User blog comment:Grand's Story Time/The Champions of Terra/@comment-28898344-20151129015327/@comment-28898344-20151213010129

Norn and Ryan were out in the hallway with him in no time, clad in standard issue spacesuits. "Excellent, now that we're all here, we need to begin searching for an escape pod." He lost balance for what seemed to be the umpteenth time today, jolted caused by their half of the ship being blasted off and sent careening into outerspace.

Passengers with the misfortune of not having a spacesuit apshyxiated due to lack of oxygen after being thrown into the dark void of outerspace. He watched on, as escape pods were reduced to little more than viscera and molten metal due to being shot down or crashing into one another. Murderous rage, directed at those damned Martians, washed over him like a great tsunami.

"I will kill them all." Matthew snarled, "Every last, singular Martian. This act of grand, unbridled barbarism will not go unpunished.  I don't give a damned how they meet their end, so long as it is slow and painful. Be it through fire, their very existence reduced to ash. Or through a blade, the pain of humanity carved into their skin like notches on a stick."

Another tremor. They were entering the atmosphere of a planet, not sure which one. Things became to heat up. And then a wave of darkness washed over Matthew as he slipped into unconsciousness.

When he awoke, he found himself and his cabal-mates in a jungle, the sound of strange and familiar animals alike echoing around them. He ached all over, but he pulled himself upright. Panicked animals ran in fear. Large bits of debris from the crashed ship lay everywhere. He looked at the readings on his spacesuit, which told him the atmosphere was slightly cooler than that of Earth's.

They were on Mars, the planet forsaken by the Great Empire. Dragging his aching body into a standing position, he called over to Norn and Ryan to inform them of the grave danger they were now all in.

"Norn, Ryan, we have to find a way off this planet immediately! We are on Mars!"