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Chapter One: The Capture.
"Easy, son." Sam Holt told his son, Matt Holt, as he slowly brought up an ice sample from the surface of Kerberos. "This ice is delicate."
"Amazing." Matt said, before looking towards the two last members of their team. "Isn't this exciting, Shiro? Lotus?"
Shiro responded, smiling. "You guys get a little more excited about ice samples than I do."
Lotus tapped the screen of her tablet, checking the bio readings that were built inside their suits, making sure nothing was wrong and they weren't stressful doing their jobs. She looked up once she heard her name and directed her smile at him. "Yeah, though I've seen ice back on Earth and it looks like this." Lotus held up her hand when Matt opened his mouth, laughing. "Don't. I don't even want to hear the difference between Kerberos ice and Earth ice." Her comment made Matt and Shiro laugh, and Sam chuckle.
"This is history in the making." Sam looked back at the task at hand, feeling excited. "Not only have we traveled farther than any human ever has, but this ice could hold microscopic clues about the existence of life outside Earth."
"Think of it, Dad." Matt looked at his father. "We could use those clues to become the first people to meet aliens."
Sam sighed as Lotus giggled behind her hand, with Shiro shaking his head. "My life's work would be complete."
Suddenly rumbling begins throughout the surface of Kerberos, making Lotus sway and latch onto Shiro in order to prevent herself from falling.
"What is that?" Sam said as Matt took the ice sample from the machine. "Seismic activity?"
Shiro walked over to them, with Lotus holding onto him. "We should get back to the ship." Lotus's loud gasp brought all three men attention to her but saw that she was looking up, behind them. Shiro looked up while Matt and Sam looked behind them.
"What? What is that?" Sam examined as a large space ship was slowly making it's way toward them, it was clearly an alien ship. "It can't be."
Shiro shouted as he started to usher them. "Run! Come on, run!"
The four members of the Kerberos mission immediately turned and started to run away from the ship, leaving behind their equipments, supplies and ship. Shiro made sure to keep Lotus in front of him, since she was still new officer and she's only sixteen, he didn't want her to get hurt or caught by the aliens bearing down on them.
Suddenly they were all engulfed by a vibrant pinkish red light and they all screamed before everything went dark.
A muffled male voice's broke through Shiro's darkness, drawing him out of unconsciousness. "Emperor Zarkon, we were scouting System X-9-Y as ordered when we found these primitive scientists." Shiro looked around, seeing that he, Matt, Sam and Lotus were now on the alien ship and were on their knees with armed soldiers behind each one of them. "I don't think they know anything useful."
"Take them back to the main fleet for interrogation." Zarkon's deep and powerful broke through the speakers, drawing Shiro's attention to the screen and the alien commander before him. "The druids will find out what they know."
Shiro chimed in, drawing the attention of the alien commander. "Please, we come from a peaceful planet! W-We mean you no harm! We're unarmed!" He was cut off by the soldier behind him, who had slammed the butt of his gun against the back of his head, rending him unconscious once again.
The Galra Commander looks back at his Emperor. "Emperor Zarkon, one of the primitive scientist has a different body shape then the other three."
Emperor Zarkon looked towards the unconscious aliens. "Which one is it?"
Two sentinels grabbed one figure, this one smaller and have a more curvier figure than the other three, and brought it forward, the Commander gestured towards it. "This one." He continued as the sentinels stop behind him.
"The Druids would figure it out once you have brought them to me." Emperor Zarkon said, his eyes moving away from the figure. "Keep them together and have them guarded at all times."
"Vrepit sa!"