Space Pod Scare

Short Story

*Beep, beep, beep* The annoyingly loud sound of the alarm quickly awoke Luna Lo from what could of been a sleep that lasted days. Luna looked around, up and down, side to side. All she could see was white walls and a window that was either really tinted or leading into a black void of darkness. Where was she? Luna began to explore the place she seemed to be trapped in and finds an enormous control panel with many buttons of all shapes, sizes, and colors, Above the panel was a TV screen. It was hard to keep her balance; Luna kept flying upward. She was in space! Luna was trapped in some kind of rocket or space pod! Much to her surprise, some incoming signals started coming in on the big screen. The screen showed some kind of other energy that existed nearby. Was it other humans or possibly an alien UFO you see in the movies, one could only hope. As a big nerd and conspiracy theorist, she had always hoped since the first day of kindergarten that she'd find some kind of proof of aliens one day. Luna didn't want it for the money or fame, though she thought that would be nice, but for the advancement of sciences of tomorrow and future generations. She grabbed hold of the steering wheel and started heading right toward the floating ball of energy- which was not the smartest idea. "For science!" she exclaimed only to herself. The ball of energy and Luna's space pod were getting closer and closer. Everything was going well, she steered perfectly, she never from driving a car back on earth. Suddenly, when she was just starting to get comfortable and confident, the steering wheel broke off. Leaving the space pod spinning round and round. In panic, she looked away from what was in front of her and was paralyzed by fear. All that was in view was flashing dots of red and green but she wasn't sure if her eyes were playing tricks on her from rubbing them too much or if those lights  were lights of a rocket-ship she was about to crash into. She didn't dare look now, Luna had lost all hope of surviving the crash at this point. *KABOOM* Metal pieces flew everywhere and the space pod and what looked like a UFO (now that she could see it more clearly) started to disintegrate. This crash was quite possibly deadly but still somehow made the news back on earth, even though there was no sign of any communication. There was only smithereens of each vehicle left and little breathing air. Did Luna make it? After a few hours, Luna snapped out of her coma and began driving the space pod to the moon. If only she had been able to communicate with those aliens in the UFO, then she may have gotten answers of how she ended up there and why. Luna was 100% sure she knew the way, but the moon was nowhere in sight. Almost as if it didn't exist. There appeared to be a fake moon but no real moon. The fake moon looked like it was glitching out as if it's just a holographic piece of technology. It's where the moon should be. Luna stared out the window in deep thought, wondering how this could be possible. She was literally staring off into space. The more she looked at the moon, the more it faded away. After several minutes, an 'Error 404' message pops up. The moon was fake and put there by beings unknown. Luna decided to keep going toward it to see what there was to offer. Once she arrived there, she could not believe her eyes...a real live green walking alien army was there piling into their UFO. Luna stopped them right in time. "Why am I here?" she says to them. The alien that was supposedly in charge said, "Look our queen has awoken and has found us!" "Queen?" she asked. Luna could not come to terms with her being the alien queen. After several minutes of arguing and discussion, they came to an agreement. They would take Luna back to where they kidnapped her from as long as she promised to come visit their planet sometime. Luna did promise she would. They took a selfie for Luna's boss at the space station and invited Luna into their UFO. Luna enjoyed the smooth way home and had fun learning the alien language they were teaching her. Luna hopped out of the UFO as soon as it landed in her backyard and ran inside to tell her roommate about was had happened. She walked into her room and she was nowhere to be found. No calls or texts messages. There was nothing left of her except another 'Error 404' message above her bed. Was there ever such a thing as reality or was everything just a hologram??