Author Bio: Clay enjoys gaming on the weekends and is great at solving puzzles.
Blurb: A young woman wakes up stranded on a ship in outer space.
She feels the cold hard floor pushing up on her back. As she gets up her joints creak as if they haven't been used in a while. She’s speechless looking out of the window seeing the black blanket of stars laid across the universe. She has no recollection of what happened. She sees a ship so massive it’s actually carrying a planet beneath it. In an attempt to contact the ship she is met with no answer.
"Hello is anybody aboard ship?" No response.
"I repeat, is anybody aboard ship?" No response.
"Please somebody answer," but it's just static.
"Son of a bitch!" She slams her fist into the communicator, message received.
"You ne....need…to…….get out……….save…….go!" She decides to check the ship. She activated the thrusters and started to head to the ship. Eventually, she was able to land. As she exited the pod, the ship seemed eerily quiet. She noticed a map of the ship. She's in hanger bay 1, just a few floors beneath the bridge. She starts to traverse the stairs. Half an hour passed, and now she is one floor below the bridge.
Dun! Dun! Dun!
She heard a sound.
Dun! Dun! Dun!
“What is it?” She thought to herself. Five minutes later she is at the bridge door.
"Voice recognition required."
"Uuuuu peanut butter," she said. The door opened.
"Welcome back Commander Jones." Somehow Jones knew what to do.
"Computer, search the ship for life forms," she said.
"There are 1,478 life forms on the ship."
"Computer, search the ship for human life forms," she asked again.
"There are 2 human life forms on the ship." The computer responded.
"Where!?" She yelled.
"In the bridge." (click click)
She heard footsteps behind her.
"Turn around," a voice said.
"Where did you come from?" They asked.
"I don't know."
"How did you get here?"
"I woke up in a pod outside the ship, it's in hanger bay 1."
"How did you get in the bridge, who are you?" They wondered.
"I'm Commander Jones."
"My apologies Commander."
"What is going on?"
"The ship has been infected with a virus. We need to get to the pod!"
They start to head back to hanger bay 1.
"Shhh."
"What is it."
"They have destroyed the pod."
"Who?"
"The Forgotten," he whispered, "we need to go."
"Go where!?"
"I have a safe house on the other side of the ship, we can take the tram car."
One hour later...
"Ok, now we wait."
"Quick, in here." He pulls Jones into a locker.
"They're here." Three forgottens walk by. One of them stops and sniffs the locker and she can taste the fear in her mouth. He lights a match and they scurry away.
"Are they gone?"
"Yes... for now." They’ve been on the tram car for two minutes.
"How did this start?"
"We came across an asteroid and the ship's scanners picked up signs of life and it was a parasite."
"So it's been infecting the ship?"
"Yes, the only way to get rid of them is heat. Now that you're here we can activate the self destruct."
"Ok, we're here so you can kick back and relax. We go at dawn."
Jones wakes up to the smell of fried eggs, the sound of sizzling bacon, and a nice stack of pancake drizzled in syrup.
"Want some breakfast?"
"Yes!"
After they devoured the delectable feast it was time to head off.
"The control room is just a few minutes that way."
"Doors locked."
"Retinal scan required." Jones puts her eyes up to the screen, (click).
Jones holds open the door.
"Right this way."
"Oh no."
"What?"
"Only the Grand Admiral can activate it."
"We could open the gas valves around the ship."
"Do it!"
"Ok, they’re open, let's go."
"The escape pods are in the next room."
"How are we going to light the gas?"
"I exposed some wires."
"3....2....1....launch! They shot out into space. When they are at a safe distance away, they turn and wait.
Half an hour later.
"How long is this supposed to take?"
"We have to wait for the gas to go through the ship."
Two hours later.
"Wake up, it's happening!" The ship explodes, sending shrapnel in every direction. Then the ship gets pulled into the gravity of the planet and crashes. The planet starts to implode getting smaller and smaller, then it disappears, and what's left is a black hole. Then the strong pull of black hole wraps around the pod as they get pulled in. Everything is black.
"Mommy wake up, Mommy wake up."
"What?"
"Mommy, what happened?"
"Andrya, sweety, the power went out, come sit with me.”