AMONG US: MIRA HQ

"Welcome to MIRA HQ, the place where human thrives and lives away from wars and aliens. Here is the heaven that was hidden among us. Located at..." As the speaker blared at the main entrance of the huge ginormous building, called as the MIRA HQ, a SKELD space ship docked into the building as an robotic arm stretched out from the sides to help to stabilize the ship while a huge bridge spam out towards the main entrance of the ship.

Harold looked through the windows as the ship settle down among the arms like a ship with a kraken. He sighed as he looked at the building which was gleaming under the sunlight as the sunsets beneath the horizon. He domed his orange helmet and wiped the rear of the helmet, which was full of blood and stains of gums with his long snake like tongues. As the sweet metallic taste dissolved in his mouth, he licked his lips and opened the hatch. As light shone into the spacecraft, various corpse can be seen in the ship's café, piled up at the corner, dying the corner blood red. As sunlight filled the room, Harold stepped out of the ship and onto the metal bridge. He felt free as a bird and didn't mind the sun shining into his eyes. He knew that he had overdone it, but the killing was too fun and too hard to stop. Every time he smell the scent of the metallic, sweat substance that flows out of a human being's body, he will felt himself being possessed by Satan himself. He will dig deeper and deeper into the corpse, smearing gums, flesh, blood and organs onto himself, dyeing his body red. He enjoy every inch of the killing as well as every suffering. He did not care whether he was an imposter or a crewmate, he just wanted to kill and kill and kill.

As two guards ran towards him, he was sure that he will be caught red handed with all the corpses inside his ship. But he never minded all of these, at least he had lived a great time.

Suddenly he sense something, he could felt danger was approaching. Alerted, Harold looked at the guards, the weird thing was they were running towards the opposite direction. Harold looked up at the sky, and what he saw was shocking. A SKELD was crashing towards the building, destroying parts of the building before setting up an explosion that lit up the sky.

Harold was not scared at all with the sight. In fact he saw hope, the scanners and the guards must've been down by now, and it is the perfect time. He ran towards the entrance with all his might. A huge chunk of building was tore down from the blast and was falling towards the bridge, aiming at the center, and was about to cut the bridge his only way towards survival into half. He quickened his pace, he felt he was about to change but he did not care, with a screech, a dark liquid covered his body, molding his body, rearranging his organs and bones while shifting himself into a half semi liquid black creature, who slid down the handle of the bridge with amazing bridge while dodging rains of fire down the sky. As the chunk came closer and closer towards the bridge, he quickened his pace, using every ounce of his power to move the muscles. He was out of breath and exhausted with fire blazing from behind.

He could not stop.

It is now or never, if he stop he would sure be a goner. As the chunk tore the bridge, he made one last desperate attempt.

A leap.

He used every power he could gathered as he leaped at the edge. He don't dare to look down, and prayed that the wind would help him. And the wind do heard his prayers.

A huge gust of wind blows from his back as he stretched his body like a paraglide and soared through the huge gap. He landed on the other side of the bridge but he lost his balance and hit the concrete wall hard with his head. His sight blurred as he could fell his head explode. His sight spiraled as he could felt himself drifting into the dark well. With the last of his strength he shifted his body, hoping to transform in the nick of time to avoid being discovered. As the building collapsed into trillion pieces, he fell unconscious and blacked out, falling into darkness.

"Who is this guy?"

"Don't touch him!"

What happened? Who are you talking about?

"Is he dead?"

"He is fine, I already bandaged him! So stop jabbering like a monkey!"

"What the hell!" Harold awoke as he leaped up from the ground. His head was aching in pain as if it was pierced by trillion of needles one at a time. He hold his head in pain as he struggled to stand up from the floor. As he looked around the room. A small Medbay, with only a scanner and a six med beds beside. There were two people standing in front him. One of them is cyan in color while one of them is yellow. "So you are awake." Cyan said as he closed the put the utensils into the medical kit. Harold looked at him. He was a short dude who was just as tall as the girl behind. His suit looks identical to others except he wore a white rob and carries a medical kit. Although his robe were dusted with dusts and soils but he still looks kinda smart. "Pfft, obviously, can't you see him alive, standing beside you?" Yellow answered as she rolled his eyes. She then look at Harold and stretched out her hand. "Names Jackqualine, call me Jac and this is Allen, you can call him All. What's yours?"

