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After our questionable movement through space, we finally calmed down and began landing preperations to landing the small ship on the planet. We managed to get down to the surface without hyper speeding down there, and landed in a barren wasteland. There was thick, heavy, greenish fog, and we couldn't see very far beyond our own visors. The ground was damp and squishy, but there weren't any signs of life.

"Wasn't this supposed to be the liveliest of the planets?" [Alpha]

"Maybe we're just in a desert or something." [Gamma]

"The ground's way too soggy for that."

"Alpha, do remember that life could be incredibly different here than we're used to. Imagine creatures that aren't cellular, or don't have eyes. Creatures that don't perceive light and don't hear sound, but feel the vibrations in the world and use those vibrations to map the world around them. Creatures that feed off of pure light, and reproduce by shattering into millions of versions of themselves-" [Me]

"Stop, you're freaking him out." [Gamma]

"Umm... So maybe we should, uh, try to... You know, figure out how to... See." [Alpha]

"Alpha, I was just making a point. What we think of as natural is natural only to Earth. On other planets the rules could be different. Plants could feed off the animals, and the animals could be self sustaining creatures." [Me]

"Right. So what about heat?" [Gamma]

"Huh?" [Alpha]

"Switch to heat mode."

I clicked a button on the side of my helmet, and it took a second before heat based imagery created a visual overlay on my visor. In the fog I could see moving shapes and strange pillars of heat. I started off towards one, and the others raced after me to keep up. When I got to it, it somewhat resembled a tree. Although, it was very metallic, and it didn't actually have any branches.

"Wow. Some tree." [Alpha]

"It's not a tree." [Gamma]

"It's close enough." [Me]

"But it doesn't even... It's just a pillar of salt. There's no way it can be alive."

"The rules are different here."

"This place is weird." [Alpha]

"Well, we need to find life here, so we might as well explore." I turned and started wandering in a random direction, and the others followed diligently. For what felt like two hours, we just wandered through this light forest of salt trees. Then a massive wall came out of no where. Seriously, our heat sensors where going on as normal, and suddenly this wall comes out of the fog.

I switched off from the heat sensor, and looked around at the massive brick wall in front of us. Not normal sized bricks, but large, rectangular slabs, piled on top of eachother, and mortered together with a bioluminescent plant that had a blue shine.

Then there was a loud crack like the sound of thunder through the skies. The wall moved, the bricks turned, and the living morter sunk away, out of the forming doorway in the wall. We walked through and saw the fog clear up.

Before us were fifteen people. Yes, people. Anthrans. But not like us. They lacked tails, snouts, and fur. In place of eye brows, they had lines of eyes, smaller than the two primary ones. Their flesh glowed a radiant, green, grey, vomitous color, and each arm and leg had two elbow joints, and shorter segments than ours in between. Each wrist frayed out to become two hands at the end of each arm, making them look even more unnatural. They all wore solid black armor, decked out in spikes, blades, and strange parts that glowed.

One of them walked forward and starred us down with it's twelve eyes. Then, it spoke, "Oosh neithfl khauzck!"

"Uhh... What?" None of us understood. I guess it made sense that it'd speak a different language but... it felt different in reality than we'd imagined it to.

The creature suddenly bolted towards faster than I could pull out my weapon. It took my hand, and everything melted away. My vision was reduced solely to the creature's eyes, that glowed with a purple radiance. My skin crawled, but the same feeling coarsed through my skull, deeper than the skin and felt as if my brain was being probed. In the distance, I heard a strange clicking sound, but it wasn't a pure clicking sound. It was warped, distorted, and changed, not to mention it pulsed regularly and in sync with the itchy feel inside my skull.

Then I had a new sensation. I started being able to feel things around me, but not as if I were touching them, but rather, if I were them. The strange dirt beneath my feet began to materialize back into view, and I could feel my own weight, and the weight of others around me, who also came back into view.

