Bo Petrov
In the distance they could see the sky turning a polluted shade of grey and tan as the wind picked up the dust into the air. It was no slow development either, as the sky had only been mostly clear a few minutes ago.
"There's no way we're going to survive that out here," Ceres stated, the dread in her voice palpable.
"We need to get to shelter," Lurin replied with urgency.
"We need to get back to the ship," Korena declared. The others looked at him with an expression that read: The ship? So soon? Yes, so soon.
"Today, would be nice!" Korena commanded impatiently, pointing at the ever approaching sandstorm.
They all nodded, and hurried to gather their things, all looking at the approaching storm with wariness. Bo grabbed a lot of it, thinking of how fast they would have to move while carrying all of the supplies - and he wanted the others to be able to move as fast as possible. He knew there was no guarantee that they would even be able to outrun it, but considering it was their only option apart from getting buried alive in sand and dirt, they would have to try.
They began the hurried trek back to the ship through the desert, running through the sand for a good while - a feat in itself - before they began to slow to a quick paced walk. They'd covered a lot of ground, but the sand storm was still following on their heels, and when they finally saw the ship in the distance, the storm was only a minute out from where they were.
"Let's book it!" Lurin shouted.
The five all sprinted towards the wrecked ship, in a race against time and the giant cloud of dust closing in on them. Bo raced ahead with his long legs and, arriving several yards of distance before them, pushed the blockade they'd set up at the entrance out of the way with a big heave.
"Hurry!" He yelled out to them, watching with worry-filled eyes.
There was a few seconds of delay as Bo watched the sand storm threat to consume his friends. He didn't know how extreme the sandstorms were on this planet, but all he could imagine was them being feet away from him and never making it to the entrance. The image of them getting swallowed by sand replayed in his mind several times, but then they all ran into the ship with a rush of movement.
In came Gavi, Ceres, Lurin, Korena, and then him, sliding in behind them and pushing the blockade back in its place - though it was a great struggle to do so, since mid-way, the sand and wind hit the large chunk of metal with full force. With one final hurrah he grunted and the entrance was sealed off - leaving the dust previously swirling inside the wrecked ship to settle on the ground.
Several minutes passed as everyone walked around or sat on the floor, catching their breath. Though the air wasn't the purest, it was infinitely better than what breathing outside of the ship would feel like.
Finally, words.
"Is everyone okay?" Korena asked, breathing still somewhat heavy.
They all nodded.
"We didn't get caught up in it," Lurin replied, surprised but relieved that they made it.
"That's a good thing," Gavi commented dryly.
"A very good thing," Bo echoed, slouching and plopping down on the floor, exhausted from the walk and run over.
"I guess this means we won't be leaving the ship any time soon," Ceres noted.
"It doesn't look like it," Korena replied. "We'll have to see how long the storm keeps up."
"You know, speaking of uh, leaving the ship -" Bo started, but stopped when they all felt the same thing. They couldn't hear the storm anymore, nor did they hear the creaks of the broken ship against the wind, or anything of the sort. They all looked at each other in the silence.
"Is that..."
Bo got up to check and see if the storm was still active, and Gavi and Korena got up and huddled behind him as well as he pulled at the blockade again, this time only to open it a peek. But then the blockade began to move on it's own, and Bo, having applied more pressure than he'd expected to be necessary, was caught off balance. The giant chunks of metal that had been their "door" floated out of the way while surrounded by some kind of green energy field that carried them. And once they were gone, they revealed a crowd of uniformed alien people looking into their ship, one with a device pointed at the floating debris that had previously obscured their view.
Around the aliens and around their ship appeared to be what looked like a force field, shielding the area from the storm.
Lurin leaned in toward Ceres who stood beside her. "What was it you said about there only being small lifeforms?"
Ceres sent Lurin a glare, but remained silent, as they all looked at the aliens staring into their ship.
They were tall, bulky aliens, with a humanoid frame but dark, shiny skin like that of a reptile's. All of them stood at about Bo's height, if not taller.
Korena stepped forward.
"We don't mean to-"
Korena didn't get to finish his sentence as a net-like bag was propelled towards him that enveloped him, and seconds following, the other four shared a similar fate.
As they were transported in a small carrier ship, his head covering was taken off. As he looked through the window, he saw a massive spaceship growing ever larger in his view. Bo stared at it with wide eyes. He'd never seen a ship larger than a star, and the very thought of being trapped on one so big was overwhelming.
He looked around to his left and his right, looking for their crew, but was only met with an even greater feeling of dread when he saw that he was alone, in a small room, still bound up.
They already separated us. He frowned deeply with worry. What about the others? What have they done to them?
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