Best Left Buried
It all started when Earth’s natural resources ran out. Mankind went in search of other planets with resources. They found an entire sector of planets
with natural resources. They built a large space ship named ‘The Orion’ to land on these planets so that its crew could mine the resources. They called this process
‘planetbusting’. However on the Orion’s 32nd Planet Bust they discovered something strange...........
Jack opened his eyes. It had been four years since he left Earth. He washed his face and put on his protective gear and went to do his regular mining
duties. When he reached the mining tunnels he walked along the hallway that stretches half way through the planet. He knew all the tunnels and even gave
them names. He walked along them saying the names to himself. Then he noticed a new tunnel he hadn’t seen before.
‘Huh they must have dug it out this morning,’ said Jack. He walked down the tunnel, curious as to where it led to. At the end of the tunnel was a dark chamber.
There was already two other miners in the chamber. They looked like they were in a trance. He waved a hand in front of one of them. That’s when it started
Strange small bug like creatures came out of the walls and scuttled over to the two other miners. They began to burrow into the miners. The miners
dropped dead. And something happened. The corpses of the miners began to mutate. Tentacles sprouted from their back and their stomachs opened up and
sharp teeth were revealed as well as four sharp tentacles. They stood up and began to chase Jack. Jack ran as fast as he could. He kept running until he realised
that he would have to kill these things. He ran towards the armoury every now and then throwing things behind him to try and hit the things. He ran into the
armoury and pressed the button to close the door. The door slammed shut just as one of the things got its head in. Its head got slammed in the door and
squashed like a grape on the wall.
‘I never would’ve thought of smashing its head in a door’ said a voice behind me...............
‘Who are you!?’ said Jack turning around to see a man in his mid twenties
‘My name is Albert’ said the man
‘Mine’s Jack’
‘Those bugs are killing everyone if we don’t get out of here we’ll be dead too’
‘What are those things anyway?’
‘I call them Reapers’
‘Why?’
‘Because they kill you and then bring you back to life ................ in a way’
‘We better get moving’ said Jack as he opened the door. The second Reaper from before was still there. It screeched and ran towards Jack. Jack grabbed a
mining saw from a nearby table and cut the reaper in half. The top half of the Reaper was still crawling on the ground. Jack stomped on its head and killed it.
‘Let’s go’ Said Jack.
‘Good thing it’s a mining ship, the place is full of tools to cut the Reapers up’ said Albert.
‘We have to get their head you can’t just chop them in half or they’ll still just crawl around on the floor’ said Jack
‘Where should we go,’ said Jack
‘We should probably head to the Control Centre’ said Albert, ‘but first let’s take advantage of the fact that were in an armoury’
They both went towards the wall were all the mining tools were. Jack took a plasma rifle and an advanced mining saw. While Albert went for the bigger guns and
took the acid cannon and the heavy duty plasma beam. They both took electric grenades and medical kits in case they got cut by the Reapers sharp tentacles.
They began their journey to the Control Centre.
‘Can’t wait to find some Reapers to try these weapons on!’ said Albert
‘Well guess what!’ said Jack and pointed into a room that had twenty or so Reapers inside. The Reapers didn’t notice them yet. Jack took out his plasma rifle,
aimed it at one of the Reaper’s head and pulled the trigger; the concentrated ball of plasma flew out of the barrel of the gun, too fast to see without slowing
down time. It flew through the air and hit the Reapers head. It popped like a balloon full of blood. The other Reapers turned around and screeched, they ran
towards Jack and Albert. Albert took out his acid cannon and sprayed acid all over the reapers. The Reapers melted like butter in a superheated microwave. Jack
and Albert continued on their journey.
When they reached the control centre they found that all the Reapers had gathered there. There were thousands of them, they were bringing
infected bodies and piling them up in the middle of the room. Jack and Albert hid in the corner. Then the bodies began to mould together, they joined together
to create a massive Reaper but this one was different, it was four legged and of course much bigger, it didn’t have any tentacles but it had massive claws on each
foot, it had massive mammoth-like tusks and had a mouth-full of razor sharp teeth. It seen Jack and Albert in the corner and roared, the other Reapers looked
and ran at them. Albert took out his laser beam and took them down. And so started twenty minutes of cutting and slashing, shooting and melting until Jack
said, ‘I need to kill the big one, its commanding the others!’
‘Okay but be careful’ said Albert
‘who are you, my mother!?’ said Jack as he ran towards the massive Reaper. Jack shot it with his plasma rifle, but the plasma just bounced off its thick skin. It
opened its mouth and roared. Jack had an idea, he got his electric grenade and threw in the Reapers mouth, it slid down the Reapers stomach and Jack heard a
low thud. The Reaper fell on the floor and started to spas, it then blew up. The Reapers looked up to where the giant Reaper was and they didn’t know what to
do like soldiers do if their captain dies. Jack and Albert easily killed the rest of the Reapers, when they were finished they headed towards the launching bay
where they got in an escape pod and went back to Earth. Until...........................