Disclaimer: I dont own Moonbase Alpha, Space 199 or any of the characters, except the new original character in this story. But if i did ever meet John, Helena or Victor i would certaintly take them out to dinner !! :)
A New Beginning
Chapter One
It was a hot September afternoon and Luke Peterson was standing in front of his supervisor Mike Loxton being reprimanded.
"Luke you had no authority to go behind my back and report your concerns to the Lunar Commission about the nuclear waste dumps on Moonbase Alpha. I told you I would deal with it!"
Yeah right thought Luke, a snake like you who is in the pocket of Commissioner Simmonds. Sure you're going to do something. Put my reports in the waste bin like you've been doing for the last few weeks!
Luke listened to the continued onslaught by his supervisor and was getting more angered by the minute. Did he not read anything in the reports? The concerns over the increasing reports of damage to Eagles doing the practice run over Alpha for the Meta mission? Not to mention the increase in the number of faulty spacesuits having to be replaced? Did the word safety mean anything to this idiot? Luke could take no more of this and exploded.
"Now just wait a dammed minute Loxton, you are talking about people's lives here, I have been submitting my concerns to you over the course of the past few weeks and you've done nothing, I may be a washed out pilot in your eyes, but I still care about the safety of my fellow human beings up there, what happens if there is an accident on Alpha? Are you going to toss the accident report in your waste paper basket as well and be denying anything ever happened like Simmonds is denying anything is happening right now on Alpha? "
Luke was angry, angrier than he had been in a long time. He rubbed his eyes in frustration and then stared at his supervisor veins in his neck threatening to burst. If he was going to be sacked, this was worth getting sacked over.
Loxton banged his fist down on the table and stood up in such a rush that he knocked the chair behind him to the floor.
"You insubordinate bastard, how dare you speak to me like that, and how dare you question my integrity he spluttered.
Integrity! Ha! Thought Luke, he does not know the meaning of the word.
"Normally I would have you fired and don't think I would hesitate for one minute that I would not do so, however it so happens I have papers for your transfer in front of me which you submitted some months ago. You are being transferred to new duties on Alpha, effectively immediately".
Luke swallowed several times and his heart skipped a beat, shocked by the news and completely caught by surprise by the news. He had fully expected to be sacked but to be transferred to Alpha? Well he could not have wished for anything more. He wanted to get off Earth, he had nothing there anymore for him. There was no one left.
"Are you still standing there shouted Loxton, get out of my office, I don't ever want to see your face again!"
Luke smiled but his eyes were steel.
"I wont be sorry to see the back of you, and for what it's worth you are a coward who is afraid to stand up to the likes of Simmonds, no wonder you are still stuck behind that desk of yours, you are nothing but a featherless paperweight!"
And without bothering to stay for the reply Luke walked out of the office slamming the door behind him and out of the Lunar Commission Building. He did not stop to look back. Instead he looked up at the moon and knew his future was on Alpha.