Space Cells | Story by 𝓜

We have a problem

Day 1925

I honestly think to myself if it was even worth it, going through all that trouble for them. No it wasn't, it was a total waste of time!

 Thinking that I could earn all that money and be set free, I rot in this shitty spaceship while they go untouched! Absolute bullshit, when I get my hands on them.

I should never have stole it, I never should have listened. 

Dammit! Why did I have to be so trusting. God pull yourself together. 

Arthur threw the book across the floor, she couldn't handle it anymore. She was abandoned, nowhere to go. She quickly scrambled to pick up the notebook and rip the page out, then throw it under her bed. Leaving the blank notebook once more on the desk, if you really payed attention, however, you could tell the pages of the book were slowly reducing with ever rip Arthur took. She lay her head down on her bed and almost instantly fell asleep. 

As the morning came Freya was wide awake. She took this chance to go have some breakfast without disturbance. At the dining room no light shed in from the windows, you couldn't even tell it was morning down on Earth. She suddenly noticed a tall figure standing, over-looking the window. 

"Oh." Anthony turned around, surprised, normally, people weren't awake this early. 

"No, no i'll leave you to it." Freya said turning right around so she could proceed with her breakfast. 

"Actually since there is a week left of our sentence you will see me a lot more around the ship." Anthony smirked, leaving. 

Freya took some stale cereal and called on AVN.

"How may I be of assistance?" 

"Show me the coordinates of where we are as of currently." 

A blue hologram shone on the dining table showing the coordinates of the space ship and different star locations. AVN took care of everything on board, you couldn't tell but AVN was the mastermind behind all of the works. 

Freya was just about to leave when Arthur walked in. 

"Good, you are awake. Arthur, you will need to fix some wiring on the spaceship today." AVN commanded. 

Arthur sighed, "Can this wait?"

"No, it is your daily task as a prisoner on board this ship." 

Arthur wasn't too thrilled with the daily chores of being a prisoner but if he doesn't do it, one day will be added to his sentence. He groaned and entered the "dock" to get changed into his spacesuit. Once outside the spaceship, he halted, a cord had been attached to the spacesuit so he wouldn't float away from the ship. He slowly made his way up to the wiring panel to take a closer look. 

Anthony put down his cereal bowl and looked at himself in the mirror before slowly bending down below his bed and taking out a tangle of wires and machinery. For 2 years Anthony had been saving spare parts from his daily tasks and using them to make a solar signal, therefore he could finally contact his friends down on Earth. 

His friends were his family, they were the only family he had left, or knew he had left anyway. He hooked up the webcam and set it on his table before looking directly into the camera and smiling. He slowly hit the record button and opened his mouth to speak when a loud knock on the door made him topple over. 

"Thank god for locks." he thought to himself as he scrambled up and down his room shoving wires and metal parts under his bed. He then straightened himself and opened the door. Standing there was Freya, she had her cereal bowl in hand and had a sweet smile on her face. 

"Mind if I join you?" She asked holding a spoon. 

"Sure thing." Anthony moved aside letting Freya pass in. 

"Can I join too?" Jerald's little figure came bumbling in front of the door. 

"Sure little dude." 

Anthony made way for Freya to sit and promptly sat in silence with the occasional clank of metal from Jerald or crush of cereal from Freya as she spooned more and more cereal into her mouth. It was quite awkward since Anthony nore Freya knew what to say or do. 

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"One. More. Fucking. Bolt." Arthur gasped as they finally got the wires to fix. they then lay down, face up, on the side of the ship and relaxed, looking dreamily at the stars. From the distance Arthur could make out a small yellow glowing light headed straight for the ship. Thinking it was a shooting star Arthur let loose but as the light got closer and closer to the ship they could just make out a faint outline of a gun? No, no, no a battle ship! Arthur bolt up right. 

"AVN SOUND THE ALARMS, WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM." 

Arthur made their way down the ladder to the opening on the ship and didn't bother to take off their suit. Arthur went around banging a fist on everyone's door as AVN sounded the red light alarm. Everyone piled out into the hallway. Freya and Arthur, Jerald, and Parker still basically asleep. 

"What happened?" panicked Freya. 

"A battle ship, everybody needs to evacuate-" Before Arthur could finish their sentence a laser sliced a part of the ship off making everyone fall backwards onto each other. 

"AGAIN?" Parker yells in frustration. 

They all scramble into the "docks" and gear up into their space suits.