Who, What, Why, When, Where & How?

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Mandy glanced behind her and noticed that the others were on their way. She didn't want to get to far away from them, they needed to stick together. She used her position on top of a large rock to serve as a look out. Who knew what else was on this planet besides those things which MIDROS had mentioned.
 

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Tawfiq opened his eyes just before dawn, apparently the sun rose here almost at the same time as it did in Palestine. However seeing as how most of the others were still asleep for the most part, he quietly snuck to the cave entrance and packed up. He finished his job just as the sun's rays started to penetrate the cave and many of the others started to wake up, and it wasn't long before the group was ready to stumble back to the ship that had brought them to this curious planet.
 

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The humans proceeded through the channel cut through the rocks they had sheltered in, or over as the case may dictate. They saw no signs of anything other than themselves as they moved along. As James began to sing, he quickly heard a wordless counter-melody picked up by Sh'Siquar'Na, who appeared out of one of the side-channels cradling MIDROS in her arms. She moved out amongst the humans and walked as she continued to hit counter point notes that raised the hairs on the back of several necks from the modulating sound waves of James's tune, and her own form of music. They emerged from the rock formations, and waited to assemble their group.

The Kalemia lay in ruins upon the alien landscape. Slightly lesser dense smoke still poured from several rends in the derelict ship's hull near the aft. As the humans began to cautiously cross the last remaining open spanse of sand, they moved slowly toward the craters the Erametin had left behind with their landing pods. When looking down into the craters, the humans saw egg-shaped craft with little more than a seat and harness down in the base of the impact site. Sh'Siquar'Na looked down into them, then up at the morning sky, searching it with her mirrored eyes. She shifted MIDROS to one arm, pointed at the crater, and then at the ship as she spoke in her own language.

The humans saw none of the corpses of the Erametin they had fought the day before. Sh'Siquar'Na walked up the the hull, and set MIDROS down. She squat down in front of the cyborg and spoke in the clicking and popping language. The cybernetics of MIDROS illuminated and she spoke in the same language. The alien spoke at length to MIDROS and then stood as she looked along the length of the Kalemia and narrowed her eyes.

MIDROS said, "MIDROS power reserve ten percent. MIDROS translate the words of Sh'Siquar'Na. Sh'Siquar'Na says, aliens the Erametin are very diligent in what they seek. I am unsure what you seek within this ship, but do not think there will be much left of use to salvage. There may be sustenance, items to make things of, and warmer articles of cloth. There will be no usable technology or weaponry. That is the way of the scavengers. MIDROS translation complete, shutting down to reserve power." The cyborg's cyberwear went dark and she slumped down.

While looking around, indentations made by probably landing gear from the ship that had passed by not long ago, and scorch marks in the sand, bespoke of a landing and then dust off of the alien craft.
 

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James cringed slightly at the sound of Sh'Siquar'Na's singing, it wasn't that it was bad in fact she'd be quite good as an opera singing, it just didn't seem to gel all that well with James own style of music "I am going to have to teach you how to sing zeppelin, that or Bjork" he said with a laugh. The walk to the ship was at quite a leisurely pace stopping every now and again for a quick breather before continuing on but in all it took them around an hour to reach the ship, the early morning sun warming them after the long cold night.
Upon reaching the ship they quickly found the place dvoid of the Erametin even the dead were gone, so they were completly savage then. Sh'Siquar'Na spoke breafly with the cyborg girl in his arms the translation given by MIDROS didn't exactly fill James confidence as it sounded like this place would be picked clean of anything useful.

Climbing in through the rent in the ship's hull James headed down one of the fire damaged corridors the once bright walls now coated in a thick layer of smoke and ash given the whole place an aura of death and decay, the smell of burning was still strong despite the many holes punctured into the ships hull. stepping into the nearest room James surveyed the carnage before him, boxes and crates were scattered across the floor, amongst the wrecakage an ammo box with monica "US ARMY" stamped across its green side lay though upon opening James found the thing empty only the greased paper remained inside. deciding that it was a waste of time to continue searching the room James headed deeper into the ship
 

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Rolf woke up in the morning with a horrible pain in his back and neck areas. At least he knew how to deal with it, easily taken care of. He got up, walked outside, and stretched. The sunrise was not so dissimilar to the sunrises of desert areas of Earth, but it wasn't the same. This wasn't the Earth after all. But, this place was where Rolf was at right now, he would adapt, and live, and thrive, until he could get back home of course. Rolf performed some morning exercises, staying fit was important in this world, and waited for the rest of the group to start heading out, tagging along behind the rest.

