Dr. Lena Carter stick out in the dimly lit control way of the Ares-9 station, stare at the screenland in disbelief. The signaling had returned.
For 10, stargazer had been detecting strange outburst of radio Wave from the depths of space—unexplained whispers in the cosmic silence. But this… this was different.
The signal total from Mars.
NASA had desert the Ares programme years ago after the catastrophic failure of Ares-7. The official story was an equipment malfunction. Unofficially, those who worked on the mission whispered that something had been found—something that shouldn’t have been there.
Now, Lena, an exobiologist, was leading the beginning human return to the Red Planet in twenty class. And the sign was head her squad straight to Olympus Mons, the magnanimous volcano in the solar system.
The Descent
As their roamer approached the land site, the signal grew warm. It wasn’t random noise; it was rhythmic. Purposeful.
“We’re peck up an electromagnetic anomaly ahead, ” allege Commander Malik, gripping the ascendence tightly.
And So, the ground tremble. The red debris beneath them tilt as if something massive stirred below.
The crew just had time to oppose before a crack opened beneath the scouter, swallowing them into darkness.
Awakening
When Lena awoke, she was in a huge surreptitious bedroom. Bioluminescent structures throb with a unknown green luminousness, illuminating walls overlay in ancient symbols—nothing human, but eerily familiar.
“Lena… you ask to see this, ” Malik whispered.
In the center of the bedroom support a massive, crystalline structure, hum with energy. Inside it, suspend in metre, was a figure.
A human figure.
Lena’s breath caught in her throat. It was a stark replication of one of the mislay spaceman from Ares-7.
As she stepped closer, the signal in her headset escalate, settle into a voice.
“You were never alone hither. ”
The rampart shuddered, the crystals brightened, and the echoes of something ancient shake up in the dark.