[I attached the photo of the Skeld Map above, feel free to check it before reading💕]

It was another peaceful day inside the spaceship called The Skeld. The ten members are cheerfully circling at the cafeteria eating their meals.

2 years ago, the space union issued a worldwide search for people who are willing to undergo training and set off in space as crewmates who would help in managing the three major spaceships that the space union proudly created.

These three ships are mainly the Skeld, MiraHQ, and lastly the Polus.

Hearing that the admission is free, even the training is free, and they get to wander into space free. Many are tempted to join the worldwide search.

However the selection was tough. They needed to undergo many hardships in order to qualify for the top 30 candidates who could get a chance to work in the three spaceships.

The main character we have right now is Red. Last 2 years ago, he showed outstanding remarks and managed to gain a position as the leader of Skeld Spacecraft 01.

With him are 9 individuals whom he could say are very good and trustworthy.

Everyday they would do their tasks diligently, running around in the spaceship then when they were finally done they would hang around the cafeteria to ease their boredom.

As a very self-worthy leader, the team also respects him and gives him a lot of face. So when he speaks no one dares to answer him in an unrespectable manner, but not to the point of alienation. They would also joke around as long as it was not a serious matter.

Red, "Everyone, good work! Another day has ended. In just a month we will be able to go home with a lot of new materials for the space union's research."

Hearing that they will be able to come home in just 4 weeks, they were naturally happy. It would be a lie if they said that they weren't homesick at all. They still misses the scenery of nature when looking out of the window, but now all they could see was vastness of stars and rocks and darkness.

"Hey pink, wanna get married when we get home?" Blue who was beside pink asked. Pink and purple were the only girls in the crew so naturally many guys are pointing on the two.

Pink who was used to this flirting sneered, "Seriously? If I really want to marry someone, then it would rather be someone whose responsible and handsome. Take our leader for example."

It's not a lie though, Red was the most looker out of the 8 men. Second to him was white, however he was always silent and passive. Giving off an aloof and cold temperament so naturally the girls would choose the easily to talk to which is Red.

Blue dejectedly look over towards Red and felt like his pride as a man was trampled, but he couldn't bring himself to hate Red since it was also true, "But! I won't give up. I'll pursue you more than before!"

Then the two unofficial love birds started to have a little quarrel, making the squad laugh at them. Red look over his watch and saw that it was already bedtime so he stopped the two.

After fooling around for a few hours they went to the medbay to sleep. There are no sleeping quarters in the skeld but there are beds in the medbay .

Red glance over at White who just silently stood up and went over the med bay first. Since they started their journey, white has always been timid and shy, it was only natural since they were strangers.

Because of this timidness, White did his task alone on the 1st day.

As the leader, Red was of course concerned that White would be out of place so he decided to talk to the man.

He called White to meet him at the Comms at that time. He asked him if there's anything that he could do so he won't feel out of place but White only coldly said,

"You're so annoying stop bothering with me, it's fine as long as I do my tasks right?"

And left the dumbfounded Red at the room. Red thought that the man was only timid but he was actually aloof and cold in nature. The type that doesn't want anyone to mind their business.

However, because of this Red paid attention to him more each day. He noticed that sometimes White would look dazedly out the window, sometimes he would just stand still, not doing anything, like a little lost child.

Well, he is indeed a child. Red took the leisure to go to the admin and look for White's information, so he knew that this man was only 19 years old, and was also an orphan. Maybe that's the reason why he shuts himself from others.

And Red's habit of observation became an instant factor that whenever he got a chance to be with White he would undoubtedly look at him.

As time passes he noticed that at the young age of 19 ,White was actually 190 cm, slightly taller than the 22 years old Red who was 188 cm.

He also noticed that although white look slender he actually has a fine body built it's just that it was not noticiable because of their suites. Red also noticed that White especially liked to go to the electricals and thought that maybe White really likes to play with the wires.

Red knew way too much, that he, himself, started to also feel weird about it. He was paying more and more unnecessary attention to this young man.

"Good night everyone!" Red nodded goodnight to everyone and went to his bed and slept.

