Unearthed

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Our story begins with a man fluttering his eyes open. He pushes the rubble off of himself, revealing a strangely decorated wall. The camera zooms out and pans across three, black vertical tubes. One of them had been shattered by something, probably the same creature that had been softly groaning the entire scene. 

We then pan across a technological panel with random flashing lights and beeping noise. A shadow could be seen sweeping across the wall at the same pace as the camera, continuing to move forwards until reaching a closed door. It's locking mechanisms would disengage, allowing whatever was inside of the structure to escape into the caves. 

Our perspective changes, showing off a beautiful cave filled with growths of orange crystals. These crystals shimmered in the darkness, making them the only sources of light in the pitch-black cave system. A large green figure leapt out into the tunnel, landing behind one of the natural stone pillars. As we pan over to follow this figure, we can see a DNAlien drilling into one of the crystal growths. 

Curiosity got the better of whatever had just entered the cave, causing it to peek from behind its hiding spot and look at the golden-skinned cyclops. It seemed to have stumbled upon an entire mining operation, dozens of workers used tools to chip away at the orange crystal, while pairs of two carried the extracted resources over to their carts. 

One of the DNAliens had even been operating a larger version of their portable drills and was currently using the machine to dig into one of the walls. The metal spiraled rapidly, tearing through layer upon layer of rock, until eventually hitting a metal wall. The machine reversed, allowing the supervisors to go and check out just what had caused their machine to stop. 

DNAlien 1: It is not one of our ships, sir. The workers found it buried here. 

 A spotlight shined on the foreign ship's hull, showing just what the two of them had been working on. Under normal circumstances, this might have posed a threat to their operation. However, due to their deadline, they had no other option but to keep excavating this material.

DNAlien 2: The excavation project must proceed. The Highbreed have so ordered. Nothing will stand in our way. 

DNAlien 1: As you say, sir.

With this new confirmation, the DNAlien that had uncovered the hull reactivated his machine and continued digging away at the wall. This seemed to anger some people, as from the shadows, a large, green beast growled in anger. 

The scene changed to the desert, where the camera pans up to look at the entrance to the DNAlien's mines. The supervisor addressed all of his lackies, telling them to get more equipment for them to drill with.

DNAlien: You, you, and you. Get some heavier equipment down into the mine. Go now!

The remaning DNAliens would try to use their smaller drills to penetrate the thick armor of the ship's hull. These attempts obviously failed, resulting in the utter destruction of the devices. The owner of the drill simply looked down at his tool before attaching another head to it and getting back to his work. The camera zoomed out, moving past a strange, glowing device to reveal the creature from the opening scene.

It looked on at the scene in fear, its milky, white eyes scanning over the tunnel before eventually locking onto the glowing device. Green digits wrapped around the device before the person that they were attached to ripped it right out of the ground. The sudden action cut power to the DNAlien drill and the light that had been guiding him, causing them to look back to find out what had happened. 

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