Hello one and all! Welcome to a brand new story of mine! As you know I am primarily working on the Second Destiny series, if you're familiar with that then great, if not I would love if you could check it out! I'm sure you've heard of the mobile game "Among Us" that's been very popular recently. I myself have played it and I find it very fun. I thought about this a few days ago and had just put this in writing. Basically its an Among Us AU that features the Ninja and other characters as astronauts-but one of them is an imposter. You don't have to be familiar with the game to read the story. It's basically a murder mystery. I figured it would be an interesting concept to write about! I don't know how well this will be recieved but I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Now, because it is a MURDER MYSTERY, there's gonna be some details about blood. I'm not sure how graphic yet. But just be warned!

Time: Approximately 17:30

Location: The Skeld

Occupants On Board: 10

Impostors: 1

There was a faint rumbling throughout the walls and the floors of the ship as it soared through the darkness of space. The only source of light on the outside were the stars as they twinkled against the black backdrop of the openness beyond. Cole shook his head, eyes hurting as the vast emptiness on the outside began to bend his vision and resorted to observing his surroundings.

There were nine other people on board, all in different colored spacesuits, save for Cole who was black. There was Kai, prideful young man with spiky auburn hair in a red suit. Next to him on Cole's left was Jay, same age as Kai but more youthful in his freckled face and toussled brown hair under his blue suit. He was holding Nya's cyan-gloved hand in his own. Nya and Kai were siblings and only a few years apart, and also happened to be Jay's significant other. Besides those two was Skylor, a young woman with ginger hair that seemed to glow in contrast of her orange suit. Beside her was Dareth. He was loud, obnoxious, and just downright annoying.

Cole looked over to his right. Sitting on the seats next to each other, leaning into each other's shoulders was Zane and Pixal. Zane skin was almost as white as his suit, with icy blue eyes and blond hair. Pixal's skin too was fair, except she differed from Zane in her green eyes, silver hair and purple suit. They glanced at each other but didn't say much as the others conversed among themselves. At the end of the row of seats were Lloyd and Morro. Lloyd's suit was dark green and Morro's was more of a lime. As he looked Cole caught a glimpse of the bright strand of green hair that matched with his suit as he glared at Lloyd, who shuffled a couple of seats farther from him.

The ten had been sent by Ninjago Aeronautics and Space Administration to explore the outer depths of the galaxy aboard the Skeld. With several years worth of food and other necessities stockpiled in the storage cabin and no communication to earth except for a small computer in which they were also given list of tasks to do each day, it was up to them to work together to find a way to explore the stars and find a way back to earth.

Cole took another look around the room. Currently they were all waiting for their list of tasks to show on the computer so they could get to work. Per Cole's suggestion they all agreed that it would be best to finish the tasks before they began their process of exploration.

There was a small beeping sound from the computer and everyone looked up. Its screen was lit. Several of them walked over to it.

"Hey guys, our tasks finally got here." Cole said to the others, beckoning them. They all crowded around the screen to look.

"Electrical? I have to go in electrical?" Dareth groaned. "That room gives me the heebie-jeebies!"

"Well maybe if you were able to grow a set your pants wouldn't be the same color of your suit." Morro snarked.

"Hey, that's enough." Cole said as he continued down the list. "Dareth, you need to divert power to Shields and calibrate the distributor. Zane, Pixal, you two are in admin. Be sure to upload and download any data and also fix the wiring there too. Morro, you'll need to start the reactor. Kai, Skylor, make sure you two refuel the engines and align outputs for both. Nya, Jay, you two are in navigation today. Chart our course and stabilize the steering. Lloyd, you empty all the chutes and clean the oxygen filters. I'll be priming the shields. Everyone also needs to swipe their cards in admin and submit a scan at medbay."

The doors to the room they were in slid open to reveal the cafeteria and granted them access to the rest of the ship. After swiping their cards and submitting scans they all parted ways to complete their tasks.

For a while, everything ran smoothly, everyone was doing as they were told and they were working together to get the ship's operations in functional order. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But that was about to change

Down in the bowels of the ship in the electrical room, Dareth was fixing the wiring of some of the circuits-or trying to at least.

"Grrr." He growled as he pulled on a pink wire. Some of them had been damaged and needed to be untangled and reconnected. "Come on you!" He grunted as he struggled to get the blue and yellow wire free of the pink, tangling himself in the process. "Oh, come on!"

