The Crew

Chapter 1: The crew

 

 

"New mission arrived!" - Yelled Raspberry to Anabel, "Finally, I haven't been on a solid mission for years.". "What does the briefing say?" -asked Anabel.

"Ehm... our names...blah, blah, blah, says something about some virus; oh whatever, probably we need to get that virus from something like spreading and killing everyone, and it's probably guarded well and all... mission accepted!" confirmed Raspberry to the mission request on the computer, and as soon as she clicked the accept button message deleted itself and a new one arrived. "We are meeting with the rest of the crew... REST OF THE CREW!? I need no crew, we can go solo!" Raspberry looked annoyed, "I can take out every threat we encounter!".

Raspberry was a very beautiful 20-something girl and her trust in herself could not be larger, she was short red-haired and quite slim but strong girl, she was medium built and was a little bit flat, which she got called on when she went to school, for what she is still quite sensitive; on the other hand Anabel was higher rank then her but was a little bit smaller and was used to medium range firefights then melee and hand in hand combat like Raspberry which showed on her body, she wasn’t muscular at all and could say a little bit curvy.

"Well you accepted the mission and there is nothing you can do about that, now let us get some sleep, you read the message, tomorrow our journey begins, and by the way, I'm still higher rank then you and I order you to go get some sleep and be cool with the crew tomorrow, understood?" -asked Anabel,

"Yes, ma'am!", jokingly answered Raspberry. "See you tomorrow..."

"See you."

"Rise and shine, girl! " "Anabel was waking Rasp up, "What? Is it morning already? Ahh…" "answered Rasp sleepily, "Five more minutes…"

"GET UP! " Yelled Anabel and kicked Rasp out of the bed. Rasp ran into bathroom and after a brief moment you could hear snoring coming from the bathroom. She fell asleep… Anabel started banging loudly on the door, "Hurry up! We are going to be late! ". "Late for what? … Oh my god! The mission briefing and crew…meet up", answered Rasp from bathroom and began getting ready.

After around half an hour both of them were ready and got out of their building. "It’s a bit chilly this morning…", "I think it’ll get warmer later, but we will probably be on our way before noon…", "I guess so.", said Rasp. They went by feet from their building to the military sector in the city. The city was big and fun by night, but in the morning there were just cars passing by and people getting to their jobs, city’s name was Moonlith. The military sector was enclosed part of the city and no civilians were allowed, there were many guard posts throughout the sector and through one of them Rasp and Anabel were walking in. "Why do we have to show our ID every time we get in here? Everyone here knows us. " Rasp was complaining, "They are just doing their job and you know there are shape shifting modules out there to be bought.", explained Anabel.

They made in the HQ of the sector and reported to the highest rank there. It was a serious looking woman that led them to one of the offices in there. In the office there were 3 more girls. Explanation for all the females in the positions is that all around seventy percent of the males died in the endless wars that raged on the Luna and the female population just stepped up and took over, all the soldiers, politicians, ranks were female. Luna was the name of the planet they were on, it was 3rd planet from the sun and it was quite large. It was populated by Drows and their empire was called Drow Empire.

Serious lady started talking: "My name is First Sergeant Millary Thompson, and I’ll brief you through your mission. Now keep silent and listen, your mission is to get to the space sector 997, 335, 128 and capture codename Virus. ", "Virus is a person?! And sector 997, something, something?! Whaa? " asked both Rasp and Anabel with questioning faces. "If you read your mission log you would know both of those things, but by knowing Rasp she probably didn’t even read the first line in the log. " "answered First Sergeant annoyed, " Yes, Virus is a person, and we don’t know much about him but we know he is dangerous and that he was going around those sectors and infiltrating scientific facilities and killing some scientists in there. Why? We don’t know, and we can’t find any link between the killed scientists… The sector I said was the last sector Virus was sighted. That’s why you will get access to Hunter 557, the fastest ship in Drows military. But beware, it is fast and agile, but it will not survive in a 1v1 combat with battleships, keep that in mind. ". Sergeant stopped for a moment and one orange haired girl cut her out, " Excuse me, but isn’t Winter Fox fastest of them all? ".

Sergeant was stunned by someone cutting her like that but anyway she answered, "You have been badly informed, it was until Hunter 557 was built, 556 was slightly slower but the new model is much faster than Winter Fox ", orange haired girl looked annoyed. "Now I shall read all of the crew members of yours. Raspberry, Wright or by codename RASP, she will be your support gunner and mech pilot; Anabel, Rightway, she doesn’t have a codename but she’s the highest rank from all of you and you will call her Captain, she is an expert in biological and mechanical engineering and she will be responsible to do some test she will be briefed while on your way; the girl that is badly informed is Rinna, Johnson, callsign CRAZY". Crazy jumped and looked grossed out on the sound of her name. " She is expert in coding and hacking, she is the best in her job for what we know, and she can hack you anything in a few moments". Crazy was a little bit short, skinny girl and had orange hair that reached the half of her back. She had blue eyes and a beautiful yet fearless face. " Irena, Cox, codename PILOT, as her codename says, will be your pilot and also your secondary mech pilot. She is already fully briefed and I think she should leave now and get your ship ready. ".

On those words Pilot got up and went around the table. She was tall and curvy, yet young. Someone would said she was too young to be experienced enough for her position, but her story was very sad. She had lost her parents at the age of seven and joined army at the age of nine. She got up ranks very fast but later, when her rank hit Mastery Pilot, she didn’t want to accept any more up ranking than she received. She wanted to stay where she was and be a pilot. She left the room.

"And the last, but not the least -- we have Lara, Midlight, she is your heavy weapons expert and your ships main cannon operator. Her callsign is LIGHT.". Light was a girl but she was more built like a man, she was muscular and strong and she looked like she could take out a whole squad unarmed. She was blonde, short haired and green eyed; she looked like she was scanning everyone in the room, trying to read them, to see what kind of people they are. "Now everyone out on the room and get ready to board the ship! I think Pilot prepared everything. Get out there and good luck! "

Everyone stood up and answered: "Yes, ma'am! " , and they left the room.

Sergeant stood on the door and, while watching them, repeated, with a sad look on her face (which disappeared right after), "Good luck, you’ll need it…"

[Characters will be called by their codename]

 

Author's Note

This first chapter might be somewhat uninteresting but that's because this is first something I ever wrote, but it gets better later, as I adapt to writing.
Thanks for reading! :)

Reviews

[solo kavel]

keep writing bro, this is great, i encourage you to do more

[Virus]

Thanks man, next chapter will soon be uploaded!

[solo kavel]

ill be waiting for it

[K.E. Henderson]

Very good first chapter.... Informative yet is setting up nicely. Thank you for the read!

[Virus]

Thanks for the review, it really encourages me to write more! :D
Read all the chapters

[K.E. Henderson]

I did! Keep writing!