Ghost Ship

Uncharted Territory

"So how long do you think until we get there, Captain?" ARG-05 asked, completely unaware that the captain is about to pass out due to a combination of exhaustion and his space suit's cooling system breaking down halfway through the long walk. "In all *puff* honesty ARGOS *puff* I have no *puff* idea" the captain replied with all the willpower he could muster to speak. ARG-05's face immediately switched to one of his side-eye expressions before he responded with "oh is that so Captain? Maybe it's a good idea to possibly I don't know turn around? So, I can scan for other life forms?". As ARG-05 switched back to his idle expression, the captain was quickly snapped back to reality upon seeing a silhouette of an astronaut in the dimly lit night, that he swore he recognised but couldn't seem to remember who it was exactly. They both stood there, staring at each other for a few minutes before ARG-05 interrupted them by confusingly asking "Is something wrong, Captain, you haven't responded to my question, and I can't detect any nearby threats".

The silhouette takes a few steps back after hearing ARG-05's voice before they took off running, which caused the captain to immediately take off running after them due to being filled with an adrenaline-filled curiosity combined with a tad bit of stupidity. What felt to the captain was hours trying to catch up to this silhouette, was in reality, no more than 10 minutes before he ran out of what little energy he had left his body, he dropped to the ground as he watched the silhouette disappear from his view before everything went black.

He didn't know how long he was out for hours. Days? Hell, he may have even been out for a whole week!

All he did know was that when he woke up the once dimly lit night sky was now bright, too bright and ARG-05 was protecting him by throwing off the small lizards who were trying to take a bite out of him. The captain quickly stood up and threw off any remaining lizards that were still on him before dusting himself off and slightly turning his head to try and face ARG-05 before asking "so what happened when I was out ARGOS?". ARG-05 glitched out for a second before replying with "well after you passed out, these small lizards came up to your body and started investigating. At first, I didn't perceive them as a threat as they were merely looking at you but that was until they thought that you might be food, at which point, I intervened. However I've also got some good and possibly bad news. I saw some larger lizards enter this structure nearby, so I did a quick scan of the area and I detect a civilisation behind that structure, so it may be a good idea to request help with repairing our ship from them however they're a chance that they won't speak English and if they don't speak any human languages, it would take a bit for me to recognise what they're saying". The captain paused for a moment to look where ARG-05 was pointing, he was pointing at a large town surrounded by amber-coloured metal walls, it was so big that he was honestly confused for a few seconds as to how he managed to miss it. Nevertheless, the captain replied with "yeah seems like a good idea ARGOS" before marching in the direction of the town.

When they nearly get to the main gate of the town, the captain notices that the once amber metal on the walls has now become a dark grey colour where the sun wasn't shining so, curious about what this metal is exactly he asked ARG-05 "Hey ARGOS, so what's the deal with these walls". ARG-05 once again glitches for a second before responding with "well Captain I detect high traces of Oplaulium in the walls which is a dark grey metal that turns amber in the sun, it's possible that these creatures have a large amount of Oplaulium". The captain stares at the metal for a few seconds before taking a few steps towards the gate and being greeted by two tall green and purple horned lizards which have what the captain believes to be another set of teeth on their neck, they were holding spears at him with bright yellow eyes being the only thing illuminating the area around the gate beside the sun itself. Even the Captain himself thought they had a threatening aura surrounding them but the captain pushed his worries aside as in his mind, his natural charisma could easily deescalate this situation, he slowly lowered their weapons whilst saying in the most overly confident voice he could manage "hey guys, no need to try and murder me, I'm just passing by because my ship's engine just kind of y'know caught on fire mid-flight, causing us to crash, crazy am I right? Anyways I kind of need help with that so if you guys could help us... ok uh, are you guys okay, it's almost like you guys can't underst- oh yeah... I forgot you guys probably don't speak English... hold on let me write what I was saying for you, ARGOS could you fetch me a pen and paper?"