"Hey" Sawyer says nervously as she walked into the office. "Any hope?" she asked walking over to Bellamy. Bellamy dreaded responding knowing it would break the girl
"Radio died" Bellamy said slamming the radio down. "I didn't get to say I loved her" Bellamy cried, Sawyer pulled Bellamy into her arms on the couch
"You won't get to say goodbye to your Dad" Bellamy pointed out. The couple broke out into sobs holding each other "We shouldn't have left, now Cole is gonna be stuck in space without our Dad" Sawyer cried
"Bellamy! Sawyer! Get down here" Murphy called out. Sawyer and Bellamy pull apart and rush down the stairs
The group watch horrified on the monitor as the outside camera showed Praimfaya starting. Flames scorched the ground burning everything
The monitor went out leaving everyone to gasp in shock
"It's 210 miles from Polis to the island. According to the last drone the wave is accelerating. If we are not off the ground at least minutes before it hits. The electromagnetic charge in the pyroclastic cloud will shut down the rocket's avionics meaning it won't fly. That gives us 90 minutes to run a 6 hour preflight check, retrieve the oxygen generator from the lighthouse, turn on a cockpit designed for 2 into one that can carry 11 and load the cargo hold with enough food to keep us from starving in space while we wait for the algae to bloom"
Sawyer listened to Raven's rant holding her forehead overwhelmed
"I thought you said this wasn't going to be hard" Murphy mumbled
"That's not the hard part. Becca desgined her rocked to dock with Polaris, not the Ark. That means I have to pilot it to the hangar bay on the ring"
"That's not hard" Sawyer said shaking her head. "I didn't say it was"
"What's the hard part Raven!" Clarke pressured
"Assuming we blast off in time, CO scrubbers on a 2 person rocket won't support 11 of us" Raven said shaking her head
"So we use supplemental oxygen" Peta suggests
"Our tanks only hold an hour of air" Cole points out
"Correct, we'll have 1 hour to get into orbit, land in the hangar bay and fire up the life support system using the oxygen generator built to supply a lighthouse bachelor pad" Raven scoffs, it was too much and she was overwhelmed with the challenge
"You suck at talking people into things, you know that right?" Murphy said rolling his eyes
"Anyone here still need to be talked into this?" Bellamy said stepping up. Everyone shook their head no "Good, now we know the many ways we might die today. But you need to tell us the many things we need to do to live" Bellamy said turning to Raven
Raven nodded and started up a 90 minute clock
~
Murphy and Monty were on lighthouse duty
Everyone else was running around doing whatever Raven spit out
"So let's go over this, I figure 2 months until the algae farm produces enough to feed us, if we ration the MRE's we can wait 2 months" Sawyer says going over her calculations
She looked up only to see she was talking to herself and Bellamy was staring off the balcony. Sawyer furrowed her brows and walked over slipping herself into his arms
"Grounder's in space. That's an oxymoron" Bellamy said wrapping his arms around her waist
"Survivals a team sport, especially up there. It was the only choice, only choice is an oxymoron too by the way" Sawyer said smiling up at her boyfriend
