Chapter 5: The people you meet

"Good to see your still alive, Ripley."

"You too, Hicks."

Having holstered his weapon, Hicks had quickly stood and the pair of survivors exchanged greetings.

"Have you seen Newt or Bishop?"

"No, I just woke up a few minutes ago. We were lucky. This planet we crashed on appears to be terraformed already, either naturally or by the corporation, I don't know but this planet could just as easily been barren and with no oxygen."

"We need to find the others and then find help. Let's hope these woods are safe."

"Mr. Bishop!"

The pair of Survivors jerked their heads in the direction of the shout, immediately answering the unasked question to one another.

"Newt."

"Mr. Bishop!"

Newt's shout had alerted the three closest people in the forest to her location. Within moments of her shout not only did Naruto, who had chasing her, finally catch up to her, but Ripley and Hicks burst into the clearing as well to help their two comrades.

Ripley did a quick once over of the people present. She was dressed in her civilian garb while Hicks was still wearing his military fatigues. Newt was wearing her now very worn clothing and looked to be in need of a bath. Bishop was in the worst shape of all of their group, as the synthetic had lost his lower limbs somewhere back between landing LV-426 and reboarding the Sulaco.

There was also a new person who had just appeared from the bushes behind Newt, wearing an orange jumpsuit and weilding a small bladed weapon. The boy was in his early teens and had very blond hair.

"Who are you?"

Ripley turned to see that Hicks had drawn his weapon and was pointing it the newcomer.

"You first."

The boy said back, looking suspiciously at Hicks' weapon, his blade at the ready. As Ripley moved over to Newt and checked up on Bishop, Hicks replyed.

"My name is Corporal Dwayne Hicks, now who are you?"

"Naruto Uzumaki, Ninja of Konoha, Rank Genin, who are they?"

"Those are Ripley, Newt, and Bishop, now are we going to do this peacefully or am I going to have to start shooting at you?"

There was a long pause, before Naruto stowed the blade he carried away in a hip pouch he was wearing. Hicks then lowered his gun as well.

"Where are we, kid?"

"I don't myself. I got separate from group a few days a go and I saw these pod things falling out of the sky. Ten, maybe more. Then I found you guys today. The only other living thig that I've seen in the past few days was that giant spider that knocked me out for three days."

The group of people Naruto was speaking to were suddenly very alert to what he was saying. Naruto realised this was a bad thing.

"What's wrong? Is it something I said?"

Hicks took a breath and turned to face Naruto, and gave him the bad news.

"Kid, I'm sorry to tell you this, but you only have a day or two left to live.

Cliffhanger here.

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