Remnants of the old

Chapter 2: We have liftoff!

A/N: Yes I skipped a day in between this chapter and the previous one. If you don't like it, sue me.

Journal entry, September 16th, 6463

I'll get to write about everything that I find there in this journal, I also downloaded the entire wikipedia site onto a flash drive that plugs directly into the AEV's computer.  Write in my journal once I've got my feet back on solid ground. -Journal of Daniel Kostek, 1st Lieutenant, Space Marines of the United Colonies of Luna.

The beeping of the alarm barely penetrated my skull. Remembering what was happening today I groggily woke up and walked to the little counter in the room where 'breakfast' was laid out for us. I looked over the buffet, and realized that there was no food on it. Not even the crappy nutriet bars which tasted horrible. There were only reusable cups and a water cooler. The sign placed out next to the water cooler stated that the AEV didn't have artificial gravity, and so to avoid us vomiting in zero-g, we wouldn't be able to eat anything for the whole day.

When we got 3 hours away from launch, two scientists came up to our shared room and handed us the outfits that we would be wearing on the descent towards earth. They were remarkably similar to the EVA suits used during the civil war, with the notable exception of the lack of armoring. After we put on our outfits, we were told by the scientists to immediately go to the area where we would be launching from.  The rocket was sorta big, but not that big. At least, not when you compared it to the Saturn V rocket used for the Apollo missions. 

"That's HUUGGGEEE!" Scarlette said on our shared radio, "I can't believe we're actually going to earth in that thing."

"That's what she said." came the response from Argus.

"Really, man?" I asked him.

"Yes."

"Moving on, It isn't as big as the Saturn V."

"That's because the moon doesn't have as much gravity as the earth. The moon also doesn't have an atmosphere." Berger stated.

"We know Berger." Chloe answered, "We all went to school, you know."

"Sorry, my thoughts spill out of my head sometimes." 

"Don't worry man." I said "Happens to the best of us."

"Weeeeelllllllll..." Haley started to say.

"Be quiet kid, you are pretty far from the best one here, Haley." Argus quickly said.

At this point we all got vibrations on our wrists, the message displayed there was:

=================This message has only been sent to you six, the rocket is launching in 25 minutes. GET ON THE ROCKET AND QUIT WASTING TIME YOU IDIOTS!=====================

We moved (can you really 'run' in zero-g? I guess you technically could.) as quickly as possible to the lift and got to the top of the scaffolding holding it in place. We got inside the nose of the rocket about 7 minutes after we recieved the message. We got into a medium sized command module (in this case large enough to hold six adults.) The cargo bay we were told earlier, is directly below us and has no room to spare. Another thing we were told, was that the bay would not explode diue to hitting the ground because of the  parachutes in the nose of the module/bay.

Eventually we got a radio message from Houston, (Yes, we still call it Houston.)

"Alright, listen up. There's 5 minutes until takeoff. The ride won't be as bad as taking off from Earth, but it should go without saying that you need to buckle up for the entirety of the trip. If all goes to plan, we'll have you set up the comms tower, and get into contact with Luna. If we view the mission as a success, we will send more missions to your general area of landing, and we will start to reclaim our lost territory. Godspeed ladies and gentlemen!"