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he
watched Orwell slowly move over to him, and he considered what to
do.
    “ Tell them we’ll search for it too!” he
announced, and he asked them to go to the location where the
shuttle was last seen.
    He was amazed when he replied, “They’re at
the location we went down at!”
    “ What at the exact location?” he
gasped, considering changing the order, considering them crashing
down again.
    It was a dangerous mission and he just had to
go there and investigate what was happening, and he wondered why
the hell Eagle had chosen that route, and he realized that the
diamonds could be there and hidden at some place he had not
noticed.
    “ It’s not the exact location!” Lyndon
replied, looking over at him, and searching his face. “It’s further
south!”
    After a few minutes considering it he noticed
he knew something else, and asked, “Is there any other information,
and anything unusual you can find?”
    He announced, “We’ve detected the shuttle! I
cannot discover if it is damaged but there is no communications
from it, and no information from anyone aboard! It seems dead!”
    “ If you detect anything trying to take
control of this shuttle turn back! We cannot afford to crash again!
We can go there later!”
    “ They want to explore what’s there – if
nothing happens – and check what’s happened!”
     

Chapter 17
     
    The Second
Occurrence
     
    In the distance he spotted the crashed
shuttle, and it rapidly expand in size, and Cronenberg saw their
crash site over at their side, and watched the hill he had stood
on, where Campbell had died, and he sensed something, even though
there was no sign of what had brought them down, as well as Eagle’s
shuttle.
    When they reached Eagle’s shuttle their
acceleration automatically decreased and they flew in a circle
around the shuttle, and he spotted damage to the shuttle, and signs
that a fire had damaged it, and he saw there were no signs of
anyone, or anyone leaving it.
    It looked as though it had been brought down
the same way as them but had sustained more damage, and he asked
Lyndon to try to contact them again, and was immediately replied
with there was nothing there to contact.
    He struggled to grasp what was there and saw
that the whole area was just a flat area of ground, similar to a
desert region, with the hill he had stood on behind them and
another hill at the same distance in the opposite direction,
towards the Antarctica, and where Eagle’s shuttle had come form,
and he focused on the deformed sun below the window, as it went
along just above the horizon, and he gasped when the pilots
announced the other shuttles in their group were arriving, in the
distance, and he ordered them to land!
    There had to be something there! He wondered
if it was the hill after all! It was exactly in the middle between
Eagle’s crash site and their crash site!
    He looked for the diamonds and anywhere he
could see that looked like where they could be and realized he
could not see anything, and even wondered if they really
existed.
    The shuttles were new and recently built and
they were still testing them for the first time over Mars!
    Something staggered him about the mission and
he sensed something was going to occur, and had seen it
approaching, with it edging its way towards him, and he felt he
could not avoid it! He had to go through with what was going to
happen! He believed he could survive if he did everything he could
to avoid any serious and deadly mistakes!
    He watched the pilots do a perfect landing
next to the shuttle, and he put on his spacesuit, and followed
Orwell out the shuttle, and marched over to the other shuttle, and
he wondered if they were still alive, as it looked like they had
landed to fast and hard, as the shuttle looked embedded in the
soil.
     

Chapter 18
     
    The Second Hill
     
    What had he done? Cronenberg completely
realized his mistake and gasped, and examined the dark Martian
landscape about him, with some amazement, astonished

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