impressed, yet he was looking pretty mad. I’m pretty happy with myself and how much I managed to earn.

I sit back down at the table and look around once more. I replay all the recent events and think I imagine the future. My mother suddenly comes into mind and I imagine what she’s doing right now. For all I know, she could have found a new job or something. I was worried about her but I know that she’s a strong person. She always has the solution to everything and anything. No matter if it was hard or easy.

Suddenly, I hear a male voice scream “ Let's get out of here!”. I snap out of my thoughts and look around to see what was going on. I realize that the person who screamed was the shady man that I had played cards with. I see that all the other members are running towards the door so I do the same. We get to the door...

Tirou When the person was whispering, we decided to capture him. We found out his name was Algar, who turns out to be a Turian(I finally remembered the third species). He said “How dare you to mess with me,” and stuff related to that. But after that, we easily capture him. After capturing him, I didn’t pay attention to him, and I don’t know what happened to him anyway. I remembered, he offered a tour that we declined. As we explore, Benjamin almost got lost in the fog on the dusty asteroid. We finally explored and saw a building. There was a sign there, and it said “Fools End”. As we entered the building, we noticed the building was rather nice, with only some species having fun, dancing, and gambling, of course. Jonathan thought it was all fake, especially when he saw a Drakarian, who wasn’t hostile though. He was wearing a monocle for some reason. We managed to calm him down, so we would not kill an enjoyable experience for others, or start a fight we might be wrecked on. The structure wasn’t tall, like only one story tall, but incredibly long. As we entered the building, we noticed there was like, 400 people there. There were people on the dance floor, people cooking, and people playing cards and gambling. As we sit down at the table to admire the place, Miranda's cousin called Roman approached the table. As he greets us, we ask if he can help us with our slipspace drive problem. He said we were at the perfect place. He agreed to install the slipspace drive, for a payment. We said the space federation could pay Roman, but he said that was worthless to him. They use Cheebo as currency. All the Turians, (mostly)Asaris, (second-most), and the occasional human would all use Cheebo. By the way, Roman was Turian. Roman asked payment of 16k Cheebo to install the slipspace drive, and 30k to install upgrades and the slipspace drive.

There were multiple ways to earn, borrowing from Gleebo, which was the Drakarian smelling a tube and thinking fresh meat for some reason. We asked how we can get cash, we all made up these ideas for earning Cheebo. We could borrow, work for the chef, we can steal, we can gamble with cards, but we need money. We can fight in the pit where you fight for Cheebo, and finally, we can perform on the stage. All of us decided to work in the kitchen, except for Rassie, who performed on the stage. Irn chef gave us instructions and we begin to work. My soup is awful for everybody, but I like soup and I get the soup as my present. Benjamin does great and Irn chef presented him with 1000 Cheebo. Jessica does fine getting 500 Cheebo. Jonathan Y. also succeeds with 1000 Cheebo.

Jonathan D. and Chenru both got 500 Cheebo. We counted it together and got 3k Cheebo.

Meanwhile, Rassie performed on the stage. Rassie performs well. She lost the music one time but always managed to catch up. The audience also liked the performance a lot. Rassie earned 4k Cheebo all by herself. On the second round of earning money, I went to gamble with cards, because I’m very smart. So did a lot of other people. Benjamin went to the fighting pit. Jessica went stealing.

She managed to get 1k from stealing from two big people's pockets. I did quite well but didn’t take big risks. I could have earned more money, but I didn’t take any risks. I ended up risking 2k for 4k and succeeded. Jonathan D. and Razzie risked 4k and got a mixed success of 6k back. Jonathan told me that they earned more money than me, but he didn’t do any math. Irene asks very nicely, and manage to get 1k Cheebo off of somebody. They were betting a large amount of Cheebo on the fighting pit, so if Benjamin, he will agree to pay 10k Cheebo. Benjamin thought about cheating, but

he was afraid to be discovered, so he didn’t. An old human named Greg was the first to fight with Ben. Ben easily defeated Greg, with only one scar from Greg. Ben won 1k Cheebo. The next person to fight against came and punched Ben hard. Fast to react, Ben launched two massive punches to him, defeating him. Ben was exhausted then, and took a break and stopped fighting. He won a 2k Cheebo. He could have continued to the next round risking 6k Cheebo, to win 18k Cheebo, but the fight will be extremely difficult. When he was back, he went to the table with all of us, and the person who agreed with owing us 10k and gave us his 1% of earnings. We went to find Gertrude and Gideon, and we discovered she spent 3k Cheebo. After that, everything happened in a flash. I remember a weapon aimed at us, and the shady human helping us out. >> To be continued

CHAPTER FIVE The Hunt on Roman's dock

Jessica

The Hunt on Roman’s Dock Annabeth and her group are chased by Turian’s and she has no idea why she’s chased. All she remember’s is the shady man yelling “ RUN!!!” and they started running with Turian’s chasing them and firing all sorts of weapons at them. Jonathan Y is the first one to start attacking. He throws his stungranade at Benjamin hoping he can catch it. Sadly, he did not. But he picks up the stungranade of the ground and starts attacking the Turian’s. Annabeth runs with the group and shouts “ Run this way” They turn right and find themselves in front of a pile of boulders. The boulders are between them and the Enterprise which seems to be a big problem. Jonathan D suddenly remembers that gravity is very low here so he picks up the boulders and throws them toward the Turian’s. While he throws the boulder’s, one of them goes toward Benjamin. Benjamin jumps over the boulder and finds himself in the Turian’s group.

The Turian’s didn't seem to notice that Benjamin is in the wrong group and yells to him “Come on, fight” Benjamin’s very confused and terrified but he runs along with the Turian’s. While everywones at it, Rassie encourages everyone to keep on running. Irene hides behind a bunch of boulders. Benjamin finally escapes from the Turian’s. In front of the ship are many people doing repairs to the Enterprise.

Miranda screams at them “Get in the ship, there's a bunch of Turian’s chasing us. The people scramble on the ship to get ready for takeoff. The crew hops on the ship. Gertrude notices Irene is missing. So she tries to contact Irene(who's still hiding behind the boulders)but there's too much sound so Irene couldn't hear much. But she could see that the ship was getting ready for takeoff. Irene runs out of her hiding spot but Gideon doesn't see her. Gideon doesn't but the Turian’s do. They attack Irene so she attack’s back. Then she jumps towards the ship. Gideon sees that and turns the ship to catch Irene. Everyone hits the wall because the sip gets flipped upside down. Gideon scoops Irene up. The Karma is already up in the sky.

The pillar of Autumn is left on the asteroid. As they cruise through space and they see a planet? Asteroid?

Whatever! I’ll just name it “the thing” Well the thing ahead looks like a cup and the ship is at the bottom

of the cup. They land on the thing and get off of the ship. An Asari man is on the thing greeting them.

They discover that it is Roman. Roman says “Do you have your chibow?” The crew hand over the chibow to Roman. Roman looked greedily at the chibow and said “Ah! Well the tools are over(as he points to a pile of tools)you can go fix it.” The crew gave each other dismayed looks because they thought they didn't know that they had to repair the ship. But they had no other choice so that had to fix it. The shady man and Algar stayed on the ship and so did many others. Benjamin went to rest with Roman. The scientist repared the space drive with Annabeth leading the scientists. While the scientists fixed the space drive the engineers did their jobs though Annabeth had no idea of what their job was. When everyone finished up Roman took them to a room that greatly resembled a dining room with comfy chairs and robot servants.

Roman asked what the group wanted to eat. Annabeth ate pizza(but it wasn’t as good pizza as the pizza as the pizza at her home planet). Benjamin chose to eat spicy things. Jonathan Y asked for a hamburger without poison(the robots seem to spend less time on his hamburger). Jonathan D had sushi, Chanru decided to have mac & cheese and Rassie ate(more drinking than eating, I think)soup. As everyone relaxes. They talk and eat. Roman says that Annabeth and her crew can leave. Roman proposes a toast. A few people accepted the toast though they didn’t actually drink it(which looked kind of obvious). The rest of the people refused the toast. Then the shady man came into the dining room. With his hand on his weapon. Annabeth was halfway eating her pizza crust then freezed. Jonathan D hides under the table(which should have looked weird in Roman’s opinion). Rassie coughs and looks at Miranda then shoots a look at the shady man. Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news first? Ok, the good news first : Miranda saw the shady man. The bad news : Roman saw the shady man too. The shady man took out his weapon but Roman pressed a button. Than the mist? The dust? Well something blocked everyone’s view. And then the two screams of Roman and the shady man. The whole team and the shady man is blasted in the hallways. The shady man had a big gash across his face. I think Jonathan Y was a bit too angry so he fired at the shady man. The shady man doges the shot. But then, Benjamin throws his

sword at the shady man. But Benjamin’s reflexes wasn't fast enough because he got shot by the shady man. While that happend Annabeth saw a bright bluish blood. The blood of a drakarion, Annabeth remembered because in the cocoon she saw the drakarion blood. They split up into 3 groups to look for Roman. Benjamen(leader), Tiruo, Chanru and Irene are the first team. Annabeth(leader), Gideon, Rassie and Jonathan D are group two. And group three is just Jonathan Y. Benjamin’s team followed the blood marks. Jonathan Y got lost. Annabeth’s team kind of wandered around looking for Roman. But Gideon said he knew the way although he walked us around in circles, but they ended up finding themselves in the same dining room they ate in. Jonathan Y finds the shady man so he is not lost anymore. He leaned against the wall to rest but suddenly the wall disappeared and it was replaced by an opened door. Jonathan Y stumbled. By that time the two other groups and Miranda had arrived at the scene. Jonathan Y felt a pair of hands grab him inside the door. Then gas poured out of the door. Then two identical Jonathan Y’s came out of the door. The group tries to figure out which one is the real Jonathan Y. But there was not a lie from what they answered. But then Miranda said “Don’t you notice that one of the Jonathan sound’s like Roman and the other Jonathan Y sounded like Jonathan Y. The not weird voice Jonathan Y took out his blaster but it was too late because the Roman-weird-voice Jonathan Y hit the not weird voice Jonathan Y in the chest.

We approach the ships as a bunch of turians are chasing us and my heart is racing as we run i’m freaked out,shocked and confused as to what is happening then suddenly (insert Jonathan yoa’s characters) drops his stun grenade trying to pass it to me but it ends up in a crater and I just go for it as I don’t think and run to the stun grenade and then i’m surrounded so I throw the grenade and run but the others and the Turians are in front of me so i’m just chasing after the rest of the crew trying to get back to them and get in the ship but hen a boulder comes out of nowhere and I just jump as a response not looking at where i'd land I end up in the middle of the turians and they just continue as i’m in shock that they didn’t notice i’m a asari but i’m also just panicking so hard that I just follow and not say a word as we run and the they start shooting and i’m even more scared now that they might notice I don’t have a blaster and shoot me and i’m just like a stick just running along as fast as possible just scared for my life. As I run I finally see the ship and make a break for it pull out my sword and just cut all of them off and run towards the ship and jump in. As we start going we see (insert Irene’s character name) and we go upside and i’m just floating and slam into the ceiling and then hit the back of the ship because of low gravity and we just go to the shipyard as i’m still trying to process everything and we land at the shipyard safely as we get off and roman tells us the instructions to making one and i’m the security so he tells me to come and chill with him but i’m suspicious of him and just stay with the crew to help about carrying everything after that we go and eat and I just want something to boost my heat and confidence after the shady man comes in and then there's tons of smoke and we run out to the hall way to see the shady man and we thought he was a bad guy so we attacked him but then he explains that Roman is actually a drakarian and a fake as for the drakarian blood on the wall and we go to find now even more scared knowing that he can turn into others i’m now realising that he wanted to transform into me and kill me when no ones around and then kill the others and that it was good that I didn’t leave the crew and we all cross paths and (insert Jonathan yoa’s characters name) was then grabbed by two large hands and comes out are two (insert Jonathan Yoa’s characters name) that are identical.

