Super Nova

Chapter Three - Not Alone Anymore

"Hello Miss Pepper!"

The voice finally made Galaxy wake up. Her dark chocolate eyes stung as the bright white lights filled the room. She wanted to rub them but her arms felt so heavy.

"Your name is Miss Galaxy Pepper, yes?"

"W-what?" The woman said, the world was so blurry. "Galaxy... Or Dr. Pepper." She wanted to laugh when she realized what she had just said, but she was too tired.

"You've been in hibernation, Galaxy. It's normal to feel confused or sick. It will be a few days until you're fully recovered."

Eventually, the world cleared up. Galaxy was able to see colors beyond just bright lights and shadows, in front of her was a light blue human-ish shape. But it was still hard to make anything out. Was she talking to a hologram? Her arms felt a little lighter now and she blindly felt out the pod for her glasses, only to find none.

"You will be in Group Seven, with the other health practitioners. It will be a class teaching you about life on a colony."

"My glasses." Galaxy said, cutting off the hologram. "Where are my glasses?"

"Your belongings will be in your cabin, Galaxy. No need to worry. I will help you with locating your cabin and things as you seem to be visually impared. Homestead made sure that The Avalon cares for it's passengers."

"Thank you..." She said with a yawn as the pod began to move out of the room, making her feel dizzy.

Jim watched as the pod left. He fell flat on his ass. The fact he woke someone up was sinking in now. It was an accident. He didn't mean to do this. Now that woman was trapped on the ship like he was.

Well you were going to wake someone else up anyway.

Jim froze. He was going to do that, wasn't he? It was sinking in. If he felt this awful doing it by accident, how would he have felt if he had opened someone's pod on purpose? He couldn't believe that he was willing to doom someone to this life. Yeah, he was lonely but that was no excuse!

He needed to face the music. He was going to tell the woman he woke up what happened as soon as he could. Hopefully, she would understand.

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The hologram sure was right about feeling sick after hibernation. Galaxy nearly fell over as the hologram in her bracelet guided her through the all white halls. As if the ship sensed how hard it was for her to see, a bright blurry glowing blue line appeared on the ground. It reminded the woman of the lines on hospital floors that told people where to go.

Soon, Galaxy was in her room. Even without her glasses, she could tell it was kind of crappy. It was about as big as the bathroom in her house on earth. She shrugged. She would only be here for four months anyway.

"Your class begins in an hour. Please get ready. Scan your bracelet on this panel right here to register your luggage and it will be delivered automatically."

A panel on the wall glowed. Galaxy held her hand over it and it dinged. Within minutes, her bags appeared in a shoot on the wall. She opened up a pocket on her pink and black backpack and found her hot pink glasses case and opened it. She put on her glasses which were square and had little bedazzled jewels on the frames and stars on the arms.

Everything was clear now. It was a relief to be able to see now!!!

She wondered if she had time for a quick shower. She felt kind of gross, and she also looked weirdly grey blue when she looked in the mirror. Galaxy thought about it for a minute before just deciding to shower. First impressions were important. She didn't want her fellow calleges to think she was gross. No one would want to get treatment from a doctor that looked sick or like they couldn't take care of themselves.