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*Beep Beep Beep!*

An alert signal sounded from the communication, it was not the normal alert signal when the other spaceships send their reports but more like a distress call. The whole skeld issued this red alarm sounds, the red lights also flicker continuously.

Red was the first one to react and immediately ran to the Comms room followed by others.

He opened the monitors. It was from the MiraHQ.

[Anyone who reading this, the MiraHQ was now massacred by an unknown creature that secretly invaded the ship. I am the only survivor and I won't last long as well.

They are here to sabotage the research projects and also murders all the crewmates to protect themselves. Hurry everyone! The only way to defeat them is to hurriedly finish the remaining tasks and eject that creature!

Keep it in your mind.

Always observe.

Because....

There is an Imposter...

Among us.................…]

The message then ended.

Red was petrified, how could someone invade such an empregnable MiraHQ? He looked over the crewmates who were watching him with questioning looks. His eyes subconsciously landing on White who didn't even have a slightest bit of concern.

Purple asked worriedly, "Red, what did it say?"

Red couldn't pick from answering or not. He don't want to raise unnecessary panic within everyone. If he really did inform them about the possibility that there was ah imposter among them, they might raise vigilance against each other and won't trust anyone except themselves.

Red took a deep breathe and steadied his self, "Nothing, it was a false alarm."

Everyone let out a sigh of relief and went back to medbay one by one. They all continued to sleep, while Red was sleepless all night.

Little did they know, the storm is coming their way, once tomorrow starts.

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As usual, everyone woke up and went to the cafeteria to eat breakfast. Red gave them the tasks they needed to do for the day then let them off.

And again as usual, as soon as Red glance at White's seat, the owner was already gone. Vanished like a phantom of the night. He could only sigh in defeat and went to finish his tasks as well, and hoped that he could run into him along the way.

2 hours had passed and everything seems normal. Red couldn't help and think that maybe there were no imposters in their team. Thinking of this he felt a feint light of hope.

But this hope was instantly crushed. The reactor suddenly issued a [reactor meltdown] alarm. Red immediately ran over to mediate the situation and he saw Yellow in there as well.

When the reactor was fixed he went to Yellow and asked, " Did you know why the reactor suddenly issued a meltdown?"

Yellow just shrugged, "Don't know as well. I just happen to hear the alarm and I was nearby so I went to fix it."

Red, " Don't tell me you're slacking off at medbay again?"

Yellow jokingly replied with guilt, "Wow.. How'd you know?"

Red, "You said you were near the Reactor, of course I'll first think about the medbay. It's not like there is no fuel in the upper and lower engines that needs to be filled."

Yellow let out a laugh, "Wow leader! You shouldv'e studied law instead of coming to space."

Red, "Shut up and do your tasks you little brat." And he playfully ruffled Yellow's hair.

Yellow could only surrender and promise to not slack off anymore.

He released yellow and happened to see White passby, so he hurriedly bid goodbye to yellow and went out of the reactor. He ran faster and faster.

Red finally reached the storage, but he didn't see White going the aisle directing upwards the admin and cafeteria so he directly went to the right wing of the Skeld.

While walking fast, someone held his hands and grabbed him inside the comms which was the first room one could passby when walking to the right wing.

As soon as he was pulled inside, the doors closed, and he was pinned down at the walls of the room.

Suddenly being assaulted like this, he couldn't help but look up and glare at the person but his glare was changed for surprise real quick.

"What are you looking surprise for? Aren't you following me?" White's cold and deep voice echoed in the room.

Red felt his ears being tickled by this voice, "I..I'm not following you! I'm going to the shields!" He tried to defend himself.

White just stared at him from above while Red's face was hung low. White felt that he was funny to tease so he lowered his head and whispered to Red's ear with a more husky and tempting voice, "Hmm. Really? You're ears are betraying you though."

Feeling the other's breath in his ears, Red couldn't help but tremble. Finally, not standing this kind of humiliation, Red pushed White and ran towards the shield to do his task,leaving the smirking White behind.