Benjamin Chen/Heilosis

Tirou Suddenly we were running, with the shady guy. I still don’t know what he is called, so I’ll stick to shady guys. As we were running, we also noticed the shady guy occasionally shooting blindly behind, attempting to strike lucky. Jonathan Y. remembered he brought a stun grenade just like me, but he was afraid to throw it because he had a lower chance of hitting than others. Ben had the best combat skills, so I suggested passing the grenade to Ben. Jonathan Y. missed badly, and the grenade was in a crater, a few yards from us. Ben decided to run for the grenade but was approached by two enemy guys. So he threw the stun grenade, stunning the two enemies. As he ran back, I decided to shoot the laser gun I bought just in case and got a mixed success. I shot him but got a shot in return, and I took my first harm. It was only a scrape, but I know many scraps would be fatal. There was a bolder coming towards Ben, but luckily, due to the low gravity, Ben jumped over it. Then the Turian dudes take Ben, but somehow, Ben acted to be very nice and on their team, and went with the Turians confused. Irene decides to hide behind a boulder, barely making it, making the Turians pass Irene. The rest of us got on the ship safely, but we could not see or communicate with Ben or Irene in any way. Suddenly, we see Ben, who gained the Turians' trust. He put his hand on his sword and slashed the Turians, and went back to the ship. Irene was still out there, still without contact. Irene quickly decides to run out and run for the ship. Then suddenly Gertrude gained contact and told Irene to jump, so she would land in the spaceship. As Irene neared, the Turians spotted Irene rushing to attack. Irene does a hard shove and pushes the Turians aside and jumps.

Gideon drove the ship, and did a corkscrew in the air, and precisely landed Irene in the ship, without a scratch. As we drove to Romans shipyard, we noticed the shady guy was on the ship, also Algar, which our crew let in, because he was so charming. As we circled the asteroid, we saw a big crater, which almost made the asteroid look like a cup. It was Roman's shipyard. We hand Roman the Cheebo and Roman provides us the necessary parts of the slipspace drive. Roman didn’t help us build though. The scientists built well, and we did ok. Benjamin had nothing to do so he headed to Romans cozy room. Ben also scouted around Roman's place, in case evil was lurking there. When all the stuff was put together, it seemed pretty reliable. Roman tells us not to fire our rocket ship now, because there is most likely a Drakarian patrol, so he lets us have dinner at his house. Ben eats anything spicy, Jesicca doesn't know what to eat, so I eat a baked baked potato. Jonathan Y. D. eats sushi. Jessica decides again and eats a pizza. When we were finished with the food, I was satisfied with my fat potato. But Jesica was not pleased with her pizza and mentioned to Roman it had a lot of cheese. After the meal, Roman proposes a toast. I don’t like alcohol, so I declined the offer. Some people also decline, and some don’t want to hurt Roman's feelings, so they fake drink. Suddenly the shady man comes, and everybody looks at the shady man. Suddenly, the shady man takes his gun(most likely a federation revolver) and shot at Roman. Roman took out his weapon and fired too. Jonathan Y. small Branly shot at the shady man, assuming the person who started the fight was evil. The shady man also shot back at Jonathan Y. doing massive damage to Jonathan Y. After a short gunfight, Roman escaped in the hallways of his house, leaving a trail of bright bluish-green blood. The shady man told us he was a Drakarian and earning our trust so he can ambush us. We

talk a bit and plan to split into two groups, leaving Jonathan Y. chasing Roman. In Irene’s group, they handled it well, using technology to track Roman down. We lost where Jonathan Y. was so I assumed he was lost. We are going just fine. Jonathan Y. eventually finds his way to Irene's group, but the shady man seems always to be pointing a gun at Jonathan Y. and being careful. As we group up, Jonathan Y, Jonathan Y. was leaning on the wall. Suddenly the wall disappeared and Jonathan and a guy (probably Roman) looked exactly like Jonathan was there. As we figure out who is who, Jonathan and Jonathan Roman attacked others, and both fainted and are near death. >> To be continued

The Hunt on Roman’s Deck Irene Irene was scared about what was going to happen when the odd turians were going to catch up to her and her friends. While almost all of her friends were trying to run away from the turians, Irene decided to try to hide from them until they were all gone. Thankfully Irene found an amazing spot to hide behind the big iron boulders. She hid there and saw the turians run past her. But then, she noticed that she had made a big mistake. She saw the ship begin to rise and get ready to take off. Soon the ship took off and she knew that nobody had seen her hiding. Irene jumped out of her hiding spot and thankfully Gertrude saw her. She gave Irene clear instructions on how to get on the ship. Irene leaped upwards and made it safely on the ship. A few moments later, the ship was brought to Roman’s deck for upgrades. Irene was expecting Roman to help upgrade the ship for them but he just provided them with materials. Everyone on the crew began to work on upgrading the ship. Irene helped upgrade the engine for the most part. When everyone was done, they went into Roman’s Deck for dinner. For dinner Irene asked for some french fries since she wasn’t really hungry that evening. Soon after dinner Roman Held up a glass and proposed a toast except Irene didn’t drink the drink that was provided. Roman felt quite offended. Seconds later, The doors of the dining room burst open and standing there was the strange man who was at Fool’s End. He pulled out his weapon and then the room filled up with smoke. Irene quickly tried to find an exit to try to escape the room. When she escaped she was coughing hysterically. Then Irene saw the strange man come out of the room. One of her friends asked the man why he tried to hurt Roman. He said that Roman was actually a dracarian that can change into different people. This was shocking news to Irene since she would have never guessed. Soon after the news the group decided to split up and hunt down Roman. Irene was in a group with two other people. She led the group to find Roman with one of her engineering tools. A few moments after the beginning of the hunting, All three groups came upon a door. It opened and something grabbed one of Irene’s friends in. Then, two of the same people walked out. The group needed to figure out which one was the real friend or else they might accidentally kill the wrong person.

Jonathan D The Hunt on Roman’s dock My character was dinning with his teammates and Roman, a « friend », but nobody drinked Roman’s drink, because everyone didn’t trust him. Once, the shady man walked inside the room and was very, like jealous, confused and mad to see Roman here.

Then, he took out his weapon and wanted to attack. My character bent down to hide from the shady man’s view. One of his teammates ran because he got shot 3 times. We asked the shady man why he was trying to attack Roman and he replied : ‘Roman…Roman…Roman is…Roman is a Drakarian.’ Everybody got confused and it ended here, I think…

We discovered that the shady man’s name was Jacob Keys and was the brother of Captain James Keys, a human, a legendary ship driver.

Rassie-

I sprint towards the ship. When I look back, I see a group of Turian beings that are chasing us.

The shady man is in the lead and we follow him, running as fast as we can. We attempt to fire at the Turians in leather jackets. I fire over my shoulders, trying my best to aim well. Someone grows a stun grenade at the Turians, which I assume is one of my crew mates.

As I keep on running towards the ship, I see a few boulders blocking my view of the ship. I start to panic as I look around to seek a way of escaping the group of Turians. As I search around, I realize that one of my crew mates is running with the group of large Turians. I start to run towards the ship once again and scream into the radio. As I look at the ship, I see two humans, an Asari and a Turian, that I assume is Algar, are playing cards. We all sprint and then jump onto the ship for the sake of our lives. The people that were playing cards were seconds behind us, running into the ship. I see the shady man tumble inside after us. I look out the door and see that the crew member that had been disguised as one of the Turians had started fighting them. After fighting them off, he tumbled into the ship.

I observe my surroundings and discover that one of the girls in the group was missing. I look outside and I can’t see her. The ship started hovering over the ground. I searched the grounds for the missing girl. There was still no sign of her. Suddenly, the ship turned sideways and then upside down. Next thing I know, the missing member came tumbling into the ship.

The ship kept on moving as I looked out the window. We were moving towards this huge shipyard, which I assume is Roman’s shipyard. We start to land on the paved grounds and I look around. I see the Karma still in the air, hovering above the pavement. The escape pods from the Pillar of Autumn have been emptied and now the members that were inside have moved to our ship. The escape pods had been left behind.

I observe my surroundings and see that there was a massive crater on the other side of the asteroid. Turns out that we were on the bottom of the rock. The crater was like a cup. There

were green lights shining everywhere. The ship was held onto the ground by a few magnetic locks.

We made our way off the ship and I looked around the place. There was an Asari man with a worker’s vest that had no sleeves that walked over to us. He gave us the materials and a lab to work in but he didn’t help us with the construction at all.

We set off to work and soon enough, we managed to complete the task and build a Slip Space Drive that was pretty decent. At first, we had our troubles but with the guidance of one of my smart lab mates, we built the Drive and made it work. We were all exhausted and starving in the end so we went to find the rest of the group and tell them that we had managed to build the Drive. I had beads of sweat dripping everywhere. My hair was put in a messy bun and my clothes were stuck on my skin.

I got myself cleaned up before we were led to a humongous dining room with a long table and a large amount of chairs. There were robot helpers scurrying about and making the food. On the dining table, I saw pizza, hamburgers, tacos, baked potatoes, sushi, macaroni and cheese, soup, etc… There was beautiful classical music in the background and lots of people were engaging themselves in conversations.

I poured myself a bowl of soup, but I didn’t touch it. I thought that the aroma of the food in the room smelled delicious but I didn’t trust this man enough to eat the food. My mother had taught me that I shouldn’t eat what a stranger offered me. I couldn’t think of another word for Roman than stranger because that was basically what he was to me.

After most people finished their meal, Roman raised his glass and proposed a toast. I raised my glass and looked around. Only one other member had raised their glass. There was an awkward silence around us and I put the glass to my mouth, pretending I was drinking whatever was in

the glass. Roman seems hurt for a second and then before he can say anything, the door opens and the shady man steps out.

It seems as if time has frozen. I observe the shady man’s every movement. I see that he had put his hand to his belt, reaching for his weapon. That was where he had reached when he took out the weapon last time. I send a frantic glance towards Miranda and I see two other crew mates do the same. One of them had started ducking underneath the table when there was an explosion. Before I could comprehend the situation, the room was filled with smoke. I gagged and coughed as the smoke went into my throat.I couldn’t see very well but I saw the shady man. He had an enormous gash on his shoulder. It looked extremely painful.

As the smoke started to clear a little bit more, I saw a blueish greenish blood. Drakarian blood. I had seen it in the cocoon when we were attacked. I finally understood… Roman was a Drakarian! We set off to hunt down Roman.

We all split into groups to try and make it easier to search for the Drakarian that was on the loose. Gideon told us that he knew where Roman had headed. I was cautious at first but then followed the group, We followed him and just as we thought that we were lost, we ended up back where we had started. The dining room. I glare daggers at Gideon as he apologizes to us. I let the subject drop as I see the shady man. We follow him and end up at the same location as the others that went to search for Roman.

One of my crew mates leaned onto a wall and tumbled down what I think is a secret passage of some kind. In a second, he’s nowhere to be seen. The wall wasn’t there anymore. There was smoke releasing itself from the secret room. We all waited anxiously for something to happen.

It had been a few minutes and two identical people came tumbling out of the hole in the wall.

They look exactly the same. They looked even more similar than twins could look. We started

throwing questions at them. Their voices were different from each other and I was sure that the one that had the weird, adult voice was Roman.

Before anyone knew what was happening, one of the Jonathans blasts the other one. Both of them take quite a lot of damage. The Jonathan, which I assume is the real one, is near death. He had cuts of all sorts everywhere, deep, long, small, big, etc… We need to get him to a hospital!

