it smells in here" said jon.
they were abord the mining ship, the falcyn. the were in the cargo hold, and the pre- breifing was
cancled. that means that they were busy at home.
jon turned to josh. "any progress with the translation?"
"oh, yea yea!" he said,"i got home ertih vosed let make and sent go the."
jon looked puzzled."any clue what that-"
"nope."
"well..." jon said." keep working on it."
jon looked out the window of the door,and the familiar scene of kyrt passed by. as the vehicle slowed
to a stop near the top of the hq landing pad, the smell of kyrt city washed over him.
"good to be home." he mutterd. the door hissed open, and the trio of soldiers walked to the door of the
elevator.
"ok," said andre," strait down to the briefing room. were two minuets late."

general haseguff sighed, and looked at his watch. jon and his team were 8 minuets late. he looked at
the scientists around the table and spoke.
"aparently, jon and his team is having some difficulty's getting-"
the doors of the briefing room burst open, and three very muddy men walked into the room and sat down.
an akward silence passed.
the general didnt bother to finished his sentence."now that they are here," he said," jon, andre, jack,
meet your team members."he pointed a man sitting closest to jon. "this is adam-"jon stood up and shaked
his hand,"-josh frindi-" he shook his hand also, "-and vaneesa niemi-" josh stood up to shake her hand,
but as soon as she stood up, the woman coughed, coverd her nose, and frowned.
"jeeze, DR.," jon cut in,"dont be afraid to share your feelings."
the woman extended her hand again and muttered something in german that jon didnt catch.
but apparantly, some one else did. a man in the corner that jon didnt at first see chuckled.
he was plated in armor, and had a standard issue pistol in his belt.on his lap rested a non-standard
issue battle rifle, that somehow made jon intimidated.
"oh, um," general haseguff seemed flusterd. apparently no one, including the general himself, noticed
the man enter."this is major benjamin stalker, commander of this mission and technical commander
of all off site missions."
no one moved to shake hands, or nod greeting. the air seemed to stale up. andre narrowed his eyes,still
fixed on the man from across the table.
"andre?" jon said.
andre looked up and seemed ashamed of waht he was doing, so he looked down at the table."its nothing."
"sir." he added.
jon nodded disbelievingly.
another akward moment.
general haseguff rolled his eyes. "lets get to the briefing, shall we?"
heads nodded everywhere.

[refer to the chapter one section to complete!!!]

"how are we going to get offworld?" said jon.
"well, thats where i come in." said niemi." ive found a government secret. there is a ship that uses
solar power to travel. they have agreed to let us use it."
"but once we get back onworld, solar power wont help very much." said jon again.
it was the generals turn to cut in. "the government has agreed to let us borrow some upgrades.
transportation, amunition/ weapons, and armor is on that list, sergent."
so," he continued, "lets see those upgrades in action, shall we?"
the general turned to the keypad near his seat.
the screen that rolled out of the cieling on the far wall was humungus. a man appeard on the screen,
and greeted him.
"general. im guessing you want to see the upgrades?"
"indeed, dr." he responded.
"well, look over here. he pointed at something to his right. a very small dust cloud was on the horizon.
"just watch it." he said.
slowly the cloud got bigger. then, as if out of nowhere, the cloud was upon the camp. a speed moniter
was held up by the scientist.
his voice was loud and exited."general! we just clocked the a-16 at 382 miles per hour, using its
octane/nitrus-oxide boost! this is big!"
jon cut in. "wouldnt octane and nitro in the same engin literaly blow it up?"
"normaly yes. but,"explained the scientist,"with our new INGen products, we have been able to fix that."
then josh cut in. "well, your talking about going right around 8 miles a second. you wouldnt be able to
turn, and if you hit a sand dune...well you'd die."
the scientest looked appaled."it dosent just top three hundred and not go any slower, you know. this
baby can be ridden just like any other kind of dirtbike."
jon looked up."dirtbike?" he scoffed and smiled," i like this mission all ready!"
"can we continue with the demonstration please?" the general asked.
"oh, ummm. we have new amunition," the scientist continued." we'll wait to test that untill you get
here. we have new cat's-"
"im alergic to cats."said jon."but whats that got to do with the mission?"
the scientist scoffed again. "not cats, sergent. C-A-T's. its a reletivly new consept. Computer
Assistant technicals. its a computer with a personality, to assist you with your job-"
the general suddenly coughed loudly.
"yessir." said the scientist. the screen rolled up to the cieling again.
the general looked around at the team. "do you understand?"
seven heads bobed in response.
benjaman stalker spoke just loud enough for a few peaple to hear.
"lets roll!"

the forbidden arts were, of course, forbidden. observation proved that the followers of the F.A.
subcided to side effects. these effects included rages of anger, mood swings, loss of controll
of the mind,bloodthirsty exitement in battle.one would become very dangerous and unstable if they not
were not very carful studying the f.a.
jar'ak, a former sint warrior, was searching for answers. he had secretly studied these arts for ten years.
and now he was paying the price.
the fa taught you to use emoton to fuel your power. jar'ak had been teased for his techneek in a fighting
tornument. out of anger, jar'ak had uleashed raw power. after punching his opponent through a wall, he had
picked up his enemy by the throught and punched him to death.
now he was sentenced to a fra-riel in front of the crew of the starPhish.
he was going to be dishonerd.
looking down at his four fingerd hand, he spoke in his deep liquid voice,"what have i done?"