White chuckled at the man, then he smiled, however this smile was not a genuine smile but more like an evil smile.

"Guess it won't hurt to leave him last. What reaction would be get if he would know the truth? That would be fun to watch."

White gently and lowly said, then went towards the monitor and connected with his planet's base.

"Code 002, what is taking you so long?" Their Chief said angrily.

White who was called Code 002 let out an indignant look at the Chief, "Calm down your guts. I'll finish soon, let me play with this humans for a while longer. I just found an amazing toy you know."

The commander let out a defeated sigh, he have to chant continuously that this man is an elite officer of their planet, and to protect their planet from being discovered by these human researchers they have to sabotage the ships and kill the crewmates to serve as warning that they should not comeback.

Commander, "Anyway, just do your job properly. Don't let them eject you from the ship or we won't find anymore ways to invade again. This was already their 3rd assault and their technology keeps getting more complicated."

White, "I know."

As an elite member of the corps that protects their planet, White was well aware that they should not have any attachments to these lowly humans. However, he couldn't help but be moved whenever Red stares at him with those observing eyes, it was like Red was looking right through his soul.

Sometimes he couldn't help but think that Red may have already found out his little secret but it seems like it was not the case. He can't deny it anymore, the more Red observes him the more his heart races. It was filled with undescribable excitement.

The feeling that any moment this observant person might expose his true identity added spice to his mission and it was amazing, he was filled with ecstasy.

White was still thinking of Red's hot gazes when someone suddenly reported. White's smile turned wider.

Let the Hide n Seek begin....

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Red, "Yellow what happened?"

Red inquired Yellow since he was the one who issued the report. However Yellow was trembling, seemingly afraid. Red went towards this scared young man and patted his shoulders to appease him.

Seeing this scenes makes White's eyes dilated and couldn't help but look at yellow as if he was already dead.

Yellow felt the murderous gaze but he couldn't find where it came from. Because of Red's comfort he finally found his voice and spoke, "I saw Black's body on my way back to the cafeteria. Black is...Black is dead!"

Everyone was in utter shock and they couldn't help but feel that it was untrue. However when they look around, they found that Black really was not in here anymore.

Red was petrified, he clenched his fist and blamed himself for it. He knew that there was a possibility of an imposter infiltrating their ship and was probably here right now but he chose to be silent however this time it looks like he need to tell the truth to everyone.

Red calmly stood up and swept a gave at them, especially at White.

To be honest, he was quite suspicious of him since White was the only who passes through them earlier but there was also a possibility that white just happened to pass by the aisle where Black was killed and that Black was killed when they were talking earlier.

But aside from being suspicious of him, he was more worried about this child's safety. He likes to work alone, a perfect target for the imposter.

Red took a deep breathe and spilled the truth, "I'll tell you all the truth now. Yesterday, the distress call was from our sister ship the MiraHQ, they...They were massacred by an unknown creature and they all probably already met their demise.

They warned us that there may also be someone that invaded our ship and was currently with us at this moment. In short....THERE IS AN IMPOSTER AMONG US."

The 8 members let out a gasp. Then the two girls began to panic. The feeling that there was a murderer inside with them right now made them feel very frightened. Blue comforted Pink and promised to be with her and will protect her.

Purple raised her hand and asked, "Then how could we defeat this imposter?"

Red explained, "Their are two options. First, we need to finish our tasks as soon as possible, this will trigger a report to the Base back on Earth and will send help immediately.

Second, we need to be observant and vote out the imposter. The second one is risky since we might end up ejecting innocent crew mates, but if we couldn't eject the imposter then that means that the imposter will still run rampant."

They all couldn't help but feel dejected, it was like they were to die at any moment. But they are not ready to die yet, everyone here is young and still wants to experience the world.

So they all became vigilant with and eyed everyone with untrusting eyes.

When the meeting was adjourned, they all scattered around despite Red telling them that it's better to work together. This was the outcome that he didn't want to happen but it really did happen.

Red could only helplessly left to find the youth and to protect him. He went to the admin to check if White was there and like goddess of luck was siding him today, he saw that White was in the admin.

