Unholy lands

Undead in space

This video message in front of you arrived at the Washington international space station a few minutes ago. It is the last transmission from the Columbus 4 space shuttle. Before we continue, I must warn you this content is not easy to watch. Ok now then, if you're ready I'll play the video.

After pressing the play button. The black computer screen came to life and a young woman appeared. Her long black hair was messy, blood stains decorated her pale round face. A look of terror in her slanted brown eyes made clear the seriousness of her situation.

"This is Tess May and if you are watching this... "Tess is panting as she struggles to keep talking. "I don't think the rest of the crew are alive anymore. You must have heard the rumors, the legends, they are all true. I don't have much time, but I'll try to explain it to you anyway."

Tess stops. She looks back. She checks the upper level. From the sounds in the background, Tess is not alone in the cockpit. And when she returns to the screen, you can see her panic. Loud banging from behind the door is threatening to overpower her voice.

"Before they break in I need to clarify a few things- Don't blame Bruno Mills for what happened to us. He was not in control. I mean, despite all the evidence, it wasn't him who killed all the others."

Tess closes her eyes as she tries to sort out her thoughts. It is important for her that there would be no mistakes, and that people know what happened to them.

"If you checked the black box, you probably think that Bruno has gone crazy. That's not the case, I know him. Something else happened here. Oh my god, what am I going to tell his mother? Who am I kidding? Yea, there's no way I am getting out of here.

The terrible things happened after he went on that damn spacewalk. After the meteorite strike hit the shuttle and damaged our communications equipment."

Her voice trembles. The memories are still fresh and painful. The noise behind her is Making the train of thought difficult.

"Captain Larson assigned Lieutenant Miles a simple task: to inspect the damage and to estimate how long it would take to repair it. If it is possible at all . No one thought the mission would end like this."

Her expression changes, a wrinkle is forming on her forehead as she says the following- "I know none of you will believe me. But the meteors brought dark magic matter with them. I don't know. Maybe they have come straight from hell.

The only thing we know is that once a meteorite particle hit Lt. Miles, he died. His death was not fast. It was slow and painful... Until the moment I die, I will not be able to delete his voice. His screams. The pain sound of a dying man was the beginning of the crew's nightmare.

At this point you are probably telling yourself: The space suit was designed to protect him. But whoever designed it did not think about all the dangers that exist in the vacuum of space. I realized it when I saw the hole in the suit. It took Only that one particle to start the process.

At first we didn't know what was going on. He floated in space for long minutes that now seems like an eternity. We were sure his story was over. He didn't move. His body floated around the space shuttle. I didn't stop crying. I thought about everything we went through together, About the preparations for the space flight, on our first date outside the base."

Tears wash Tesa's eyes. Someone Shouts for help from someplace in the background. The footsteps make it clear that she wasn't the only one who heard them.

"And then the sensor detected movement. The cameras above the hatch caught his face. The horror, in the place where his eyes were...was... a black socket remained. Then a flash of reddish light appeared inside them. Bruno was neither dead nor alive."

The noise behind her stops. Tessa gets up to check something off-camera.When she comes back she looks stressed, even more than before.

"My obasan used to tell me about such evil spirits, but until that moment I did not believe that they really existed. After we saw Bruno it is impossible not to believe. He knocked on the sides of the shuttle. I remember there were shouts and arguments. Unfortunately I managed to convince Captain Larson.

We opened for him. What choice did we have? We didn't know. I wanted to help Bruno. I was sure we could cure him. But there is no cure for this situation. After He was in, I thought everything was normal. He took off the space suit and entered the shuttle. Dima was the first to notice the change his body had undergone. Maybe I didn't want to see his skin turned from tan to pale or the hunger in his undead face.

I came to approach him, but Dima stopped me. He grabbed my arm and whispered: "Tess, you can't help him."

I shouted at him: "Moscow, leave me!" He must have panicked, released me, and Dima took a step back.

Kelly made the mistake of her life and stood as a buffer between me and Bruno. She probably wanted to hug me, to calm me down. My English friend was so sentimental.

Bruno attacked Kelly first. He pounced on her and immediately left her, then it seemed like somebody pressed the off button. He just touched her or bitten her. Kelly fell to the floor. Bruno focused on me. Dima approached Kelly. I heard her growling. Dima shouted something in Russian.

Captain Larson grabbed my hand and pulled me away.

The last sentence The Captain said to me: "I'll try to stop them. Tess? You have to fly us directly into the sun. This thing must not spread on Earth."

A red light turns on on the screen. Tess presses something in front of her and in a tone of desperation she adds "They managed to damage the body of the shuttle. From now on there is no going back.

I think all of the crew members became like him. I don't know. I'm in the cockpit and they're outside.

Now I'm doing the only thing left for me to do.If this message reaches anyone, please tell my parents that I love them.Tell them there was no choice. Everything's happening so fast I don't have time to explain everything. I need to hurry. Before they get in here and turn me into one of them." You can see that the fear is gone, and composure fills the brave astronaut. At the last split second, you can hear a growl behind her. After that, everything turns back into black.