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They saw the television crews set up right by the spaceship landing, with the admins standing off to the side with smiling faces. The female crew members had their make up done and their short hair pinned away fromt their face for the cameras, and the admins had each of the boys escort each of the girls. It was all for the cameras, or so they thought, but most of the people on the team were in established pairs. By now it was Ivory and Cedar, Honey and Seville, Raven and Roseanne. Then there was Mauve who escorted Scarlet because he had a crush on her, Ciel escorted Sage because he was interested in her, while Indy only escorted Olive because there was no one else left on the team to be escorted onto the ship.

The crew waved with smiling faces for the cameras as the pairs one by one walked into the ship—black and pink, white and brown, yellow and orange, purple and red, cyan and lime, blue and green. As they entered the control center of the ship, there were twelve seats, each in their respective colors with seat belts for them to use as they went through the atmosphere into outer space. Raven's seat was in the middle, in front of all the controls, as he was captain of the mission. To his left was Roseanne's seat as co captain, and to his right was Scarlet's seat as second co captain.

From there, the rest of the seats were organized by class rank.

The twelve members of the crew got in their seats and srtapped in all their safety belts. With only one minute to blast off, the screen in front of them lit up and they could see out onto the spaceship landing. A nervous feeling shot through everyone in the ship collectively as they heard the engines fire up. Raven had been taught the procedures for take off into space many times while he was in his special classes when he had been chosen to be captain, and they had practiced it several times during simulations. But something about actually doing it in eral life made it a thousand times more scary. As time strted counting down, Raven gulped and grabbed onto the lever in front of him with shaking hands. Once the countdown reached zero, he was to push the lever forward and it would send them up towards speace.

The whoe world was watching them, it was a televised mission take off. It felt likethe countdown was going much too slowly as they waited for it, and Raven was so nervous that he hesitated just a mili second longer after the countdown was finished. He slowly pushed the lever forward and the crew could feel themselves flying into the atmosphere at speeds that felt unreal to them. That had not been part of the simulation, the rattling of the ship as it left the dock and the falling feeling they felt in the pit of their stomachs as though they were in a never ending roller coaster ride. That was probably why they had been allowed to go to the amusement park just days prior. They needed to grow accustomed to the feeling of leaving the earth's atmosphere.

Raven finally felt as though he could breathe when the ship's systems went into autopilot, as it would be doing for the next eight years. It was on a set course and they would only need to have someone constantly supervising to make sure everything was working fine.

The ten minute trip out of the earth's atmosphere felt longer than it should have, and Roseanne had thought about the other missions the entire time. She thought about how others had died on the same mission. It had even been deemed a doomed mission by now by the administration. Just because they had made it out did not mean they had gotten past the worst of it. The crew immediately knew they were in outer space when there was a shift in gravity. They had been pushed back into their seats as they were leaving the earth's atmosphere, and now they felt as light as a feather. They would have floated out of their seats if  it hadn't been for their seat belts. Raven pressed a few other buttons and gravity went back to normal on the ship.