Red went to the card scan and did his task while White stood beside, as if waiting for him to finish first, however when Red was swiping the card, the lights was suddenly turned off.

His vision was limited, so he couldn't see anything however he heard a metallic sound. Then about a minute has passed he found himself alone in the admin room.

Yes, white vented at the admin and went to the navigations, killed the crew mate who was downloading files then vented at the cafeteria and hurriedly stood at the aisle leading towards the admin and storage.

He did all this in that time when the lights went off. When the light was fixed he ran towards the admin.

Red saw him walk inside the admin and asked, "Where have you been? I has looking for you."

White indifferently answered, "The light suddenly went off, so I thought of going to the electricals to fix it, but it seems that I'm too late."

Red didn't found this strange, the boy always does disappear without words and also likes to play at the electrical so he must've been very concerned when the lights went out.

Although White is still indifferent and cold, at least he was now conversing with him so he was a little delighted, his courage rocketed and reprimanded the young man.

When suddenly there was once again a report. Hearing this, Red's heart became very nervous.

Red, "who reported?"

Purple, "me."

Red, "what happened purple?"

Purple, "Yellow...He...I saw yellow's dead body on the navigations. It seems like he was downloading files, so he didn't notice the imposter, the files were also scattered everywhere."

Red, in an instance, felt sadden hearing this.

Among them Yellow was the most jolly person. How could he die so suddenly, they were clearly just talking earlier.

Pink as Purple's best friend, she knew that purple had a little crush on the little sun whom was Yellow. She knew that Purple was just acting tough but she was probably broken inside.

But despite secretly having a crush on Yellow, Purple always pretend to be annoyed by him. You know the typical reaction when you see your crush and you have to get his attention so you unconciously act spoiled or something.

However, despite knowing this, she didn't dare go and comfort her. What if Purple just self-reported her kill to look as if she just happened to see the body?

Everyone was very calculative and suspicious of everyone.

Then Green suddenly opened up.

Green, "you know guys, I think Purple did it."

Purple was aghast and couldn't believed what she was hearing,

"Why would you say so?! I didn't do it, why would I kill him?!"

Green, "we all knew that you have some conflicts with him. "

Purple, " I didn't, really. Why would I kill the man I love?! This is outrageous!"

Green, " you may just say that because you were found out."

Purple, " I really love him. Pink could justify for me."

Everyone's eyes were now on Pink, " I...As purple said, she really liked Yellow.

In the end she still felt that her best friend wouldn't do such thing to her man and chose to defend her but that doesn't mean that she was trusting her.

Purple, "See? Green, why are you pointing fingers? Is it because you are guilty and wants us to fight each other?"

Now everyone became suspicious of Green.

Green defended, "How could I? As you said, Yellow was found in the navigation, I was at the electric fixing the lights with brown."

Brown, "yes, we did fix the lights."

While they were having a fight, doubting one another. White was in the sidelines amusingly watching this, but of course it was hidden from his face.

He couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Humans are very fragile, just give them a few push and they would doubt everyone, casting away the relationship they built for a long time.

Now it was time to vote, each and everyone has a high tech terminal. It was a watch were they could report or vote out someone. They waited for the results, and the majority skipped the voting so one was ejected.

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When the voting ended, Red heaved a sigh of relief. No one was ejected, no one was innocently ejected.

This time White was once again, gone.

'Geez, what should I do with you? You always disappear out of my sight. Can't you tell that I've always been looking at you? When will you stop running away from me?' Red thought to himself.

White who was also known as code 002 was leisurely walking at the narrow ways of the Skeld looking at rooms with a crew mate to kill. Finally after a few rooms he got to arrive at the Shields.

A perfect spot for a kill. And it just happens to be Green who was doing his task. If he dies, he's sure that everyone will suspect Purple because of their conflict earlier and she will be voted out. Killing two birds in one stone.

White slowly fished his knife out and silently approach the man. While doing so he pressed his watch and sabotaged the Reactor once again. It was to make sure that everyone will be going to that area, away from him and his victim. Making his kill smooth and clean.

