When Earth Stopped Moving

Chapter 1 : COUNTDOWN / Part 13 : In the depths

I thought I'd discover new things ...I thought I would see what was never seen before ...but all what I could distinguish was light. Everything was white outside of the cockpit . During those seconds where my eyes couldn't distinguish a single thing , the rocket got shaken by turbulences so high that I found myself obliged to fasten a seatbelt in one of the seats to not be thrown to the other side of the room . I didn't know what to exactly feel . Was it joy and the excitement to finally be able to save my friends ? Fear ? Madness ? My mind was all black from the inside. As if there was a barrier preventing me from thinking about anything .Deep inside, however, a part of me didn't want to even imagine what could be waiting for me when I'll be there . Seconds passed , then minutes ...till the fear of being attacked by aliens got replaced by annoyment ... The light seemed to have no end and for a moment I thought I was stuck in this sort of trap -a trap I would never be able to escape. This thought almost gave me a heart attack. Though with all of what happened since we took off from earth , It wouldn't be that surprising. Was trusting Shawn Drauless and Richard Hikes then a mistake ? They carefully pointed that this spaceship had no relationship with human-technologies so they might know as much as I do about it.

However, right when I started rethinking my decision to obey the two men , I started noticing something. But I wasn't sure if that was real or a by-product of my hallucinations. I tried to look further and I slowly realized that a weird thing was happening : the white light around me was getting darker and darker. That said , I knew I could be completely wrong because my mind wasn't assimilating anything. As if some sort of barrier blocked all the feelings I could potentially have at that moment.
It only took me some more seconds though , to realize that it wasn't about the light becoming darker: there was a hole out there , at the end of the white tunnel , getting bigger and bigger by the second , and of which I could distinguish what resembled to gray walls -at least that's what I could conclude from the little bit of image I could see . The rocket was , with no doubts, heading there. The thought that I was moments away from interacting with alien life gave me goose bumps.I was perfectly incapable , indeed, to even describe the feeling.

Shortly after, I found myself too close to the hole and the image got clearer. I could distinguish what resembled to some lamps , lying on the ground of a big ,dark-walled room, which a greenish light was slightly brightening .Needless to mention the not-so-unexpected surprise to this sight , but I had to get a bit closer to be sure to confirm all of that .

The heart was beating faster and faster , as I could bet 1 million dollars that no human on earth experienced what I was experiencing, adding to this the strange things I was beginning to see , it was almost appropriate to say that this might be one of the worst experiences someone could face .

But then, some seconds later , after some minutes spent waiting for the worst , it finally went through the hole. I was finally there . As surprising as it could get , I felt my hope of finding some of my comrades alive rising .
I could almost guess however , that I was an unwanted presence in this spaceship.

Expecting the worst , I shut my eyes down , praying god I would be safe once the rocket stops . I didn't even want to see what the room I was inside , and the one of which I only could distinguish some details , looked like.

-"An 11.5 Gravitational force detected . Execution of the landing checklist. Dear passengers please fasten your seatbelts. The rocket's computed voice said.
My whole body , starting from my hand , to my feet , was heavily shaking of fear .

-"Landing in 3 seconds . Auto-thrutle De-activated . Low altitude mode ON .

The same sensation I felt when we were about to take off from earth was boiling inside of me .

-2. Oxygen detection system activated.

It was about the start . My war was about to begin . I never measured the weight of the situation till now . This final thought suddenly came up and hit me like a truck , in the final seconds before the landing that will decide of my fate.