Our Precious Future: A Story With Zo

Chapter 4 - Pop goes the weasel

I named this chapter so y'all put there trying to colonize Mercury right now don't have to guess what happened but they are making me tell you anyways... "Wrote about your whole expedition, if you leave out anything the next group may die"

T-2years 11months, and 22days

I wake up in the morning to the warm crisp sun light. The light seems crisper than normal and seems to not be affected by the bubble.

"Will you have to see this!" George screams across the halls.

I get up quickly and put on my clothes and other things. I run out into the hall to see George panic-stricken. I look out though the window to see a large rip though the bubble that we have created. The rip looted almost as if someone put their hands though to open it and accidentally ripped it instead.

"We've got to call mission control" I say to George as I run to the closest line to me that goes to mission control. When I pick up the line mission control automatically says," We know."

"What?!" I ask

"We know, we just have been waiting for you guys to wake up before letting you know."

"But why?"

"Because we didn't want you to freak out and we didn't think it was life threatening"

"Well it definitely was life threatening to the plants that were living out there"

"We wanted all those plants to escape as an experiment to see if the amount of oxygen you've made is enough for the plants to survive on."

"Thanks for letting us know!" I snarl angrily

"If we told you, you would of tried to stop it, to save the plants"

"Ugh" I slam don the phone line.

"What?" Everyone is awake now and was eavesdropping on the conversation

"They purposefully blew a hole in our bubble"

"Why?" Jenny asks

"They wanted to test if the amount of oxygen we have let in the atmosphere is enough for the plants to live. But I guess while we are waiting for the outcome on that experiment we should rebuild the bubble."

"Kenny should start readying the next batch of plants to be put in the bubble"

"Ok" Kenny gets to work on readying the plants for exposure. I start setting up the bubble again restitching and making sure that there are no air leaks.

Mark starts to blow up the bubble again as I give him the go ahead. Soon Kenny is setting up sowing places for the plants to be planted in and we all take off our helmets. "That was way quicker than last time." I say as we all sit down all the benches having a picnic. We have PB and J sandwiches and some chips that were cooked by the machine that makes all of our food.

We all eat our food in silence and start planting all the plants in the sowing spots that Kenny set up. As we plant we put the plant in between the dirt piles, then we put the dirt from the dirt pile and cover most of the plant.

By the time we go to bed we are all exhausted and pass out as soon as our bodies touch the soft bedding that came with the bedroom. But I had problems going to sleep tonight. How could mission control mess us up by destroying our bubble, how did they pop the bubble and how did we not notice it until sunrise. I decide to get on my laptop and search things up on "Google" which is still around for some reason.

I search up,"NASA" to see if there was anything that I didn't know about NASA that was on the internet. Surprisingly the internet knew more than me for once. Like I didn't know about the Apollo missions. And I didn't know about the failed moon colonization. As I looked to see if there was anything else and of course there was much more about any topic I searched, even slightly inappropriate things.

Finally I decided to wind down for bed with a movie which are still around 150years later. I decide to watch a classic in my collection and I drift off to sleep.