Space Life: PT 1

Chapter 1

SPACE LIFE

PT 1

By: Kody Dibble

The lights flickered and dimmed. "Finally your indecision has been revealed!" The giant groaned. "You must return to dust you mortal!" He continued. Three other Giants joined in as John ran to the derak-ship.

"They have returned!" John cried to his crew aboard the ship.

"After so long..." Sunny fumbled around in his pockets and made a coughing noise.

"Lucky it was just us three" Lia spoke clear.

As John ran across the barren dark dusty field he could almost feel the gaze of the giants thrusting themselves through the air and moving. Iron like sounds rang through John's ears as the crew watched him running towards him. He moved quickly barely outrunning the giants.

"Open the latch." Lia exclaimed.

Sunny almost leaped to the right side of the ship and clicked the latch button. A small stream of air breathed out the ship as the door opened showing the pungent air pour through.

"Hurry yer ass aboard!" Sunny looked at John clearly. He could almost see the sweat drip through John's space-vest and his face widened.

"I'm..." He felt like he was losing air. "Coming!" He spoke clear and definable.

As he approached the ship. He could hear the uproar of the Giants loose behind him. Would they catch up? Not now, not while he had made it back to the ship. As he got on the ship the latch closed behind him.

"Thrusters on now!" John looked at Sunny.

Sunny turned from the door button to the ship controls four clicks later the ship rose above the ground about 25ft. The air was less dense now as the thruster's opened up and the excess air was expelled.

"You made it" Lia spoke.

"Close..." John talked with a cheesy smile.

"What now?" You could hear Sunny messing with the ships computer, as it lifted even higher and higher.

"I guess it's time we leave the atmosphere." John grinned.

The crew was used to each other they all had their own likes and dislikes. Although many other derak-ships were flying not many of them were like this one. With the capabilities of a more advanced ship in a smaller ship. This meant more flights and less fuel stops. The ships engineer Sunny was the designer and this was a very important in John's eyes, he paid attention to the specific details of both the team and the ship.

"Did you get the samples?" Lia spoke.

"I got what I could before being chased off. " John answered.

"Delta XV is attempting a call should I answer. "Lia spoke as the ship approached the darkness of the sky.

"Yes, yes. "John spoke.

"Hello Delta XV here." The communication was clear.

"Yes Captain John here." His voice rang over the open speakers.

The ship moved and leaped as they dove deeper in space.

"John it seems we've got major malfunctions on the Seri Isles on Delta XV. " The crew could hear the speakers.

"Well, and? We've been trying to get this specimen from these darn giants for too long now! "John spoke fluently.

"Well we need you and the crew here stat!" the caller spoke over the inner communicator device.