Welcome to the ISS

TW: A lot of violence and even death in some parts, I will use **bold text** to say when violent scene starts and ***Bold Italics*** to say when violent scene ends

Anyway let’s get to the writing

“All to Node 2.” 高橋 said, head throughout the station. “Copy, exited for this one.” replied Emma, flying her way through the FGB. She heard a few other “copy”s throughout the station, closer to the international section.

“Really? Why?” “ESA made a deal with Domiceaser Hut John’s to deliver 4 pizzas on the Cygnus. It will be fully hydrated and just needs to be a bit warmed up when it gets here.” “Oh, alright.”

“Docking in 30 minutes, You ready to go assist CA2, Micheal?” Lauren asked. “Yeah, Airlock is depressurized. Opening Quest door now.” A popping sound shook throughout the station, likley the quest door opening.

“Seems we are over Poland at the momen- I see it! Cygnus is approximately 600 meters below the attachment area.” Micheal said, followed by a small cheer from Mission Control.

“Maneuvering now, Canadarm is almost at target position…” Emma informed them, focused on the screen.

“100 meters from docking port, confirming checkpoint 1.” Micheal used their MMU to approach cygnus craft, everyone heard the wind noises of the rcs pack on the radio.

“Craft is good, proceed to Checkpoint 2.” Micheal announced “Engaging thrust.”

“Canadarm 2 at docking position.” Emma said. “Checkpoint 2 reached, proceeding to soft capture.”

As the Cygnus came into contact with the station, a booming noise came from the docking port. It wasn’t dangerous, just the sounds of a resupply.

4 hours later

“Alright…. Almost there…” 高橋 said, watching the Adventure (AKA LHM-1, Large Habitation Module) approach the stations aft port of the Zvezda module. The module had been on its way to the station for 5 hours, and the crew was excited to see it.

The module had space for 8 people, and modern life support equipment. It also had a bright Red and White coat of paint, to make it easier to see on docking cameras for future modules, but also to look nice.

It had 4 beds, a “cook nook” area where meals could be prepared and much more.

The Module resembled the old American SkyLab in many ways, down to the x shape of solar panels. It had a stationary area for the module to connect to the Zvezda, but the rest of the module rotated to provide 0.25 G of gravity for the crew, to prevent bone atrophy while they slept. The second part of the module with the kitchen area also rotated to provide 0.25 g, but in the opposite direction to prevent the entire station from spinning. The rotation here is also used for the crew to be able to make meals that don’t need to be hyperprocessed into reusable bags. Instead of dehydrated macaroni and cheese sludge, they can use small packs of it meant for camping trips on earth.

The top of the module had a hexagonal array of solar panels, similar to the \* symbol, and in total, inside, the module looked less like a a space station module and more like a medium sized modern apartment.

“Module is nearing capture with the EURA.” Lauren said on the radio, controlling the European arm through the Poisk module. “Capture confirmed, Permission to move the LHM to the Aft Zvezda port?” “Permission granted, move it.” Micheal responded “Владимир, what’s that rustling sound? Are you opening a bag of potato chips or something?” Владимир didn’t say anything for a moment, choosing what to say. He did that a lot, thinking about the perfect thing to say to avoid conflict. “Yes, actually. The Cygnus from yesterday had some earth foods for us to test the LEOFPA” the LEOFPA was the official term for the kitchen on the Adventure, but nobody actually used it.

“Module has achieved soft capture with the-” Lauren’s radio suddenly cut out, but everyone could still hear her speaking normally “uh… with the Zvezda.”

“Why did the radio cut out?” Emma yelled from the Columbus. “Don’t know… Nevermind, it ran out of battery.” She shouted back. Emma said something nobody heard but knew was a sound, like a mumble from the other side of a quiet room.

2 hours later

“Pressurized, permission to open the hatch?” Lauren asked “Permission granted.” Micheal responded.

The hatch opened, shaking the station very slightly. Everyone was gathered at the hatch, and entered the module.

“Better than I expected, actually.” Владимир said, quietly. “Alright, time for a few tests.” As he let go of an armful of food.

The Next Day

“Hatch opening in 3… 2…” Michael counted down “open!”

The PMA hatch automatically opened, and the crew both looked happy and suprised at the sight of eachother. “Alexander Kutzenov, Reporting to the International Space Station.” Alexander said, leaving the Orion. “Welcome to the station!” Lauren shouted, from the Adventure. She had been cooking some of the stored food for the new crew, as they weren’t able to eat during the time from launch until now.

One by one, the next five crew left the craft.

“Eva Stepanov, Deep space specialist.”

“Victor Lebedev, Botany specialist.”

“Parker Smith, Climate and geology specialist.”

