The sun is beginning to set, and the two exits the laboratory. Knowing what they had uncovered, the preserved data and the outpost could be the archaeological find yet. Not to mention that they're getting closer to learning more about the natives of Cecrops, but they have no idea on where to go next. When the two left the outpost, they saw something fall from the sky and crash landed in the horizon across from a nearby river.

"What is that?" Asked Antares.

Lauren used her binocular vision to see what had crashed far away, but it's hard for her to get a clear vision due to the dust cloud.

"If the cruiser has enough fuel, we might make it to that crash site" she replied.

Antares nodded, and he and Lauren went back to the cruiser that landed in the forest. Once they got there, he opened the hatch and stepped inside along with Lauren. Then he turned on the cruiser, and it displayed a hologram that tells him that it has enough fuel to make one last trip. Without hesitation, he pilots the cruiser and have it head towards the smoke from the horizon.

"Okay, time for us to find out what had crashed landed" he said with confidence.

The cruiser followed the smoke as it flew, until it detected a crashed space ship within range. Antares headed down to the crash site, and carefully landed the cruiser. He and Lauren exit the cruiser to find that a small space ship had crashed landed, from which it is missing a wing along with a good chunk of the ship itself. Antares was amazed upon seeing it, and what's left of it, he can tell that it was a galley class.

"Lets check inside to see if there's any survivors" Lauren suggested.

"I don't know, because a ship like this is used by bounty hunters. They can be ruthless to their targets, but they can use stealth and assassination. I've got this feeling that there could be a sniper inside, or a deranged assassin armed with a knife covered in poison" Said Antares, feeling uneasy.

"It won't hurt to try" she said, walked towards the space ship and climbed inside.

He sighed before climbing inside the ship, trying to be careful not to burn his feet by stepping into the molten metal. Once he got inside he sees a cockpit up ahead, a cryopod to the right, a weapons rack with an assortment of firearms, and a black space suit standing next to the weapons rack. He walked up to the cryopod, and he can definitely tell that it looked a lot different than the ones back in the S.S. dusk. It's shaped like a rectangle, it also resembled a freezer, and it's black colored.

He peered into the frost covered window, but it was too dark inside the cryopod. However, he can make out that the occupant inside is a human man. Lauren wondered if she can wake the occupant, but the ship has a power surge which caused the cryopod to glow white inside.

The frost that covered the windows of the cryopod have thawed, revealing that the occupant inside wore only underwear, a pendant, and an oxygen mask. The man inside the cryopod slowly opened his eyes, revealing to be orange. He then stiffly reached his left tattooed arm to the oxygen mask, and it took it off. Breathing heavily, he noticed two individuals are standing outside his cryopod (Antares and lauren). His skin is glistening due to the frost covering him head to toe is slowly melting back into water, thus making him tap his toes to patiently wait until he's completely thawed out.

"Heh, that guy is like me when I first woke up" chuckled Antares.

Lauren hold onto the handle of the cryopod, and opened it. The man inside carefully stepped out of his cryopod, but he lost his grip and collapsed on the metal floor. Antares had to help him up, since it is basically part of the Cosmic Soldier code: help people and be polite.

"Who... Are you...?" The man asked in a weak voice, seeing that his vocal cords are still thawing.

"My name is Antares, Cosmic Soldier. And this is Lauren, an android who was formerly the ships AI" Antares introduced.

The man stiffly walked over to the black space suit, and brushed the dust off it.

"Might I ask: who are you? Do you still remember who you are?" Asked Antares, doing an arm fold.

"Feh, I am... a bounty hunter... my name is... delta" answered the man.

Strangely though, Delta had noticed that Antares is barefoot for a Cosmic Soldier.

"How come you're not wearing any boots?" Asked Delta.

"It's a long story, especially when I had helped a team member who had just woken from hypersleep" replied Antares, blushing.

Delta smiled before starting to put on his black space suit, piece by piece. The two waited for the bounty hunter to finish putting on the black space suit, which took over twenty nine minutes. Antares gave him some fruit that he had picked earlier, just so the man doesn't starve upon waking up from hypersleep.

"Do you remember anything about why you're here?" Asked Lauren.

"Just bits, all I know is the fact I had to go here because of something" replied Delta, wiping the juice of the fruit he had eaten.

"We're here because of someone who had hired the Antioch space pirates to takeover our ship, and we have to find out who it is and what they're up to" said Antares.

After eating a couple of fruits and drank their juice, Delta put on his black space helmet before grabbing a futuristic sniping rifle from the weapons rack. Then he grabs the ammunition box and put into his belt, in case if he's running out of ammunition for his sniping rifle.

"Alright, I've put my gear on and grabbed my sniping rifle. I am definitely ready!" Said Delta, smirking underneath  his helmet.