The Hunt On Roman’s Dock By Jonathan Yao Now we ran out of Fool’s End with a bunch of Turians chasing us. I had my stun grenade so I tried to throw it to Benjamin because he had +1 on cool and I had -1 on cool. But when I threw it I failed it went into a crater. So Benjamin ran to the crater and got the stun grenade but then some of the Turians chasing us surrounded him in the crater. Benjamin threw the stun grenade and ran through the patch of Turians who were stunned and he had 6 hearts remaining. Then Benjamin realized he was on the wrong side of the group the Turians were in front of him. So Benjamin caught up with the Turians and pretended that he was against our group. Then there was a bunch of rocks in front of our group slowing our group down. But then Jonathan D remembered that this Asteroid had not a lot of gravity so he lifted the rocks and we were back on our way to our ship. But I guess Irene was a bit freaked out because there were so many Turians behind us so she decided to go to a place and hide. She luckily found a nice spot and hid there but before that she got shot once but the Turians ran past her. I was a bit happy because I didn’t get shot at by those nasty Turians. So we got to our ship and there we started waving to them and letting them know we were being chased and they needed to quickly get back to the ship. There I was really surprised because some people from our crew let Algar out of the Brig and were playing cards with them. Luckily Algar was still wearing handcuffs. But they quickly packed up and went back on to the ship. Algar was like:No come on I was about to win this game. But I didn’t really care because if we didn’t quickly pack up, the Turians might kill us. So the crew packed up and went aboard leaving the Pillar of Autumn escape pods behind. We had 2 problems. 1 Benjamin was with a group of blood thirsty Turians and 2 Irene was still hiding. So Benjamin decided to use his sword and chop the Turians. At first the Turians looked surprised and Benjamin ran away and because the gravity wasn’t that strong he jumped onto our ship, meanwhile Irene Gertrude had to contact her so she would know what to do. Irene had to jump into the air because the gravity wasn’t too strong Gideon could pick her up. So that is what exactly happened and we got on our ways back to the Roman’s shipyard. Then once we got to Roman’s shipyard he said. Ah my friends you made it, uh do you have the Chibou so we gave him the Chibou and he said glad to do business with you the pieces are here. Then we realized he wasn’t going to install the slip space drive and the weapons we had to. So the scientists figured out how to assemble the slip space drive and the weapons while the Engineers assembled and installed everything. Then Roman told us there were Drakarian ships nearby and that he would let us stay, and he wanted to know what our favourite food was. I chose non-poisoned food, but at the end I made another request saying a non-poisoned hamburger you then see the robots who were making my food put less effort into my food. Either that meant all the food was poisoned or they didn’t want to put too much effort in my food because I requested too much. Roman asked us to toast but no one toasted, Rassie and Chanru tried to toast by putting the glass to their lips but it was obvious they were faking. Then the Shady man came in and pulled out his weapon and

tried to blast Roman, but Roman was quick and pressed this switch and was gone Oh no I thought the room is filling with smoke. As a result everyone piled out. Why did the Shady man do that? Everything was perfectly fine. Does he have to be the party pooper? I pulled out my blaster and started charging it. But the Shady man saw what I was doing and blasted me dealing 2 hearts. I exchanged fire and asked Benjamin for help. Benjamin threw his sword and got blasted so he had 3 hearts. I blasted the Shady man and he blasted me. Making me have the same number of hearts as Benjamin. I then thought maybe I should run back to the ship and get healed.

But then I started running and got lost. Suddenly Jessica saw Drakarian blood on the wall. We asked the Shady man what was that for. He said that Roman wasn’t an Asari man. He was a Drakarian, the Shady man explained that some Drakarians are borned with a special ability to disguise themselves as someone you know. So the remaining crew split up into 2 groups and tried to search for Roman. After that the best thing happened was my team found me!! But then there was an open door but a pair of hands grabbed me into that room. There I saw myself then I came out of the room and there were 2 Jonathan Yao’s. The crew started asking us questions.

Like what about their blood maybe we could cut them. I would’ve normally agreed to that if it weren’t for my health. Jessica even suggested kicking me in the guts!!! What would that accomplish except for hurting me. Then I got tired of this and got ready to blast the other Jonathan Yao’s head off. When I started charging my weapon the other Jonathan Yao hit me and now I have 0 hearts now there is a chance I can die.

CHAPTER SIX Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ

Jessica

Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ Oh, joy! Jonathan Y’s dying. On the happy note Roman is unconscious on the floor. Slowly, Roman turns from an Asari man to a Drakarian man. Anabeth starts healing Jonathan Y. She takes out a box and connects it to his head by a wire. Electricity goes through the wire to Jonathan Y’s head. Roman is starting awake. The crew guards him in case he starts to attack. They walk aboard the ship. Benjamin asks Roman “Why did the Turians chase us?” Roman answered “Oh those Turian’s? The shady man borrowed too much chibow from Libow (the enormous drakarian at Fool’s End) and he can’t pay back cause he gambled all of his money.” Meanwhile Miranda is just sitting there too abashed to admit that she got tricked by Roman thinking that he was actually her cousin (In Annabth’s opinion she looks abashed but Mirnda won’t admit it). Algar the amazing hides in the storage closet. We open the door and Algar screams “How did the gunfight go?” They look in Roman’s pocket’s and find something. They discover that this ‘thing can conceal anything into something you want to transform into. This thing made Roman the Drakarian look like Miranda’s cousin. They decide to go save Captain Keys but the Drakarian’s have a too big army. The shady man says to the crew “ Why don’t we attach this thing to the ship so it might look like a Drakarian ship. Miranda tells everyone “Captain Keys is on the ship” “But he could be the bait so that we could be captured by the Drakarian’s.” argues Annabeth. Suddenly the shady man seems very interested in the conversation. He asks “How long was the Captain Keys on the cocon?” Tiruo asks back “Why do you care?” “I’m concerned about my little baby brother” answers the shady man. Silence. They discover that the shady man’s real name is Jacob Keys. He is Captain Keys' brother. A long time ago he worked at the federation but one day he suddenly disappeared. He could have been a commander if he hadn’t deseppeared. Jacob staggers to the controls while saying “You are not leaving my little brother on that ship” So they decide to save Captain Keys. Firt, they needed to be in good shape to save the captain so they started healing the hurt and injured. Rassie heals Jacob with success. Chanru heals Benjamin

Jonathan D heals Jonathan Y successfully. Annabeth heals Irene. The engineers put the thing they found from Roman to disguise the ship like a Drakarian vessel and to hide the crew to look like Drakarian’s.

Gideon and Jacob land perfectly on the Drakarian’s planet. Gertrude contacts the Drakarian (though Annabeth has no idea what she’s saying to them). They arrive near the cocoon and see an amazing sight.

The cocoon has ropish hands that repair the ship by themselves. There are a lot of Drakarian’s outside of the cocoon. They get to decide to go in the cocoon or not and if they want to be in disguise as a Drakarian or not. Benjamin go’s and ngo's in disguise. Annabeth decides to check it out too and be in disguise. So does Jonathan Y, Tiruo, Jonathan D, Irene and Rassie. Jacob and Chenru go too but with the look of themselves. Jacob and Chenru are in chains so that they look like prisoners. Jonathan D and Irene walk unlike a Drakarian and are too nice to the prisoners. Rassie notices that the Drakarian’s are starting to give weird looks because of them and says “smarten up” Jonathan D and Irene notices that and starts to act more like a Drakarian’s while the Drakarian’s laugh. Rassie doesn’t want to be the leader but somehow she is the leader. They go deeper in the cocoon and the Drakarian’s starts to give weird looks at the prisoner's cause they seem to be parading around with prisoners looking for the prisoner's cell. Then a hand from the wall grabs Jonathan D. And the person is ready to fire. Annabrth is the first to notice and warns the rest of the crew. But they were too late cause it fired Jonathan D right in the face. Jonathan D asks Tiruo for help. Annabeth is frozen on spot. The person that fired at Jonthan D fires at Annabeth, it scrapes past Annabeth’s shoulder. The person says “Did I hit a human?” Jonathan Y answers “Yes” Annabeth heals Jonathan D. They notice that the person that fired at the group was Captain Keys. He explains that he is the only one that wasn’t catched. He hides in walls. Jacob and Captain hugs. They go to the door of the prisoners with the captain leading the way. The door is opaque, scaly and purple. They discover a keyboard in Drakarian language. It says Username : Password :

After a long time of figuring out the words. They finally get to the step of figuring out the password and username. They discover the username and password Username : strongcode Password : techsupport The door opens to reveal a big room full of people. There are a few crew members they know inside the room. The people looked exhausted and not fed for a long time. When they were looking around they found someone they least expected to bethere : Miranda. They ask “What are you doing here? You're supposed to be on the Enterprise.” Miranda answers “I’ve been here for two days.” Then they finally discover that the Miranda on the ship is a Drakarian in disguise of Miranda. Captain Keys tells them in a hurry “You’d better go check out what’s up on your ship

Benjamin As we find a device in the drakarians pocket we ask him some questions after we decide to go to the cocoon and we decide to disguise as drakarians and as we go through we realise we are not that far from are ship since we were still drakarians even though we went and walked for a long time so we must have turned a lot and then (insert jonathan ys character name) is pulled to the darkness and we see Captain keys in front of us shoot (insert Jonathan ys character name) and then his brother tells him to stop and he just looks at us just dead silent and he says “I just shot a Human didn’t I and we just nod as Heilosis is terrified as we he just saw and the others as well. we then come to a door and we start to decode it and we get in and then we see members from the pillar of autumn and we are confused as we see Miranda?, and she tells us that apparently back in the cocoon he went through those walls and a drakarian had turned another drakarian into Miranda and that the one at our ship was the drakarian and Heilosis is just processing this and says slowly “ Wait oh- no” because that meant that we were already being ambushed or the ship is now no longer at that the drakarian is trying to take over the ship.

Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ Irene

Irene wasn’t sure about sneaking onboard the Cocoon. Even though she was unsure, Irene went on anyway. The plan was to dress up like drakarians like Romen dressed up as Miranda’s cousin. When the ship got close to the Cocoon, everyone was ready. Most of Irene’s friends including her dressed up as drakarians, and two other crew members dressed up as prisoners. Slowly one by one everyone got off the ship in their disguises. When Irene got off she noticed all the drakarians looking at her strangely. At that moment Irene knew she was doing something wrong.

After that, she heard a crew member send a message to her through Irene’s mind. It told her what she was doing wrong. Irene quickly fixed herself and moved on. When the crew was in the Cocoon trying to find the prison, they came across two hallways. Just when they were deciding where to go, a hand grabbed a member through one of the hallways. Irene was stunned. The crew quickly ran through the hallway where the member was grabbed. And to their surprise, they saw captain James Keith. He was about to blast one of Irene’s friends. Irene started to get super nervous so she just stayed away from the captain. After that, Irene realised that she was still a drakarian and captain James Keith didn’t know about their plan. Soon, everyone let him know about the plan. Captain James Keith then realized that he blasted a crew member. Next, everyone continued to find the prison. Soon after they found it, everyone realised that you need a password to open the doors. After a lot of guessing, The doors finally peeled open like all the doors in the Cocoon. Irene looked around and saw Miranda in one of the cells. Irene was confused since Miranda was on the ship with her. After she asked Miranda in the cell. She realised the one on the ship was a drakarian.

Jonathan D Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ My character snuck in the Cocoon by “transforming himself” and his teammates. He got past the Drakarian security check. Walking, we saw Captain Keys, as we talked a little bit. Then, we were at an enormous “door” and we’ve got to solve puzzles, that were the username and the password of the prison cell of the Drakarians.

Finally, the username was “techsupport” and the password was “strongcode”. We entered the prison cell opened and we saw Drakarian guards. At a place, we saw someone familiar to one we’ve met... It was ____________(I forgot how to spell, but it was [marenda].

Rassie_ We ran towards the ship. We all sat around and forced Roman to talk. We threatened him and soon received some information. He said that the shady man had lost lots of Gleebo’s money, or as they call it, Chibos. Whilst, the shady man had tried to escape with our help, gaining the protection he needed from our group when we were escaping from Fool’s End.

We all went to go search for Algar because since we came back, he was nowhere to be found. We split into groups and searched the whole ship a few times. We looked in a storage locker and found him curled in a ball, hiding from everyone. He jumped up, startled, and started explaining immediately. He said that he got scared from the shooting and went in hiding for the sake of his dear life.

We made our way towards the control room, talking about our plan to stop the Drakarians. We had beaten one ship, when there could be millions more out there. We were three species against one species. That was a big difference, and yet, the Drakarians still managed to beat us in every single conflict that involved them. They were stronger than three species combined.

As we arrived at the control room, we searched Roman from head to toe. We found a strange object or device. The engineers managed to figure out that this device was the cloaking device. You could use it to transform any place to something else or you could turn your physical appearance to someone else’s look.

