"Whos there?"
The room was silent.
"Iz there anyone there?"
Still nothing. Paul cautiously lowered his phaser and pulled his tricorder out. He scanned the room. It wasn't picking up anything. To be on the safe side, Paul did one last sweep with his phaser and got back to work. The rest of the time he spent within the room studying the architecture and carvings on the walls went without incident. He was starting to feel a bit hungry and didn't fancy eating into his emergency rations so decided to head back to the runabout and get some real food. He also had plenty of data recorded for him to analyse until morning. He walked down the slope and headed for the tunnel where he came in when he was knocked down by a large creature. Paul went flying to the ground, dropping his phaser and his tricorder, with the light from the phaser pointing another way and it being dark outside, there was no light in the room and Paul was completely helpless. The creature dived on him and took a bit into his arm. Paul screamed with pain and managed to push the creature away. It came back for a second attack immediately, but not before Paul had managed to get his hands on his claw and had swung at the creatures throat. A cry of pain was heard and the creature fell to the ground with a thud.
Paul didn't want to stick around to see if it was dead so quickly grabbed his tricorder and phaser and hightailed it out of there. He ran down the 300 metre tunnel and out into the forest. He managed to run most of the two kilometres back to the runabout too.
Good job I try to keep fit on ze olodeck he thought as he ran.
He finally made it back to the runabout and closed the access hatch behind him. He sat down on the chair with a medkit and tended to his wound. It was not like any bite he had had before, it burned. He took out a medical tricorder and scanned his arm. It was as he thought. The saliva of the creature that attacked him had been slightly acidic and was therefore burning away at his skin and tissue. Paul prepared a hypospray and immediately used it. The burning stopped and Paul relaxed in his chair. He tried to remember what to do next from his medical training. It suddenly occured to him to close the wound so he got out his dermal regenerator and closed the wound.
"Computer, I thought you said nothing out there could hurt me?"
< Scans showed know life that was capable of inflicting damage >
"Well zen how ze hell do you explain hat appened to me out there?"
< Unknown >
What was zat thing? he thought as he ate. Ze computer showed no sign of any creature larger zan a cat, yet zat thing zat attacked me was at least my height.
"Computer, scan ze structure for any unsuaual readings."
< No unusual readings >
"What? Computer, scan zis entire area for anysing unusual"
< Processing, no unusual readings >
"Damn it! Zis is ridiculous! Zere is somesing out there."
Paul picked up the tricorder and the holographer and put them on the table in front of him.
"Copmuter, download all information form zese devices into your memory."
<Downloading.... File transfer complete >
"Annalyze all images and text found on ze walls and compare zem with any other ancient writings or heiroglyphs. See if you can come up with any form of language."
< Processing. Annalysis will take 8 hours. >
Next morning Paul woke up to the beautiful bright sun of the panet. Outside he could here the noise of the wildlife around the shuttle.
"Computer, display findings of annalysis on ze main viewer."
< Data displayed. >
"Ohhh my...."