Space Odyssey

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Heart thumping, body shaking, Charlie struggled to regain consciousness. He knew he had to act right now but struggled to get the energy to even open his eyes. When he did he saw nothing but darkness and stars, along with the occasional fly by of the sun through the window, he was spinning. He was sideways on the ground against where the room had decompressed which could only mean one thing, the room had sealed itself.
As he attempted to spin round on the floor he realised something, he couldn't.

"Where the Fuck is my arm!" He gasped realising the gushing slice at his elbow, cracks in the wall showed the oxygen in the room wouldn't last, ignoring the fact he could really use a hand right about how he mustered every inch of strength in his body and used it to sit up right. As he leant back on the rigid metal wall he smiled and laughed, then laughed hysterically, Jayden had first taken Charlie on as an apprentice for his emergency blowout door, essentially a airtight shutter that contains the air in a room incase of this very situation.

"It worked!" He coughed to himself in astonishment, thankful for his invention.

Groaning in a new pain he held the stub which used to be his left arm, he figured the door had come down on it and instantly severed it off, but something was off. A strange smooth rock covered where blood should've showered out, was it the coldness of space? Had blood Ice saved him? No it wasn't cold, it was almost warm to touch, and numb.  He should be writhing around in pain right now but as minutes passed he wouldn't even have noticed its absence without looking at it. Charlie decided it was a problem for later and decided to tackle the whole standing up situation first and figuring out where he was.

*tink*

Charlie's stomach twisted as he saw a tiny crack in the glass, these airtight windows were strong but any sign of damage usually meant cabin decompression, which meant bye bye bedroom. He started to panic, what could he do? There was nothing he could see to fix the crack and even if there was it was way too dark to even search, except for the ten second routinely day cycle. As he slowly worked out the boundaries of his room, feeling across the pitch black walls he found a small latch and realised he had a chance.
"The emergency landing bed!"
He almost shed a tear when he pulled open the sideways chair with spacesuit and oxygen tank kept in the wall behind.

He noticed the chair was facing the wrong way, it should be up right as a regular one would be but this one was facing sideways, then again how was there gravity in this situation?
"The rotational spin of the salvage."
He pinned it down to how the ship was spinning, it was rotating on a certain pivot which created gravity, which explained his nausea.

*Crack*

His soul fell to his feet as a larger crack formed in the window, it was now or never. Charlie threw himself into the spacesuit, which took way too long thanks to his lack of limb. After he was suited up he turned a valve on the large oxygen canister which began to provide him clean air, he hadn't realised how little oxygen was actually left in the room until now but his brain was now working much better on the new supply. Next was to stop himself getting blown out into space, he tried his best to position himself in the landing chair. He buckled himself in as best as he could then once again made the same joke to himself about needing a hand with this.

Humour quickly turned to dread as three more false silver linings spiderwebbed through the barrier then suddenly the window vanished and everything loose in the room which was left after the first decompression charged straight out. There was no sound, none apart from his breath which echoed through his suit. When he couldn't feel the pull of the vacuum anymore he realised there was no air left outside of his canister. His arms raised, there was no more gravity either, the blowout from the window must've slowed down the spin. The whole gravity situation didn't make sense anyway so he chose to ignore it and later would realise about the ships 'lingering power' in case of emergencies.

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