Impostors Among Us

Pollus

When Black first joined the Space X program they were stationed at Mira HQ. His name was actually Douglass Scott, but the crew went by their space suit colors.
    But then one day the team was sent to Pollus, because there was a facility there. Mira HQ had a problem with the vents. There was a strange alien black goo lurking in them...
    Black and his team arrived on Pollus to harsh snow storms. Luckily their new space suits were equipped to deal with them. They were much warmer, and they had a nice white pattern on the sides.
     Black quickly got set up in the laboratory, where he would spend most of his hours. But then IT showed up. Nobody knew what it was. It was like some kind of slug... Black was tasked (get it?) with studying it. After testing it in the lab, black found that it was stimulated by fire, having rather violent reactions to high temperature.
     Black's friend yellow, who was also something of a scientist, had been helping him study this strange organism. Black and yellow had been friends for a long time, but black had recently wondered if maybe they could be more.
    "Do I have something on my face?" Yellow asked Black, pulling him out of his thoughts. They were in the lab, and black was sitting at his desk, watching yellow work with the slug creature. He had zoned out staring at her. She had pretty blue eyes.
   "Uh no you're fine I was just uh I'm just tired." He smiled nervously, and she raised an eyebrow at him. Rolling her eyes she continued her work. "Saved it." Black said under his breath.
    Before they joined the SpaceX program, they had spent almost every day with eachother. She would frequently stay the night at his apartment, they'd go on coffee dates, and talk on the phone for hours.
   But now wasn't the time to ask her out, as they were stuck in a facility on an alien planet.
    Black had gotten to know his other crewmates a lot better at that time. Due to the weather, the crewmates spent most of their time inside with each-other. They'd eat in the cafeteria together and have movie nights, just to maintain some sort of normalcy.
    They loved their job, they really did. But being so far away from their family...their loved ones...if they didn't have eachother they'd go insane. One day, orange and green were going back and forth in the cafeteria.
     Green had been feeling homesick, and orange didn't like it when his friends were upset. So he got her mind off of it by roping her into a dumb argument about Star Wars.
     Somehow that escalated into him challenging her to a snow ball fight. She accepted. The rest of the crew was intrigued, and extremely bored, so they decided to join in.
     As the rest of his crew played in the snow like children, Black smiled fondly. They really were like a second family. He got lost in his thoughts and kind of wandered from the group.
    An odd sound stirred him from his thoughts. It was....crying? Black looked around him but couldn't place the sound. Then he noticed that there was something crouched behind one of the weather nodes.
    Upon closer examination, he realized it was a child, sitting in the snow, crying softly.