Chapter1: Jack
“Hurry up and shift that crate! Come on soldiers, your working like a bunch of sissy’s!” The commander yelled at the couple of hundred men who were unloading the ship. “You know Jack, I think sometimes you’re the only one with a brain amongst that lot.”
“Well I’ll take that as a compliment, sir. Why don’t I go and help them?”
“No, you’ll stay with me. I’m getting a group together to go and look around. We picked up life readings and the point of this whole trip is to see what is out there, so that we can settle here.”
“Aye sir.” I stood where I was, my new orders kept firmly in my mind as I thought about this place we had come to. The trees around me were white. Not just the leaves, the whole trees. And the grass too. It wasn’t snow; in fact it wasn’t even cold here. It was boiling hot, actually. The sky was a very pale shade of blue. Paler than it would be at home. It had a sort of lilac hue in it as well, probably because of some other air particle here that we didn’t have back home.
“Commander! The air is safe! We don’t need the masks, it’s made up of mostly oxygen and carbon dioxide, and some hydrogen too, much like back home…”
“Yeah yeah, we get the picture science guy, masks off.” The commander had a blunt and brutal personality. He didn’t care about anything science related, and only brought the scientists because if we didn’t we would probably be dead within a few minutes, and that is a fact that the commander hated. He was a military man through and through. He pulled his oxygen mask over his head and I did the same, holding my breath before I would breathe in the first of air on an alien planet.
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