Black, lime, and brown, saw red standing over pinks body, as she bled out on the floor. Julie hid under the desk.
"Red...it...it was you?!"
Red looked at black with wide eyes. "What?!" Lime knelt beside pink who was coughing up blood. She wasn't gonna make it.
Black grabbed red and slammed him against the wall. "It was you! The whole time it was YOU!!!"
"No black I swear I'd never do this!"
Brown grabbed black and pulled him off red. Brown turned to red. "What happened in here?"
The team gathered in the cafeteria to discuss. Pink was in the medbay. She wasn't in the most stable condition. They didn't know if she'd make it. Julie stayed with her. Purple and blue also stayed with her. They didn't want Julie to be alone.
"Is Pinky gonna be ok?" Julie asked Purple with tears in her eyes. "Oh honey, I....I don't know."
She hugged Julie, while blue held Purple's hand.
"Red did it. It was him and we all know it." Black glared at red from across the table. "We don't know anything." Brown said. Black stood up, enraged.
"He was standing over the body! There was a vent in there! He locked the door and then vented in!"
Red hung his head low. His friend was dying, and his closest friend thought he was a killer.
"I...I heard a scream. I was already in the vents so I just popped in. Cyan-"
"Enough! Cyan was locked in storage! Red is the impostor among us! He killed pink to frame Cyan! Maybe he's an alien or something I don't know but who cares?!"
"Black-" Red started.
"Don't "Black" me! You killed her!!" Brown stood up from the table. "We don't have evidence. But we can't be too safe either. So let's just lock him in the communications room until this whole thing is settled." Black protested, saying they should throw him out if he airlock. "There's no vents in the communication room, he won't be able to escape."
So that's what they did. They locked red up in the communication room. There were still tasks to do around the ship, so black told the team to spilt up into pairs. Blue and Purple, Brown and Lime, Black and Julie. She counted as a crewmate, even if she was tiny.
Blue and Purple headed to navigation to stabilize steering. Purple hadn't let go of his hand, but he chose to not bring it up. Pink and her were close, and he knew she was really upset. So he'd let it slide. This time.
Black was in the cafeteria trying to show Julie how to fix wires. "You connect them with the ones that have the same colors. Red and red, blue and blue, see?" Julie nodded as if she understood, then immediately connected the red and blue wires together.
Brown and lime were just walking around the ship aimlessly. "Do you..do you really think Red did it?" Brown asked lime. "No. I don't. Red is kind of annoying sometimes, and a bit of an oddball, but not a killer. He was at Pink's wedding and went to high school with her sister! He went to her house warming party. He called her Pinky. They hosted movie night and took turns picking movies."
"Red doesn't even like killing spiders."
Lime looked at the vent ahead of them. Then he looked at brown. "I should've listened to him. We all should've listened to him. He tired to tell us and we didn't listen. And now pinks dying."
Suddenly the lights went out. Screams echoed through the halls of the ship. Red sat up from his slumped position against the door of the room he was trapped in. That scream sounded like....Purple!
Red pounded on the door. "Guys?! Guys!! Let me out!!"
The backup generator kicked in and red lights illuminated the ship. Brown was on the floor, with a knife in his thigh. Lime was locked in o2. And purple and blue were racing to free red before Cyan got to him first.
The door opened for red, but his friends weren't on the other side. It was Cyan. It was the impostor. "Hey cyan!" The impostor turned around and was hit by a fire extinguisher. Cyan fell to the floor and blue grabbed red.
"We gotta go, right now!" Blue said. Red tripped and fell. He was about to get up, but then he saw cyan change. Red watched in horror, as cyan became a fleshy spider creature. It was still Cyan, still had the space suit, but it's legs and arms were that of a spider's. It's teeth were razor sharp. It roared. They all screamed. Red got up and ran with purple and blue.
They raced to the cafeteria to find black and Julie. "What's going on?!" Black asked. He saw red. "You-" "Are not the killer, that is!" Red said, pointing to the monster chasing them.
Purple tackled blue out of the way as a flesh tentacle slammed down on the spot where he was standing.
He landed on his back with her on top of him. "I was kinda hoping this would happen but on much different circumstances." She said. He pushed her off and helped her up.
The doors to the cafeteria locked. They were trapped. The monster roared. It changed again. This time it was blood red, and it really was a spider monster.
Suddenly the door on their left opened. It was Yellow! He was helping Pink walk with him. "Come on let's go!" He shouted. The spider charged at the four but they got out of the cafe just in time to close the door on it. "That'll hold em." Yellow said. "We gotta go, I rigged the Reactor to explode."
Black's eyes widened. "You what?!" "Come on, we gotta get to the mini ship!" Yellow said, leading the way. "We never agreed to call it that." Pink said in a raspy voice. "Pinky you're ok!" Red said, hugging her. "Dude I was just stabbed ow ow watch it ow."
"Oh sorry."
The team headed to the mini ship, before Black remembered. "Sh** we left lime and Brown! Purple hold Julie!" He thrust Julie in her arms, and dashed off to find the rest of their crew.
He found lime kneeling beside brown, who was still bleeding out. "It's not red it's-" "Cyan I know, help me get him up let's go!"
The team watched as the Skeld, the place they'd spent the better part of a year on, explode. They crowded together on the mini ship, steadily drifting through space. They were alive. That was good. And the Skeld was replaceable. But it still felt like home. And now it was gone.
They couldn't save cyan. But they saved eachother.
Their boss didn't even believe them I at first, until they showed him the camera footage. So, they were all payed off. Cuz of course they were. And they continued working for SPACEX, but until the Skeld was rebuilt, they'd be stationed at Mira HQ. Black loved the office, made him feel important.
Red loved it too cuz it had the best tv. The team got situated quickly. And purple got her and blue locked in multiple rooms by accident, because she couldn't figure out how the doors work. Not that she was complaining.
Julie mastered her face palming technique. And in a years time, the new and I'm proved Skeld 2.0 would be ready for take off and the team would be among the stars once more! But for now they'd have to make due with an office.
Surely the worst was behind them right? No more impostors right?
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Impostors Among Us
FanfictionBlack has been an astronaut for a while, and he loves it. It's all he's ever wanted to do. He works for the SpaceX program. They have recently sent him on a mission to Pollus. Everything's fine for a while, as the crew adjusts to their new environme...