"Names Harold. Harold Hyde." Harold answered perfunctorily as he gave her a quick awkward handshake. "Where are we?" He asked as he looked at his surrounding, the Medbay was way too small to be the one in SKELD. "We are somewhere trapped beneath MIRA HQ, and according to my calculations, at the 5th floor." All answered before Jac could even said a single word. "MIRA HQ?" Harold was confused now. Isn't it destroyed? He looked around, the place looks normally new, it was hard to imagine that this was actually a ruin. "Ok let me explain to you brother. So first a rogue SKELD space ship crashed and the building collapsed. Right? Then you are hit by something and passed out at the ruined before you were found by us and bought to here, the only level of the building that was still stable. Understand?" Allen said all of these within a breath, and now he was gasping for air. "Totally." Harold replied while looking at himself through a pool of water. Lime.

Something must had gone wrong during the transformation, but he could not shift now in front of everyone, maybe he will just keep it this time, lime is a cool color too. He thought.

Suddenly an anxious quick paced footstep could be heard running from the hallway. "Guuuuuuuuuyyyyyyyssssssssssss!!!!!!!" A huge roar can be heard from the end of it, nearer and nearer as it echoed through the metallic wall of the empty hallway. "Harold was about to ask before a huge blue figure bumped right into Harold like a tank as he was sandwiched by the figure and the wall with a loud bang. He could felt his bones breaking and the wall behind bending. "BILL!" All and Jac screamed as the both pushed the huge tank like figure away. "Are you okay Hal?" All asked as he inspect his body, after finding no serious wound, he turned around and hissed at the figure. "Watch where are you going Bill, if the wall doesn't hold, you and Harold will experience parachuting without a parachute!"

With that he helped Harold out from the wall before inspecting the wall itself. "Hope the wall will hold back or we will be suck out from the vacuum of space." He mumbled under his breath.

"So you are Harold." The figure said as he let out his hand. "I am Bill, Billy G" Harold inspected at Bill. He wore a blue outfit with stains of oil on it. His suit was like others but it was heavily armored with metal plates unlike others. He was much more bulky with a huge backpack behind him, but instead as an oxygen tank, it also has a lots of tool as well as a robotic metal arm. "This is one tough one to hand on." Harold whisper underneath her heart as he shake his hand. "I'm Harold, Harold Hyde." "Harold Hype?" "HYDE!" Harold rolled his eyes and repeated again, but louder. "Oooooooo, ok Hyde." He said as he looked at him, good thing the blood were covered with dust, if not he would be ejected immediately. "So what's the fuss about all the screaming and yelling?" Harold asked he look around the room, trying to change the subject. "We got Oxygen now! In room! After quite a time I finally did it!" Bill exclaimed in excitement, happiness spread around the room, but not for Harold. He did not know whether his facial appearance has shifted a bit during and if it does, boy he would be in a big trouble. "WAIT!" Harold shouted, halting the others from taking off the helmet. "What." All answered impatiently, it's been years since they take off their helmet and have a nice breath of the fresh air outside. "Yeah what?" Jac asked, her helmet was about to come off, only a part of it is locked in. "Does anyone think of this. If blue, I mean Bill is the imposter, there were actually no oxygen and we believe him, we will die!" Harold came out with an excuse that was pretty lame but at least it doesn't make him look suspicious.

"Hal, he was an ENGINEER!" Jac rolled her eyes and answered impatiently, her boot was tapping the metal floor, creating a sharp sound. "Trust no one," Al answered as he looked at Harold. "I trust Harold, we didn't know whether Bill is safe or not. Just in case and avoid risks Ok?" "Ok, fine." Jac locked her helmet as she sat on one of the bunker, disappointed. Bill did the same, but by his look, he was mad, no, he was pissed.

"So it's time to meet the others Harold." All said as she led Harold the way towards the Cafeteria, with the others following at behind. Allen introduced the tightly packed headquarters to Harold while the rest continued their tasks after a brief meeting with the other 2 crewmates, Mako and Jull, both as black and white. The two were always packed up together like sardines, and by that look, both of them were clean or the opposite. After the brief tour, Hal and the others split out to finish their tasks. Their main goal was to fix all the system malfunctioning on the base so that first the cable that hold the whole base will not snap or they were experience a terrific drop from 12000m from the ground, and there is no way they are going to survive this. And next they need to fix the wires and communication satellites to contact the search and rescue department.

