Martian
“Aww!” I groaned, as I woke
to a rumble. Then I inhaled. Suddenly I felt an instant pain in my left
shoulder. “Ouch, I must have slept funny.”
“Hold up! Where am I?!?” I
wondered, as I sat up and glanced for a minute. I slowly processed what my eyes
were taking in.
“Ahh!” I said, the moment I
understood what was going on. I spied to my left, then I saw my crew dealing
cards in mid air.
“12 hours till we land on
orange, rocky Mars”, I announced, stunned about how long I had been sleeping
for.
“Can I play?” I asked,
whilst I swiped the hair out of my eyes. “Sure”, replied George. He
stopped, then started quickly dealing cards in my direction.
Suddenly I heard a rumble,
coming from my stomach. And again. Then once more.
“Do we have any food?” I
curiously wondered.
“We’re out”, Connor slowly
mumbled.
A devastating Bang rushed
through my ears, as I heard a horrifying sound. Without warning the power went
out. I rushed to the metal power box and flipped all the switches and pushed
the emergency power button….. silence flowed through our ears.
I screamed dreadfully.
George sped to the control
panel, then looked at the red screen.
“Three percent fuel left”,
he quickly warned us.
“Brace yourself for the
landing”, Connor nervously exclaimed.
“Crash landing on Mars –
what a great way to die”, said George sarcastically. Suddenly an enormous black
hole came out of nowhere.
“Even better – being sucked
into a black hole and die there!” he screamed joyfully continuing with the
sarcasm.
For a moment I was blinded,
my ears were ringing. I fell out of my seat. When I got up, I could see that we
were in a parallel universe and headed straight towards a planet that looked
somewhat like earth.
By Ben Creagh
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