Science Fiction story

Paradoxed Guardian

I woke up in some place where the trees were there. I looked here and there was no one around. Some groaning sounds were coming, seemed like animals were there. I looked up; I was on some planet which had beautiful rings around it, the sky was green, and the soil was green too.

"The atmosphere might have a high level of sulfur in it," I thought.

The toxicity of the environment was high. I had to be safe from the toxin from the air. I looked at my ship; it had no fuel in it.

"Well, at least my suit is fine."

I was wearing a black suit with white oxygen tanks on my back, and red-colored glass was in front of my face to shield from the bright lights that usually come from the stars.

I started walking to collect some antimatter for the fuel of my ship. The antimatter I needed was Chromatic matter and some Condensed Carbon.

I used my mining laser beam, which was installed on my wrist, to mine the chromatic metal and used the same laser to get carbon from the trees there. The toxin around was eating my suit. I needed to be fast.

I collected enough of them but I walked way far from my ship while collecting. I needed a shelter as a storm was coming. I started running to avoid being caught in the storm.

Far there, there was an abandoned building. It was a huge structure with all proper electric supplies, and there was a flag on it.

The flag said, "MY'Kaye."

I didn't know what it meant, but I entered the building to avoid the storm. I checked my stats screen; the toxic level outside was 88%. I was safe inside.

I thought of getting into the building to search for something that might help me. The weeds have grown in the building but somehow the screens in the building were still working. I tried to check for the logs; there were no calls or messages received or sent.

"That's strange, the people who were working here must have contacted someone, for some work or maybe to their family at least."

The reception stand was destroyed because of the plants grown inside. It was just an abandoned building which had some history but was not mentioned why it was made. I shrugged it off and decided to return to my ship. I checked the stats screen; the storm was gone, and the toxic level of the atmosphere was low. I came out of the main door and started walking to my ship. On the way, I saw some different and new trees there.

"When I came here, these trees were not present."

I saw there were some eggs around it. The eggs were almost the size of my 8 fists. I decided to check what's inside. I used my beam to open it, but as my beam hit the egg, I felt something was coming out of the ground. 8 scorpio-looking creatures were there; they all attacked me. I used my jetpack to avoid them and climbed up to the building. One by one, I was killing them using my beam. I might have killed 3 of them; others just entered the ground again, scared.

I took the egg which was opened and ran to my ship. On the way, on the far sight, I saw a big black stone. I went closer to it; it was an ancient stone for some race.

I snapped a few pictures of it and checked the name on it, "MY'KAYE," it said.

I returned to my ship and made the fuel needed. As I was about to start my engine, I saw that I received some messages on my communicator. I checked them and saw a figure on it.

It was yellow in color and with big eyes; he was from the Nada race.

"Hello Traveler, I am -kkzatkkaa- can you please help me and find me. I am in -kkzatkka- and I am stuck here."