The Impostor

Chapter 1 - The Ship Blew Up Again??

It's been 10 years since I saw my dad. I have little hope of ever seeing him again. The news said that Skeld had been attacked by the imposter, and survivors had fled to Polus, a different, cold, blue planet. The surviving astronauts had been brought back. I never saw my father again. I decided to become an astronaut, to try and find my dad. I stared out of the window of the spaceship I was in. It was called Skeld 2.0. I was sent on a mission, to try and find new planets that could support life. Then,

"HELP! HEEEEELP!"

I stood up from my chair and ran over. A couple of footsteps behind me told me that I wasn't alone. I appeared at medbay, and it was a horrible sight. A crewmate wearing orange, blood-stained clothes screaming for help as a person in a black spacesuit continuously stabbed him. B-black?! We didn't have a Black on this mission!

Screaming, anger, footsteps, but I could only sense one of the three. Anger. I leaped towards the imposter and started punching, screaming: "YOU! YOU! YOU KILLED MY FATHER!"

This was the chance I had been waiting for! I would avenge my father! From behind me, I heard someone yell: "White! Watch out!"

Too late. I felt a searing pain stab my shoulder. A knife. The imposter pulled the knife out. He could have killed me. Black could have killed me. But he didn't. He kicked me away and I crashed into the wall, gripping my shoulder. Then, he ran. I knew where he was going. Black, wait, not black, imposter black... was grey! Grey ran towards navigation.

"Stop him!" I yelled.

Blue knelt beside me and frantically asked: " Are you okay? White! Answer me!" But I couldn't hear him. I saw Pink, Purple, Green, and Cyan run after Grey. The spaceship jerked suddenly, and narrowly missed an asteroid. I looked down at my shoulder. I pressed my hand to it as Blue grabbed some bandages. As Blue wrapped my shoulder with bandages, I looked at my hand. My blood was purple!

"Hey!"

I looked up. It was Purple and Cyan, Pink, and Green trailing behind her. Red lights blinked and an alarm blared.

"Grey ran away. We couldn't follow him. We weren't wearing spacesuits." She explained. "He broke the oxygen! We can't fix it! We need to get out!"

I stood up, ignoring the pain in my shoulder. I looked around medbay. Red, Yellow, and Brown were dead. It was a disaster. "Steer the ship for Polus!" I ordered. "Get the spacesuits!"

We all ran to the main room and grabbed our spacesuits. I put on a white one and ran to navigation. "Blue! You steer!"

I set a new location and ordered Purple, Green, and Pink to check and see if the imposter was still lurking around. I told Cyan to try and contact the space station with me. We were running towards the communication when a voice blared out: "Oxygen, 5 minutes left. Please put on spacesuits."

Luckily we already had spacesuits on, so we didn't need to use up more time. Cyan grabbed the phone and sent messages for help. I grabbed the radio connected to my belt on my spacesuit. "Blue! How long till we reach Polus?"

There was a bit of static in the reply, and I could hear an echo of the alarm. "Just enough time! We should be arriving in three minutes!"

Relieved, I grabbed the mike. "Everyone in the seats and seatbelts now! We're arriving in three minutes!" I looked at Cyan. "You too." We dropped our equipment and ran to the seats. I head counted and was relieved to see that everyone was there. Silently, we all watched Blue in the front seat steering the ship.

"Oxygen, 4 minutes left."

"We're almost there!"

"Oxygen, 3 minutes left."

"Hang tight! The ship is unstable! We're in for a rough landing!"

"Oxygen, 2 minutes left."

The ship tilted and jerked. Blue forcefully gained speed and Polus came closer and closer at an alarming rate. I could see crewmates down below yelling and staring. Blue slowed the ship down at just the right moment. I breathed a sigh of relief, and stepped out of the ship, expecting to see at least ten other crewmates. There wasn't. There was only a Yellow, a Lime, and an Orange. There were only three.