The shady man made a suggestion. He said that we could disguise ourselves as Drakarians and break into the cocoon to save Captain Keyes. We could also disguise the ship and make it appear as a Drakarian ship. We started talking about Captain Keyes and

the shady man became extremely interested in the subject. He then said that he was just checking on his brother… His brother! The shady man is Jacob Keyes! I had heard about him. He was one of the best pilots to ever fly. He had disappeared one day.

I attempted to heal Jacob. At the beginning, it went well but as I neared the end of the prosedure, he started fussing and moving around. I had tried to make him stop moving but it was no use. Soon I got tires and gave up on trying to heal the rest. He was looking much better, but he wasn’t fully recovered.

The engineers started making us look like Drakarians. The ship started transforming into a large Drakarian ship. It looked so real that no one would even become suspicious. It was so convincing that when we landed, no one paid attention to our arrival.

I looked around and saw that the cocoon was being mended in a very disgusting kind of way. As we made our way out of the ship, I couldn’t help but realize how identical I looked as a Drakarian. I had pincers and I looked like a much bigger version of a bug. Me and the others looked extremely convincing, but very ugly at the same time.

Jacob and one of my other crew mates were walking in chains, acting like prisoners. We were dragging them along to make it look more convincing and real. I looked towards my other crew members and saw two of them were acting weirdly, causing many Drakarians to send strange looks towards us. I sent them a telepathic message saying ‘ smarten up’ and they immediately changed their posture, looking more like the Drakarians.

We kept on walking, and walking, and walking. Somehow, I was suddenly in the front of the line, leading the way. I guess they just started walking behind me for some reason. I

kept on leading the way. I didn’t know where everything was but I still managed. I think that it was weird that we were walking around the cocoon with prisoners by our side.

As we keep on moving, I realize that the deeper we go, it progressively becomes darker and darker. I saw that some people were staring at us, looking at us suspiciously. They keep on giving us weird stares and looks, even after glaring at them. I didn’t feel very comfortable as they were staring.

Suddenly, one of the crew members was taken into a deserted hallway. I heard someone make a sound and then I heard screaming. Above the crew member that had gotten taken, there was a yellow light and humongous, sharp claws that could squeeze the life out of you if you were caught in between them.

After waiting for a few seconds in fear and shock, Captain Keyes jumped out of the hiding spot. He was holding a Drakarian arm. He was about to attack us when Jacob and another one of my crew mates that didn’t use the cloaking device explained to him everything that happened. Captain Keyes was very happy to be reunited with his long lost brother and I believe that Jacob Keyes felt the same.

We all moved down the deserted hallway that Captain Keyes had me his appearance from.

I started sneezing non stop. I think I’m allergic to Drakarians because I couldn’t stop the sneezing. I don’t know if it’s the Drakarians or the cocoon’s material. I didn’t like this feeling very much because it was very annoying t9 keep on sneezing.

We made it to this purple thing that I don’t know what it is. It looked a little bit like a jellyfish in the darkness. I saw this keyboard that had letters on it. Captain Keyes started

typing in different things. There was a space saying ‘ username’ and another one that said ‘ password’

We worked for a long time. This was exactly like the human game ‘ hangman’ but without the lives. I heard a little bit of Drakarian movement around us. We stood there for what seemed like forever and finally got the username and password. We practically typed all the letters in the alphabet until we got the answer. The username was ‘ techsupport’ and the password was ‘ strongcode’

As we all entered, I looked around and saw some of the members from the Pillar of Autumn. They all looked exhausted and looked like they hadn’t slept in a long time. They also looked slimmer like they hadn’t been eating very well. We made our way down the hall and to my surprise, I saw Captain Miranda Reynolds sitting there, in chains.

We quickly ran to her and released the chains. She explained to us that she was captured for about two days and that there were Drakarians in the Enterprise. She said that she had witnessed the Drakarian turn her physical appearance to look exactly like herself.

We all turned towards Captain Keyes to make sure that he was himself. Not an imposter.

He took a needle and poked his arm, releasing red blood. He was himself. We needed to head back to our ship. We don’t know what the Drakarian will do when we’re not there.

We made our way back to the door to head to our ship...

Tirou Jonathan is dying, but I don’t think he is going to die, because our scientists are very talented. The Drakarian who pretended to be Jonathan was right beside him. Jessica comes up and takes out her medkit heals Jonathan very well, and he easily goes back to life, but still, with major injuries. Now that Jonathan is stabilized, we took the Drakarian who was pretending to be Roman. Jonathan said we should head back to Federation space, while I would like to learn more about the Drakarians, so if there is a fight, we would be more prepared, but for now, I would just like to know what ‘Roman’ the Drakarian is doing here. Many people in my crew agree with me. We went off the Drakarian Roman’s dock and we headed back to the ship. When we got back to the ship, we decided to do an interrogation to see what he was doing here. The Drakarian explained the chase was because back at fools end, the shady man lost a lot of Cheebo that he borrowed from Gleebo, and now the shady man would not pay the money back. Then we turned around to the shady man. “Why did you run away with us?” we asked. “Well, I had no weapons and I was by myself, and I thought I had better chances of survival with you guys,” he replied and shrugged. Miranda goes back to the Drakarian.

Some other people came too, sharing the thoughts that Miranda's real brother might be trapped by the Drakarian because the Drakarian has to see Roman know what he looked like. The Drakarian shrugged and said it was a lucky guess and the same with Miranda's brother's name, and he did not steal Miranda's brother. As we kept interrogating, we noticed a gadget in Drakarian's pocket. Irene determines this gadget was not a bomb, but a cloaking device. With the cloaking device, we could look like Drakarians, or a Turian, or a sandwich if we wanted to. We could also cloak the whole ship if we wanted to. Jonathan kept saying we should head back to federation space, but we calculated that it would take a couple of days to go back to Earth, or any federation planet. Then, we suddenly remember that Captain Keys was still on the cocoon ship, and we still have to save Captain Keys. We attacked the cloaking device on our ship, and it immediately looked like a Drakarian ship. As we were riding towards the cocoon, I wanted to know the shady guy's name, and when we talked about Captain Keyes, he agreed right away. I failed to integrate him, but he told me the answers anyway. Captain Keys was the shady man's brother, and the shady man was Jacob Keys, a legendary federation hero that disappeared one time. The shady man is a very good pilot and is pretty good at everything overall. He could even be the captain of the Pillar of Autumn, but he disappeared. After that extraordinary news, we noticed Jacob and the rest of us were badly wounded, so the scientists decided to heal everybody. When we arrived near the cocoon, we saw a formation. We joined the formation, as we noticed the formation was heading inside the ship. The other engineers examined the gadget, and they identified we can only be cloaked if we are a certain distance from our ship. When we safely got in the cocoon, we decided who would be going. Some people decide to go without cloaking as a Drakarian, but that means we can't have any real weapons because the Drakarians' weapons are grown in their hands. I decided to be cloaked because if I even had to fight, I’m not that strong. Most people also go cloaked. Chenru and Jacob Keys decided to go as prisoners because no Drakarian lets random federation people in their ship casually. The other Drakarians think that our group of Drakarians was being too nice to the prisoners, but Rassie sent a

message, apparently in Drakarian, to signal that we were not being nice to the prisoners at all. We almost got lost, but we managed to stay on track. Jonathan D. suddenly got clobbered in the head by a Drakarian. Then we heard a voice. It was James Keys' voice! I didn’t remember too much about J.D. getting clobbered in the head, but at last we found James Keys! Captain Keys lead us to a chamber, most likely a prison cell. There was a Drakarian cipher. I didn’t think it was a Drakarian cipher, I thought it was the Greek alphabet, but I just went along with it. James also showed us he had a Drakarian hand, as his weapon. He explained he used the hand to get in the chamber. We guessed the cipher many times until we got the username and password of the cipher.

Username: TechSupport Password: StrongCode We see the crew inside. The yell with happiness, but we told them that the Drakarians were out there, still with big fat ears. Then, they whispered “Yay,”. Then we moved forward in the chamber.

There was the crew from the Pillar of Autumn there. But we also noticed there was Miranda, chained up. “What are you doing here?” we asked. She said, “I have been captured for two days since we entered the cocoon to investigate. I also saw a Drakarian turn into me as I was chained.” Then I put all the info together. There was a possibility that the fake Roman was working with the fake Miranda to the stolen trust and ambush thing. We free everybody. I now couldn’t trust anyone, so I demanded Captain Keys do a blood test, in case he was Drakarain. Then we head back to the ship.

The End.

Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ By Jonathan Yao Once I had 0 hearts the awesome scientist Jessica healed me getting me to 3 hearts which wasn’t bad. I was really happy because I am healed and alive. After that went to capture Roman, on him we found this device which would allow him to transform into anything Then we started talking about the capture of Captain James Keys and if we should rescue him, all of a sudden the Shady man became interested in what we were talking about. And when we asked him why he was suddenly interested in this. The Shady man said I want to know what happened to my baby brother. Then he revealed that he was the legendary Federation hero Jacob Keys. Keys was going to become the Captain of The Pillar of Autumn but he disappeared and his little brother James became Captain. Then he said that the Turians weren’t chasing us. The Turians were actually chasing him. He borrowed some Chibou from Gleebo. As a result Gleebo sent those Turians after us. But the question that has been bothering me and makes me feel puzzled was. When I threw the bomb to Benjamin why did the Turians surround him in the crater. It feels as if I can trust no one, because the chase after us could’ve been an act. I felt like I could trust no one now.

When we got back we found Algar in a storage room I suggested that he might be scared because he must have heard about the gun firing outside, and he totally agreed with me. This is one thing I find annoying. Sometimes someone doesn’t know what to say so someone suggests something and that person goes like yeah yeah that is what I was going to say. So the Engineers started examining this device. We realized we could disguise our ship and disguise our people, there is a maximum distance our people can go without letting the enemy see who we truly are, and if we go beyond that distance then as I said before we are truly fully exposed. And go back to the cocoon to save Captain Keys. But I totally disagreed, because who knows if he is alive? What are we going to do? Are we going to bring back his dead body? I suggested going back to Federation Space and telling them of our adventure. Once we tell him that we could bring a lot of ships and start an interstellar war. But, as you know no one agreed with me especially Jacob Keys because James Keys was his little brother and no one wanted to miss out the fun. So Jacob Keys got us in Formation with some other Drakarian ships, then we slowly landed down there.

We had a choice to go in the cocoon and to be on the rescue mission or to stay on the ship.

Miranda decided to stay on the ship and I was considering staying on the ship, because I don’t want to have more near death experiences from Drakarians and an engineer should stay on board just in case the ship had a malfunction. But as you know everyone chose to go on the rescue mission. Because I didn’t want to miss out on any of the fun I decided to go. There we pretended Jacob Keys and Chanru were prisoners. So then we started wandering around trying to find the prisoner cells some of us were very bad acting Drakarians so they had to smarten up. Then all of a sudden Jonathan D was taken by a Drakarian claw dealing 3 hearts and then blasted in the face dealing 2 hearts. Then it was Captain James Keys. Jessica saw all this happen and Jonathan D was taken. Captain James Keys said to take my crew again. And blasted Jessica but it missed her Drakarian form but hit her real form and she winced at the pain, Captain James Keys looked very

confused but said come on. I told Tiruo to do something because he was good at convincing but he didn’t budge. If we came out of this with only a few hearts remaining I needed to make a note that reminded me to shout at Tiruo once we got back on the ship. All of a sudden Chanru said Captain no. Then James said what do you mean I am saving your life, the Captain looked at our group of awfully frightened Drakarians and said did I shoot a Human? I felt really relieved because now I wouldn’t be fired at. Jonathan D said yes which didn’t make sense because he was a Turian not a Human after that the Captain explained his story, he said once they were pulled back into the cocoon his crew took and he took out some Drakarians but they overwhelmed them. The Captain pulled this Drakarians hand off a Drakarians and the whole shuttlepod crew had been hiding in walls, at the end he was the only one who remained un caught . Anyways Captain James Keys pretended to be our prisoner and then once he led us to the prison room. He got his Drakarian hand and swiped it on the keyboard. There we were supposed to decipher a Drakarian code. But we didn’t know how to. At the end we saw the Help us please in Drakarian and English(Because Captain James Keys deciphered it), it was the code that was to lure us away from Federation space and get to the cocoon. After that above it we saw a sign that contained some Drakarian letters(we assumed that was the Drakarian alphabet) with the help of the help us please distress words we realized the letters were in the order of a human keyboard. On the left of the keyboard we saw a username and password. Everytime we got a letter right the letter would turn green. So we decided to put every letter in every slot and just see if it was right, at the end the username was techsupport and the password was strongcode. Once we got in the Pillar of Autumn crew was getting ready to fight us until they saw Captain Keys waving his Drakarian hand. At the back we saw Miranda. We quickly asked her what she was doing here and she was supposed to be on board the Enterprise. She said that when they were getting out of the Cocoon a Mini Drakarian jumped on her head and it felt like a needle went through her head but it was a bug. Then the small Drakarian removed it and put it on another Drakarian who quickly transformed into Miranda. Then Miranda started to become unconscious and what she could remember was that she said what are you doing to me. And the Drakarian smiled and said what are you doing to me, and Miranda blacked out. At this point I felt really annoyed because everyone was Transforming and we couldn’t know who was who. After that we tested everyone's blood and that they were all not Drakarians. So we quickly decided to go back to the ship before we sprang into another trap.