Hal walked towards the admin to know the crewmates location while waiting for the right time to strike. He felt the intense pressure and fun that he had felt before during onboard the SKELD spaceship. Suddenly a rushing footsteps coming from his right was picked up by his ear. His hand reached his pocket and his knife was within reach, no matter who come nears from the side, he will kill him, with no hesitation. He was a coldblooded imposter.

As the footsteps get closer and closer, he knell down at the corner, ready to strike, a deadly cut at the throat will definitely be lethal while avoid the victim from all sort of screams but he decide to go to the back, piercing the oxygen tank first before going to the flesh.

Just as he was satisfied with his plan, the lights above him flickers before it shuts down completely, and anything beside him were pitched black.

Weird.

The air were cold and silent, all he could heard were footsteps rushing towards the electric to fix the lights. He took out his tab as he gasped, he never sabotaged the lights before, never ever. So there is a 2 imposter, Hal whispered in his heart as he was thinking who is he or she, he heard a clang at the right side of the Y shape corridor, where his prey should be rushing towards his wide open trap. Someone opened and close the vent!

Alerted, he ran towards the side as his eyes shifted through the process, his eyes turned blood red as his pupils widened while bulging out like a goldfish, this were a technique he learned to look at the dark as it absorbs light more efficiently at dark and works as perfect or even better than a pair of night vision googles. He reached the side of the corridor but what he saw was a corpse lying motionless at the ground, just right beside the vent. It was blue, it was Bill. His head spiraled as he look at his corpse. Blood were pouring out from his back where a silver knife was struck deep into his flesh, piercing the amour like jelly. He walked closer as he pulled up the knife, as more and more blood poured out like a fountain. He did not care about it as he looked closer at the knife, trying to determine its kind. Upon closer inspection, it was a surgery knife with saw on its edges, one used for doctors and medics to cut through the flesh, his mind hummed.

Could it be, Allen?

Just as he was about to inspect the more closely for signs and proofs that these were all All's work, the light flickered and came back to life. His heart missed a beat. He could heard a loud gasp behind him. He turned his head, and saw all of the other crewmates beside him. Looking at him with disbelieve. "Guys, it is not what it seems like." He said as he raised up his hand, trying to calm down the people, with the bloody knife still on it, the crowd gasped even louder as they saw the knife, one of them even scream before reporting the corpse.

"Listen guys, I am not the Imposter!" Hal said impatiently as he slam the table with his fist. Yes he was an imposter but he did not kill Bill! "Ok let's say you are not the imposter." Jac rolled her eyes as she tapped the table with her finger. "So let's list out the chances Ok? So first we were all fixing the lights and YOU are the only one out there, right?" "Yeah, but I am on my way when I saw it!" Hal replied furiously. "Ok, just say that you "accidentally" stumble onto the corpse, even though the lights were dead, why you have the murder weapon on your hand?" Jac looked at the knife Hal was still gripping as she smirked. "Any more lame excuse." Suddenly a though flash through Hal's mind, a way to clean himself! Yes! The knife! "Yes. I have." Hal chuckled as he threw the knife onto the table, "The reason I pulled out the weapon was to inspect it and by closer inspection, it was a surgery knife." He said as he look at Allen. Allen face darkened as while his head hung low. "Look at how the guy you saved "repay" you." Jac laughed as he look at Hal. "Disgusting fella." She cursed under her breath, but loud enough for others to listen. Mako and Jull were silent through the whole meeting as they looked at the bloody knife on the table. "So let's vote shall we." Jac said as she take out her tablet and tapped on it without second though, and it was clear enough to guess that she was voting Hal. "I don't think it was Hal." All suddenly spoke. "The imposter was trying to misguide us all." All said as he looked at Jac. "If Hal is the imposter, he should've vented and escape, why he need to inspect the corpse so thoroughly and set up these lies? And besides, the imposter wanted to point out me because I am the Medic, Hal was just an unlucky passerby who accidentally become his tool." Mako and Jull nodded after listening to All's explanation and it do seems true and acceptable. So they decide to skip the vote for the time.

