Pirate Cadet Kids

The night the sentries were posted both on the bridge and a pair up on the outer deck. Well inside the shielding that was also turned on for the night. So they would not have a reoccurrence of the primate attack again. Watches were set at two hours each, so that each individual would be able to get sufficient rest before the coming day's journey. Everyone knew that for those who would be leaving in the morning would be facing a treacherous and dangerous perilous endeavor. Especially those chosen to take up the spying expedition against the alien ship that lay beyond the lava flow area. That night a special team was set up to make environmental suits better suited for camouflage blending with the topical landscape. That would be worn by the personnel who would be going out the next morning. By morning the suits were in place for enough people to meet both teams need. At six in the morning, the first rays of the planet's solar star had just begun to peep over the distant eastern horizon. When Bruce and Leo stepped into the mess area where all available hands where assembled. To hear who would, and who would not be going. On one of two expeditions that had been planned... C-Company was the first to leave the ship. Heading East in the direction Leo, and his team had taken just days before. The path was well diagramed on their personnel maps, and the going was fairly easy for the most part. This was because of the path they had cut for themselves before. The superstructure was reached within a matter of four hours, and Jack McKinney had taken point. making his way to the dark bluish-black hull of the alien looking structure. The housing appeared to be octagonal in its outer configuration. He quickly moved to one of it's exposed open hatchways. Pressing his back hard against the warm metallic skin of the ship. He reached the same spot Leo had first reached. Raising his assault pistol to the ready, he nodded to his team members, and moved to face the opening. Leveling his pistol, and switching on the illumination lights of his helmet, and body suit simultaneously. He faced the opening, and the darkness beyond. Instantly there was a rustle of movement in the enclosure that drew a quick firing from Jack's pistol. In the next instant, Rosetta Rosado stood next to him to witness the dead body of one of the winged mosquito like creatures. That had been apparently setting up house keeping within the structure.