The Way Back Home

Untitled Part 1

"All systems functioning, beginning countdown in thirty five seconds."

"10,...9...8..7,6..5...4...3...2...1..................................."

"launching sequence complete initiating check sequence for system failures...sir"

"thank you T-c, I estimate the destination time should be in...

"two years, three months, twenty three days, one hour, thirty five minutes and eleven seconds...sir"

"I was aware of that" said the man in a fed up tone

"Actually sir as a human life form even with the ships computers assistance it would be impossible for you to estimate such an accurate guess at an...

"As an android designed in a space station i would have suspected that our third crew member was going to be an irritating pest...so do us all a favor and turn yourself on standby...robot." shouted the man

"the man was called Darl Heinzen, he was born in a small town near hamburg  called Oschtwitz. He joined the army and had fought alongside the british in WW3  but soon left to join the European Space Agency. He had been on his first voyage in 2123 but was accused of rigging the engine core and was kicked out of his job. In that time he invented a new type of sweet with a nice texture but was later recalled to fight in WW4 and never finished his invention. In 2128 he was asked at short notice to join two others on a voyage to saturn which he was forced into.

Another person walked over to Heinzen.

"listen just because you are a sad man doesn't allow you to be a bully, I'm going to bed we have a long day ahead, well a long two years ahead, I suggest you do to."

the person was called Charlotte, Charlotte Overpay and my was she a very bossy lady. She was born in London England and had an overpaid job which gave her the nickname overpay, her real name was never stated. Her normal job daily was an underwater breather champion or so she called it; she had won dozens of trophies at her unique speciality but never showed her face on news interviews. the day had been tiring so after an hour or two all personal on board the N-c-128 space craft were fast asleep except one in the navigation bridge who stared at the stars wishing to be normal. For the next two weeks the plan was going as expected. They were due to arrive at the DDS the deep distance station just outside of earth. They were expected to check in for maintenance for the long journey ahead since the engine core was awfully outdated. They were due to check in at 15:00 hours but had arrived early and were slowly orbiting the station. Only T-c was on the bridge at the time but the other two bridge crew pilots Lake Johnson and Sunny Bultree were expected to return back to the craft shortly. It had been a normal day for all three members, Overpay had been looking at her trophies in her quarters the whole morning but came to the sitting room an hour hence to the arrival of the station, for Darl Heinzen he had stayed in bed imagining eating burgers and designing more sweets but plainly didnt do too much for the rest of the day. T-c had recharged all morning but went straight to the bridge when he was sattisfied with his condition. At exactly 14:09 hours the quarters of charlotte overpay started shaking and her cup of Tea smashed on her china pottery. From T-c's perspective the engines where just restabilising so he thought nothing of it until when his panel began to crackle. All systems and engines were functioning perfectely but something was definitely wrong. Charlotte strolled out of her room in her elegant purple, velvet dress robes and strutted her way to the bridge and then darkness....'