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2 hours before insanity
The body of Yellow was held face-down on the freezer floor; Doctor Blue was there to ensure that they were indeed dead. It was simple enough to break the news to Brown, and it made them heartbroken. There was nothing to do.
"It's an unrelated work injury accident, most likely dead from hypothermia of being there for so long." Red announce.
"So someone murdered them?" Brown yelled.
"Unlikely; sometimes the door can be locked automatically, so it's a chance for no one to hear it." Orange pointed out. "Death is a pre-existing condition not covered by MIRA health insurance."
"There's a dead body that's not on my tarot reading," Cyan spoke.
"Pretty metal though." Black smiled.
"What are we talking about? Purple could've prevented death, or Red could've done their job; even the others who weren't there could've done something." Brown stormed off to the kitchen.
They began cutting up meat to calm themselves down after they lashed out, then noticed some salt left behind the flaky salt; they never tried it once. Maybe it's time to put it on their Pizza. They opened it. It read.
'I knew you couldn’t resist. Trust me, this is gonna knock you on your ass.'
After placing it on the Pizza and taking a bit the smiled and said. "Knock me on my ass."
Brown began tearing up; nothing was left for them. Yellow was dead; what could they do now?
1 hour before insanity.
"Do you think the Mira will do something about it?" Green asked White.
"Eh, not really; the problems, my family will be proud of me for doing this." White flexed.
"You stole my chance of flying a ship." Green mutter.
"Oh... you still wanna fly it?"
"Yes, it's my dream to."
"Let's go to the Navigation to test it out."
"Would we get in trouble?"
"Not if you are rich."
White held Green's hand and ran to navigation.
The door was locked in the freezer. If only they could've prevented their death. Was Mira really gonna pretend that nothing bad was happening? Some are dead; even others did they do anything? They needs revenge; no one wants it. Purple didn't check the cams for anything, if they were strong enough for anything. If only the Captain didn't love them enough to avoid their duties. They hit the door again and felt angrier. They both must pay for their crimes.
The party will start soon. They made pizza for everyone; it's only a matter of how they would plan it out: poison, orf head straight murder. Red probably is planning on drinking out of the cup, but which one? One bad movement, and it can go badly for everyone. Oh, poisoning will be the hardest thing to do; theh went to the storage.
"Hey, Brown, went are sorry you lost weight understand that you miss your friend-" Cyan tried to comfort.
"We were much more than that; we were a union and lovers." Brown snapped.
"It wasn't that necessary, Cyan; they are grieving. " Black placed their hand on Cyan's shoulder. "What do you want anyway?"
"Just looking for some Ore-Plus," Brown muttered.
"Oh, it's amazing. I understand your grief, though it was your Gemini half." Cyan placed a rock to Brown hand. Brown quickly sprinted off.
"Let's go back to work," Black said.
"Can I show what I saw in my journal?" Cyan asked.
"Fine, sure." Black rolled their eyes
"Well, I was studying the Ore-Plus, but here, the crack Ore you see, I found this when it opened." Cyan showed a jar with an alien slime.
"What is that?" Black asked.
"That's what I'm trying to find out." Cyan placed a circle of salt with the broken ore. Then sit near it while the aliens moved back.
"He,y the pink thing moved back; maybe they don't like salt?"
"Cool, but what inside the ore makes it unique?" Cyan tried putting pieces together.
"Hey, if we tried putting these things together, it's..." Black put her pieces together with Cyan. "It's an egg!!!" Both Cyan and Black said in sync.
"The Alien was transferred in Ore-Plus," Black yelled.
"You, that's what makes it special." Cyan checked their journal.
"That means many more Ore-Plus are filled with aliens," Black spoke. "Thanks, Cyan. We must report it to Mira," Black stood up, giving Cyan a high 5.
32 minutes before insanity.
Brown cracked open the Ore and noticed an alien came out of it.
They didn't flinch nor feel fear but simply noticed how they were afraid of salt. They quickly put on gloves and cut a piece of the alien and put salt on it to dissolve.
