The Impostor Among Us - an "Among Us" story

Chapter 1

Every decision you make can change your planet's fate.

But Al didn't see that as an issue. Ever since the government hired him to stop the Earthling invaders from coming to Proxima B, he felt honoured to be part of something so significant. He went from a military soldier to a government spy. His mission is simple - to eliminate the humans on the incoming spaceship. Al knows that the Earthlings are planning to dominate his home planet for themselves.

Or that is what he was told.

As Al waited for his orders in a dark room, he fantasized about completing his mission and returning to Proxima B, labelled as a hero. Al imagined all of the fame and recognition he would get from the Proximeans, the massive amount of awards he would receive, moving to the upper class, and—

"I'm glad you can help us." an eerie, robotic voice said, interrupting his reverie. To Al, it doesn't take a detective to figure out who it is.

"Of course," Al responded, trying not to sound thrilled.

The lights turned on, revealing an enormous egg-shaped capsule in the middle of the room. 5 stubby aliens in lab coats scurried around, double-checking for errors, monitoring the control center, and typing codes in the blue hologram screens.

"First things first, we need you to change your body."

Al froze. Then he turned around to meet his masked boss standing behind him. Al's 4 eyes widened to the size of saucers. "Ch-change my body?"

"Yes. More accurately, changing yourself to a human."

Al gulped. "How is this going to work? Shape-shifting wasn't specified in the contract!"

His boss smiled. "Maybe you should stop doubting us and prepare yourself for the mission in a few hours."

The boss leaned in towards Al, making eye-contact through the black mask.

"Failure to complete the mission will result in death."

In the Skeld, eight well-trained astronauts in different coloured spacesuits roamed around the spaceship fuelling engines and fixing shields. After countless hours of labour, the astronauts decided to take a mini lunch break at the cafeteria.

"Everyone has 10 minutes to eat. We still have tasks to do." said the commander in a black spacesuit. Everyone obeyed him and grabbed their lunch. Except for the astronaut in red, who silently cursed at him.

"I would rather bite my arm off than survive another day of eating stale food," Red protested as she took her helmet off, revealing long strawberry blond hair.

"Might as well get used to it, Liv. We're going to be eating this crap for a long time." the green astronaut commented, opening a bag of cashews labelled Ethan's secret snacks! Do not touch! "Ethan should find a better hiding spot next time." he chuckled.

"I swear to god Aaron if you take my nuts ONE MORE TIME, I will haunt you in your sleep FOREVER." The astronaut in orange snapped. Aaron laughed and proceeded to eat Ethan's "secret" snacks. Olivia stifled a giggle.

"I mean, Olivia isn't wrong. The food is pretty bad. We have all these fancy high-tech instruments but we can't afford decent food." The cyan coloured astronaut said. Everyone murmured in agreement. "It's only been 168 hours and I'm already homesi—"

A thunderous BOOM interrupted Amaya's rant. The four astronauts looked at each other, wondering what the hell just happened.

A purple astronaut rushed in, frantically waving his hands. "Guys, a huge egg just hit our ship!"

"I'm sorry, a what?"

"Just come to the navigation center and you'll see!"

At the navigation center, everyone peered at the glass window. Purple was right. A huge egg-like space capsule crashed into the ship, but there was not a single scratch on the unidentified flying object. "Our shields are disabled, but that's okay." The Commander said, sounding unfazed. "Pink, Purple and Yellow, get the repair gear and fix the shields. The rest of you, continue doing your tasks." As everyone started to leave, Olivia noticed something peculiar about the flying egg.

"Hold on, who's that?"