Green who was indulged in his task didn't know that he was nearing his end. And when he was just about to turn his head, White already stabbed him to his death.

Making sure that no one was in the area, White quickly vented and chilled inside there for a while. He don't know if someone will be there when he vent out in other vents, and he can't vent in the Shields again.

Then, the only way is to wait for someone to find the body, report it, and everything will he fine.

After a few minutes someone really did found the body and reported it. Calling everyone to the cafeteria.

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Red, "Cyan, what's wrong?"

Cyan, "I found Green's body at the shields!"

Red, "Another one!?"

Red was in distress. Seeing his friends die one by one, he felt his heart breaking into pieces. It feels like they were live stocks just waiting to be slaughtered. And he undeniably hates this feeling.

Cyan, " Yellow, Black, and now Green. I-I can't take this anymore! I'm going insane!"

Red could only helplessly stare at Cyan. He, himself, also don't know what to do at this moment. He just felt exhausted all of a sudden.

Pink," We can't continue like this anymore. We have to think."

Cyan, "yes. We should immediately vote out the imposter, if not, then we will all die in here. No, I don't what that!"

Purple, "Then who do you think is the imposter."

Cyan,".......You! It can only be you!"

Purple, "Ha?! I said earlier, I am not the imposter! Besides do you even have any proof?!"

Cyan, "You...That's right! You were having a fight with Green earlier. Who would have known if you got piss off with him and killed him."

Purple," that's absurd!"

Cyan, "don't deny it anymore!"

White on the other side, felt joy in his heart. He was right, this humans are stupid as hell as he thought they would be. No one even bothered to be suspicious of him, he was just silent but it also seems like he was invisible for everyone.

Well, except for Red of course.

The final result was Purple got voted out. The remaining number of the team are 7. Pink, Red, and Purple chose to skip the voting. While Cyan, Brown, Blue, and White voted her out . But since it was an anonymous voting no one was able to see if who voted who, only them, theirselves knew.

And so, Purple was forced to be ejected and die in space.

Although she kept struggling, she still couldn't win against the brute force of the males, so she just gave up her fruitless struggle and embraced her destiny.

However before she was ejected she let out a frightening curse;

"I hope that the real imposter would wipe out all of you soon. I never knew that this teammate is so fragile to this extent. Let's all have a reunion in the afterlife!"

Everyone felt chills ran up to their spines. Her vicious voice echoing to their ears for how many times. However White was smiling and mouthed the word..... I'LL MAKE YOUR WISH COME TRUE.

But because he was at the very back, no one noticed the dangerous but playful glint passing through his cold eyes.

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Everyone thought that it was now the end of everything.

But because of the conscience they couldn't do their works properly and sometimes they would just daze off while doing their tasks.

Like for example, Red. He was in a daze, watching the vast sea of stars outside. While watching these twinkling stars he saw a white giant star, reminding him of White who always does things alone.

That's right. He still needs to find White.

With that in mind, he finally picked himself up and set off to find him, while casually doing his tasks along the way.

White, where are you?

He was searching for quite a while now but he still couldn't get a glimpse of the youth. Even his shadows are not insight. Suddenly a dreadful feeling entered his heart. It was a bad omen.

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Red: White? You...Are you the one who called the report?

White only nodded his response, his body trembling.

White obviously don't want to play this card. You know, he really hated acting this pitiful, scared, and powerless being but for the sake of his mission he'll do it.

He can't stay too quiet for too long or else everyone might catch on him. And it seems like everyone was getting pulled by his acting.

Pink: What happened white?

Despite this, white didn't answered. He seem like he already losed his soul. Red couldn't stand seeing him like this, despite his cold and aloof appearance he is still a child.

Maybe he encountered something that shocked him to this extent.

Red went to his side and comforted him, said gentle words of encouragement to him and finally hugged him. White whose life was focused on his training since young never felt this warmth before so his body became very stiff at this.

White relaxed his body then evened out his breath but fright was still evident in his eyes and shaking hands.