They were walking, somewhat in a semblance of order, but what did that matter? They were headed to a wreck that, until recently, had contained various sorts of hostile aliens, and still might, but that was the risk they were required to take to survive in this brave new world the group of humans found themselves in. One of the guys, probably musician, started singing, the alien attempting to sing along, it very nearly melded perfectly with the human melody, not exactly of course, but the result was better than expected with the combination of two cultures, probably more different than any two human cultures.

Eventually, they arrived at the wreck of the Kalemia, burning a lot less than it was last night. Probably a good thing, considering the usual human reaction to fire and smoke. Rolf looked over at a newly reactivated MIDROS, her statement that anything of use to the scavengers was taken away. That slightly disheartened Rolf, but he felt that they didn't need any of his Manstopper ammunition. His Webley was probably the only one on this rock. So, Rolf climbed into the Kalemia, which was very nearly totally stripped, and searched for his ammunition.
 

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Mandy headed into the ship after James. Perhaps the valuables of the ship had been taken by the raiders, but what was valuable to Mandy and what was valuable to them were probably two different things: a ship the size of five football fields couldn't have been completely emptied overnight. They could have only taken what they wanted.

From the inside, the ship looked nothing like what it had yesterday. Fire and raiders had completely rearranged its appearance. However, Mandy was able to find her way back to the surgical room she first woke up in. She decided to take what she could; it might come in handy. On the floor lay a white case about the size of a large shoe box made of some synthetic material like plastic. She opened it and looked inside: there rested an alien instrument cushioned in foam. She had no idea as to its function, so she tossed it out and the foam too. The case was useful.

She found a shelf full of bandages, wraps, and other such material and put it into the box. If she grabbed something she didn't know how to use, Sh'Siquar'Na would know whether or not it was useful. She picked up a small packet. As her hand went to place it into the box, it became very cold. Startled, she looked at it again. An instant cold pack! Fascinating! After that, she threw a little bit of everything into the box.

Leaving the room with four cases, Mandy decided to systematically search all of the surrounding rooms. However, her scrounging was less successful there. Several rooms were control rooms, and a few were full of tools for the maintenance of the ship. Finally, she walked into another room full of medical supplies. There were several rolling operating tables, a few large unexplainable machines (perhaps imaging equipment), and glass enclosed shelves along each wall. She figured that she had taken about as much as she could already and turned towards the door. As she walked past a table, she picked up a small rod that lay on it. Her fingers found a small button: it quickly telescoped to about six feet and then sprung open like a scroll. A collapsable stretcher! Why weren't humans this advanced?
 
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Sh'Siquar'Na drew her energy weapon and climbed up the hull of the Kalemia. She looked up at the sky once more, and then down into the bowels of the ship as she leapt down. She straightened after landing, and looked each way along the corridor. She moved in one direction, and paused as she reached a junction. She brushed her fingers over a dark control panel, and looked at the runic readout as it illuminated. She pressed the panel several times, causing what looked like engineering schematics of the Kalemia.

She abandoned the panel and proceeded down the corridor. She paused at each junction, repeating the process each time she found a panel still being powered. Eventually she arrived at a bulkhead door. She pressed the control button, and was rewarded with a buzz. She holstered her weapon, and drew the rod out of its sheath. She looked back at the doorway as the rod looked to melt as it elongated into a meter pole with a flat end. She took a step back, and slammed the flat end into the edge of the doorway. She pulled on the pole, paused and then did so again. As she did so the metal of the bulkhead shrieked in protest as a small rend was torn.

Sh'Siquar'Na pulled the lever out of the damaged area and inspected her handiwork. The metal again appeared to melt, and returned to its original length before she slid it back into its sheath on her outer thigh. She reached her fingers into the small jagged space and jerked exposed wires and a metallic hose out of the space. She hissed in pain and muttered in her own language as a jagged edge of metal caught her skin and tore open a sizeable gash in her hand. She ignored the injury, which dripped luminescent purple hued blood, as she sawed the wires and hose over the jagged metal which had cut her. As the hose was hewn, a hiss of hydraulics releasing was heard.


She placed her hands on the doorway, pushed against it, and began to manually slide it open. She slid the door far enough open to slip through to the other side. The room she entered was dark. She slapped the control panel to the side of the door and nothing happened. She rested her back against the bulkhead, and pushed the door the rest of the way into its frame with her hands and one foot, to allow as much ambient light as possible into the room. She moved to several small metal crates that appeared to be untouched. She looked over her shoulder at anybody who may have followed her, and then back at the containers.