CHAPTER SEVEN Battle for the Bridge

Battle for the Bridge By Jonathan Yao So once we got back to the entrance we disguised the Pillar of Autumn crew as Drakarians using the device. Once we went back to the place we entered the cocoon there were less Drakarians, I don’t know why, and Captain James Keys said where was the ship? Because there were 3 Drakarians ships and they were all alike. So Tiruo pointed the ship out and we were getting ready to go on the Enterprise until Jacob Keys said wait, we might get revenge if we were to sabotage the other 2 ships. So we agreed. Me, Benjamin, and Tiruo were on a team(the red team) to sabotage one of the ships while the other team was Jonathan D, Jessica, Rassie(or Irene I keep on getting them mixed up, I don’t know why), and Chanru (the blue team). I felt a bit bad for the other team because they had no one who had very high fighting skills, meanwhile out of everyone( the blue team and the red team) Benjamin had the best fighting skills, then it was me, and at last Tiruo or Irene. But another part of me felt that I might regret this because we had no scientists(A.K.A doctors) on our team which meant if we got hurt and nearly might nearly die but on the other hand we had the best fighting skills in the team so it would be hard for us to die.

Once we went to the ship we were going to sabotage there was a Drakarian working on the ship.

So I couldn’t go up to him and just use my language to speak to him, surely he would definitely not understand us and think that we weren’t Drakarians and just Drakarians in disguise. So I used my telepathic abilities and asked him if he needed help. In a very loud voice he said pass me the wrench so I fumbled in the tool kit and looked for something that looked just like a wrench and gave it to hime. Because we were alone Benjamin hit him on the head and he knocked out the Drakarian(I told you his fighting skills were good). Then he took off a bit of the ship hull and started ripping apart wires. But what I did was tell him to step aside and I just connected wires to make sure this ship was truly sabotaged. For team blue there wasn’t an engineer instead there was a Drakarian right there reading through a Federation book he might have taken from one of the prisoners. So then Jessica approached it and said can I read that book once you are finished, that was a bad mistake because she said once you are FINISHED. That sentence totally changed everything. If I were Jessica I would’ve said give me that book and start by picking a fight with it. But no, the Drakarians said sure. And they were all standing there. Then Jessica kicked the Drakarian and the Drakarian hit her, she kicked him back and he hit her. She was at 4 hearts, then the Drakarian started to get suspicious and when Chanru tried to go beside him to sabotage the ship the Drakarian said where are you going? Now the Drakarian was really suspicious. So at the end team blue decided to back off. Now once we got back on the ship we noticed there were less crewmen than usual. I decided to blast the fake Miranda’s head off so I went to the Armory.

Once I got there, there were no blasters at the place they were supposed to be and then I went to the knives rack, there were no knives too. I asked the guy who runs the Armory(Phill). Are there any weapons and he said all gone. So that was that, I suspected Phill was a Drakarian, but I decided to not get him mad because he could kill me and spoil our surprise. So we went to

Miranda. She was on the Bridge. The real Miranda decided to stay behind because she didn’t want to spoil the surprise . Once we went on the Bridge Benjamin was the first to strike. Then Miranda turned into a Drakarian. Then Gideon told 2 crew members let's get them. And the Crew members started hitting him with stun batons. Gideon had 5 hearts remaining. Pretty much me and Benjamin were the only ones fighting Miranda. I kicked Miranda and had 5 hearts remaining, Benjamin got a fire distinguisher and smacked it in the Fake Miranda’s face. Then I looked around for a weapon and found 2 of Gertrude’s knitting needles. I stabbed them under the chunks of armor of the Drakarian and Drakrarian acidic blood sprayed all over me getting me to 4 hearts. Chanru tried healing himself but failed so Rassie helped him. Meanwhile Benjamin was at 4 hearts. Then Jessica chose to heal Benjamin(it worked). And Benjamin kept fighting. Then we knocked out the fake Miranda. Because Chanru was healed he helped Gideon fight those 2 Drakarians in disguise. They took out one but Chanru was crushed under that Drakarian. But because the fight on the bridge was too loud. The Drakarians outside of the ship started noticing there was a fight and were trying to board the Enterprise. So I told Tiruo to fly the ship. He complained and said why me. I told him that I had better fighting skills so I would be a fighter and that he needed to fly the ship. So Tiruo did what I told him to do and he slammed into one of the Drakarian ships. Now I kicked the Fake Miranda hoping that I could kill it. But I failed, I found this weird device the fake Miranda had, it had this red button on it, it felt a bit like a bomb so I didn’t press it. Then everyone teamed up and took out the other Drakarians, then 2 more came, we took out one of the Drakarians and the battle was going good for us until Tiruo thought that turning the ship upside down would help us but no it didn’t but we easily overtook the last Drakarian. We then realized that the fake Miranda wanted to replace every crew member. And she took all the weapons which was bad. But when we went out the Cocoon it became active which meant that we were going to have to fight it. I am hoping that we can beat this Cocoon without the Karma’s help this time

Jessica

Battle for the bridge Oh great, Miranda the commander-Drakarian is on the ship and we don’t know what trouble she caused on the Enterprise. Well, I might as well explain the situation. So the Enterprise is parked in the cocoon with a Drakarian-Miranda on it. The crew went into the cocoon to find the prisoners there. They find the prisoners in a prison cell. The group frees the prisoners. Currently, the group (crew members and prisoners) are creeping down the hallway of the cocoon. Right now it is a dangerous situation because the Drakarian-Miranda knows our plan and could take over the ship. Tiruo takes the lead to go back to the Enterprise. Irene thinks she’s allergic to Drakarians' cause while the group is creeping down the hallway she sneezes. “ACHOU” . The sneeze was so loud that it made Rassie scream “AAH''and jump up. The Drakarian’s gave weird looks at Irene and Rassie. Gideon puts his hands over Rassie and Irene’s mouth and pulls them away from the Drakarian’s. Jacob Keys throws something on the floor to attract the Drakarian’s attention. The Drakarian hears the sound and scuttles over to take a look at what Jacob Keys threw. They find the parking lot of the cocoon and Captain Keys asks “Where d’you park?” Tiruo points at the Enterprise in the middle of two Drakarian ships. Jacob Keys suggests sabotaging the two Drakarian ships. We make two groups. Jessica, Jonathan D, Chanru and Irene are in the blue team. Benjamin, Jonathan Y and Tiruo are a blue team. Rassie stays with the rest of the group. The Red team goes to a Drakarian ship. There is an engineer Drakarian fixing the ship. Jonathan Y asks in Drakarian language “Can I help you?” The Drakrian answers “Get me a rench”. While Jonathan Y is looking for the wrench and handing it to the Drakarian Benjamin takes a hammer in the tool box and advances near the Drakarian. With a sudden movement he hits the Drakarian with the hammer and the Drakarian collapses.

Benjamin starts pulling wires and tubes apart from where the Drakarian engineer was working.Jonathan Y puts a hand on Benjamin’s shoulder as if to say “You did the attacking part, let me do this one cause I'm the engineer. Benjamin moves back to let Jonathan Y continue his work. Jonthan Y starts reconnecting

some tubes and wires and does some other engineer work. Tiruo makes some other adjustments so that the ship won’t be able to fly. After they walk back to the group. Meanwhile on the red team's side things weren't turning out so good. They go to the other Drakarian ship to find a Drakarian reading a book in his hand. The book seemed to come from one of the prisoners. Annabeth asks “Can I read that book after you're finished with it?” The Drakarian answered “Sure” and went back to reading the book. After a while of silence the Drakarian puts the book down, peels down the outside of the ship and starts to repair the ship completely ignoring the blue team. Chanru walks forward and wacks the Drakarian hoping that he will go unconscious. Sadly, her plan did not work cause he slapped right back at her. Annabeth tries to walk around him but he steps in front of her saying “Where do you think you're going? What are you doing?” Annabeth thinks he’s getting pretty suspicious of us now. Irene freezes and starts to back away.

Annabeth kicks him but he hitted back. Blue team started to back away. “That’s what I thought you would do,scaredy cats.” said the Drakarian. Blue team backs away toward the crew and goes to the Enterprise.

But as they got closer they noticed something weird. Usually there are crewmates fixing the ship but not today, it just seemed empty. There were no crewmates outside. Jonathan Y goes to the weapon room to get a weapon. There he met some person called Phill and…uh...well… (I forgot, the point is that he met Phill and something I forgot about happened.) Jonathan Y walked back from the hallway. They walk up the staircase to get to the bridge. Jonathan Y fels a tap and sees Phill behind him(If you haven't forgotten, the person in the weapon room). He says “Do you want your weapon?” And I didn't hear what he answered. The prisoners we saved from the cocoon came into the ship. Somehow the fake Miranda appeared with some other crewmates but I don’t know how that happened. Benjamin hits the fake Miranda. She hits the ship wall and before their eyes her Asari face slowly turns to a Drakarian. It was one of the Drakarian’s that gave them the most trouble during the fight with the cocoon. The Drakarian swipes at Benjamin and the claws scrape past his chest. Rassie rushes to heal Benjamin. Chenru heals herself but fails. Benjamin gets up again to get a fire extinguisher and swings it at the Drakarian’s face. It

does one harm to her. Gideon does something stupid as always (My minds a little fuzzy so I don’t remenber what he did) but 2 of the crew members that Miranda appeared with attack Gideon. Gertrude opens her screen to show the Drakarians of the cocoon come out, attracted to the sound of fighting. Tiruo yells “Bob the builder is the best!!!” and takes the controls of the ship. The ship lifts up and hits the Drakarian ship. Now the Drakarian’s can't chase them now. The people aboard the Enterprise get thrown to the wall. Jonthan Y looks around and sees Gertrude’s knitting needle. He manages to stagger to the kneetles (He can’t really walk because of Tiruo’s bad driving). He stabs the knitting needle while yelling “Bob the builder is the best!!!” at the Drakarian and Drakarian blood gushes out of the wound. And the Drakarian falls unconscious. Annabeth hides under the table pretty convinced that nowone can see her.

Rassie sees Chanru’s failing attempts to heal herself and comes to her rescue. Chanru fights the crewmates that were attacking Gideon. She gets hit by one of them but that was enough time for Gideon to hit the crewmates back. The crew members turn into small Drakarians. Jonathan D keeps on stabbing the Drakarian. Gertrude yells at Jonathan Y “You’d better give me those knitting nettles in one piece after your finish with it”. Jonathan D runs over to Annabeth’s hiding place to heal her (success). Jessica’s pretty sure her hiding place is discovered. Tiruo discovers that the ship does not have autopilot so he can’t join the fight. So he keeps trying to fly. The ship lurches into space. Jonathan Y reaches under the control panel to fight a remote control thing with a red button on it. Jonathan Y has no idea what that is. He gives up the remote control to kick the bog Drakarian’s head. Annabeth heals Jonathan Y. Rassie is healed.