“Rosalie Johnson, Georgrapher.”

“Olivia Brown, Radio and magnetics specialist.”

“Jackson Martin, station engineering master.”

**Voilent scene ahead (seriously this is voilent skip to bold italics)**

All of the new crew looked happy to be there, but also extremely worried.

“Are all of you okay?” 高橋 asked, concerned. “Uh.. yeah, we’re just a bit shaken up by the laun-” Jackson was saying, until Rosalie interrupted. “JACOB IS A MURDERER! THEY KILLED LOUIS!” “They what?!?!” Emma screamed. Suddenly, Louis dead body floated out of the PMA, with a sharp fragment of metal through their head.

Without speaking, Micheal grabbed Владимир and launched into the Kibo.

Upon hearing Jacob scream some gibberish as they left the PMA, the rest of the crew screambled away. After some running and a lot of screaming, Micheal, Владимир, and Eva were sealed inside the Kibo. Lauren and Emma were sealed in the Tranquillity together, and the rest were in the Adventure.

Jacob was trying desperately to break into the Tranqullity, while Emma grabbed a Emergency Inflatable hatch device, meant for the crew to seal a module more securely if there was something inside meant to be contained. It had a vacuum inside the device, so the sound from the rest of the couldn’t reach them.

While Jacob was screaming about something in Hebrew, the ISS chat came on.

During repairs, a screen had been installed in each module, and a ISS chat, similar to a group chat, was on it. Each module had its own channel too. None of the crew saw the usefulness of it before, but it would be helpful in this situation.

***Voilent scene over***

KIBO: Hello, this is Micheal in the Japanese Lab. Me, Eva, and Владимир are safe in here. If you receive this message please respond

TRANQUILLITY: Message received! This is Lauren and Emma, Jacob is trying to break into our module, but we used a EIH to reinforce the door

ADVENTURE: Hi, 高橋, Alexander, Victor, Parker, Rosalie, Olivia, and Jackson are I. Here. We are safe and have went into Soft Capture mode to keep us safe and away from Jacob.

TRANQULLITY: What is happening!?

KIBO: Seems to be a Scenario 21, Hostile Astronaut. By protocol we are supposed to lock ourselves in modules, and depressurize the module with the hostile astronaut inside, but there is no way to do that from here or Tranqillity. Adventure, do you have any sys

Hey, Eva here, I kept asking Micheal to use the chat but he didn’t let me, so I had to shove him out of the way. Anyways, no, Adventure can’t depressurize anything but itself. The only thing that can depressurize other modules remotely is US Laboratory.

KIBO (2): I checked while eva stole the chat, Eva is right, we can’t depressurize anything.

ADVENTURE: I had Olivia check, can confirm there is no depressurization equipment in here, we can only depressurize docked Soyuz.

TRANQUILLITY: why are we using grammar and formal words during a murder scene

KIBO: I don’t know

TRANQUILLITY: we have to do something with islab, we don’t have any other options besides killing Jacob, and I don’t think he would let that happen.

Let’s make a plan.

KIBO: I have a idea for the plan.

ADVENTURE: What is it?

KIBO: Adventure uses its docking controls to ma

eva again, Micheal was gonna suggest we redock adventure then open the hatch, scream at jacob, quickly reclose it and undock again before Jacob reaches it, then one of us goes on spacewalk while jacob is distracted, then proceed from there

This plan sucks, why don’t we just do the first few steps (undock yell redock), then one of us goes into the us lab while he is distracted and seals it off

KIBO (2): Victor here, eva and Micheal went to sleep because they are tired

Micheal hasn’t slept for a while and its 11:00 In Moscow too, I would have been waking up by now if I was on earth, so I’m awake atm.

TRANQUILITY: good night i guess?

ADVENTURE: I see a problem with Eva’s plan, we wouldn’t be able to undock in time.

TRANQULLITY: What if we just have Eva in kibo use the Japanese airlock to do a spacewalk?

KIBO: Why Eva? Adventure has an airlock too. The docking port functions as one when not in use

TRANQULLITY: Huh?? I wasn’t told about that

ADVENTURE: Of course you weren’t, Mission Control never expected it to actually be used because Quest exists, and they can’t send a rescue mission during a spacewalk if we use it

TRANQUILITY: ?????? that’s not even a good reason, they should tell us every detail about everything on the station! That doesn’t even make sense

KIBO: You use the word even a lot.

ADVENTURE: That’s not important right now

Emma saw Jacob fly to the international section after he finished screaming and crying why trying to destroy the door.

DESTINY: dherejevdtiq

DESTINY (2): hdfogehUegi(&\*4736ijegwy

DESTINY (3): 745#8-/4”\*osvdoGoegskvOyorvi(49\*igdj

KIBO: What are they saying?