White: I saw Brown at the Storage.

Cyan: What about Brown?...By the way, where's brown right now?!

Cyan was in a panic. Brown was his friend, but hearing White's words, his heart was filled with a dreadful feeling. He stood up and went to White, forcefully grabbing his collar.

Red who was beside White immediately calmed them down.

Red: White, it's okay now. Cyan's not gonna hurt you. Say, about Brown?

White: I was about to go to the storage to clear the chutes, but...but...but I saw Brown's lifeless body in there.

Everyone was quite. Then it turns out that Purple was not the imposter after all. Thinking of Purple, they couldn't help but be suspicious of Cyan.

Why?

Because he was the only one who kept persisting that Purple was indeed the imposter. If Cyan was not the imposted why would he try so hard to push someone into their demise?

That wouldn't make sense.

This idea was in everyone's mind. And they voted out cyan without further ado.

After that pink was heartbroken because her girl bestfriend was wrongly accused and died innocently. Blue let her rest at the medbay, and also to let her have her peace of mind and sort things out.

"White!" Red shouted at him. He was about to go missing once again, food thing that he kept his eyes to him this time.

"What?" White asked, this time it was not the cold tone but more of a normal tone.

"We should stick together. I'm worried about you after all." Red said with a gentle smile.

White thought that Red was always looking at him and following him because he was sus of him, but it turns out that he was actually worried.

And for the first time in his life as an elite member of their fleet. Code 002's heart issued a beat. This is wrong! He reprimanded himself.

He shouldn't get emotionally attached to this beings, they tries to destroy their world. They even destroy their own world.

His thoughts was still in a mess. He only reacted again when Red pulled him and brought him to the Electric.

White stood their, watching Red do his tasks. And babble about various things.

Red: you know, I always saw you playing inside the electric, do you like electronics?

White, "Mn." It's not like I like it. I only did it to install hidden chips in here in order to sabotage the ship.

Red: really? Then I presume you already did your tasks in here.

White: How'd you say so?

Red: well let's see. You love electronics and you are just standing there watching me, so that means you may have especifically did your electric tasks first before the rest.

White didn't answer positively or negatively, so Red took his silence as a yes.

Suddenly, the ship issued an alarm.

Red: Shit! Someone sabotaged the O2!

The air was slowly thinning. It was depleting in each second.

Red hurriedly pulled White to the 02 to fix it and found that Blue was there, despite having a lot of questions, they immediately handled the situation and Red called for the emergency meeting.

Red: Blue what are you doing at the O2?

Blue: I heard the alarm so I immediately ran to fix it.

Red: What were you doing before the oxygen depleted?

Blue: I was shooting asteriods at Weapons.

Red was now very suspicious of Blue, weapons is very near the O2, he's the only possible person to sabotage it. He was with White so there's no way White couldv'e sabotaged the O2.

White also knows what was Red thinking so in the end he also voted Blue out.

Pink was the only one who defended him. But having one versus two, the victor is very clear.

Now the ship only has three people in it. Red, White, and Pink. Just one more kill and White would be successful in his mission. He keeps thinking between who to kill first, Red or Pink?

Pink.

He decided to end the only woman left in the Skeld. Ahhh, he can't wait to see Red's face full of agony and betrayal.

After edjecting Blue off the ship Red turned towards White, "Are you okay?"

White nodded, "Is it finally over?" He acted innocently.

Red's heart was in pain seeing this, he wondered how much trauma this child have. Due to symphaty, Red slowly approached White and enclosed him to a comforting and firm hug, protecting him from everything.

"Everything is fine now."

White was dumbfounded. What is this feeling? Ever since he played around with this man, he started to feel things that he shouldn't have.

No he shouldn't have this unnecessary things, if he stay any longer with this man his will might bend, unfinishing his mission.

He pushed Red away and walked away. Red was startled for a second and shouted, "Where are you going?!"

"Don't follow me!" White said through his grit teeth.

Red was left in there, confused at the sudden outburst. Watching White's back gettung further and further...

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