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~1~

Xarko awakes at dawn, thinking about standing on the cave to get a better view. Astonished he finds a pile of white smelly sticks. Those could make nice handles he thought to himself. So he scampered down the hill and grabbed every last one of them. Then he heard a sharp RRADH! Surprised, Xarko immediately grabbed one of the bones and turned to the menace. It was a speedy looking scaled thing that looked a bit like the one Xarko fought yesterday. This one seemed hungry, what would Xarko do? Feed it, he muttered to himself. So he pulled out a bit of the stuff that dropped from the last scaled guy, and threw it at him. MUMUM… the beast finally stopped then looked toward Xarko. He put his head under Xarko’s hand, and sat down. I remember one of the tamers from Xenotopia, they tamed animals like this, but did I tame him?, Xarko wondered to himself. He wanted to explore more so he thought about riding it. He decided to ride it around as a pet and then build something to ride. But before he could tell it to move it ran off into some other location. Seeing that same gray

~2~

Stuff that comes out of the ship he thinks, another ship?, but for whom?, it also looks very familiar

“Oeonuim!” cried Xarko, it was an oeniun ship “now I can make tools from my materials” he mumbled “finnally”. As Xarko approached he saw a chest , an oenium rifle, and oenuim battery crystal. Hestatintly opening the chest he finds a stack of oenium bars. Phew he thought to himself. Then he darted back to base,crafting time finally. He quicly grabs the bones, and the oenuim, then

~3~

puts them in the Xenobox. What came out was an oenuim pax(pickaxe+axe),and an oenuim saber.Armed at last he thought to himself in relief. Now I have to go mining, he thought sadly, it might be interesting. Going out side the cave he , motions to the raptor to stay and guard the den. Obedeintly he sits and looks around. Starting to dig a hole Xarko is very annoyed of having to mine so hard,I hope I can make a drill soon, why don’t I scavenge a processer from that XenoFlyer I got? But before he could finish Xarko had hit something, a tunnel! Finnally, I can stop. Xarko puts his pax on his back , and pulls out his saber, and as he thought a terrible worm-thing had tunneled towards him!. SWISH! He sliced one of it’s slithery tentecles. ERROWGH! It tunnled back

~4~

He cautiously dropped his pax and ran toward the tentecle and grabbed it, and put it in his bag. Gonna scan that later, he told himself. Then he turned to find some oenium and some other orange clolored stuff.he grabbed them both. He also found some patroulem. Fuel he thought. Then he found coal, and stone. He also found lava and put it in a oenuim bucket he made. Successful mining expodition he told himself. Then running back to the den, he built a oenuim hammer then took the lava and dropped in the forge. He quickly grabbed his ores and started smelting them with the coal he’d collected. He put the tentcle on the Xenobox, and it replied “Detorian tentacle, drops from:Detorians, used in, teir 1healing potions” it beeped in a mechanical voice.” What are healing potions for?” he asked.”healing, of course” it said as if it were gigiling. “tell me how to make it” Xarko boomed in his regular tone.”1 detorian tentecal, 2 slime, 1seed,and a bottle” it replied rather obediently.”where does slime come from?” he asked.”from killing jellies in the plains”it said.”how about bottles?” he wondered.”made at an anvil , with glass,glass comes

~5~

from sand and sand is found in beaches”. Then after the dialouge he put some of his oenuim into the xenobox and an Oenuim anvil came out. He after that put his Xenoflyer out of his bag and threw it in the xenobox. The outcome was a procceser and some fuel.perfect he thought to himself. Now he put some more Oenuim in the Xenobox with the procceser ,and thus he made a drill.

Grabbing it he makes a map. Mapping his expoditon, he’d found a plain ,and desert. I’ll explore the desert later, for now I’ll go to the plians, but the desert might be a beach so I might explore them both, he planed everso sielntly. So with that our hero Xarko sets out to explore,

~6~

upgrade,fight, and survive. This remeinds me of the Xeno army try-outs back home he thought home. right now he was in need of implants(bio-tech improvments to his body)that will help him survive he needs copper for wires and lighting to power his crystal and silver for bullets. ”I heard that!” he shouts. Why don’t we start with lighting since there is a storm right now,he said to himself. I learned about lighting in science class, I need Iron.”Xenobox,describe iron” he ordered.”Iron is a metal that attracts lighting and looks like dark silver, the ore looks a bit like this

~7~

I have that in my bag! Xarko said to himself. So he quickly stuffed his hand into his bag and pulled out a big chunk of iron ore and put it in the forge. hopefully I cane make it before the storm ends,he thought worrifully. Then he quickly grabed the finished bar and his hammer and hammered the rod ,he ran outside and placed the rod into the ground and put the crystal under it.

BANG! It struck hard, BLLLZTT... the battery charged itself. Wow, I never thought real lighting could be so

ferouscious. Now with that done he could craft a stun gun. I remember Xenopatrol officers using these to get

fugitives unconscious, he reminds himself.

~8~

He then took some of that orange looking ore, and put it in forge, then took his left over stone and that tentacle

and made a stone-cutter. Sharpening his saber to cut the copper into wires. SNIP! SNAP! He began sniping.

Carefully putting the wires into the frame then he put his battery in there. TZZZT! It works!

Now to test it out. So he then called out his pet raptor Dynamo, and when he came he looked like this

~9~

“RAHDV?” (Seriously?) “Ok, ok I won’t” he said in a soft but distrust-worthy voice. “I’ll try it on one of these tasty smelling brown horned things” he added. So he approached one quietly, and then pounced! TZZZT! FFAAAGH! The tusked beast fell he saw that it was dead so he skinned it. RAWWR! Dynamo jumped onto the pile of meat and gobbled it in less than a minute. He only left scraps for our hero. This is the kind of food we ate back home! He remembered but I do have to cook it. So he took some coal, put it in a small pit, set it on fire, and then took the frying pan he got from the ship and cooked it.

Mmm… this looks tasty, he thought.

~10~

He realized that he could use the tasty smelling skin and wear it to smell tasty and lure animals to kill them, Dynamo could be his guide and sniff them out so he used the left over copper wire to string together a hunter’s outfit then he took some more of the skin to make a whip at the end he looked like this.

He also made spiked boots out of the horns. Now he was ready for the hunt. I will set out into the plains tomorrow he said. Next time he will explore and hunt.

~THE END~