TRANQUILITY: idk

Kibo and Tranquillity got a notification to start a private chat with adventure.

ADVENTURE: time to excecute the plan, Victor please get on your spacesuit.

KIBO: What!? I don’t know how! Shgsihenrgudtdufg

KIBO (2): I punched the screen sorry.

“Alright, I’m outside of the JVA, can anyone hear me?” Micheal said, trying to be as calm as possible. “Loud and clear, Spacesuit direct radio seems to be working.” Olivia said, watching the spacewalk from the Adventure External Camera. “What am I supposed to do out here again?” Micheal said, confused. “Head for the SGANTS, they have a small emergency system next to them, they are ne-” Olivia said, before being interrupted. “Near the top of the unity module, I know.”

Micheal began carefully maneuvering onto the top of the Kibo, using the EVA handles to assist him.

**Voilent scene ahead, ends when the writing is over**

Meanwhile inside the station, Lauren saw Jacob begin heading for the Quest. The moment he put on the helmet, she said “Oh no, Jacob is getting ready to go outside, try to move quickly. I’ll keep you updated about what he’s doing.” “Seriously?!? Alright, im about to get to destiny.”

Micheal began climbing along the handles and using a bit less caution, to move faster.

“Next to ESS, what now?” He asked. “Do you see the area that looks like it’s covered in foil?” Parker asked “Rip of the covering and press the button, it’s sends an SOS signal to Mission Control.” “It’s called the emergency signal system, of course it freaking sends a signal to Mission Control!” “Okay, sorry.”

Micheal ripped off the covering, revealing a set of switches with different labels in English, French, Japanese, and Russian.

Sᴡɪᴛᴄʜ ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴇɴᴀʙʟᴇ Eᴍᴇʀɢᴇɴᴄʏ Sɪɢɴᴀʟ Sʏsᴛᴇᴍ, ғʟɪᴘ sᴡɪᴛᴄʜ 2 3 ᴛɪᴍᴇs ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏɴғɪʀᴍ.

Bᴀsᴄᴜʟᴇᴢ ɪᴄɪ ᴘᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠᴇʀ ʟᴇ sʏsᴛèᴍᴇ ᴅᴇ sɪɢɴᴀʟ ᴅ'ᴜʀɢᴇɴᴄᴇ, ʙᴀsᴄᴜʟᴇᴢ ʟᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜᴛᴀᴛᴇᴜʀ 2 3 ғᴏɪs ᴘᴏᴜʀ ᴄᴏɴғɪʀᴍᴇʀ.

ここに切り替えて緊急起動システムを有効にし、スイッチを 2 3 回押して確認します

Переключитесь здесь, чтобы включить систему аварийной активации, нажмите переключатель 2-3 раза для подтверждения.

Micheal followed its directions, flipping switch one to turn it on, then flipping the second switch 3 times.

Instantly, both of the ESS turned down and one pointed east (probably transmitting to Moscow or Baikanour), and one west (probably signaling to KSC or Houston).

“Everything is operational.” Micheal said. “Jacob just entered the airlock, start heading back now!” Emma screamed.“Will do, the ESS is transmi-” “He opened the door outside! Hide or get the heck inside already!” Micheal began climbing along the Bars on the side of the modules facing away from the Quest airlock. He saw the door of the airlock open, and Jacob come out, wearing a Russian Orlan suit. Emma and Lauren looked out of the Cupola to see them, on the left side of the destiny module.

Jacob suddenly pulled out a sharp piece of metal and threw it, along with himself as he flew toward the destiny module. Micheal dodged the metal, as it didn’t move very quickly without an atmosphere.

Jacob hit the destiny module, and Micheal kicked his helmet in the face, cracking it slightly. Jacob stabbed Micheals suit with another peice of metal, not impacting the skin but puncturing the internal coolant system. As coolant began flooding Micheals suit, he quickly pulled his SAFER unit, and began flying to the Truss. Jacob did the same, as he began screaming gibberish to try and intimidate him. Micheal grabbed a large replacement battery pack from the storage area on the truss and threw it at Jacob, slowing him down and giving Micheal a few seconds of time.

Micheal used the time to grab a CMG replacement, when suddenly Jacob reached the module. While kicking Micheal again, Jacob grabbed a SGANT replacement and threw it at Micheal, pushing him into the solar panels rotation motor structure. The structure began breaking all the systems in Micheals suit as it rotated slowly, and breaking him after that. While Jacob watched, smiling psychopathically, Micheal was ripped into peices and died, while Emma and Lauren had to witness it.

2 Crew members down, 12 to remaining.