David Anderson was getting paranoid in his room. He kept yelling, “Let me out!! Let me out!! He’s gonna kill me! Help me!!” He was yelling so much that Sarah had muted the intercom in his room.Everyone was busy as they were about to land. The ship specialists were checking if all the systems were okay.
The mission specialists were getting the landing party ready. Sarah was checking all the ship’s main systems and beginning the landing sequence. She saw something peculiar on the screen. Anderson was passed out on the floor in his room. She buzzed Dr. George to go check on him. David caught George by surprise when he opened his room’s door. He got up and tackled George and broke free from his confinement.
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He made his way directly to the carrier and by the time anyone could wrap their head around what happened, he disconnected the carrier from the main ship and using the individual thrusters and landing gear, landed the carrier somewhere on the moon. The team couldn’t get off course to get him back so they let him be for now and landed safely to the landing site.
The team needed the carrier and they needed to make sure that Anderson was alright so the landing party was then assigned to find and rescue Anderson.
Linda, Sarah, Helen, Edward and Kevin were tasked to get David while the rest set up shop. The carrier was visible on the radar and it was easy to track. When they reached the site, they saw that David had set up a combustible material around the carrier and by using the carrier’s oxygen supply, he burnt the container down.
He came walking towards the team and said, “I had to do this. It was for the best. I don’t care what you guys do to me now.”
“Are you crazy?” said Sarah.
“I am finally thinking straight. He is not in my head now.”
“Who’s not in your head?” asked Linda.
“Daniel!! He keeps saying guilty guilty guilty in my head. I have been growing crazy. This was the only way to stop him.”
“Edward, handcuff him. We will have to rethink our mission when we get to base.”
Edward handcuffed David and all of them rode back to the base. The journey to and from the base took 4 days and half of the team had already collected samples and made analysis of the rocks. The base comprised of three huge tents.
One was the food and beverages area, another was the living quarters and the last one was the consolidated lab for all the research. The living and food and beverages tents were inter connected and had communications established to the lab tent and back home. The lab tent was isolated for preventing the living quarters from contamination.
David was taken to the living quarters and left there while Sarah called for an emergency meeting. She explained everyone what had happened and they were now going to take less samples and do most of the study there only.
David was to be left alone no matter what he does. David would be the duty of one person for the day and one for the night. That person would be in charge of all of David’s requirements. Rest of the people would do their jobs and we would depart back home as scheduled.
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At the end of this meeting they heard David screaming. Sarah sent Michelle as she was free and the rest had work. She went to David and screamed as well. This was peculiar that is why the rest of the team came there. What they saw could have probably made all of them scream! David was wearing Daniel’s space suit!
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