45 - Ship

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Hannah was pretty surprised that they managed to fix the ship within a few hours. She reminded herself that they had Tony Stark with them. He's pretty good at fixing things. He was able to build the first Iron Man suit inside a cave. Fixing a ship... it should be a piece of cake for him.

Hannah, Nebula, and Tony entered the ship. Hannah followed Nebula and Tony to the pilots' seat. Nebula and Tony worked together to start the ship and fly it. Once they started the ship and flew a good distance away from Titan, they put the ship on autopilot.

"What are we going to do now?" Hannah asked.

"Try to get back to Earth," Tony said.

"Earth?" Nebula repeated in confusion.

"Yeah, Earth, that's the planet we're from," Tony responded. "We need to get back."

"So you mean Terra," Nebula said.

"I guess," Hannah said.

"You both are Human?"

"We are," Tony confirmed.

"That's what we call your planet," Nebula said.

"Oh."

Tony walked past Nebula and Hannah to look for food.

"Look, it's going to take us a while to get back home," Tony said. He started to go through the food and water supply they had on the ship. "We don't have much food or water. At most, I think we have three weeks. And let's not forget about the oxygen. We don't have a lot of time. We need to get to Earth before the oxygen and food and water supply runs out."

"Do you think we will be able to get back home?" Hannah asked.

"I don't know," Tony admitted. "Let's hope..."

Hannah and Tony knew that most likely, they won't be able to get back home to Earth.

"Do you have family back on Terra?" Nebula asked.

"Yes," Tony said. "I'm getting married, or I was supposed to get married."

Hannah sat down with her back against the wall of the ship.

"I... I don't think I have a family left back on Earth," Hannah said. "My family... I have a feeling that they're all gone."

Tony looked at Hannah.

"You don't know who's gone and who's not," Tony said. "You can't honestly expect your entire family to be gone.

"Have you ever got this gut feeling in your stomach that something bad happened and you just know?"

"Yeah, I have," Tony said.

"This is it," Hannah said. "I just know that when and if we get back to Earth, my family won't be there waiting for me to get home. They're gone."

Tony looked down, then back up at the teenager.

"I just watched my best friend turn to dust," Hannah said. Tears started to form in her eyes. Tears that she didn't want to let stream down her face. "Who knows who I lost back home? I most likely lost all my friends.... my family...."

"Hannah... let's assume that you lost everything, you'll get them back."

"How?"

"You start your own family... make new friends. They might not replace the one you lost, but..."

"But it's something," she continued.

"Yeah," he agreed. "We have to ration our food and water. Let's hope that food and water last long enough for us to get home or the next few weeks."

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