Another Life (Oc x reader)

Chapter 40 - What Now?

"Ethan."

Ethan wakes up on the floor and see William is back.

"We don't have much time." He tells him.

Sitting up, Ethan sees Sasha unconscious on the floor.

"I blast the deck with electricity. He's taken the brunt of it. It serves him right for having a chunk of alien metal stuck in his head." William says looking bitterly at the said man on the floor.

Ethan gets up and look at the screens, showing the black hole getting closer. "Can we pull away?"

"I've tried. We don't have enough power to clear of the black hole's gravity, and once we passed the point of tidal disruption, the Salvare will be stretched to complete structural failure."

"That thing in his head. It's gotta have a power source, right? Will that give us the boost that we need?"

...

Erik wants to talk to Harper because she can save Jana, but Dubois doesn't let him.

...

"Jason.. if they could've escaped the black hole, they would've done it by now. They're gone." Beauchamp says.

"Shut up." You tell him.

"We need to land and finish the mission. It was Ethan's final order."

"And you need to shut up, Beauchamp." Jason tells him.

"No, you need to." Beauchamp says, standing up. "I'm now in charge. Chain of command starts with me."

You get up from your seat again to reach for Beauchamp, to stop him from getting to the pilot seat, but he sat too far away. "Don't you dare, Beauchamp!"

"I don't care about the chain of command." Jason turns to him. "We're gonna wait a bit longer.."

"Ethan is-" Beauchamp start to say but you interrupt him.

"The man who's been saving your asses this whole mission. So we are waiting, for as long as it takes. Because he is coming back." You tell him.

Before Beauchamp can argue more, August notice something outside.

"Guys, look out the window. The stars are warping." August says and the Salvare appears again.

"Come in, Salvare, and confirm who I'm speaking with."

It's silent for a moment. "Who do you think?"

Everyone sighs in relief at hearing Ethan's voice. You almost sob in relief but manage to keep yourself from crying more.

"William and I have control of the ship, so get back here. This mission isn't over."

Jason gives Zayn the keys to your restraints and start flying the shuttle back to the Salvare.

...

Ethan and William look down at Sasha on the floor, now with a cable attached to his neck, being used as a power source.

"I wanted him to kill you." William tells him.

"I little brutal, but I don't blame you.. Thank you for saving my life, again."

"I did it for the mission, not you." He says and disappears.

...

When Harper is served food, she finds a comm device. Erik and her start talking through it. He asks how he can save Jana. Harper tells him that the only way that can happen is if he helps her get out.

...

You basically stomp your way to the observation deck. Everyone else heading there too. Ethan is in the pilot seat in the Crow's Nest. Getting there, you slap him hard in the back of his head.

"Ow! What the-"

You angrily get in his face and point at him. "Don't you ever, and I mean ever, sacrifice yourself like that without telling me."

"You would've just refused to leave and stayed too." He says, rubbing the spot you slapped him.

"Exactly!" You grit out.

You stand up straight and cross your arms, looking out at the planet ahead. Ethan grumbles slightly and turn back to the controls. The others behind you and Ethan share a few glances and hold back their chuckle. Everyone looks at Canis Majoris.

"Here we go."

"Picking up the Artefact's signal from the surface of the planet." William informs.

"Like the one on Earth?"

"Stronger."

"It doesn't seem real." Zayn says.

"So this is it? We're at Achaia?" August asks.

"The only inhabitable planet in this system." William says.

"Do you think they know that we're here?" Beauchamp asks.

"You think they don't?" Bernie asks him.

"What's our next move?" Jason asks.

"We go say hello." Ethan answers.

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