So busy was he trying to get himself free he didn't hear metallic shuffling coming from the floor beneath him. Suddenly the cover to the vent on the side of the room opened with a clang! Dareth turned around at the sound.

"Finally, someone to help me!" He said with a breath of relief as he saw one of his crewmates come up through the vent. He tried to get a wire off from his boot. "I've been having so much trouble with this, you wouldn't believe! The door's right there. Why did you come through the vent?"

No words were said, not even as a large knife was pulled out from their belt, its blade glinting in the dim light of the room. Dareth's eyes grew wide as he saw it.

"H-hey, w-what are you doing with that?" He asked nervously.

The knife ripped itself through the wires on the wall. The lights went out as the ship was suddenly plunged in darkness. Frightened, Dareth yelped and suddenly freed himself of the wires as he fumbled through the dark room towards the door. He felt along the wall frantically to find his way, but where the exit should have been, it was only a cold metal wall. He was trapped.

"Hey! HEY!" Dareth yelled. He pounded his fists on the wall. "Help me! Get me out! GET ME OUT-"

His words were cut short as the knife's blade sliced into his neck. Hot blood poured like a river from his jugular as his head became light and he fell to the floor. Blood pooled in his helmet. He was dead within moments.

Seeing their work was done, the murderer wiped the knife's blade clean on Dareth's suit before stashing it back in their own and slinking back into the vents.

One down. Eight more to go.

"How's it going over there?"

"Good, you?"

"Alright. It's just that this board is super touchy…"

Jay and Nya together were working to do their tasks in navigation when suddenly the whole ship went dark.

"H-hey!" Jay cried. "I was almost done!" He sighed in frustration. "Now I'm going to have to do this all over again!"

"What caused the power to go out?" Nya asked.

"I'll check it out." Lloyd said from across the hall. He left O2 and felt his way along the walls until he reached electrical only to find the doors shut. He furrowed his brow.

That's odd… he thought, pressing the button on the wall as the doors opened again. He tripped over something large. "What the-?"

He felt along the object to see what he had fallen over, but he couldn't see without the lights. He got up and felt his way. He blindly turned switches and knobs until the lights came back on.

"Phew." Lloyd said. "That's better."

He turned around to leave, only to see what he had tripped over when first coming in. He gasped as his heart dropped.

"Dareth!" He cried. He ran over, only to find his poor crewmate laying dead in a pool of his own blood. Lloyd pressed a button on his spacesuit.

"Guys, I need you all in electrical NOW!" He said. "It's bad!"

The others were there within moments. They all gasped.

"Oh my god…" Kai said, his eyes wide. "He's dead…"

"Someone killed him!" Nya said.

Jay ripped off his helmet and ran to the bunks to throw up. Morro and Lloyd looked at each other with wide eyes. The others were too shocked to speak.

Skylor peered at the back of the room and saw the ripped wires. "Look." She said, pointing. "They sabotaged the electricity in here. That's why the lights went out."

Lloyd looked up at the others. "What do we do?"

"My advice for the best course of action would be to put the body in medbay for the moment." Zane said. "We can see if there's any clues that can point to the perpetrator."

Lloyd nodded and scooped up Dareth's body and took him to the medbay. Cole called a meeting at the cafeteria and soon everyone was gathered at one of the tables.

"Okay," He said once Lloyd had rejoined the rest of them. "I contacted the base and they said there's nothing they can do, so we're on our own here. Does anyone have any clues to who it was? Did anyone see anything suspicious or out of place?"

They glanced at one another before shaking their heads. "Was there anyone else down there with him?"

"He was the only one that far down inside the ship." Nya said. "Morro would be the closest person, but he was starting the reactor. I saw him coming back up before the lights went out. So it's not him."

They discussed some more, but it felt like they just kept hitting a brick wall. Finally fed up with the lack of answers, Kai spoke up.

"Look, I don't know who it is that killed Dareth, but we're gonna find out." He said. "One way or the other. Lets face it, it could be anyone. But we have to find out who it is before someone else gets killed."

"One of you is pretending to be innocent. I know the person that killed Dareth is in this room. You're just faking it so you can close enough to cut us down." He narrowed his eyes.

"There's an imposter among us."

Oh no! The imposter has already struck! Who seems sus to you? Tell me in the reviews! Thanks for reading! Be sure to favorite, follow, and drop a review on your way out! Stay healthy and safe! RealtreeGal, out!