I burst through the hanging vines at the archway to the deadly nest of a tower. My head turned and I stumbled over a pile of rubble. My body collapsed landing on my back and scraping the skin from my sleeveless arms. I crawled back in panic. My eyes were locked onto the archway in fear of the snake like vines that could possibly burst through and devour me whole at any moment.
About half an hour later I found myself returning the way I came to the spaceship. The Neptune was a B class capital ship designed for temporary settlements on planet's. The ship was all ready for takeoff, until I noticed only as my hand touched the throttle. The fuel, the fuel tank was almost emptywhich instanly ruined my plans of returning to the mothership which was lightyears away. My body locked up as the paranoia sunk in. I was stranded with barely enough fuel to fly out of the city.
A distorted scream rattled the momentarily silent city. "Not again" I sighed to myself in fear and exhaustion. My eyes stared out of the shimmering platinum glass at what had suddenly appeared within sights. There were so many that within seconds they had flooded the street like an ocean of death. Small creatures covered in fur of all colours and patterns. Cats, of all creatures I thought I might be attacked by cats were the least expected. There teeth were like shards of glass. I started the engine thrusters with a loud tumbling which if anything attracted even more attention. The pack of beast like cats flowed towards me surrounding the ship.
They clawed at the metal hull of the ship which was already damaged from the bad landing which had occurred earlier. The scraping of there claws on the metal rattled the air like nails on a blackboard. The thrusters pushed the ship vertically up. The mini speed demons of animals falling off one by one. The ship was propelled forward out of the city as I realised that my only option was to try find somewhere safe to land hopefully before I run out of fuel.
The ship slowly floated through the city. Swurving around the spires of what used to be buildings. Eventually I decided to take the risk and fly higher, I mean sure if I ran out of fuel the chance of death was alot higher but I needed to find somewhere to land. The clouds carpeted the bottom of the vessel as it flew through the sky. I noticed the edge of the city. And the wild. I flew out over the wooden spikes that stemmed from the wasted and dead grass. Far off in the distance I noticed mountains yet they were too far the ship would never make it.
I jumped out of my skin like a rabbit running from a dog as the alarm started flashing and the fuel gage dropped to zero. The engines began to cut out yet the ship continued to move forward whist it plumited to the ground below. The large, old decaying redwoods classes with the hull tearing it up on the way down before the ship was sent scraping against a hill down and down. The ship may have hut the ground but it continued to keep moving. I attempted to stand up battered and bruised the fell once again feeling the ground moving beneath me as the ship slid. Eventually feeling the ship stop I stood up and limped towards the viewing deck which was smeared with dug up mud and dirt. After a few second the screen cleaners kicked in clearing up the windows.
My body froze up in surprise as I found myself staring over the edge of a cliff. I opened up the terrain scanner program on the computer and after a few minutes of panicking wether I'd fall over the edge of the cliff in the middle of the night the results came in saying that the ship was positioned on the edge of a rocky plateau that looked down over a destroyed and irradiated forest. I was safe or at least for now...
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