CHAPTER 5 -MESSAGE FROM MICHAEL

"General this is michael weyland, I am calling for your hourly update, respond"
"I hear you mr weyland I was about to call you one of my teams had found something's relating to the Prometheus, I haven't been told much about what they found information wise, just that they had found a folder with some information about Peter weyland and his crew, also a video recorder that doesn't work, so they had left it behind since was deemed pointless,and there were also two decomposing alien species found" the general responded
" and where were these things all located general"
"I sent one team to scout an area ahead of us and to the left side which scans picked up a few things that could not be identified, so I had team Dax search with 2 of your scientists, Beth and Philip I think there names were"
" go on" michael said listening even though the general could not see him he felt like mr weyland was getting fed up with the little chit chat crap, that he just wanted answers that the general could not give because he doesn't have them,
"And I sent the other team to a horse shoe shaped rock to our right about 200 metres away from our apc which I am in, team Dax had come across a private compartment ejected from the Prometheus, the rest of the Prometheus is presumed destroyed and scattered over the planet, others wise why would they eject this part of the ship, your scientists got the samples and my team gathered all the materials they could find and left the compartment, they are now heading over to the horse shoe shaped rock, our scan had shown it hollow, team doll have already found a way in, they said it was a really dark hole at the tip of the horse shoe, they just climbed in with caution, and are right now at this moment releasing mapping drones to map the area"

"Horse shoe shaped you say" mr weyland said curiously
"Yes sir" replied the general
" hmm That's interesting"
"Have you heard or seen anything like this before mr weyland" the general said curiously waiting for an answer
"Yes I have general but that's not your concern right now I want you to send me the maps of this horse shoe shaped rock as soon as the mapping is complete, and I mean right away general" mr weyland said sounding snappy and eager now to get off the intercom,
"Yes sir mr weyland I will send through right away"
"Good I will contact you again in the next hour or maybe 2 hours this time give you a bit more time to actually find me something more interesting and I would say profound"
"Yes sir mr weyland I will contact soon rilldo out" .

General rilldo turned off the intercom the same time as mr weyland had,
The general knows that mr weyland knows what the horse shoe shaped rock is or at least he thinks he does it could just as well be a hollow rock but its a coincidence that, the horse shoe shaped rock is pretty much the same description as the derelict ship from lv-426, what is michael weyland hiding from us.
I know he knows something more than I do and my marines don't even know what they are getting themselves into, right now the general could be wrong about this all and maybe the Prometheus had crash landed on this planet and happened to crash in the middle of a war between clans or species.

I have heard of a storie similar to that, where a ship had crash landed on a planet filled with hunters, they were not pretty stories, but neither will this story be pretty if the general is right, could it be the same derelict ship from lv-426 or were there more out there like this just filled with eggs waiting to latch on to its host and take life from one then bring life to another.

But the thing is if that did happen and they pulled up to this planet during a war where were the other species, or humans or what ever creatures were fighting in this war, where are they now there were only the reports back from jensons team of those two creatures, but there must be more somewhere, if they are hiding on this planet we need to becareful.

The scar on the Generals right arm was caused back during a war he had fought in between humans on another planet in the zeta 6 system further from home, than anyone really wants to be, the planet was engrossed in trees and grassland like the rain forests back on earth and some areas were like a desert it had changed scenery all the time, the days were longer on this planet, because it had two Suns, and when it was night it seemed like it lasted forever, the General never really spoke about his time in this war for it played with his head to much even thinking about it now, some of the troops would be missing from his team without explanation, and not only his team but the opposing humans they were fighting were also found dead, some had there bodies emplaned by spears, or traps that his team had not even set up, the traps looked human, but no one he knew, knew of the traps even when he brought it up after the war to his General at the time.

But not only were they impaled by these human looking traps they had come across a few enemies hanging from trees skinned blood dripping down like a waterfall, if they were fresh, some he had seen that looked dry and wrinkled and looked like and smelled like they had been hanging dry for days on end, the smell from the skinned bodies were horrible, unexplainable, they even came across unrecognisable human bodies with there spine and skull removed, it had traumatised the General and his team.