Chenru charges at the Drakarian’s and gets hit back. Gideon fights again and gets punched back.

Benjamin runs away to get his sword. Jonathan D heals Chanru. Tiruo flips the ship upside down and everyone falls on the roof. JonathanY attacks a few Drakarian’s dressed as a crew in the corner. He runs forward and punches a Drakariann and sure enough it falls down and turns into a Drakarian. Annabeth takes the controls from Tiruo and flips the ship upright again. The remaining Drakarian hits the ground unconscious. The group frees the crew members (real) in the corner. They explain that the Drakarian’s

plan was to replace the crew with Drakaian’s and drive to the federation and take over the federation. Just as everyone settles down they notice that the Enterprise turns back into the Enterprise (I mean not a Drakarian ship) Then the cocoon starts to spin, ready to fire at us and the door starts to open. “This fight was what I was looking for!!! Everyone at your posts!!!” yes Captain Keys

Benjamin As we return to the ship Heilosis takes the defense going second behind (insert Tiruos character name) to guard us we return to the hanger safely and we decide to sabotage the ships and Heilosis,(insert Jon Yoas character name) and (insert Tiruos character name) go to the ship and there's a drakarian mechanic and (Insert jonathan Yaos character name) asks if he needs help and the mechanic tells him to pass the wrench and after that Heilosis grabs the hammer and smacks his head and the mechanic goes down then we go back to the ship then Heilosis smacks the drakarian that looks like miranda and we engage into a fight and Heilosis grabs a fire extinguisher and hits the drakarians and then the ship flips over and we hit the ceiling and Heilosis and after turning back Heilosis hits the drakarian and he goes unconscious and Heilosis goes to look for his sword and there left in his cabin is his sword where he left it and as we leave the cocoon turns to us and Heilosis is ready for another fight after the takedown on that drakarian warrior pumped up.

Tirou When we got back to the ship I felt a rush feeling, like when I described last time, like leveling up in a game, but this time it was stronger. I might never know what that will mean because this mission might take my whole life, but again, maybe this journey is the thing triggering the rush feeling. I’ll probably investigate later because the mission is the priority. We head out the prison cell. I decided to lead because I have a great memory and high intellect. Jacob decides to take the rear, protecting from the back. I memorized the hallways, very well, and I found the quickest route we could use.

Most people including me were sneaky enough, but some failed, but covered by Jacob and Gideon.

We finally got to a hangar, where the ships of the cocoon are parked. But, our spaceship was cloaked, and there were two new space ships adjacent to our ship, and everybody couldn’t identify what ship was ours. I had seen the Enterprise many times, in the Drakarian form or the non-Drakarian form. I can say I am quite familiar with the Enterprise. I walked forward, and then, I identified which ship was the Enterprise. Jacob went silent for a second and said, “Don’t you think we could get revenge furthermore, and sabotage the other two ships?” Many people agreed to this idea, including me. There are two teams, the red team & the blue team. I stuck to the red team, because Ben chose to be on the red team, and If anything goes wrong, I don’t want to be the one to fight. I am strong, but not strong enough to compare with the muscly Drakarrians. Jacob Keys noticed the number of people who volunteered and decided to join the enterprise. Our team failed horribly at sneaking, but the Drakarian who seemed to be repairing had clumsy senses. Jonathan Y. who was on my team had an idea, and telepathically transmitted if there is anything we can do to help, revealing our stealth. The Drakarian said to hand him a wrench from the toolbox, so Jonathan Y. did. Ben was investigating around, and from the toolbox, he saw a hammer. He looked around but couldn’t see an entrance. “Quick, just smash! People will wonder what a Drakarian holding a hammer threatening a spacecraft is doing!” I whispered. Ben shrugged, and with all his power, he knocked the working Drakarian on the head, leaving him unconscious. Then he smashed the space ship, revealing the engine. Benjamin started ripping wires cluelessly. He had no clue if that even did a lot of damage to the ship. Jonathan Y. started investigating, occasionally ripping out a wire. It seemed he knew what he was doing. I started damaging the wings of the ship, to make sure it will never fly again. The other team did not succeed as we did, but they managed to get a diary or journal that belonged to the federation, because of the logo on it. When we all headed back to the Enterprise and got in, there was like no one there. Jonathan felt a little defenseless, so he decided to sneak to the armory to get armed with a laser blaster. When Jonathan got back, he had no laser gun.

He said the armory was empty, with no weapons, but with a dude named Fil, which he very highly suspects is a Drakarian. Then we see Fil carrying a blaster and handing it to Jonathan Y. He declines the offer. As we thought about what options we have to get rid of “Miranda''. We decide not to play along with it because Miranda might cause future problems. We walked to a bridge and for some reason that was where “Miranda '' was. Everybody decides to fight. Rassie walks back and heals Ben pretty quick. Chenru was in pain, so she took her medkit and started to heal herself, but failed. Ben looks around and finds a fire extinguisher. I run to the spaceship controls, and I shout, “Bob is the

best!!!!” and I succeed very well at controlling the ship, even if it's my first time. There was too much in the fight so I will write the stuff I did. I was getting pretty good, but my luck stopped when I decided to tilt the ship to shove the Drakarains away. On the ship, I looked out and I saw Irene investing in the area. She reported to the space ship the news she found. On my spaceship screen, it displayed the discoveries. It read "“Miranda’s” plan was to replace all of our crew members with Drakarian, so they can launch an attack back at the federation. Miranda also took all of our arm.”

After we knocked all the bad guys out, we launched into space, by me. >> To be continued

Battle for the Bridge Irene

Irene could hear the sound of drakarians coming towards the Cocoon’s jail. She knew she needed to escape before the drakarians came and found out who Irene and her friends actually were. Soon after Irene was off the Cocoon, the shady man named James Keys had a crazy idea to sabotage the drakarian ships before everyone left. Irene wasn’t sure about that idea but she did it anyway. Irene went with one of the teams and started to sneak to a drakarian ship. When she and her friends got to the ship, there was a drakarian reading a notebook. After that Irene’s team got to work. Unfortunately, Irene’s team wasn’t that successful so they only sabotaged the ship a little bit. But then something worse happened. The drakarian thought something was off so it started to attack Irene and her friends. Thankfully, Irene managed to not get attacked. When everyone was back on the ship, they began to think of a plan to get rid of the fake drakarian Miranda. Soon the team started to battle the fake Miranda. Instead of battling the fake Miranda, Irene tried to figure out if there were more drakarians on the Enterprise. Irene heard more drakarians talking in her mind. She figured out that there had to be at least two more drakarians. When Irene figured that out, she decided to do even more research. After that, she figured out the drakarians original plan. They were going to slowly replace all of the ships crew members into drakarians.

Jonathan D Battle for the Bridge Today, my character Went on a fight against a Drakarian, who was fake Miranda. A Drakarian has been disguised as the real Miranda. So, my character and his teammates made a battle when Benjamin succeeded by punching the Drakarianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head. It transformed into its normal size and it was huge and it was the strongest and the most dangerous Drakarian sound in the Cocoon. My character was helping his teammates by healing them. We had to choose that we want to go in the blue team, red team or stay watching whatever happens, to make sure no accidents or attacking were made by Drakarians or anyone violent.

Rassie-

We creep through the halls as quietly as possible. We were sneaking around like mice running away from cats. Then suddenly, the silence was broken by a sneeze. I tense up a little bit and I’m startled for a second and so I let out a small squeal. After I realized that it wasn’t anything harmful, I relaxed. I examine my surroundings and I see Jacob throw a disk towards the opposite direction that we are standing at and I see the Drakarians run towards that direction to investigate.

We make our way outside without getting into any more trouble. When we get outside, there are fewer people on the deck. There are only a few Drakarians walking around. I turn around and see my crew mates plotting something. I listen intently and manage to catch a few words. I hear them plot to sabotage the remaining Drakarian ships and then leave. They are talking about a revenge plan.

They make their way towards the ships on either side of the Enterprise, which is the ship in the middle. I made my way towards the ship in the middle because I didn’t want to participate in their sabotage plan. I stay back with Jacob, Captain Keyes, Gertrude, Gideon and the rest of the crew members. Miranda is with us but she’s hiding because there’s an imposter of her in the same ship.

We hang around and relax for a little while, awaiting their arrival. When I thought that they wouldn’t come back, they collapsed on the floor, in front of the ship’s door. We make our way towards the bridge, where I assume the fake Miranda would be located at.

We arrive at our destination and one of the members of our little group jumps out and hits the fake Miranda’s head. The fake Miranda scrapes him across the chest with its long claws. She suddenly starts turning into a massive Drakarian warrior. I gradually step backward, careful not to alert the Drakarian.

I see a figure sprawled up on the ground. After a little bit of observation, I recognize him as Benjamin, or the person that got scraped across the chest. I look at his chest and see a small gash on it. The scratch marks aren’t as deep but it’s still bloody. I take out my medical kit and start healing the wounds.

When I’m practically done, he springs to his feet and runs towards the wall. Before I can react to everything that’s happening around me, I see that Benjamin was making his way towards the wall, grabbing the fire extinguishers that hung there. He made his way to the now Drakarian Miranda and smashed it against its head. He falls back and is now on the ground.

Suddenly, the ship’s screen turns on and I see that some Drakarians are making their way towards our ship, searching for the source of all the ruckus. I’m observing the screen when I suddenly hear someone scream “ Bob the builder is the best! ”. I look back and see a pair of grandmother’s knitting utensils jabbed into the Drakarian Miranda.

I see another one of my crew mates that is hurt and I make my way towards him. He is fumbling around with the medical kit, obviously struggling to do the work properly, maybe because of what’s going on around us. I take out my medical kit and start healing his wounds.

After a few minutes of rapidly healing his gashes, he sprints towards Gideon, who is fighting with some beings that resemble our crew members. I believe they are also Drakarians in disguise.

I’m snapped out of my thoughts when I hear a loud crashing noise and a thumping noise following that. I look back and see that Benjamin is smashing the fire extinguisher violently against the now unconscious Drakarian’s head.

The front screen changes and is now a moving image of our ship, flying around the place in circles. Suddenly, the ship is flying backwards rapidly. I move towards Gideon and start healing his wounds. He isn’t that badly hurt so it wasn’t so hard to heal him up.

When I’m done healing, the ship suddenly turns upside down. I tumble down to the ceiling that is acting as the floor right now. I watch as another Drakarian worker is knocked out, laying on the cold floor, unconscious. My head feels dizzy from the hard fall but other than that, I feel perfectly fine. I started to get up, clutching my head because it was incredibly hard to focus on one thing when the world was moving around in circles.

Suddenly, the ship turns upside down again. Before I know it, I’m on the floor again, an even more intense dizziness overtaking my vision. This time, I’m on the real floor and not on the ceiling. I glance at everyone around me and I see that the last Drakarian that had its consciousness was on the ground, unconscious from the impact of the fall.

I sat still for a few seconds, letting what was happening around me sink into my head. I regained my steadiness and started standing up. I wobble on the spot for a second until I balance myself. Everyone makes their way to the door and we explore the area. We find many members of the crew, tied up in various places around the ship.

I make my way back towards the control room and find Miranda running her hand in the buttons on the control panel. I look at myself and finally realize that I’m not disguised as a Drakarian anymore. I look like myself. My clothing was covered in sweat from the battle and also a little bit of blood from tending to wounds of the other members. I smell like medical supplies and I don’t look very good, though I look better than some other people. The ship is smoking and it smells of smoke as well.

I look out the humongous window and see as the cocoon slowly turns towards our direction…

That won’t turn out good...

CHAPTER EIGHT The Final Βαττλε

Jessica

The final Βαττλε The battle starts. Jacob helps Gideon to control the ship.Alien ships start to come out of the cocoon. They drift toward the Enterprise. We fire at the ships. One of the ships is destroyed. The Drakarian ship fires at us. We turn left and fire back at them. The fire hits the shuttle. And the Enterprise gets hit too. We fire, turn left then repair the ship. The Drakarian ship starts to charge up to fire. We fire at the Drakarian ship.

