Away

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"Cadets, I'm proud to tell you that you will be entering space!... Alright, settle down. Most of you've been in training long enough and we think you're ready to go up to our brand new space academy. If you've passed your Astro tests, you'll be going up next week. If you pass your tests in the next month, you'll go up at the end of that week. Continue enjoying yourselves" I hurried to the simulators and spent hours, perfecting my piloting skills and tolerance levels. Once I thought my skills had been refreshed, I headed to my room and began packing and prepping...

The entire week of waiting, I trained and studied and made sure to be early to ever class. I was ready to leave this planet and finally see what the harsh unforgiving vacuum of space was like. I hurried to the auditorium and sat down, ready to head out. The administrators went to the stage and made a grand speech then began naming off people to go up so they would be able to get our of the auditorium faster. They listed 30 out of the 42 people qualified to go, and 16 people lacking the qualifications. As the people allowed on the trip were escorted, I noticed a pattern and decided to ignore it.

Week after week, and all those unqualified were dwindling faster than those of us who should have left on the first ship. At the end of the month period, only people of color and poor white females were left. I knew from the beginning that girls and black people would be left behind but I thought they'd at least have a final meeting to tell us why the last few qualified people were left behind. We were given no answer other than that they thought we weren't ready to handle the environment. Of course, I called bull crap and ended up going home and spending two weekends on finishing my space shuttle.

I did the best I could with my resources and flung myself into the outer most ring of Earth's atmosphere and waited to come near the school. I feared my life since I was in an unprofessionally made ship and suit but I was able to make it. I made it on board using a harpoon like utensil and made my way to the airport locked doors to get in. I snuck around investigating and discovered that the Garrison was being secretively transformed into a human lab so to avoid hurting certain people, they were sent to the new school for safety and a better place to learn.

With this information, I decided to lay low at the new school but I was super dark with a lot of hair so it was near impossible. I knew that so while I snuck around for about a month straight, I was working on hijacking a ship, making a better suit, and looking for a good source of fuel and food. I snuck into some classes after a while and was able to go undetected long enough to get ahold of a small agricultural terrarium to grow food, the materials to build a better suit, and the knowledge to fuel my craft if I needed to escape.

"I wanted to recommend you for a spot in our more advanced classes coming up but your name isn't on my list. I would like you to come to the dean's office with me" the physics teacher stopped me before I could even get in the classroom

"Can I go to the bathroom first. I rushed over to drop my stuff and ask permission" I lied

"Of course. I trust you to meet me there. If you don't, I can't negotiate for you" he walked off and I hurried to the bathroom in the opposite direction...

After handling my business, I ran around grabbing all I could before releasing my spy bugs and heading to my escape pod. On my way, I found some kid bleeding on the floor and let my conscience get the better of me.

"I have no time for your teen angst crap so if you want to never see earth or this place again, you'll come with me" he just stared at my hand and shock and at his slightest advance towards taking my hand, I yanked him up and we bagan running to my ship. I had no choice but to throw myself into a sling shot around the earth with the moon as the pull...

While orbiting the planet, I worked with the guy I picked up to make small bots to gradually steal from the school. After quite a long time, we had the materials to remove ourselves from the orbit and still go contact someone. We did best work possible on expanding and advancing our pod and tech, we initiated our gravitational slingshot into space...

"The school said they'll reach us with a probe in 4 years. Are we gonna last that long?" The guy asks

"Maybe longer if we stay on- something hit our ship and I wss knocked out before I could say anything...

"Oh, my goodness. We're so sorry. We were having and your ship is so tiny we didn't pick up" I sat up and looked around the find my accomplice, bloody and wrapped up

"Is he okay?" I ask

"He got a concussion and some broken bones. You only suffered a concussion but it seems to based on your health and not your luck, although you are very lucky" my head was unwraped and I guess I felt better but there was no drastic pain so I was fine

"Do you have any food?" I asks

"I'll take you to the cafeteria" a Hispanic guy helped me up and I felt a sharp pain shoot right through me. I fell to the floor in shock and sat there taking deep breaths until I blacked out...

"What happened?" I sat up and was met with a head ache

"Are you hungry?" The Hispanic guy asked

"Starving" he slowly helped me out of the bed and I felt a my head ache hit an unbelievable strength

"What's wrong?" The guy asks

"It's just a headache" I say

"No, sit back down. This could be serious" he put me back in the bed and hurried out...

"Okay, she should be fine now but you still need to support her" he helped me up and tried to make me eat green slop

"I'm gonna starve to death... Is my ship aboard?" I ask

"Yeah" he walked me to my ship and they had pried it open and removed eyeverything but they were still working on it.

"Whoa... What are you?-

"They're seeds" I took my cracked up garden and put it on one of the hover trays so I could get my produce. My three small trees got some trimming and I turned the soil before planting some seeds and getting some help from one of the crew members to fix my system and the lid

"Slow down, you could fall" the guy grabbed me and began walked me to the kitchen and I sighed...