There was an attack one day on his team, there were 10 In the team including Rilldo, they were stalking the forest keeping there eyes open, they could see nothing around or near them from what they know, slowly Rilldos team was being picked off one by one, there was no one around in eye sight, but noise scuttling of trees, bushes, dead leaves on the ground could be heard, it's like they were being toyed with, playing around with Rilldo and his team, being hunted one by one, there were only three people left in Rilldos team including him.

Still no enemy's in sight but something was definantly killing them, Rilldo and the other two troops found a clearing in surrounded by trees, the russeling of trees to still be heard, the remaining troops huddled back to back looking in all directions, everything was silent, dead still, there was no sound no wind, just silence sometimes that can be worse, at least if there was noise they could try and follow the noise, but there was nothing.

All of a sudden one of the troops screamed as a spear impaled right through his chest a clean shot straight through, it was holding his dead corpse off the ground it was thrown that hard, the general and the other troop had moved away, from the speared corpse, keeping as calm as possible and swearing under there breath, they could still not see anything looking furiously and scared, now not knowing what killing them the other troop starts firing and screaming freaking out, his mind and body could not take anymore torment he wanted out, only another hour and a helicopter would be there to pick them up.
Something came out of the forest, something big it had smacked Rilldo to the ground, and cutting his right arm something bad with a a very sharp blade, Rilldo had dropped his gun when he was knocked to the ground all he carried on him was his hunting knife, attached to his leg, he couldn't see what had knocked him down and cut him, he felt it for sure it was very real, Rilldo was watching his fellow troop, firing into there air, the trees anywhere he could, when Rilldo looked closely he could see something very faint, it had blurred his fellow troop, then it had impaled him in the chest and lifted him off the ground, the troop still firing, all over the place, until he was thruster up and down to be impaled more on to these invisible blades, it must have been what had cut his arm, eventually the troop died and dropped his gun to the ground.

Rilldo ran, he ran faster than he ever had before he left his gun behind, and didn't look back he knew he wasn't far from the destination of the pick up zone where they were heading before being hunted, so he just ran, there was a loud roar that came from behind him, back from where he had just ran from, the roar he had heard was distance and loud, he had never heard a sound like it, it had sent chills down his spine, it was frightening,but he still didn't look back from where the roar came from he just kept running.

The chopper is up ahead a marine is hanging out of the side waving at him to come towards him, Rilldo was just thinking 'why are you waving like that to me, is there something behind me, something following, is that sweat running down my back or a blade running up my back, is it closing in on me what ever it is', Rilldo gets to the chopper and jumps in, the marine waving him in, looked at him and yelled something, the general stared at him and squinted he couldn't hear what the marine was saying over the adrenaline, pumping through his body his brain pounding, the marine yelled again
"Are you the only one....hey ..."
Rilldo heard what he said this time but with the pounding getting heavier and heavier,
"I'm the only one and we have to leave now!" Rilldo yelled
The marine could see that I'm Rilldos eyes something had him scared for his life, something that will torment hi, when brought back up it had to be something he would see therapy to get rid of, to never remember, but memories are never forgotten they are just thrown into the back of the mind, until something make them memories live again.

The marine tapped in the pilots shoulder and yelled "let's go he's the only one report in and head to the drop ships we need to get this marine to the U.S.S Faron for debriefing on the mission and what had happened down here and to his team"
The pilot nodded and the chopper started taking off, the marine waving Rilldo in came, sat over next to Rilldo.
"Hey marine you did a good job, I'm sure you tried your best to help your friends we will take you back and de brief you, then we can forget about what ever gave you that look in your eyes, Rilldo nodded, then closed his eyes, hoping that what ever he had seen was nothing but a dream.

General Rilldo was only young during this war early 20s, he was the only dark skinned man on his team, by the time he got back to the U.S.S Faron, even with all the sleep he had on the chopper and drop ship still didn't seem like enough, that roar is stuck in his head, seeing the gore from his team mates get spread across the ground from being gutted by something unknown, they were all still there printed on his mind, the therapist back home on the gateway station which is the station orbiting earth is supposed to be real good a hypnosis, Rilldo is hoping that he or she can rid these memories from his mind so he can get back to his duty, and become a General just like his father before him.