The drakarian ship fires at us and it skims over the Enterprise. Two Drakarians leaps away from their ship and lands on the Enterprise. The Enterprise fires at the Drakarian’s ship then gets fixed. One of the Drakarian ships is destroyed. The cocoon door opens again to reveal two Drakarian ships floating out of it. Some of the crew started talking something like “Where are the Karma, we need them right now and they disappear.” We pivot to the right and fire at the cocoon. The Enterprise fires and strikes the Drakarian vessel. We turn right to fix the ship. Then one of the Drakarian ship’s starts to break down and shoots in every direction including the cocoon then explodes (A humongous explosion, almost as big as a elefant I think). No doubt, the ship that was sabotaged by us. We turn left and fire at the cocoon. The Drakarianship hits the Enterprise. Then a voice comes from the radio “Need any help!” The voice was vaguely familiar, it was the captain of the Karma, G...G...Gustard…Grover I think. No, whatever I'll call him Grover. Back to the story (Wow I get distracted so easily on not important things such as names (like now. Oups!)) Anyway just as he was saying that the Karma floated in view. Some of the crew cheered.

The Karma attack the Drakarian vessels. We fire and the bomb rips through the Drakarian vessel. Finally we eliminated a Drakarian shuttle. We repair the ship and fire again. Then a Drakarian ship sneaks behind us (Not really sneaking. First of all it's so big, we can see it and second of all it's not sneaking when we can see it). From Gertrude’s video projected from the screen we could see two Drakarian’s going inside the holethey made on the Enterprise. We repair the ship. The Karma is firing continually at the cocoon.

Then we hear siren sounds. The two Drakarians were downstairs attempting to sabotage it. Benjamin,

Jonathan Y, Chanru and Tiruo go down stairs to fix the problem. Well something downstairs happens. I Don't know what but it is definitely a fight. We turn right, repair the ship and then fire. The Drakarian ship fired at the Karma. Annabeth’s sensors suddenly detect something unusual in the shuttle bag. She takes a weapon and goes to the shuttle bag. The ship moves forward and fires. The Drakarian ship flies near the Karma. Annabeth gets in the shuttle bag to see a small Drakarian hammering the control panel.

She swings the weapon at the Drakarian. The Drakarian collapses. On the control panel she sees a horrible sight. There is a timer “9:00min” She goes upstairs to call an engineer. Irene comes to fix. The Enterprise fires at the cocoon. It started to peel and have small explosions. We turn left and the Drakarian vessel ignores us completely. The cocoon faces the Enterprise and starts to charge up. Now the timer is up to 3 min. Annabeth kept on saying “fix it, fix it, fix it” and so on. Irene presses a button thinking it was right the timer continued. Irene presse another boton and the screen blares green and the timer stops. Irene falls back in the chair drenched in sweat. The Enterprise gets repaired and attacks the Drakarian ship which explodes. Ten they feel a feeling of suction pulling them out of their seats. Then Rassie and Jonathan D get sucked out and into space. A bright red siren blared on the screen yelling “Men overboard!” Gideon twists the panel and Rassie and Jonathan D. Annabeth hels Jonathan D. The Karma still fires at the cocoon while their captain Grover was talking non stop about stuff. The Enterprise turns right, fires at the cocoon and pulls forward. The cocoon laser starts to heat up toward the Enterprise. Gideon hammers the control so that the Enterprise moves backwards and fires at the exact same time. The laser skims the ship’s belly. Annabeth heals Rassie and starts to head back to the others. The Enterprise and the Karma fire at the cocoon at the same time and the cocoon does a series of explosions before it burns up. The Enterprise and the Karma head back to the federation. They return to central Command. Then claws grab hold of the ships before they enter to do the security scan to see anything dangerous. Cause it takes around an hour so the scan finish the crew just kinda hang out. Chanru flips through the book they got from the failed sabotage in the cocoon. The words are all English and it came from a prisoner. Rassie does

nothing. Annabeth starts to pack everything up. Jonathan D starts to heal the injured. Irene hears a bing, bing sound and follows the sound to a storage closet. She opens the storage closet to see a blinking panel of Drakarian language. There was a big bomb. Irene has never seen such a big bomb and next to it was a timer of 20min. Irene calls the crew immediately. The crew rushed to the closet. They discover that when the fake crewmates (disguised as Drakarian) were on the ship they set up the bomb. The panel says “Δισαρμ” translated is “Disarm”.Benjamin moves through the crowd and types “a”in every box for the password. After doing that the timer goes down one minute. Rhen Jonathan Y or D typed “e” in every box. And the timer went down another minute. After a long time they found out the password was “Disarm the bomb”. The box glowed green and the timer stopped. Everyone sighed with relief. The crew looked for bombs for the rest of the security scan. Algar says “How are you doing?” not knowing about the bomb. After the scan they gert of the ship for a meeting. The Enterprise is nncnow the flagship. And abandon war with the Drakarians and stuff like that. Annabeth wasn’t really listening. After the meeting Annabeth went back home hoping to sleep for 48 hours but she only slept for like 2 hours and was awake.

So she decided to go to the beach with her family and then they lived happily ever after

Benjamin As the cocoon turns to us we get ready but we immediately get ambushed luckily the karma saved us and we find that there are drakarians in the engineering parts of the ship and we go down and as Heilosis uses his sword I keep getting smacked and as iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fighting i'm starting to consider switching to the fire extinguisher and dumping the sword but luckily (insert jonathan Yao's character name) takes care of them and (insert Tiruos character name) heals me and (insert jonathan yao's character name) and we return.After winning we go back to the federation zone we all feel much safer and we go into the lockdown sequence and then we find a bomb and we are diffusing it and as Heilosis sees _ _ _a r m t _ e _ _ _ _ I start yelling DISARM THE BOMB DISARM THE BOMB DISARM THE BOMB!!! and we save ourselves and half of the first fleets crew and we go back up to the main stations and we tell some of them and we are all sighing in relief we sit there resting and we tell the karma crew so they also search there ship and there is luckily nothing in there or ours so we go and have a meeting and that since the pillar of autumn was destroyed are ship the enterprise would now be the flagship/most important ship of the fleet and we all go back home and as I Heilosis return home and go to my parents house I see my fluffy cute pet Jesisoto who immediately jumps towards we and I grab him I then sit down and tell my parents a bit of what happened and how now my crew was now the flagship crew and we laugh and have fun and I return to home sweet home to a wait for the next journey.

Chaunru In his eye a red line of laser came at him and then on the other eyes a dead brother. He closes his eyes and thinks he will destroy this ship with all of his power. The crew is in their position ready to fight. Then suddenly a small spaceship arrived at the back of the enterprise. It dropped 2 Jakarien so he and 3 other of his crew mates decided to go to the shuttle and see what was happening. Then He healed two people after their devastating hit from Drakarien. After they went back up to finish off the ship. Once they go through the slip space drive with the karma at the central command they find out a bomb placed on the ship.

Tirou I go off the pilot seat and give the controls to Gideon. I had enough fun for today. Finally, everyone got seated in the Enterprise. “Ahhh! It feels so good to be back in our ship!” many people exclaimed.

James Keys sighed. He would never be on the Pillar of Autumn again. Some people tried to cheer him up, but James decided to assist Gideon on flying the ship. As we are flying away, the cocoon opens fire, forming another fight. “Here we go again!” I yelled as we dodged the laser blast and the ship pulled me to the side, slamming my shoulder to the wall of the ship. The cocoon decides to launch three minion ships, overpowering us. We were angled to shoot the first minion, so we opened fire on the front ship, blasting it into pieces. As we finish the ship off, the remaining ships blassted us, doing minor damage of a total of about ⅕ of our shields. “Wait, where is the Karma!?”

Rassie asked. Suddenly everyone realized that the Karma wasn’t here, and we didn’t have any assisting power. “We’ll have to handle it without the Karma.” Jacob Keys said. Gideon takes a sharp left turn, and blasts the ship on the right, and shouted to us, “Repair the ship engineers! Don’t just sit there!” Oh, I forgot that I should be improving our shields. We continued to exchange fire until we were failing. More ships were coming out, there was just too much. Just when we thought we all were going to die, a dude named Garus who controls the Karma comes and assists us. The Karma opens fire on the cocoon. We try to destroy the other small ships, but they are too agile and we can’t manage to position our cannons correctly. I looked out of an explosion, laser, and bulletproof window. There was a Drakarian ship right behind our afterburners. I managed to identify that they wanted to board our ship! The small ship shoots at a weak metal wall, and two Drakarians climb in.

I could not identify how, but our ship was going slower. It might be a tractor beam. Most people didn't even care about those Drakarians and kept ordering Gideon to fire. As the Enterprise rotated, Gideon accidentally set our cannons on a risky angle. According to me, there is a 99.1 chance of hitting the Karma. But our crew kept ordering to fire, so bam. The laser hit the Karma. In the communications radio, we could hear Garus say, “Hey! What was that for!?!?” Then an alarm was activated. “INTRUDERS ON BOARD!” Finally, people came down to investigate. I went down also because I wouldn’t want to miss any cool stuff. Good thing Chenru, Ben, and Jonathan Y. also came down; I would have been wrecked by the world's biggest Drakarian! We managed to knock them out, with Jonathan doing the most critical damage. Suddenly, Jessica hears a beeping sound. She walks with a flashlight down to the place where… a self destruct program was placed by a Drakarian drone. She easily beat up the Drakarian drone. She called Irene down and they managed to disarm the self destruct thingy, with the help of us over the radio. Suddenly Gideon made a very sharp turn, and Rassie & Jonathan D. got sucked out of the spaceship, but Gideon managed to riskily get them back in the Enterprise, with some major damage done to them. After that, we managed to get near the cocoon. Everybody was now cheering “FIRE!”, including me. We set our cannons at max and we fired, exploding the whole cocoon ship. We headed back to federation space, this mission was over. We got everyone healed, and we waited for days and days to get back to the Federation space. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>9 Days Later>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We are back at federation space, they are checking our ship for germs and stuff. I was so excited to go back to Earth. I will probably visit my family on the Asari planet, and Jonathan Y. of course. But Jessica hears a bing bing sound. She found a bomb in the closet. It read 20:00. Now 19:58. Jessica yelled everybody here. We tried the guess every letter technique, but that made the timer tick faster.

Ben saved us all. The Disarm code was DISARMTHEBOMB. Finally, my adventures come to an end, and I can enjoy the rest of my life. I might be named as a hero! I will probably join all the parties possible and invent stuff with Jonathan Y. and do whatever I want. >>2 days later.

We received a message that the Drakarian’s said one captain went crazy and went to the neutral zone to attack us, and they know nothing about the attack. We know they were lying because they now know how powerful we were. >>To be continued????

Jonathan Dong The final battle Magnifier TheFuture, my character, went on a battle with the Cocoon again ! His teammates and him did a lot of things : repair the ship, heal people, control the ship and fire on the Cocoon.

Finally, we won the battle by shooting the biggest bomb on the Cocoon. It exploded hardly, and Magnifier and his teammates returned at the Federation Space. When one of my character’s teammates discovered a puzzle to solve, everyone came helping. It was a code that was : DISARMTHEBOMB. We entered and it’s the end.

Magnifier could finally return to Earth to see his family ! He is very proud of him, because he did a great work with his teammates; he had got his goal ! He finished his mission ! He planned to organise a party with all his friends to celebrate the victory : they are going to vacation ! They’re gonna go to the beach to relax and to CELEBRATE THE VICTORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The end

Rassie- I hear Captain Keyes mutter something along the line of “ Let’s get some revenge”. I see two Drakarian ships coming towards us. We fire at them. Bull’s eye. We move forward and then fire again.

The first ship explodes into shreds as fast as it had got here. Suddenly, there’s an impact on the side of the ship, which I assume is the impact of a Drakarian ship’s fire.

