The “L” Shaped Object
“stop asking questions, your mission is clear.” The commander’s voice echoed around my mind as the harsh water washed down on yellow and purple bruises. I stared at my reflection in the chrome walls of the small hatchet. I squinted at my once soft and bouncy hair which hung in a copper strip against my now unfeminine muscular body. Could I do it? Could I cope? I had only been in basic training for a month and tomorrow I would face far worse than the mere scrapes the chrome showed me.
I had never had any reason to doubt my commander but sending me, a woman, out to lead battle troops showed how much out army was straining. It had been my life’s work to protest against our planets politics and of how women were treated but this no longer mattered to me for I feared tomorrow would be a death mission. I feared that they and their race would win. The ship suddenly jolted and the power cut out, I felt the gravity centre fail as I started to float in to the darkness before the generator kicked in and I was sucked back to the ridged floor where my heels jammed and the smokey red back up lighting tripped in.
I leaned down to rub my foot, it was probably another meteor. We had hit a few this week as their solar system was much denser than ours and much warmer as their sun was 16 times bigger than ours. This made the combat harder and our swords and armour had to be upgraded three times to make them more light weight but their heated plates still restricted our ability to fight.
I released some soap from it’s airtight cave in the wall. As I let the creamy lavender sooth my pummelled limbs I heard the swoosh of the of outer capsule doors I strained to listen and I was just about to turn and ignore it when I heard it more distinct now that I was listening. Whoever had entered had closed the hatchet behind them. I left the shower running so as to not alert the intruder and reached for my suit and sword and as quietly as I could. I readied myself. I opened the hatchet of the inner capsule and lowered myself in to the outer capsule I looked around although it was hard to see though the dense red light. It was stood by the hatchet blood splattered on it’s uniform. I had never actually seen one yet. I had only ever seen photos, I couldn’t’ tell weather this one was female or male as it wore some kind of headgear with a blue white and red symbol. I had always wondered how such a being protected itself as all it seemed to be wearing was a navy blue jumpsuit. I stared curiously as I raised my sword it didn’t even appear to have any kind of weapon. I tried to recall everything that I had learnt about them. I knew that they lived on a planet that they called earth and that they called themselves humans but I knew nothing except my fighting skills that would help to my advantage. The human said something in it’s own language and pulled out a black “L” shaped object with a cylinder end pointing towards me, it made a click noise and then a loud bang exploded.
“stop asking questions, your mission is clear.” The commander’s voice echoed around my mind as the harsh water washed down on yellow and purple bruises. I stared at my reflection in the chrome walls of the small hatchet. I squinted at my once soft and bouncy hair which hung in a copper strip against my now unfeminine muscular body. Could I do it? Could I cope? I had only been in basic training for a month and tomorrow I would face far worse than the mere scrapes the chrome showed me.
I had never had any reason to doubt my commander but sending me, a woman, out to lead battle troops showed how much out army was straining. It had been my life’s work to protest against our planets politics and of how women were treated but this no longer mattered to me for I feared tomorrow would be a death mission. I feared that they and their race would win. The ship suddenly jolted and the power cut out, I felt the gravity centre fail as I started to float in to the darkness before the generator kicked in and I was sucked back to the ridged floor where my heels jammed and the smokey red back up lighting tripped in.
I leaned down to rub my foot, it was probably another meteor. We had hit a few this week as their solar system was much denser than ours and much warmer as their sun was 16 times bigger than ours. This made the combat harder and our swords and armour had to be upgraded three times to make them more light weight but their heated plates still restricted our ability to fight.
I released some soap from it’s airtight cave in the wall. As I let the creamy lavender sooth my pummelled limbs I heard the swoosh of the of outer capsule doors I strained to listen and I was just about to turn and ignore it when I heard it more distinct now that I was listening. Whoever had entered had closed the hatchet behind them. I left the shower running so as to not alert the intruder and reached for my suit and sword and as quietly as I could. I readied myself. I opened the hatchet of the inner capsule and lowered myself in to the outer capsule I looked around although it was hard to see though the dense red light. It was stood by the hatchet blood splattered on it’s uniform. I had never actually seen one yet. I had only ever seen photos, I couldn’t’ tell weather this one was female or male as it wore some kind of headgear with a blue white and red symbol. I had always wondered how such a being protected itself as all it seemed to be wearing was a navy blue jumpsuit. I stared curiously as I raised my sword it didn’t even appear to have any kind of weapon. I tried to recall everything that I had learnt about them. I knew that they lived on a planet that they called earth and that they called themselves humans but I knew nothing except my fighting skills that would help to my advantage. The human said something in it’s own language and pulled out a black “L” shaped object with a cylinder end pointing towards me, it made a click noise and then a loud bang exploded.