anything.
The ship wasn't all that bad, it was obviously well-maintained in-between missions and it looked like it was set with some toilets and even a kitchen. Not as good as the one back at HQ, but enough for us to enjoy our time while in space. On that note, what were our coordinates again?
I found a switch under the screen in the cockpit, which proceeded to bring up a screen in which the coordinates we were looking for were already set, along with a set way-point to that location. I was somewhat relieved by this because I didn't actually know how we were supposed to find it. I turned around to Sarah who was looking at the digits like an eagle.
We sat there in the cockpit in complete silence before I finally asked her out for a coffee after the mission. "Sorry," she said, "I don't date guys." Huh, oh right, well I certainly wasn't expecting that. Such a pretty girl though, what a shame, I thought.
"However," she continued, winking at me, "I bet you'd make a stunning woman."
"Like you?" I said smirking, thinking that was good banter. She was gorgeous and she definitely looked like she knew what she was after.
Emotions came over me all of a sudden when I started asking stupid questions. "Okay, but what about, in theory, if I did become a girl. What would you want me to look like?" I laughed at myself while asking this, because I knew the idea of turning into a women was hilariously improbable, even more so to impress my partner.
"If that were so, I'd have fucked you repeatedly on the floor right there, but, you know, you're not," she said, shrugging.
The ship definitely needed a bit of time to start up. I couldn't help but feel the need to go over our mission with Sarah one more time. She did take notes after all, and that was better than me, being lazy and not writing anything.
Turning to her, I brought up the topic of revising the mission as if it was an exam. "So basically, we're looking for a planet which basically might not be there, using this screen to track planetary disappearances. Did you catch the coordinates we're meant to be headed?"
"I did, yes," she answered with that ever-so-adorable voice.
It took an hour of comparing the coordinates with what we saw on our screens, until we finally found what we were looking for, a smallish green planet emanating purple gas.
Sarah turned to me and called loudly over the sound of the ship hovering, "I don't exactly remember how to get out of this thing, and if going out like that is a really good idea. But, good luck, I think you can jump out from here." She smiled.
With that, Sarah hit a switch which lowered me from where I was standing enough to jump off to safely land on the planet.
Once on the ground, I tripped and fell on some rocks. Great, that'll make a good first impression, I thought wryly to myself. Then I remembered that I was - hopefully, anyway - the only one around.
The gravity was a little more intense around this little planet - ironic really, considering I had no special suit on and we weren't on Earth which I'm sure was the only planet in existence to have a safe environment for humans.
I picked up some soil from the planet's surface and put it in the special container they gave me. Brad wanted some kind of substance from the planet, so this is what he's getting. I started to feel a stabbing pain in my lower back, but I decided to ignore it as I wasn't in a safe environment anyway. I saw the ship with Sarah looking down at me from the front window, and waved for her to pick me up as I thought I'd accomplished the mission.
"Oh God, you're hurt," she said as I climbed back in the warm spaceship.
"Am I?" I said feeling around my back.
She grabbed some medicine from the first-aid kit and administered it to my wound. Every time she touched it, I winced as it hurt like hell.
"Thanks Sarah."
"Did you bring anything back from the planet?"
"Yes," I said, rubbing my back. "Here." I handed her the soil sample. "It was all I could get," I
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