Galaxicon [Finished]

Discovering the Impossible

Something felt off, but she couldn't quite pinpoint what it was.

Rose opened her eyes slowly. She looked around her room. Everything looked the same, her books on the shelves, her desk sitting by the window.

A window now sporting bars she didn't remember being there when she fell asleep.

Gasping, she threw off the covers and left the bed. Running to the window, she wrapped her hands around the bars and stared out at the world. Down below, she watched her parents packing the car with suitcases.

She pounded on the window. "Mom! Dad!" She continued screaming, desperate to get their attention. "Mommy; Daddy! I'm still up here." She slammed her fists against the glass hard as she could.

They didn't hear her. Somehow, she knew her screams went unheard by anyone.

Turning, she ran to her door. Twisting the knob proved futile. Rose knew she didn't have the strength to break down the door. She wasn't anything special, just a normal 15 year old girl.

Well, as normal as she could be.

Cheeks wet with tears she laid her forehead against the door, eyes squeezed shut. "Daddy!" she whispered to the door. "Why do you all hate me so much?" Her words broke off in sobs.

Walking slowly to the window, she watched with blurred vision as her parents locked up the house and handed the keys to a man she didn't know. They were leaving her here. At long last, they'd had enough, and wanted nothing more to do with her.

Rose pressed her hands to the cold glass, watching the street through the bars outside her window. An obvious sign that she'd never be leaving this room.

Long after her parents disappeared and the neighborhood went silent, the children all heading inside, Rose moved away from the window. She pulled out her desk chair and sat down.

Her computer being her only source of communication to the outside world, she booted it up and stared at the screen.

Then blinked. And blinked again.

Across the background, in bold bubble letters with a font she'd never seen before, screamed in all caps GALAXICON.

She had no memory of changing her screen to that, nor could anyone else have done so. No one, not even Charmaine, knew her password.

Shrugging it off, Rose decided to open her account on Galaxy Raiders. She hadn't been on since YesterYear kicked King Hashtag out of the fleet. Not only was she still angry over that, she'd debated leaving the fleet as well. Even considered stop playing all together.

Now, sitting alone, abandon in her home, she felt only relief she hadn't done it. Hadn't deleted her account or left the fleet. She wanted to exist somewhere, and if this was the only place she could do so, then she'd take it.

Opening her messages, she saw the fleet was already talking and conversing. Nothing important caught her attention, so she decided to ignore them for the time being.

Looking over each of her bases, she checked their supplies, defenses, and everything else. She stopped on her last base, though.

She found the base was under attack. And she'd arrived just in time to watch as they pulverized her base.

Checking the name of the attacker, she saw it was JasperBurn, the fleet she'd helped to destroy. When she'd disobeyed the orders of her fleet commander.