It had been too long of a day for Dylan as he now was fast asleep on the couch at 7pm.

The take-out pizza in the kitchen was hard from the grease that was left over from the cheese.

Finally the news mumbled in front of him on a small flat screen Dylan managed to find at a yard sale. It was discolored but still worked.

"Dylaaaaaaaaaaaaan wake up and take a shower!" Called his sister.

Dylan groaned and rolled off the couch with a thud.

"Ow"he said as he rubbed his head.

He sighed as he stood and began to make his way to the shower.

Along the way he looked at the moving boxes that still littered the hallway.

'one pin' he thought.

He began climbing the stairs and paused as he felt a drop on his head. He looked up and groaned finding a discolored spot on the roof.

'one big pin' he thought again.

Continuing up the stairs he began calculating in his head. Suddenly Dylan heard a yelp from his sister "Cassidy?!"

He ran to her room~

~Dylan now sat by Cassidy...who was laying in a hospital bed.

He sat holding his face in his hand.

'reeeeeeeeally big pin' he thought sadly.~

~×~×~ remember that woman at the beginning of the story? Welp she's important so let's see what she's up to!!~×~×~

Our ever faithful super trooper was angrily storming twords a forest in the middle of nowhere, flask in hand, and anger through the roof.

She gripped a folder tightly keeping her eyes forward. At first it seemed like the forest was endless but suddenly she passed a point and a blue ripple erupted around the radius of a small town.

Other troopers looked to the point where she entered and began to look to each other with worry.

"OH MY GOD WHAT DO I HAVE HERE?!" she yelled loudly.

She approached a car and threw the file she had on the hood of it. It thudded loudly.

"AN EMPTY FIRST RESPONSE FILE...WHY?!" She shouted angrily.

"It was out of the blue Miss Saloman" said a man walking up behind her.

She turned and calmed down "Mr. Barnes" she said respectfully.

She turned and looked out at the destruction.

"If your here, then this is exactly what I was thinking" she said, beginning to walk twords our big problem.

Barnes nodded "we got some codes from the outer quadrents, almost in Dead Space. It's definitely them."

It was a ship,about the size of a small Nissan and all around it were red hand prints.

"Each is a print from a slave of the planets they've captured...we can barely see the ship" he said beginning to light a cigarette.

Saloman ran her hand across the prints. In her head she heard screams and crys from the planets she's visited on criptic currency details.

"How long?" She said still looking at the ship.

Barnes let out a puff of smoke "Three years...if we're lucky."

Saloman sighed "And this..." She came across a clean part of the ship, untouched by blood.

There...was the skull of a human, stabbed through the forehead with a black crystalized spike.

Beneath it was written in a language long forgotten.

Humanity will be mine