Space Job

Frolicking above the stars

On a night diminutive

Was the planet lone and captive

Licking comets just beyond

Gravitational its pull

On a very starry night

Dancing rubble with delight

Seasonal around the orbit

It was never a coincidence

How the shiny eloquence

Of the boulders’ breaking dance

Lit celestials with the sounds

Of another silent rumble

Shards of space rocks flying by

From trajectories awry

If they ever had one any

Darting through the shooting ship

Shooting through the space across

Voyage’s time had nothing loss

Parting from unknown the origin

Hull’s a-shoving floating obstacles

Trip presented its amenables

Alongside the inconceivables

Lulls of anything at all

Passengers aside withheld

In convenience they were stored

Cryosleeping so not bored

Rangers of the vast beyond

Unsuspecting of the creature

Lurking somewhere in the ship

Cables tearing in a snip

Making proper hidden nest

Sorting mucus as did best

Multilegged little scuttler

Building structures like were butter

Snorting here and now and then

As the crew erected selves

For a day just like tomorrow

No time for no bliss or sorrow

Was the company commandment

They propelled for the mess hall

Groggy lazy and the like

Juna, Hazy, Mark and Mike

Say another grayish day

Juna had her morning coffee

Mike was reading through the news

None commenting on own blues

Gonna spoil established mood

When a rattle and a crackle

Was enough for promptly startle

No one was expecting battle

Then at time of tasty breakfast

Scurry scurry through the duct

Comrades chilling shared a stare

Almost too much thought to bear

Flurry of four kinds of grim

Mike heaved baseball bat distressed

Hazy charged their trusty laser

Juna Mark each took a taser

Hike of searching there ahead

Over doors and rooms untidy

Shadows lighted and through rummage

Frantic at this day and age

Hover heads that wanted purge

Screech above escaping tail

Terrified the members present

Who just started to resent

Itch of space job for the money

Gathering the tools and weapons

Next they ventured deep inside

Passage’s mystery to hide

Thing they knew no thing about

Front them eggs and webs displayed

Planted trepidation seeds

Run and arm big were their needs

Stunt in time could save their lives

When a claws in face attack

Whole frame of small creature slashing

Vicious thrashing then a dashing

Man was Mike fell shredded throat

Juna screaming witnessed horror

Catching glimpse of monster left

The deceased in tears she’d heft

A surprise of deadly nightmare

Others shockingly uniting

Cocked their weapons sternly banding

Sudden the grief notwithstanding

Theirs the hunt to kill the beast

They proceeded after trail

Of the blood of fallen mate

Tracking lest it’d be too late

Way of following the animal

Finding it stopped on a corner

Creep appendages chelicerae

High alerting all the three

Readying for execution

When a pounce the speed of lightning

Targeted a helpless Hazy

Whose shots missed while hurting crazy

From spikes digging through the skin

Juna reached close with the taser

Trying to catch in chaotic

Swirl of friend high and spasmodic

Area where she could burn

The demoniac foul insect

Still defiling moving struggling

Over Hazy undermining

Free of capture or relief

Till a shock shook carapace

Trembling creature stopping motion

A relief from the commotion

Still it stayed on ground unmoving

And a rest came so without

An expected explanation

For abrupt finalization

Hand to lay on ground with body

Hazy Juna and too Mark

Unresponsive ruminating

Hazy too their wounds was tending

Hazy way for resolution

When a-jarring came a noise

Trio jerked in desperation

Weren’t ready new vexation

Then to promise a demise

Yet nevertheless they moved

In their sanity’s last stretch

Strained so hard by fate’s last fetch

That could someone comprehend

Weary midst the pipes advanced

In a jungle so confusing

Of materials were using

Really them for something (really)

Up until a sight presenting

Self for vision theirs relenting

As the meaning coalescing

Wrap around another one

Both of them turned on the taser

Hazy aimed at with the blaster

If they just could kill it faster…

Of two sides to stand against

Them now facing ‘nother species

One who managed end a brother

Retribution was no kinder

When one sends it for a life

Shot and ended little critter

So the humans there at ease

Were much thankful for a cease

At the stressful fight o’ violence

They turned off their fearful weapons

Watching stiffening the husk

Of the battle’s ending dusk

Day of darkest vile survival

And a turning for way back

They bore they depressing faces

For a member in last laces

Strand of Mike the best the last

And advancing through the tubing

Past the jungle towards quarters

They regretted prior orders

Brand of space job was dismay