The nature that destroys us all

Chapter 4: The start of the exploration

          As I sit in the cab thinking about how this could have been prevented, I saw on the abandoned camera how authorities are coming in, finding no traces of bodies near the black hole whatsoever. There was a certain range that people could get within the black hole, but worldwide, the black hole killed abut 2 billion people. As the death toll would come in, I would be closer and closer to the world that I was to go in. The world continues to fight, and this time, there would be less authority to stop them. At this point, the world was chaos, a living hell. Every second I inched closer to the unexplored world which I would be living in. 

          Since I still had about four hours left before we arrived on this mysterious planet, I decided to reboot my long-range drone controller to see if it was working. I boot it up, hoping that it would reach the Earth's signal, and it did. I used the knives attached to it to break my window and see what was going on. I flew around with the drone and saw the atrocities happening back at Earth. The Earth was powered out, as chaos rambled throughout my neighborhood, and what I could see from the drone, the entire city. I move around creeping in secrecy and see law enforcement attempting their best to clean up radiated bodies from the orb's first pulse. As I set my drone to move closer to the orb which was a black hole, I realized we were inbound to the planet. 

          The planet was very terra like, which was just like our Earth, except it had two moons, looking just like Venus and Mercury next to each other. Distance from its sun was perfect, meaning life could very well exist on this Earth. I knew the scientists had chosen a good planet for the evacuating people to live on. I scouted and looked from the view of the incoming rocket towards the planet just to see the shape and its many biomes. It looked beautiful from the top of the rocket, even though I haven't even set foot on it. Just as I was admiring the planet, The rocket set its immediate cab ejection sequence onto the planet. I got ready and prepared the cab for the ejection and the impact on the planet. 

          As I get in the cab, my drone notifies me that it was close, and I was able to get a view of the black hole. Officials were scrambling to salvage whatever they could around the black hole, showing the signs of fear on all of their faces. They were cautious with their every step, trying to find something to reverse the black hole. I got ready for the cab to deploy, and the countdown initiated, as the ship lined up to the coordinates of the planet. I then heard an automated voice saying, "Payload 237, landing sequence initiated..." I then held on as by full force my capsule shot out into the new unexplored world. 

          As I landed in the world, the ship crashed, with an impactful landing, in which I stayed in just for safety, in case there was hostile life on this planet. I kept my suit close and made sure everything in the cab was locked as if it launched preparation. At this point, I was sort of nervous, but also happy at the same time, as I waited for what to do next. I looked back at the drone camera and still saw that Earth was in this chaos state with a black hole. I also noticed another company, sent a payload into space. I was surprised because it dispersed. It dispersed into THOUSANDS of different rockets, all headed towards my location. 

          I was trying to process what had just happened once again, because I realized I was one of seven payloads that went out, possibly with other people on it. It could also be just sending supplies to us, but I doubted it a lot since I had supplies that could last me up to three years alone. I checked up on everything that was going on Earthwise, just like one of those 20th-century astronauts on the moon, except where the astronauts did not have such technology. I then started trying to plan for this exploration accordingly. I looked around the cab to see what I had and found a really surprising object. It was a sentry, along with a collecting thimble, good enough to collect materials around the planet. It was a good idea to send this robot out immediately to collect and examine materials, but I realized that the other payloads sent into this planet may try to take advantage of this, and steal my robot. 

          After a while, I thought about it and decided to stay safe. I closed the hatches with my robot and thimble in it and continued to plan. This is just like any other survival movie, except I had enough resources to survive for a while. Then I thought, wait a minute, if I wanted to collect resources, all I needed was a backup robot to get out and start. I soon rush back to the hatch and take the robot out. I looked around, and outside into the planet, and saw that I could take out spare parts of the ship to build him. Little did I know, it was good enough to make five more of the robots out of excessive parts. They one by one started to charge up, and eventually work. As they got up, they said, "Hello user, I am sentry 1 (continuing on to 6) of the payload division, how may I be of service?" I then smiled and replied, "Go scan and acquire unknown resources." I then open the door to the lab on my ship and sent four of them out. I was kind of nervous at first considering they had no weapons, but I kept them close. 

          Ten minutes later, they all came back with full bags for examining. One of the robots then said, "We are not alone on this planet, spotted enemy company rocket 2 miles east." I dismissed him and left the materials in the lab. I ran to the weapons compartment of the ship and took my suit. I didn't want to risk too many of the robots, so I took two along with me. As one of them led the way, I loaded my weapons and proceeded with caution. The other robots signals were guarding the ship and used as a way for me to come back, but I found the rocket after a while. It was an unmanned payload, but it had tech after tech stored in it. After a moment, I heard a rover approaching on our right, and it happened to be manned, with three enemy company soldiers in it. They had moderate gear and started to open fire on me.