Posted by Commander Mason Black (Executive Officer) in Mason and Paris - Taking a Break

Posted by Commander Mason Black (Executive Officer) in Mason and Paris - Taking a Break

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The giant beetle wandered off on the opposite direction from where they stood, and Mason let go of Paris’ legs and stood, pulling her to her feet beside him. “Okay we are out, now we just have to figure out where we are. We can’t be too far from the colony.” He had barely finished talking when a loud explosion sounded above and behind them, loud enough that the two of them could feel it as they stood and the goo they were in rippled violently. Turning around, Mason noticed now the thick black plume of smoke coming from the top of the ancient volcano, and the large flaming rocks that were now falling from the top and landing on the slopes above them with a spatter. The rumbling in the ground had grown now, and began to shake violently as sharp Earthquakes began to make it hard for the two of them to stand. “Paris!” Mason called out, grabbing her hand.

“We need to move, again. I don’t think this place likes us!” Wading through the goop, he pulled Paris with him. “This planet is supposed to be stable!” He almost yelled angrily. “The Terraforming is supposed to be a success, and there are supposed to be no active faults in this section of the crust, what the hell is going on?”

Cmdr Black, XO

Paris had a hard time keeping up with Mason for many reasons. The main one was his stride. On a normal day it was just past comfortable for her to keep up with him. With the threat of bodily harm imminent and Mason really jacked off over the failed colony cover-up, Mason’s stride was strained for him to cover more ground making Paris essentially be dragged behind him. If he hadn’t been holding her hand, he would have left her behind within a few steps. Yet Mason’s grip never lessened. Closing her fingers around his hand even tighter, Paris fought to keep up with his pace. “Mason I can’t keep up. We need to get out of this goop,” she stated the obvious.

“Don’t think about it, just run!” He barked at her and held her hand tighter. He couldn’t slow down, not with a volcano doing it’s thing close to them and earthquakes starting to become a problem.

Since she could not give up Paris did keep up until the goop thinned enough for the couple to exit to dry land.

Lt. Commander Paris Carisi.

Which was only for a moment, before a roaring whistle made Mason look up and slide to a halt. Not waiting longer than a breath, he turned and rugby tackled Paris back prone into the goop again, the both of them landing with a splat as a huge rock of steaming molten magma landed a dozen meters in front of where they had been standing, spraying superheated rock everywhere and exploding with a force that made their re-entry to the goo a soundless event.

Surfacing like some kind of swamp monster, Mason stood and pulled Paris to her feet once again and wiped her visor down. “Are you alright? I had to get us out of the way, look.” He turned and indicated the mountainside. All around them, was like a prehistoric apocalypse of falling molten rock, ash and fire. The ground shook constantly now as the gods seemed to stir and do battle far below them.

“Baby we have to keep moving, the heat and gases won’t hurt us in these suits, but we can be squashed and burned just as easily as any of those bugs. Something is wrong here, the colony should never have been built on a fault line or near an active volcano, the colonization corporation can’t have missed it, their access tubes led right down to the underground caverns where the proof was waiting to be seen, their goons even tried to stop us snooping around. I know you are tired, but run with me, okay. I’m not leaving you here, and if we see any more fire boulders coming, we shoot them with our phasers like we did at target practise on the ship, remember?”

Taking her hand once more, he began to lead Paris around the side of the volcano. “We have to get back to the Colony, I have a really bad feeling that they need our help, whatever that might mean.”

Cmdr Black, XO

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