1454 Meters

[fusedcheese]

"This must be the location comrades. We are here where they started."

Unsure at its best. Stan knew this might not be the location but, someone has to start somewhere. The beacon was faint but, not so much from where he is right now. Seeing the assets lying where he is, gave him bad thoughts. Alive or dead, he was thinking about it too much. Stanislav ordered 4 of his people to go scout the area. Being the previous expeditionary equipment untouched, he had a feeling that the entrance they used would be much further but, how would one know.

Without any time wasting, he went with his cosmotroopers to oversee certain stuffs. The previous equipment was recovered. Unloading the drillers from the tracks wasted some time, as the comrades working hard looked a bit tired on Stanislav's eyes. In time the 4 cosmotroopers arrives. As the commanding officer, of the four says;

"Comrade senior lieutenant, there is a dark tunnel entrance, hundred meters. Still there is not a feasible location where the main operation started from"
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"I see, that entrance might be where they started. Make sure everyone is preparing."

Stanislav ordered his peoples to move out, as he was walking he made sure there is enough stuffs for all of them and for the comrades trapped below. The necessary equipment to be taken. He was calm, not talking most still he was worried. As he and the whole group reaches the tunnel, he commences his squadron to move out.

"Fellow comrades, this is it, here we are, we must proceed from this starting position."

Seeing a big hole going down, he commanded his units to stay on formation and carry the subterrenes. He starts to think who would be that crazy to just go one and a half kilometers deep. Maybe Stan's luck saved him from serving in the science but, these are just thoughts. He shook himself and waited as the squadrons take parts. Time passes and they gradually comes to the breaking point which took them around 2 hours to climb down. He had the feeling of being close but, he was far.

"Hold, we will start the next bit after 10 minutes."

He waited and checked the surroundings, lights were set to corners so that the team can elevate when returning. Ten minutes abruptly passes. Each having the communication so that none gets lost. Stanislav knew that he is on target. Next stop was at thousand meters. He saw the collapsed location and it literally shook him to his core. After scanning the direction for safely drilling down, he found the correct spot and commanded his comrades to commence the drilling. Nearly six planetary hours passes by to get to the location.

"We will rest not more than 5 minutes comrades, remember to take what is necessary."

Everything was silent except the people there, there was no beacon coming from underneath, not even a faint one to give an exact coordinate. Stanislav knew that the crew would not get a correct signal if they were not at least, fully down. He made sure that the operation would not proceed more than a day. Wishing that Dr.Belov and his crew has the edibles till they arrive...