On board the Firefly Scientific Scout-ship, she looked at the screen blankly as she is cruise through the big void of empty space in the galaxy. She could still remembered how she graduated from the star fleet academy and was selected and recruited by the UEF (United Extra-terrestrial Frontier) as a special field agent. It wasn't that long after that she was assigned this Firefly class scout-ship, named after the bulb of light matter emitted during cruising on its afterburners. It has been a while since she had commandeer this ship, alone in space.
This new case she was after is rather peculiar. Kitty always felt there was something more to it than just another case of virus research gone wrong by some illegal organization. As she traces the track of the origin of this new unknown virus that almost seems harmless at the first glance, she ended up in this dark void sector of the galaxy where almost no ship is likely to roam about. Suddenly, there was a loud beeping from the console and it immediately chase her attention. The big screen indicates multiple firing targets incoming, exiting hyperspace. Kitty knew her scout ship will stand no chances against them and quickly she had initiated her own jump of the system while she suit up just in case combat as unavoidable. At least she isn't going to go down without a fight. As quickly, she radios her UEF channels indicating her current position and threat as she buckled up to enter hyperspace.
A loud explosion came from her star-port rear thruster as she hears the hyperdrive kicks in. She realized she must had been hit just moment before the jump took place and before she know it, she was send spinning and rolling on her seat, buckled but as space and time twists in the hyperjump she felt a strong sharp pain as the ship gets sucked into the torrent of the space jump. She loses conscience soon after.
A loud beeping on the screen finally awakens Kitty as she opened her eyes, partially tinted in red. She must had hit something and she couldn't be certain it was her head or her eyes that is bleeding now. The big MAYDAY words flashed and loud siren echoes in her ship as she realized her ship was caught in a planet's gravity field and is losing attitude, crashing to the planet.. straight into a lone island somewhere on its surface. Before Kitty could react, she felt the impact, breaking her seat buckle, sending her fling backwards before she blanks out again into darkness.
The crash was bad. Kitty touches the painted logo and name of her Firefly scout ship labelled "Tranquillity" sadly as she drags the scout ship into an underground catacombs she found using the strength from her exoskeleton. It was all she could do, to hide her ship while she can find a way to gather parts and resources to repair her ship so that she can send out a beacon to get help. Even the emergency tracking beacon was severely damaged by the crash. Kitty checks her exoskeleton and realized but only a few functions remains operative, the rest either damaged during her impact or overused when she drag her ship into hiding.
The catacombs was linked to some kinda of ancient tomb and judging from its marking, Kitty estimates it to be quite ancient and forgotten, even some language lost and untranslatable. She checked if her cloaking device and it seems to be malfunctioning, so she is quite certain she cannot avoid detection by any inhabitants on the island. Searching though the tomb, she found some more recently clothings from female individuals who seems to had been tortured to death. Based on the readings, she estimate this is somewhre in the human era of the 19 or 20th century. Kitty worse fear had been realized. The hit she took on her ship must had not just jumped her in space, but in time as well somehow. Or maybe it is this island, time just stayed still in that old age.
After a few weeks, blending into the local community, Kitty learned a lot about the island and its traditions. It seems the island inhabitants are local and nobody has known of anything else beyond the sea. The locals in general are the normal good people, consists mainly of women, but there are groups of raiders known as predators who would roam the swamps and other areas beside the port, hunting down the locals, either raiding them of food, supplies or even sex. Kitty realized that if she need to find the parts to repair her ship, she would need to take the risk of encountering these predators and checking through her weaponry, the only thing she could work is her stun tayzer which she could still recharge using the solar from the sun once in a while, but with only a limited charge, she is totally helpless as her exoskeleton is so damaged it would not provide her with super human strength any more. Fortunately, from the local underground market, she was able to purchase a dart-gun and darts which could come in handy.
Another lead, however is closely related to the virus she was tracking. It seems that the virus already existed on this island even before she arrived. The predators who usually just rob or rape the locals, are starting to become extremely violent and often kills the locals without apparent motive, especially during a sexual act. Kitty smells something fishy going on. She had been tracking the place and all she could find is an abandoned asylum which could provide her with some equipment where she can cook up some ancient contraption to research into the virus. They are crude, but will have to make do since all her other scientific equipment were destroyed during her crash. With these crude devices, she begin to obtain samples from the locals. However, without precise readings, she will have to test the victim against a prototype placebo she had created by inducing fear, pain, despair into the victim in the most primitive ways possible.
A strange finding, however really puzzles Kitty. Among some of the locals whom she had captured and check in secret, she found tagging used by UEF, very similar to her own system. All those locals found to be clean from the virus were tagged as such. Kitty is very sure then there is at least another field agent from UEF among the local, in hiding, just like her. She need to know who she is and quickly consolidate their research information to resolve this crisis. Her worse fear would be that this is a conspiracy from an hostile extra-terrestrial organization which are researching and experimenting into a virus that could potentially wide out the human race, if they continue to torture and kill their prey during an sexual intercourse. She need to find out who are infected and how did it started. Finding patient zero would be the main priority now. And to do that, she will have to take her chance against the predators which are usually stronger and faster. Kitty can only imagine if she was somehow captured as a result. Death would be merciful.
Kitty loads her taser and hides it well under her hood as she gears out and ready for her mission once again. She can only hope she would succeed in this mission or if not at least someone else could complete her work if anything bad is to happen to her. The images of those tortured corpses she found in the catacombs only haunts her ever more as she shakes her head to try to clear them out before setting out from the safe house at the docks. As she looked back, she could clearly see the huge signboard titled "Serenity" as she disappears into the dark woods, hunting down her next victim...
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