Others

Kate woke to someone shaking her, “Yo Kate- time for the walk, lets go! Satellites won’t fix themselves.” Grumbling Kate unstrapped from the bed and pushed into the hallway of the space station, she was greeted  by the rest of the crew with calls of “hello.” and “morning.”

Kate grumbled ” On the one day they let us sleep in,a satellite goes offline,great!” Kate lazily floated to the suit room and with the help of her partner Rico, dawned a mark 12 suit. After Rico and her were dressed and ready to go she gave the thumbs up to the camera on the wall.

There was a hiss and everything went quiet,then the door opened and Kate stepped into nothingness.

She didn’t fall though,  she slowly floated away from the station and into space. “Ah the big blue world.” She thought looking down at earth .  Rico was close behind her and shouted over the radio, ” Aww yeah I’m back in space baby!” Kate simply rolled her eyes and turned to look at the satellite they were supposed to fix. It wasn’t there. “Command, we must be in the wrong position there’s no satellite.” Rico was spinning, searching for the machine. “Are you sure Kate.” Replied a voice over the radio, Kate switched on her helmet camera. Giving command a direct view of their position. “Come back to the station Kate,we’ll tell Houston we have a missing satellite.” Replied the man over the radio. As Kate used her thruster pack to turn, she saw three flashes out of the corner of her eye. Thinking it was her imagination she turned and rocketed back to the station. The station was bustling at the news of Rico and Kate’s discovery, everyone was chattering like school children. Eventually Captain Michael called everyone into the command center. “Alright everyone, listen up, I know your excited but the satellite is probably just off course, nothing to worry about.” Just as Michael said this, there were three loud bangs on the roof above them!

Everyone jumped and went completely quiet. Kate noticed a drop of sweat float by her face and collide with the wall. The she heard another sound–footsteps. Heading for the airlock. Kate pulled herself to the monitor and looked at the airlock through the camera. Three figures in black metal armor were pulling themselves through the airlock. One of them looked at the camera, raised his arm and fired a blast of blue energy from his hand! The feed went dead.

“Run!” screamed Kate just as the airlock opened and the armored people streamed into the station, another blast zipped through the air and obliterated the head of the person standing next to her! In panic Kate pushed herself towards the escape pods, her crew close behind her!  Projectiles sailed through the air around her, scorching the walls. She finally sailed into the room housing the escape pods, desperately she clawed at the latch to open one of them! She pulled it open with a shout of triumph, ” Guys, get in- oomph!” One of the figures tackled her, sending them both spinning through the room. Kate kicked and punched but she couldn’t escape its grasp! It raised a hand and a blade popped from it’s armor. The man drove the blade into Kate’s midsection and twisted it. Kate’s vision turned black around the edges! The figure pulled the blade from her body and left her hanging in the zero gravity. As Kate blacked out she looked towards the window, she saw ships– thousands of ships. Ships not made by man.

One thought on “Others

  1. Again, great descriptions. A drop of sweat floating through space. I’m pleased to read about a female being the central character. You’ve left me wondering whether the blade in Kate’s midsection has killed her. Will there be more to this story?

    Suggestion: Look up the definition of “dawned” and “donned.”

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