I lose my stability and tumble back but quickly get up so I don’t miss any detail of this fight because I am pretty sure this is the last fight and I want to tell this story to my mother when I get home. I can’t imagine my mother’s terrified expression when she finds out where I was and what I was doing. She was definitely going to scold me for doing something so dangerous without informing her. I bet she would be proud of me for being brave but also quite furious at me for making such a reckless decision.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when the ship made a sharp turn left and started firing. The Drakarian ship fires back at us, making the ship rattle and shake a little bit. We fire back, and then make another sharp turn left. We fire again and start to make our way forward. I can smell the gunpowder from here and it doesn’t smell very good.

I glance over at the Drakarian ship and it looks really badly damaged. I see two Drakarians come out of their ship. Our ship fires at their ship and then fires again, causing a lot of damage. The cocoon’s door opens. Our ship turns right and I watch as two more Drakarian ships fly out. We fire and then turn right. I watch one of the ship’s engine compartment opens, releasing a goop. I assume that that ship was one of the ships that had been sabotaged by my crew mates.

Then a laser is shot towards us. The laser barely missed the side. We turn left and then fire at them.

The Drakarian ship in front of us starts to fire, then the ship behind us also attempts to fire at us.

They both hit us and I see Captain Keyes sweating which is not a scenario that you will see often.

When I thought that we wouldn’t make it out alive, the Karma came flying to the rescue. We fire at the Drakarian ship twice and then the ship that was behind us edges closer towards us. I see two

Drakarians enter the ship from a huge hole that was made from the lasers. We start moving forward but I realize the ship isn’t as fast as it’s supposed to go. Our ship fire for some reason, almost hitting the Karma

Out of nowhere, a siren goes off saying “ intruders intruding! “ many times. Four of the people from our little group head down to check what all the ruckus was about. The ship is turning right and then it fires. I look around and see as Jessica also heads down the stairs with a stun baton. The ship goes forward, then makes a sharp turn left. It then fires. We fire again and then turn left again.

As I watch the movement of the ships, I hear someone squealing “ Fix it! Fix it! Fix it!” really loudly, but couldn’t hear it very clearly because of the distance. I just realized that someone in our group went missing. I guess that she went down with Jessica.

I wasn’t paying so much attention to my surroundings when suddenly, I got sucked into space. I was floating in the middle of nowhere with a very limited amount of air in my emergency air tank. I had an emergency space helmet on my head and I was still wearing my work clothes. I saw someone else with me, with the same emergency helmet and air tank as me. We both had our work clothes on.

I was terrified. I thought that I wouldn’t be able to go back home. I was running low on air because I was out here for too long. My tank was almost empty when my ribs slammed into something hard.

Next thing I know, I’m on the ground of the ship. My ribs feel broken and my whole body aches.

I see Jessica and Irene standing in front of me as I clutch my rib bone. I watch Jessica move towards the other person that was with me in space. She squats down, healing his wounds and restoring his health. I’m sprawled on the floor, clutching my back ribs in pain as I’m on the verge to cry out. I can’t concentrate on anything as I feel a terribly painful sensation as I wince at my own touch. I am sure that my bones are broken. My eyes are glassy as I try to stop the tears from coming out. A single tear escapes and I lay back, trying not to pain my rib any more.

Jessica comes towards me and neels down beside me. I wince as she puts her hand on my back. She then proceeds to heal my bones and try to restore my health as much as possible. I use all my strength to stop myself from crying because I didn’t want people to feel pity for me.

It took a bit of time but soon I felt a lot better than before. I still didn’t feel 100% perfect but it was good enough considering I had a broken bone and was limp and weak before. I could stand up but my bones still ache if I move too much. I took it easy and tried not to move too much.

I made my way to the window. The battle was done, we could go home. I watched as the cocoon burned before my eyes. The cocoon that had caused all this trouble. We beat them… We did it! We successfully succeeded in our mission. We could go home.

We were in the Slip Space Drive for a few days and we finally made it to Federation Space. We were now in a scanning process. I was packing up the remaining things I would need. I found an old photo album in my bag that I didn’t know I owned. I flipped through it and a rush of recognition came upon me. These were the photos of when I was younger. The photos of me and my father. In this photo, I was playing hide and go seek with him. He found me and chased me around, acting like a dinosaur.

I thought about my life after this task. This whole thing would now become a memory. A scary and painful experience. One to remember forever. I had learned more than what could fit in my brain. I had learned many new things. Too many to count. I was sculpted into a braver and stronger person. At that moment, I was filled with happiness. Pure happiness…

Until that happiness was disrupted. The other members of our crew rushed to a storage room, so I followed them. When I got there, I peeked through and saw a gigantic bomb. The biggest one I’ve ever seen in the many years I’ve lived for. There was a Drakarian keyboard beside it and the same space to type on the passcode. It said “ disarm “ in Drakarian.

We typed in A’s, E’s, S’s, I’s, R’s, and many more. Every time we typed in the wrong letters, the bomb would subtract one minute from the time. The bomb’s original timer was set to twenty minutes and

now it was at less than five minutes. We fussed a bit more and I started getting stressed out, when suddenly, one of us called out “ Try ‘ disarm the bomb’ and so we did. The space flashed a bright green and everyone relaxed.

We searched the rest of the ship and found no more bombs or anything dangerous. That’s a relief. I go back to my stuff and start to daydream. I was flipping through the album with no care in the world.

I had a bright smile plastered on my face.

My smile slowly turned upside down, into a frown. I had forgotten how to get my mother’s memory back. I searched my mind for a way to restore her memories of before. What if i can’t find something that restores her memories and she doesn’t remember me? What if she doesn’t want me after I tell her what happened? I was overthinking this.

We were called over to a meeting in the central command station. The captain was talking about our success and about the Drakarian’s excuses. They said that one of their captains had gone crazy and drove one of the ships to attack us. They were less violent and communicated more.

I wasn’t really listening or paying attention. I was stressed about my mother’s memory. When we left the meeting, Miranda seemed to realize my nervousness so she pulled me aside. She asked me if I was alright so I shook my head to indicate that I wasn’t alright. I knew I could trust Miranda if she was real. I told her about how I got here and how I had taken away my mother’s memories. She understood my situation and gave me a book about potions.

I made my way towards my bedroom in a hotel that I was staying at. I started flipping through the boom Miranda had let me borrow and I stumbled upon a page that said ‘ Memory Restoring Draught’.

I read the instructions and start to brew the potion. I follow every step exactly as the book said.

It took a few hours but when I was done, I took a rest because it’s really late in the night. I’ll give it to her in the morning. I fell asleep right when my head made contact with my pillow. I drifted into a dreamless slumber, exhaustion taking over me.

The next day, I walked to my mother’s appartement. I knocked on the door and waited for an answer.

There was none so I took my key out of my pocket to unlock the door. I enter the small, yet cozy area.

The place looks exactly like it looked when I left, nothing had changed. I made myself a cup of tea and then brewed my mother some coffee. I slipped the memory restoring potion inside and put it on the table.

I entered my room. It appeared exactly how I had left it. The bed was made and everything was exactly the same. I sat on my bed, waiting for my mother to drink the coffee. I heard a faint tapping noise coming from the kitchen. I smelled the breakfast that my mother was making.

The next thing I know, my mother came storming in my room. She gave me a humongous bear hug and then proceeded to scold me. I told her everything, not missing a detail. It took her a little while to process all that information, but afterward, she hugged me again and again. It was finally back to normal. Just me and my mother...

Jonathan Yao

The final Βαττλε Then 3 ships were sent at us. The first ship was right in front of us so we moved forward and fired all we'd got and we destroyed it, I thought yay one ship down 2 left to go. So now we went to a ship on the left and we hit it and destroyed it with 8 hearts on our ship. Now 2 more ships just came out of the cocoon. Because we were already on the left side why not just destroy the left ship. So we hit the left ship and green liquid starts oozing out of it, it goes out of control, firing everywhere(it hits the Cocoon). Then one of the ships moved to the left side so they made their formation(basically the formation looked like we were the monkey in the monkey in the middle and the Drakarian ships were the ones who would pass the ball). Then we were doomed.

Because the Enterprise only had 4 hearts remaining. And the Cocoon started charging weapons.

We then moved backwards which was safe enough and had 3 hearts remaining. Suddenly! We heard the voice of Commander Garis of the Starship Karma and he said, ``Does anybody need some help? Then he fired at the ship on our left. We did the same but moved forwards and fired on that ship. But when we moved forwards we weren’t as fast as we were before the only reason I chose to help the Karma was because if we were either disabled or if we exploded the Karma would continue on the fight and make the Federation proud. Now we had 3 hearts. Now we selected the best fighters(Me, Benjamin, Chanru, and Tiruo) to go down to Engineering. I suddenly actually realized that Chanru’s fighting skills were equal to mine. Once we went to Engineering. We saw 2 Fake Miranda sized Drakarinans. They were probably the ones who jumped onto our ship, and when the weapon fired it made a hole in our ship hull and they jumped in. First my brave friend Benjamin tried to go for one of them but failed and got hit. Seeing my friend injured I grabbed my stun baton and I hit it in the face. The one I hit in the face hit the safety railing. The safety railing was meant to prevent Turians, Asari, and Humans from falling over, but not Miranda sized Drakarians. So Miranda sized Drakarian number one fell over the railing. Tiruo now started to attack the Miranda sized Drakarian number 2 with a wrench but he failed and got hit. Now I felt no Drakarian, not even a Miranda sized Drakarian was too big for me, so I grabbed my stun baton and whacked it in the face repeatedly and it fell to the ground.

Chanru chose to heal Tiruo which worked and Tiruo started swinging his wrench over and over.

Now Benjamin summoned up his courage and went and stabbed the Drakarian.Now the Karma started attacking the Cocoon. Because they were attacking the Cocoon we tried to attack the Cocoon but we accidentally hit the Karma. Now the Cocoon started charging weapons so we moved backwards and it slightly grazed us. Now the last Drakarian ship got close enough that they could board us. So we had 2 hearts. We turned around trying to fire at that ship. But we kept on missing, somehow they weren’t firing at us. Strange I thought? What did we do now? We fired at it twice but kept on missing. But somehow they weren’t firing at us so we took the advantage and started firing at them. Then we got the ship right between us and the Cocoon now

we were at 5 hearts. All of a sudden Jessica’s scanners detected an anomaly in the shuttle bay.

She went down there and heard this hissing sound. It was a Drakarian that jumped onto our ship while we were really close to the only Drakarian ship that wouldn’t fire on us and for some reason it was in a shuttle pod. It probably now didn’t want to fire on us because there was a Drakarian on board. Jessica got a stun baton and hit it, but then it swiped at her but she hit it again and it was knocked out. She was really lucky because if that was a fake Miranda sized Drakarian she might’ve as well called security. Then she realized that the Drakarian was going to self destruct this shuttle pod which would damage the ship and take away 5 hearts. So Jessica got Irene who tried to disarm the bomb. It had a timer of 60 seconds(I think that is what they told me) Irene tried to disarm it but it took her 30 seconds and when she failed. The time turned to 20 seconds. Jessica was like fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it. So Irene went and finally fixed it. Then the weapon started charging up. We went and fired at the last Drakarian ship who was closing in on the Karma, the Karma fired at it but we got fired at by the Cocoon so now we only have 2 hearts and we finally destroyed the last ship. But because the Cocoon fired at us it grazed our Bridge hull making Jonathan D and Rassie all fall into space. Fortunately Gideon used his good pilot skills and brought them in the shuttle pod bay, Jonathan D had 2 hearts and Rassie had 3 hearts so Jessica healed them. Then we got into formation and we blasted the Cocoon into pieces and destroyed the whole thing. Once we got back to Central Command, our ship was scanned just to see if there were any dangerous viruses we brought home. It will take approximately 2 hours to finish the scan. Then Irene(or Rassie) came and she heard this Mini noise that sounded like this: beep beep. So we called everyone to come here and see what it was, we then realized that it was a bomb we needed to disarm it but everytime we guessed a letter it would be reduced by a minute and it only had 20 minutes. But thanks to Benjamin the disarming code was:disarm the bomb. Now when I get back I feel like learning how to design strong weapons, deadly weapons, and powerful weapons for the new mission.

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