Nexus

Chapter One: "Nexus, How did we get Here?"

"Welcome Back." a distorted, robotic, Android voice startled and awoke the girl from REM sleep. She gasped for air, and her eyes swung open quickly, and her pupils shrunk. The light that fluttered threw the glass pane the enclosed her Cryostasis Capsule was blinding. She reflexively went to block it, but something was wrong. Her muscles would not comply, the effects if the stasis held her paralyzed and helpless. The Capsule popped open, the light being deflected by a figure. "Karliah?" called a masculine yet young familiar voice. Her vision slowly bled in, she could see the fair toned skin, dark brown hair, and pricing hazel eyes. The face was familiar. A friend. "Nexus?!" She called, and he smiled "The one and only." He removed her restraints that kept her body in place and also acted as an IV, funneling the liquid that kept her body paralyzed when awakening from centuries of suspended cryogenic sleep. "What happened?" Karliah asked with great concern and fright "We... Crashed it appears. I have no recorded documentation in my data base and programming of the events transpiring our arrival in the Mayan system. I either suffered damage in our fall to this planets surface... Or the data was manually erased from my hard drive. But there seems to be no debris or sign of a crash site in our vicinity... Nor any sign of the rest of the unit. Our Capsules were almost perfectly side by side and completely untouched. My systems hypothesize we were -placed here-... Intentionally." She widened her eyes, over whelmed by everything. She sprung up looking around to see a blanketed snow field, protruding and stretching into a long valley. The blue alien grass beginning to bleed threw, indicating it was the planets spring season. A red forest circled the field, and a turquoise stream cascaded down a stone cliff side at the end of the valley. Pouring into a glistening pond.
"Nexus, where are we?"
"Sovereign, on the continent of Gaianna."
She looked back to Nexus for a brief moment, before looking back to the beautiful scenery. She spoke under her breath, reciting the pledge of the fleet. "Humanity's New Home World."

She zipped up her insolated Nano suit, the suit shifting and forming a white Parka. Nano Suits were convenient, as they could morph to any body shape, climate conditions, and took on the appearance of whatever the wearer could invision. Nexus joined her, glancing up towards the mountain range that towered over the forest,  and shadowed half of the valley.  "Kara, there's a storm. My systems indicate several hundred miles north east. It'll be here in twenty seven minutes... It's moving at an alarming Rate, it's size is increasing by the second. We need to move, this planets weather is entirely unpredictable." Karliah nodded, looking to the south west,  where another monstrous mountain range stood. "Nexus, is there any signals from the other Arcs or Units?" Nexus lifted his palm,  a blue ring lit up within its center, his synthetic skin in his hand opened around the ring,  and a small metallic cylinder surfaced.  It generated a blue holographic visual of Sovereign,  a red dot marking their location. "My beacon is broadcasting on all of the fleets used plasma and radio wave frequencies, so if someone is out there,  we should be getting a response relay any time n-" He's abruptly cut off by a roaring, incredibly loud, alien, almost horn like sound. "By ...god." Karliah spoke beneath her breath,  as they both slowly and fearfully looked north towards the storm to which it hailed from. Massive,  Cuttlefish shaped, Black colored vessel sailed out from beneath the storms clouds,  letting out another roar. "We need to move,  now!" Nexus shouted,  but Karliah didn't move.  She stood,  frozen in fright and shock completely breathless. Nexus grabbed her hand, yanking her from her frozen stare and ran for the woods to the south. He misstepped at the end of the clearing,  rolling down the side of the hill that dipped into the red forest before them. Taking Karluah tumbling with him,  when they rolled into the snow at the bottom they both glanced at each other before glancing towards the sky between tree branches. The ship was right above, now gliding much more closer to the trees,  large enough to almost completely shade the entire forest. But it stopped moving as soon as they glanced towards it,  almost as if it knew they were there.