They were all square, and appeared uniformly constructed and unsecured. She lifted the lid of one, and discovered it was full of trays that contained small green spheres. She picked one up and bit into it. She chewed on it and the ichor that oozed out of it, as she began looking around the room. She opened more of the containers and located more of the same. She began shoving crates toward the entrance. She grabbed one of the boxes out of the crate and tucked it under her arm as she left the room.

She navigated the corridors until she found an exit onto the hull. She clambered down and walked over to MIDROS. She squatted down next to the cyborg, spoke to her, and once activated set the box down in front of the woman. MIDROS took several of the spheres and consumed them, before sitting back against the hull. For the first time in the last twelve hours she did not immediately power down.
 
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The ship's interior was a blackend mess of burnt out electronics and scattered debris getting worse the deeper James went, so far James had aquired a blunt axe with a broken handle, three tins of Cambells soup of which he daren't check the best before lest he read 1987, a first aid kit which despite being in some eastern european language he found to be complete, all of which he had stuffed into a backpack along with some extra clothes he'd found down the hall. However his best find so far was the hunting knife, it's blade was around 6" long and razor sharp, with it safely secured in its sheath he'd quickly strapped it to his right arm for easy access, with a weapon he could use James felt more confident of his surroundings and his ability to deal with any unwelcome guest's.

Entering yet another desecrated room the contents strewn across the floor like a child's recent tantrum, some of it was clearly broken beyond repair though he set about searching for the more useable junk and it was whilst he was examining a broken transistor radio (what he'd tune it into was a mystery to him) he saw it and all at once he started to laugh. Standing in the corner of the room, half covered with debris was a guitar, but not any old guitar HIS guitar. Throwing the radio over his shoulder James frantically rushed over, pulling his beloved instrument from the wreckage like it was Excalibur or the Holy Grail as opposed to a cheap replica Les Paul, it was still beautiful...he felt like he was going to cry with joy.
"Oh baby what have they done to you?" he crooned, running his finger along a jagged gash in its once pristine bodywork no doubt adminstered by an Erametin in search of treasure. Tossing the remaining debris across the room as he single mindedly searched he eventually found the case for his guitar the mini Marshal still nestled inside if a little scuffed.
Plugging his guitar into the amp he proceeded to play, the sound of Love Spreads main riff echoed around the small metal room the perfect recording studio, sure if anything hostile was still around he'd be found within seconds, but he didn't care for right here and now he was the happiest he'd been since landing on this god forsaken rock.
 

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Mandy left the medical supply room and turned down the corridor towards the next room. Somewhere in the ship she could hear the banging and wrenching of metal. She hoped that the others were alright. Then she entered the next room and closed the door behind her. A faint light illuminated the room: a table lamp sat on a desk in the middle of the room. Mandy looked at it curiously, and then hurried over to it. This is from earth! It was plugged into a socket just like one from earth! Then Mandy looked up; the entire room was full of earthly objects! However, close inspection showed many of them to be useless: several empty aluminum cans, three rubber duckies, a twist tie, a tricycle, a coat hangar, and a tape measure. The room was full of such stuff.

On one shelf, she found a business man's briefcase. She opened it. It was full of folders and meaningless papers; she emptied it. Out fell a snub-nose pistol: a Ruger SP101. Hmm, a dirty business man. Such pistols were only useful at close range, but they were better than nothing. Furthermore, she only had its six shots.

On the same shelf, she found her purse. She checked its contents; she still had $30 dollars. Her badge and gun were still there too. Well, this is getting better. She put the snub-nose in her purse and set it on the desk next to the lamp. Most likely, her clothes were somewhere in this room too. She turned around and untied her robe. Walking towards a shelf, she let the robe slide off her shoulders and hang at her arms. Looking up, she saw the corner of a white piece of cloth on the top shelf. She let the robe drop to her feet as she reached for it.
 
