Written by: DIEALREADY! 87
Disclaimer: all characters, names and ideas are copyrighted Yukiru Sugisaki or Arthur C. Clarke (writer of books such as lost worlds of 2001,imperial earth etc. etc) please do not copy or take with out my permission thank you!
Characters: Dr. Teela Zain Elmes, Keahi Coleman, and Dr. Mike Crawford, Dr. Chandra, Elias and healteage, Tatiana Enna
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4001:A Space Odyssey
I*Discovery
It was a beautiful site to see Earth from space, thought the young teal haired Teela Zain elmes as she starred out of the space ships window but this thought was broken when a young stewardess said
"Good morning miss Elmes, we haven't seen you here in a while"
Teela with a little smile said
"Thank you" as soon as the stewardess left she turned to look out of window and saw a large round spinning space station. Then she re fixed her view to the front of the cabin it was rather small like an airplane and empty too a few minutes later a voice came over an intercom and announced
"Attention all passenger we will be docking with the space station px39 please stay seated during this time thank you!"
Teela just looked on with a sad expression on her face as she turned back to the window most of it was filled with view of the space station and they where docking very slowly with colony px39 and she stood up grabbed a small duffle bag and walked out the door in side the crowded colony space port terminal she ran into Dr. Mike Crawford.
"Awe good morning Dr. Elmes what brings you back here to px39"
Teela with a shocked face "O good morning Dr. Crawford, I'm here for a NASA meeting what brings you here as well?" Dr. Crawford with a little smile "I'm here for the same thing"
Really thought Teela with a surprised look on her face "But you don't work for NASA why did they call you?"
Dr. Crawford still with that grin "Well as far as I know they want me to be the head scientist for the Discovery mission"
Teela still with a surprised face "That's great for you!, Congratulations but if your lead scientist why did they call me?"
"Well I don't know lets find out," Dr. Crawford said as he opened a door.
It was a small room with 2 men and 2 women one man had long black hair the other had short brown hair. One woman looked really young not even out of high school the other one was just a little older and more mature looking but they both had teal colored hair. Dr. Crawford and Teela both took their seats at the table then another man walked in said
"I apologize for my lateness but lets get started shall we" As he said this every one got handed a manila folder except the man with the long hair.
"Okay as we all know the Discovery 1 space ship is being built in orbit and will be completed soon"
"This meetings soul purpose is to gather the crew"
"Now if you look in the folders I've given you you'll find the mission objectives in this order
To reach unknown planetary system (A.K.A. Zion)
To land on planet using the lunar landing probe
If it seems advisable, and mission control concurs, to stay longer for closer inspection.
To carry out a survey of Zion and its moons as far as this is compatible with above objectives.
It is realized that unforeseen circumstances may require a change of priorities, or even make it impossible to achieve some of these objectives. Now are there any questions on how this goes?"
Every one in unison answered "No"
"Okay now also in this folder is the Discovery 1s crew, Dr. Teela Zain Elmes acting mission commander and ships doctor, Keahi Coleman maintenance-engineer, Dr. mike Crawford acting lead scientist, Healtage exercises guide, Elias Nutrition guide, You will also have Russian cosmonauts, Tatiana Enna Engineering-propulsion, and Dr. Alexander Kovalev engineering-communication"
"The GISS Discovery1 will leave for Zion in one month you are dismissed"
At this every one stood up and exited the room slowly Dr. Crawford asked "Would you like something to eat Teela or rather drink?"
Teela with a serious face answered "Yes I would be delighted, you do know that from this point on you're only supposed take in liquids because when you're put in hibernation for the trip"
Dr. Crawford with a slightly puzzled face"O yes I've never been put into hibernation before"
Teela with a smile "don't worries it's not that bad you wont even realize you were sleeping until your re-awakened "
Still with a puzzled face "I Guess so what do you want to drink"
With a surprised face "O ummmmmm I'll have a coke"
When they both got their drinks they sat a table by the large window in the food court as Teela looked out the window she could see the moon and not to far away from that was the Discovery1 it looked small from here but you could still make out its shape the living quarters in the front was like surf board shape with a long pole sticking out the back and at the end there was the main propulsion rockets shape like a box with small cones sticking out of it.
