A Life To Live For

Chapter 2

I had learned the guys name as Jake a 22 year old ex Marine who was paralyzed from the waist down, we bonded over the time we had in the space station. We loaded into the spacecraft that would take us down to the surface of Pandora. As we were landing I heard the crew chief yell "Exopacks on!" Me and Jake quickly put on our exopacks just to hear the crew chief yell once again "Remember people, you lose your mask you're unconscious in 20 seconds and you're dead in four minutes, Let nobody be dead today, it looks bad on my report." The air on Pandora wasn't fit for humans to breath so the scientists and engineers created masks for us to breathe until we were inside the facility. I waited for Jake to get all of his stuff and soon I got mine. As we headed to exit the ship the crew chief called out to Jake and I " let's go special cases do not make me wait for you." As we headed down the ramp and huge truck like vehicle rolled past us, I noticed on the wheels their were arrows , "must be from the natives" I thought. I tuned everything out as I continued walking to get inside the facility not hearing the catcalls from the soldiers at the gate. I stepped inside a room with Jake that filtered out the toxic air with oxygen so we could take off our exopacks. We headed inside the building and soldiers, doctors, scientists filled the hallways. "Do you know where we're supposed to go?" I asked Jake "I think we're in the mess hall" he replied. We made our way to mess hall and sat down in the back when a man with a scar on the side of his head walked in.