Then yet again, the creature spoke, only this time it was different. It spoke in english, "What are you?" It's voice was rough, deep, and throatle, as if the creature was speaking from deep within it's lungs and aspaghagus.

"... We are anthrans." [Alpha]

"Anthruns? Anthruns? Very strange creature indeed, be you."

"How do you speak our language?" [Gamma]

"Long ago, our people learned to read and write in a language known only to living minds. This ability resides deep wthin our hearts, and only a true Vrounk can do this."

"Okay, so you have telepathic powers." [Alpha]

"That shouldn't translate to us. The rules are different." [Me]

"Ah, but Carter, your rules and ours... are very much alike. You believe there is a god, and we believe in one, too. However, ours... betrayed us. He condemned us to a life of suffering, and obliterated our technologies... long long ago."

"Sounds an awful lot like Dravinity..." [Gamma]

"Dravinity, yes! Only... We call him, Noosk, for Chaskle fodder..." The thing laughed, and the other creatures around the camp did, too.

"Chaskle- what?" [Alpha]

"You hate Dravinity? Why?" [Me]

"Dravinity... betrayed us. Dravinity thought we were asking too much of him. He used to grant us wonderful knowledge, and teach us of a beautiful world far beyond our own. Then, he deserted us. He left our system to die in crisis, and went on to play with his new creatures. They were... unnatural. With flashing lights and teleportation, those creatures were evil. We went there to kill them, but we were no match for them. For ions we fought the creatures, malforming and devolving into these... these unholy bodies."

"Creatures that teleport? That's impossible, there's no such thing as teleportation." [Gamma]

"Ay, we believed the same, yet more and more, our people learned of their power. After failing for the billionth time, our people became divided. We fought and bickered and argued, and slowly we drove eachother away. We all saved scraps and pieces of the forgotten information, but none of us are as good as Them."

"Them? Who's Them?" [Alpha]

"They're like you. They're us, before we mutated and deformed."

"Why don't you speak with them? Why don't you go and share information with them?" [Me]

"We would, only, they broke the rules. We once had rules of what we can and cannot do. Rules that divided right from wrong. Rape, theft, murder... were all wrong. But there was another rule, and they broke it. They crossed the line. They played god with the metal."

"With the metal? You mean to tell me, that you had rules against building machines?" [Gamma]

"Machines? No. Rather, diabolical contraptions that spew forth muck and gunk and clog the rivers and burn our flesh and curtle our blood. They built Skahffs that flew on their own, and Sklalas that make meat out of our kind."

"Skahffs and Sklalas?" [Me]

"You'd call them... Arrows, and... those weapons you carry now."

I held up my hand and looked at the palm. Yes, we carried weapons, but not the kind you know. Our weapons were small and unnoticable. They were small Theorium circuits, with a series of controls and variables. I tapped the button on my palm, and the lights began to glow on my palm. The weapon was powering up. I tapped the button on the other hand, and starred the creature in the eyes, who was terrified and confused.

"Tell us where these people are, and we won't hurt you."

"No! You'll join them and kill us all!"

"Tell us."

"Carter..." [Alpha]

"Dear god, he's gonna clap." [Gamma]

"Tell us, now!" [Me]

"Never! Ush nied kuz ux ux ux ux ux!"

"You'd better tell us!"

"Stav niy ed!"

"Speak english, 'cause I can't understand you!"

The creature flung it's arm in a single direction, along with all the others, and screamed, "Nahws faulk!"

"Thank you!" I lifted my hands over my head and brought them together as hard as I could. The world shook and moved as the force of nearly twelve thousand terrwatts of energy were transmuted into kinetic force and blasted through the air above us as a shockwave. The atoms smashed into each other so fast and hard that the ones on the edge of the field super heated, and gave off a vibrant, lavender light.

We turned and walked in the direction they had gestured, beginning our trek to the "Nahws faulk", whatever that means.