Even though the launch was in a month the ship was still being built the living quarters were finished but AE 35 antenna still need to be put on. After that they need to put on the two liquid O2 fuel tanks. When they completed that they then had to attach the large booster rockets that would be used to bring the Discovery1 up to a good speed and then shed to drop excise weight.
As the month turned into weeks and the weeks into days and the days into hours Dr. Teela Zain Elmes found her self on a small shuttle with the crew of Discovery1 as the shuttle got closer to the Discovery you could see its true size it was huge a Behemoth it had a sleek white hull like a sports car and on the living quarters in bold letters it said DISCOVERY 1. When the shuttle docked with the discovery they opened a hatch and every one glided there way into the zero G environment of the Discovery they where met by maintenance-engineer Keahi Coleman who with the two Russian cosmonauts where brought up earlier to do safety checks. "Welcome aboard the Discovery1"
But as Teela came in he stood up the best he could in zero gravity and saluted her. "Ma'am welcome aboard"
Teela saluted him back and said "thank you"
After this she made her way to the bridge there she found Tatiana Enna she did the same as keahi "welcome aboard Ma'am"
This time Teela gave a slight nod "how is every thing doing? Tatiana"
With her Russian accent "every thing is a hundred percent and please call me Tanya"
Then she heard strange voice "Every thing is doing fine fuel cells hundred percent, booster rockets are attached and seem functional the AE 35 antenna working a hundred percent"
Teela with a puzzled face "What is that?
The mysterious voice answered, "I am a HAL 9000 computer I'm in charge of all of the discovery's navigation and radio systems, good evening Dr. Elmes"
Still with a puzzled face "Good evening Hal I will be going to my quarters now"
At this she made her way floating down the hall to her quarters it was a small triangle shaped room with a desk and bed on the left side. She dropped her duffle bag on her bed. And then she toured the ship. It took half an hour but it was well worth it she got more acquainted with crew when she finished it was about 20 minutes before launch so she made her way to the bridge. There she strapped her self to her seat by then every one had taken a seat on the bridge and got prepared for launch.
"T-10 minutes we have a go for main engine start "said keahi
At this the engines started an we started to creep slowly towards earth we kept getting closer and closer and we started go faster and faster when we were close enough and fast enough we stated the first stage of booster rockets you could feel the force being put on your body. Teela looked out side to see the Earth as we rushed by it and headed out in to deep space a few minutes later over the roar of the engines Keahi announced "Dumping first stage boosters in 5…4…3…2…1dumping boosters"
When he said this there was a jolt that sand every one forward then keahi pushed a button on the control panel every one went flying back up
"Second stage boosters are go" said keahi
Just then they went rushing pass the moon a few minutes later keahi dumped the second stage boosters. We weren't going as fast but the ship cared the momentum from the boosters, as Teela looked out the window the earth got smaller and smaller. In the sick bay Teela met Dr. Crawford, Elia and Healteage she examined all three because they would all be put in hibernation. Teela heard a growl from Dr. Crawford's stomach she giggled "I know how it feels to only drink liquids for a month"
Dr. Crawford just gave a little laugh and said "So what is it really like to be in hibernation?"
Teela with a smile "I can't exactly tell you I've always fallen a sleep"
Dr. Crawford gave another laugh "You know what why don't you go to section J12 its an observation deck."
Just as she said this she gave dr. Crawford a shoot. Afterwards dr. Crawford went to the observation deck there he found elia and healteage looking at the far away Earth but he didn't recognized it, but then it hit him it was up side down Dr Crawford thought those poor people falling of the face of the Earth.
Okay so this concludes our first chapter sorry if these was to long for ya and please excuse my grammar I suck at writing! so any way read+review thank you^_^`