Across the Stars (Atlas and the Stars + NB!Reader)

Chapter Two

I did not expect this many people to even read chapter one lmao how are y'all doing? 
Definitely not writing this during probably the worst days of summer in my life lol

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I pull myself away from my steering wheel and look at my surroundings. My ship looks okay, but where am...

What kind of planet is that?!

I find myself in awe of this gargantuan planet, with colors seeming to blend into each other almost seamlessly. The red ship has disappeared, probably a speck by now.

Is anyone alive on there, though? Where would Atmosphere and that human be on this planet? Is there any other planet close by?

Where in the galaxy are we?

I put my shaky hands on the wheel and try to breathe. Okay, (Y/N), just think.

I need to land the ship, hopefully before whenever nightfall is on that planet, look for either Atmosphere or whatever life there is already on that planet, and find a way to get that crack back open to get home. I'd rather not think about, I don't know, being stuck on a giant planet searching for my most likely dead brother for the rest of my life. If I do find life on this planet, which it looks like it can handle, I just need to hope that they don't care about a couple of Proselons and a human walking around.

It takes a couple of minutes to actually get to the planet and out under its orbit. I see some buildings here and there, but nothing so big. With how huge this planet is, I'm pretty sure there's going to be something that's going to make me regret following Atmosphere here.

I land the ship after a bit of flying. I found a bunch of mountains a few miles away; one of them even looks like a hand reaching out to the sky, which looks pretty cool. Then again, if kids cartoons ever taught me anything, it's that those kinds of mountains most likely house supervillains. Or very sad people. Maybe both.

I look at the ship's fuel, suddenly remembering the one thing that I thought to do before taking off.

It's almost empty.

Not even enough to get out of orbit, let alone back home.

If I could, I'd kick myself over this for hours. I'd beat myself over it for an entire day. But, no, that's not going to do any good over here.

I shut off the ship before I waste any more fuel and hop out of my ship. I throw my work jacket off and throw it onto the passenger seat before I shut the door and actually take a look around. The place I landed at is pretty dead, save for the bunches of grass. It's actually a pretty cool place to watch the sun set.

And how do I know the place would be a perfect place for a sunset?

The sun is setting. And burning my eyes.

What's even scarier is the fact that there are no stars or planets visible in the night sky. It takes a few seconds for the sun to set simply because I had to take so long finding a decent place to land. It's been a while since I actually had to do a landing on anything other than concrete or titanium. And it sucked.

I just stand right next to the ship. Yeah, I want to move; in fact, I want to run very, very far away.

A few minutes of waiting, I don't know what I was even waiting for, goes by and I get bored. I climb up to the roof of my ship and sit myself down up there. I'm not really going to see Atmosphere or the human a meter in front of me, so I might as well just wait who knows how long for the sun to come up. Atmosphere and that human might have just landed perfectly fine and found a way back, through some weird impossible way my mind can make up. It could take four Galenzar days for the sun to rise for all I know. 

I don't have anything in my ship, other than a change of clothes in case something happened. Whatever devices Atmosphere accidentally left in there most likely won't work, because Internet exists, and communication has a limit. How far away even are we from any satellite? 

"This is going to be pretty damn interesting," I say before looking straight at the dark sky. It isn't really all dark, there's a weird ring that surrounds the planet. It sure as hell doesn't look like dust. "Tomorrow is going to be another day, I guess." 

I close my eyes and feel everything slow down. I haven't slept under stars in a while, not since all my siblings and I went to a camp on a planet I forgot the name of for Troposphere's birthday. 

Before I even drift off, I almost fall off the ship, which is now tilted to the right. I slide off and check my pockets for my taser. 

Fuck my life fuck my life fuck my life... 

I slide the taser out of my pocket and try to calm myself down. Some blue and orange on the other side of the ship makes me jump out of my skin, and it feels like I'm dying. 

"Atmosphere?" 

He looks up at me, confused.