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James fingers danced up and down the frets of his guitar he was having the time of his when a noise to his right brought him crashing back to reality. the palm of his hand slammed down on the strings instantly killing all sound and then standing where he was he listened...there it was again, it was close maybe in the room next door? placing his guitar gently on the floor James drew the long hunting knife from it's sheath and in a low crouch headed for the door.
The figure was dressed from head to toe in a shimmering robe of some sort however the feeble light cast by the desk lamp, Desk lamp? where the hell did that come from? meant he couldn't tell if the figure was friend, foe or even human. James was taking no chances, entering the room James crept up on the figure as quietly as possible, heavy army boots didn't help, should have taken them off however the figure was to intent on searching the shelves to notice him, just as well, it was too late now if they turned around he'd be able to reach them with a quick burst of speed, one thrust and it'd be all over.
James was close, very close. Flexing his fingers along the knifes handle James made ready for his lunge, however what happened next took entirely off guard. Reaching for the top shelf the figures robe slid off of their body to reveal the naked form of a very attractive woman, His mind raced as he tried to recall her name...Mandy that was it. James stared in awe at the beauty that stood before him, smooth tanned skin and long, dark, silky hair running down her back, so stunned was he by what he saw he very nearly dropped the knife he was still carrying. Quickly returning the blade to its sheath, a moral battle raged in within his head, a gentleman would let her know he was here and turn his back so that she could get dressed in peace, James however was no gentleman. Leaning up against a nearby wall James watched for several minutes as Mandy searched for her clothes, a police badge and gun lay on a nearby table. Deciding that he been quiet for long enough James revealed his presence with a smile and a broad Irish accent "You know you're wasted as a copper bayluv"
 
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Elizabeth had followed the others to the ship and helped in the search. Although she had found some things that she recognized, none of them were useful...unless you counted half-melted ammunition useful. She was becoming frustrated when she heard the sound of an electric guitar. She couldn't place the song, but from the little she knew of the other former prisoners, James was the only one who could play guitar. Thinking he must have found a better room for finding things, she moved off toward the sound to help him carry whatever it was he had found...besides his guitar...she hoped for a minute that her Horn was there also, but then remembered she wasn't holding it when she had been captured, and had actually put it so that it would have been hidden directly behind the door should someone come in...the chances of finding it here were very low.

Elizabeth had gotten a lot closer to the guitar music when the crash came, followed by sudden silence as James stopped the melody. She slowed down and became a lot more cautious...anything could have caused the crash...a fellow survivor or a hostile alien. She didn't have a weapon and although she didn't want to have to use one, the lack of something deadly made her extra nervous. She made it to the room where the music had come from and saw a guitar laying on the ground, discarded...but not as if James had been attacked. She saw another door open on the opposite wall and poked her head through cautiously. She saw Mandy, naked for some reason, but searching intently for something...and James watching her. Elizabeth scowled...some people had no respect for women. She opened her mouth to speak but James beat her to it. "You know you're wasted as a copper babyluv." he said. As Mandy whirled around in shock Elizabeth stepped out and said dryly, "At first I thought you were hitting on me for some innocent reason, but it's obvious you're easier than anyone I've ever met."
 

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Rolf was searching, searching, searching. And you know what? He found little, very little. He found two medals, one an East German Für Treue Dienste, and an American high school rifle team medal, the rail of an airsoft G36K, an LP of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, three authentic, vintage Reservist Rations, from the Great War, and a briefcase, made of old, black leather, closed by a belt-like device, in which he carried most of his finds, except the medals. He wore the American one pinned on his suit, and the German one around his neck. But he hadn't found any of his ammo, or any other ammo for that matter.

Rolf continued looking, not finding anything else, to his extreme disappointment. He was about to give up, and go back outside, when he heard the opening chords to some song, unfamiliar to Rolf, who had grown up on staple East German songs, and a few popular songs from West Germany, if reception was well enough. The song didn't matter, the fact that it was being played did. Rolf quickly tied his suitcases together with his tie, and headed toward the sound of the music, Desert Eagle drawn, his stance resembling a dueler of old. Along the way, he passed a most curious sight.

There in the corridor was the very rude American, derobed, literally, reaching for something. "If you wanted to feel the cold, alien wind on your skin, you could have at least closed the door, Queen." Queen of course, being part of the title of a David Bowie song, prominent on the album Hunky Dory, this is what Rolf called her, in German of course. He wouldn't want to offend her again, after he had offended her earlier, though Rolf was still entirely clueless as to what he had done to deserve her hatred. "But get something on, or fight like that, I don't care. We have a sound to investigate." And with that, Rolf left the room, reminding himself to ask their alien Freund der Tag if the scavengers found security cameras valuable.