"If I put it in Red drink, what could happen?" Brown listed all the possibilities: sickness or death. If not murder, then what sickness? They could suffocate them. Why are they thinking like that why murder do Brown want to die or seek revenge? They fine, they fine, they fine. They kept repeating till the light came to them. Then keep the pizza on the table for everyone; they can't do anything for now; wait for the right moment. They felt something liquid on their hands; it was the alien blood on their hands. The alien head remained until then.
"Shit..." They mutter, then continue taking the gloves off. Trying to know the taste, they knew it was irrational to do, but they must know the danger of it just to see how it would affect them and Red. The taste felt horrible and nauseating; his body was about to faint and pass out, but keep his strength.
The alien was looking for a host. They went to admin, then looked at the crew location. The see something moving a fish- so they quickly put the alien near the fish and watched them eat it and take their skin. They picked them up and place it in the storage, then fixed the others' Ore-Plus. The alien fish drops some of the Ore, and Brown gets some more to put the alien in the blender to create 'juice' for Red.
Insanity
The party was going great, then noticed 2 crewmates were missing.
"Hey Red, where's the 2 newcomers? They were with me until the storage breach?" Orange asked.
"I honestly don't know; no biggie I find them." Red searched the Ship dropped his cup. Brown stared at the cup; should they embrace the thought of murder? One side thought it was too fair; the other wanted to kill them with their bare hands. But making them sick was a better fate than death. Brown dipped the smashed alien guts in their drink.
Red looked around the ship and noticed two people in navigation talking.
"Holy!!" Red scanned through his captain handbook to check the rules. "Hey, what made you think that you can fly the ship now!" Red pushed both the 2 away from the Console.
"I wanted to fly the ship." Green shakes.
"We wanted to take turns." White shrug.
"Wow, no crashes that's great. Wait, how long have you guys been doing this?" Red asked.
"About an hour," Green said.
"I have to respect you now. I need to lie..." Red said.
"Tell them we lost our innocence," White said, drinking wine.
"Uh... sure." Green nods.
"Okay... let's change it to making out instead. " Red pulled both of them out.
Then made it back into the Cafeteria.
"Found them; they were making out." Red lied.
"That's strictly understood, Mira HQ rules." Orange frown.
"Hey Purps." Red waves.
"Oh, damn it. I don't see them. I don't see them. I don't see them." Purple tried walking away from them, then hit the wall.
"Isn't it wild I'm captain now?" Red smiled
Purple nods
"So uh, how's the job I got you?"
"Come on, just stop. We don't have to do this."
"Hey, I am the captain. I'm just seeing how my crew is". Red took a sip of their cup. "Just saying..." Red had his body turned a sickly green.
"Red, you good? You look out of it." Purple turned around.
Red fainted and fell to the floor.
"Holy shit, Red, are you awake? Red? RED?" Purple shook Red. "This isn't funny, Blue; they need to be in medbay. "
Blue ran to Red, checking his pulse. "He's alive, barely, but something caused them to faint.
Red woke up in the medbay; they looked around; no one was there, but Purple was there.
"Don't do that shit again." Purple got up from their seat.
"What happened?" Red asked.
"You fainted. Blue thinks you're allergic to something."
"Thanks for noticing."
"Don't mention it."
Purple walked away from the medbay to see their pet fish, but it was missing.
"What? Where is it? Did someone steal it?" Purple scanned around.
Brown noticed Red in the medbay; it was likely they were vulnerable. They shut the door.
"Huh." Red mutters.
Brown wanted to stab them to death or cut them open, but to noisy for others to hear. So they let out a creepy look. The fish spins around on top of Brown head.
"Purple fish..." Red looks.
"Shhh... don't worry, it will be quick." Brown grabbed a pillow to suffocate Red. Their screams were muffled by the pillow. Till their body went limp. Brown returned to unlock the door and went back to the kitchen with their new alien fish companion.
"Red, what did you do with my fish-" Purple noticed the pillow on top of Red. "I see you are hiding because of what happened. As Purple took off the pillow, they noticed how limp Red's body was. That was it; they could let out a scream about what happened to Red.