"What?!" Jac leaped from he seat and screamed in disbelieve after they all decide to skip. "IDIOTS!" she screamed as she kicked the table and stormed away. Hal let out a deep breath, never fell so relieve before. "Don't worry much, she will return soon, she always be like that." All said as he patted Hal's back before leaving towards the admin. Hal nodded slowly, deep down he felt grateful for All's help, he felt a weird feel deep down in her heart, a feeling he never felt before. What he doesn't know was that actually a seed was sprouting quietly in his heart.

Mako and Jull smiled at Hal as they too left the cafeteria, leaving Hal alone thinking, who is the imposter? After quite a few guess, he too left the cafeteria and towards the laboratory. He took out his tab as he looked at the icons above. He never expected those red icons will pierce his eyes before. His fingers were held onto the air as he looked at his tab hesitatingly, fighting whether to press or not. But in the end, he let out a deep sigh and restore the tab back to his pocket. He never been in dilemma before, he never hesitate his actions, but now he did. Why?

He walked aimlessly pass the hallway to the decontamination as he pressed the button at his left as he waited patiently for the door to open. After a few seconds, the door opened with a creak and Hal stepped into the long narrow tube. Questions stuffed his mind. He walked towards the end of the tube aimlessly like a phantom. While he was about to reach the end of the tube, he heard a clang that made his mind awake. He then heard footsteps coming from behind, it is like someone was running towards him. His blood pumps as he felt sweat rolling down his face.

This is bad.

He turned around only to find a pink shadow pouncing towards him. He was knock away from the force of the figure as he slammed towards the metal door. His sight spiraled as he looked at the figure with his half lidded eyes. It was Jac. He struggle to stand up but s sharp object flew towards him and pierced his arm, pinning him towards the wall.

"AH!!" He screamed as he looked at the sword, it was made by metal that was rare on earth, only available on Planet Polus. "So you are the imposter." Hal said as he tried to pull out the knife the force was too strong that it had dug deep through the metal wall. It was impossible. "Yes." She said calmly as she juggled the knife. "Yes I am." Jac laughed like a maniac as she threw the knife towards Hal's palm, pinning his hand onto the wall.

As pain spread along his arm, Hal screamed. He never felt the pain like this before. For the past few years he enjoyed his life as a predator, triumphing above others, but now he was just a prey. He felt fear like he never experienced before, the fear that he once make his prey felt. "YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!" Jac screamed as she pressed the knife deeper with her foot, piercing deeper into Hal's flesh. Hal screamed, the pain was unbearable as his hands felt numb. "MY PLAN WERE RUINED ALL THANKS TO YOU! HE IS THE DOCTOR! HE CAN REVIVE ANYONE!" She yelled. Bloods were pouring out from Hal wound as he fell weaker and weaker. Time is running, he need to act fast. "Jac, listen, I am the second imposter!" With the last of his strength, Hal spew out these words. Jac was confused at first before she smirked, before it turned into a chuckle and then a laugh. "Sorry" She laughed as she pulled out the gun from her pocket and smirked. "Room's full, it was reserved by Mako." She reload the gun and with a click, she pointed the gun right at Hal's head. Desperation filled his mind as he closed his eyes, accepting his fate as an imposter.

Suddenly a sharp snap could be heard. Jac stopped laughing as she turned around. Hal smiled. The cable has snapped, they will never make it on time, just as what he predicted. The base wobbled and creaked as the floors plummeted. The tube crashed down, sending Jac down from the atmosphere, it was going to be a real pain. The whole base crumbled like a biscuit that was left over night. Harold grab onto the knife as he hold onto it with every willpower he had. He never expected this will save his life. He looked down and he could see the planet's atmosphere, no one is going to survive a drop like this, not even a tank. He was dangling onto the spot for almost 10 minutes, as hope to survive decrease as time passes. The wound is still bleeding and soon he will let go, plummeting from the sky to his ultimate demise.

Time passes and his energy depleted little by little. He was about to pass out when he heard a sound. The sound of the door open. He looked above and saw a white figure standing at him. It was All. "Save me." He said as if he was whispering to himself. All looked at him. "Save me." Hal spoke as if it was some kind of mantra. "Sorry buddy." Al said as he took out a gun. "It's my mission to kill." "What the....?" Before Hal could react, the gun let out a blast at his body. His sight drifted away as his hand let lose, plummeting down the sky. All stood there with a smirk on his face, triumph for completing his mission. Hal closed his eyes as he opened his limbs, letting air passed through his body as he fell.

He cried.