So Rolf was on his way to the sound where he again passed by a curious sight. Purple-blue blood, if Rolf remembered right, a sign of bleeding mollusks in the area, or at least some creature with hemocyanide or hemocyanin, whatever it was called that made the blood blue instead of red when oxidized. Somebody was either attacked or had an accident. The same blood on a jagged piece of metal suggested the later theory. So Rolf headed to the source of the noise, which turned out to be one of their own. "Stop that racket before some creature comes in and slays you." Just then, Rolf spied it. In the corner was a box of his precious Manstopper ammunition. Rolf grabbed it triumphantly, he had more ammo, 24 rounds to be exact.
 

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Tawfiq walked through the wreck. It was an awful, gloomy mess which flame and heat only made gloomier. In fact it almost had a strange melancholy beauty about it. However Tawfiq was not here to appreciate architectural gloom. Instead he stumbled through room after ransacked room. He walked past rooms full of strange metals, filled with foreign wires, and composed of curious materials that he simply could not describe. However it seemed that what MIDROS had said was true, not a weapon or other usable material in site. As he shifted through the mess however he started to hear the awful clatter of someone playing an electrical guitar, deciding to see if any of his companions had found anything he moved through the wreckage towards the noise.

Then, as he passed a dimly lit room a sudden shower of sparks illuminated an object under some wreckage. It was a thoroughly smashed muzzle loading rifle. However, Tawfiq felt a little better as he found that the black powder for the weapon had stayed with it and was easily extricated from the wreckage. Perhaps the powder might be useful for him. Then he spotted a suitcase, pouring it out he found some measurement equipment and a rather light surveyor's laser. He paused and then decided to take the whole suitcase as it was rather light. Nearby was another relic, apparently these aliens had sacked a museum or something, it was a rapier and its sheathe. Figuring that it was better than his previous armanents Tawfiq attached the sheathe to his waist. The rest of the room was filled with maps written in what appeared to be German. However these were presumably worthless on this alien planet so he promptly stuffed the blackpowder container he had found into his suitcase and then walked towards the sounds of voices coming from a nearby room. He was rewarded with the momentary sight of one of his female companion rear before she turned around. Only to have another one of his companions block his view as she talked to some fellow out of view. Tawfiq being a real gentlemen then promptly sat on a nearby fallen pillar of some sort and waited for his companions to finish, well dressing apparently.
 

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Mandy glanced at Elizabeth, and then decided to ignore her. Her opening the door was proving to be a nuisance: everyone seemed to be walking by in the corridor. However, Mandy was not ashamed of her body. She didn't reach down for the robe, that would have been an awkward and humiliating motion. Instead, she threw her arms around James and hid behind him.

With one hand she pulled his dark hair away from his ear and she leaned in to whisper.
"Would you rather I were a cheap woman who sold myself to every man?" she said quietly. "I need your help." She kissed his ear and then switched sides to the other. "I was trying to reach those clothes up on that top shelf, but I couldn't quite reach them. Do you think you could get them down for me?" she asked as she let her hands side down his chest.

She couldn't say she wasn't enjoying herself; she been attracted to James since she'd first set eyes on him. He was tall and handsome in the right, masculine way that Mandy liked. She didn't have a boyfriend; she hadn't for a while. Here on this alien planet, the picking was limited. However, the selection was good.
 

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This wasn't the first time that James had been in a situation like this though thankfully it wasn't him that currently undressed. Throughout his adult life he was forever being caught by his girlfriends or their boyfriends though this was the first time that it'd played out like this, normally James would have been forced to climb a drainpipe, maybe he should start being more faithful this was started to get too regular occurrence.
"Sure thing babyluv,but lets get you into this first we wouldn't wish you to catch a cold" taking off his leather jacket and handing it to Mandy, James quickly climbed the shelving to retrieve Mandy's clothes "So Elizabeth what brings you to this part of the ship" James asked more to kill the awkward silence than out of any real interest, also he wanted to gauge just how pissed off she really was.
Climbing back down from the shelves James gave Mandy the bundle of clothes "I'll leave you to get changed then shall I?"
 

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Darek searched through the wreckage, finding few objects of much use. It was scorchingly obvious that James had the hots for Mandy, which came as no surprise to him. He eventually found something that seemed familiar to him: a large duffel bag with the letters "WLP" stenciled on the side. He examined it some more, and found "PPOR DARIUSZ ŁUKASZEWSKI" written on a tag. It was clearly his old army duffel bag. He deduced that he, like some of the others by that point, had stumbled upon his Earth belongings. He had no idea how or why the aliens had taken things that were obviously not on their persons at the time of their respective abductions, but he didn't care.
 

