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Somewhere deep in space, a ship is adrift, their life support is running low, and they are badly damaged. One does not know what happened to the ship, but it was bad enough to cause the life support to fail. From the inside of the ship, an alarm sounds, red lights are all over the hallways, and sparks fly from everywhere. There is no one to be seen though, it is as if the ship had been deserted.

"Life support at 15%," the computer system speaks.

Tucked in a corner of the ship, is a small door, and that small door slides open. A blue light floods out, and on inside is a stasis pod, inside the stasis pod, is a man. He is wearing all black, and is barefoot. Suddenly his eyes open and he gasps for breath. He looks around confused, not knowing what's going on. Slowly he pushes through the door, and stumbles out into the hallway.  Without thinking, he runs down a sparking hallway, hoping that he can find out what's going on. But as he runs down, he passes an identical door to the one he had stepped out of. This other door slides open, and another stasis pod appears on the inside. This time though it's a woman. Like the man she opens her eyes and gasps for breath, and slowly realizes where she just so happens to be.

The man continues to run around the ship confused, startled by the sparks each time they fly. Then he spots a room, one with a large open door. Once he enters he sees that he's in the control room. He runs over to the counsel just hoping that he can maybe fix it, or maybe just figure out what is going on. As he's standing there the woman enters the room. She walks right up to him determination on her face, and clocks him in the face, before pushing him, causing him to fall to the ground. 

"Life support at 13%," the computer system speaks again.

As she gets to the counsel the man tackles her to the ground. He pins her down, but it doesn't last. Again she hits him in the face and pushes him off her, causing him to yell in pain.  She ends up getting him back to the ground but he gets back up again, boy isn't he stubborn. Well that is until she gets him back on to the ground, by kicking him, hard. She huffs and walks back up to the dead counsel. She clicks a few buttons and the counsel turns on, springing to life.

"Life support at 12%," the computer system speaks on more time.

She looks at the counsel a few times before pressing a few buttons. It's as if she knows exactly what she's doing. She types something into the counsel computer, and on the screen a green light flashes. The lights, the normal lights turn back on, so now there are no more red lit hallways. No more red, and no more sparks, just smoke, and the two of them.

"Restoring life support," the computer system states as the ship makes a whirring sound.

Struggling to get off the ground the man turns to look at the woman, with an astonished look on his face. "What was that for?"

"You were in the way," she counters.

Suddenly from the open doorway a clicking noise can be heard, and two lights are seen. Another man walks into the room urgently, holding two guns in both his hands. The clicking sound just happened to be him arming them, and possibly getting ready to shoot someone. He aims both guns at the man and the woman. Startled they take a step back, but as he is entering he speaks.

"Who are you!?"

The two of them share a startled look before returning their attention back to him. At the same time they speak, "I don't know."

"Who are you?" the woman asks she gun man.

"I got no idea," he replies.

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Another door slides open, and another man is inside. He to gasps for breath, and looks around in confusion, for he too has no clue who he is.

Another door slides open, and this time on the inside is a young girl with green hair. She gasps and looks around wide eyed. She too has no recollection to who she is.

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