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Mandy smiled at James and slide into her white shorts. Then she handed him his jacket as she pulled her tank top over her head. As she looked down she saw several pairs of shoes on the ground under the bottom shelf. There were her pair of black converse. She smiled and slipped into them. She put the robe back on too; it was a great insulator at night. Then she threw her purse over her shoulder.

"I'm afraid there isn't much here," she said, "but we definitely should rummage through it." Mandy pulled out her bronze lipstick and did her lips.
 
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Elizabeth spluttered for a moment, then simply left. People like James were simply a disgrace. She fumed for a minute, then berated herself for that. Why are you angry? her cynical side asked. Is it because you thought that maybe you'd found someone who appreciated the fact you live for music? She shook those thoughts off, then continued searching. She had passed...Darek, it was, holding a bag that she could imagine belonging to him...so maybe there was a chance her suitcase and horn were somewhere? She went through several rooms, finding nothing of use. Finally she came upon a room that upon closer inspection may have been the room that she had been in on the temporary consciousness...but she wasn't sure at the same time, as she hadn't seen much then. She did, however, find a few knives of various lengths that would definitely come in handy. She wrapped them in some nearby cloth, grateful that this room had escaped the majority of the fire. She stood back up, and her hand accidentally brushed against a panel that was on the wall. It instantly lit up and flashed red. With a pneumatic hiss, the doors on either side of the room closed and from the sounds of it...sealed. Elizabeth ran over to the door she had come through and attempted to pull on it...to no avail, as she expected. The door seemed to be made of sterner stuff than the prison doors had, so she doubted force would work. She went back to the panel and touched it again...to no change. She hit a nearby closet in frustration, and gasped as her French Horn case fell out of it. It seemed largely ok, but why it would be in what seemed to be the surgical bay she wasn't sure...maybe she was the last one captured or something. However, this opened some opportunities for escaping. She opened the case and was delighted to find the horn largely ok...just a few new scratches here and there. She pulled it out, attached the mouthpiece, and tuned it quickly...her lungs weren't fully ready to handle the strain again due to the large amounts of smoke she had inhaled yesterday, but she had to try. Picking a piece at random, she began to play Pachelbel's Cannon...a classic that pretty much EVERYONE on Earth knew. She prayed someone would hear the music and be able to get her out of there.
 

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Mandy continued walking through the room and then into the room James had come from. It seemed to be full of larger objects. Not only were these aliens curious, they were also orderly, smart, and ingenious. Obviously, they had gathered as much information as they could and had decided to experiment with earth and its occupants.

In the center of the next room was a buggy. A horse buggy - one the Amish might use; it was probably as much a curiosity to her as it was to the aliens. I wonder what were MIDROS's origins. Mandy suddered. A pick ax leaned against the wall. A flat tractor tire lay on the floor, and a microwave sat on top of it. Mandy headed back into the other room.

"Not much in there that we can carry," she announced. She spied a backpack on the floor. Walking over, she picked it up. Boy scout badges were sewn onto its straps. "Oh, dear," she gasped but held back her emotions, "How can we not know about these aliens?"

The backpack was useful. Think rationally. She opened it. It had matches, a flint rock, a compass, binoculars, a canteen, a flashlight, extra batteries, bandages, a Swiss army knife, and a campfire stove. That was about all they were going to find here though.

Suddenly, Mandy heard the trump of a horn and a familiar tune filled the air. Mandy left the room and made her way towards it.
 

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James grimaced slightly as Elizabeth stormed out of the room, he recognised that walk it meant You're in so much trouble that I don't even want to be on the same planet as you! he should go and sort this out, sooner rather than later, maybe an apology would work?...probably not but he'd think of something he always did.
However although one part of his mind wanted to find Elizabeth his body had other plans. Mandy swiftly got changed into the clothes he'd handed her, flashes of skin mesmerising him and conjuring thoughts, oh and what dirty thoughts they were if only he had the words to properly describe them... Stop staring at her this is bad enough as it is without you oggling her. With great force of will James tore his eyes away using the pretence of putting his jacket back on to cover over the fact.

Leaving the room James quickly collected his guitar and his rucksack of goodies and headed off after Elizabeth, best he get that apology out of the way. Pausing in one of the rooms to collect a spoon and a roll of duct tape James heard the unmistakable refrain of Pachelbels Cannon, had someone found a radio? No that was a single horn not an orchestra. Following the sound of the music he soon met back up with Mandy in front of a door clearly she'd heard the usic also. Trying the controller several times to no avail he quickly surmised it was jammed shut. Finding a small head height vent, just to the right of the door James called through "Is there anyone in there?"
 
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