Destiny 2: The Untold Hero
Chapter 1: Awakening
When I first woke I was filled with confusion unable to breather for a brief moment. As my senses got stronger and I could see more clearly. I was in a cockpit of a ship I looked around at the different control panels but they had no power. As I continued to look around I noticed another seat with someone it. I unhooked myself and walked over to the seat.
"H… Hey? Do you know what's going on?" I asked as I touched the figures shoulder.
I jerked my hand away when the seat turned and all that was left of the man was his suit and bones. I looked at his suit closer and it had a name on it. The name was "Hughes". Before I could say anything a flash of a memory came to my mind. I was back in the cockpit but the panels had power and I could hear voices around me.
"Mission Control this is Captain Wolf of the Voyager. We have completed final systems check and we are go for launch. Over." I said.
"Roger that Captain we're all good out here be ready to lift off in 3 mins. Over."
"Copy that Mission Control, lift off in 3 mins. Over and out. Hey Hughes you ready?" I said.
"Yeah I'm ready but are you ready. You seemed so nervous this last week. For a second I thought you were going to bail. I'm glad you made it though it put the rest of the crew at ease for this." Hughes said while turning in his chair.
"What? Me. Bail. Never. I would never bail on this mission. I can't let you have all the fun. Besides I'm the captain after all you guys would be lost without me." I said.
"Ha. You know I would make a great captain if you weren't coming along." He said.
"Then why didn't they pick you to be captain instead of me?" I said with a smile.
"Well I…" he was cut off.
"Captain wolf do you read?"
Turning back I said, "I copy Mission Control."
"30 seconds till lift off. Over.
"Roger copy that. Over." I said.
I was jerked from the memory. I looked at the body and a sense of sadness came over me. I wondered what happened to the ship and why did we crash and where. I turned from my old friend and went to the door. I reached for the door and pulled it open. The door had gotten rusted, but it slowly opened. As I walked through wreck of my ship I noticed that there was a window with light coming through. As I looked through the window I had another flash of a memory.
I was looking through the window floating in the hallway. As I looked through the window I could see Saturn fly by. I felt a hand touch my shoulder I turned to see it was our chief medical officer Lindsey.
"Well captain here we are. In space. I can't believe we finally started the mission and its only bin few hours since we left earth." She said.
"I know what you mean it used to take us years to get this far and now it's going to take us a few hours we'll reach our destination real soon. Tell me Lindsey what do you expect we'll find out there?" I said.
"I don't know hopefully new home. Maybe new life. Maybe we'll find there are other life forms out there like us we could learn from each other." She said.
She started to get really excited and start day dreaming. When I started to wave my hand in front of her face she didn't even move.
"Hmm what am I going to do to get her to snap out of it?" I said.
I looked around to see if there was anything I could use to snap her out of her little trance, but there was nothing I could use. So I turned back to here and did the only thing I could do. I grabbed her shoulders, pulled her in close to me, and kissed her deep. It snapped her out of her day dream, but pushing me away.
"Guh why did you do that?" she said blushing.
"Haha I couldn't leave you alone and stay cute floating down the hallway." I said.
"Huh that doesn't mean you can… Wait you said cute. Do you really think I'm cute?" she said with a smile.
Blushing I said, "I… Um… Yeah I do. I do think you're cute."
"Well maybe next time you can ask me first before you kiss me and also dinner." She said with a slight blush to her cheeks.
"Well then how about to?" I asked.
"How about 7:00? You can meet me at my room. I know a place on the colonist's level where we can have dinner?" she said.
"Sounds like a plan. I'll see you tomorrow." I said
As I turned to head back to the flight deck Lindsey pulled me back, and gave me a kiss and a hug. Before I could do anything she let me go and floated down the hall. I was left there floating with my cheeks burning.
The memory ended and all I could see was not space but a vast desert. The ship had crashed on a planet of some sort and I had no clue where I was. I continued walking until I reached the next door, but when I tried to open the door it wouldn't budge. I went back down the hall way but I noticed something else. There was damage on the wall and lights were hanging in some place. I wondered what happened.
In a flash I was back in a memory I was running down the hall the ship was shaking like something was hitting us. I looked over my shouldered I was leading Lindsey by the hand she had a terrible look of horror over her face. The ship shook again and we both fell.
"Lindsey you ok?" I said.
"Y… Yeah I'm ok. How about you. Are you ok?" She said.
"Yeah I'm fine we need to get to the flight deck." I said.
I got up and pulled Lindsey to her feet. As we continued down the hallway I could see explosions going off outside as we pasted by each window. Something was attacking us but? We got to the flight deck I could see Hughes was trying to get us away from what was attacking us they were moving too fast to out maneuver. I sat Lindsay in one of the control seats and buckled her in. Once she was secured I hopped in the cockpit and started to help Hughes.
"Finally you got back I was having trouble getting us out of here." He said.
"Sorry I'm here now what's the situation?" I said.
"Multiple contacts of unknown origin. They are using weaponry that I have never seen before and they are wicked fast." He said.
Another explosion went off and half of the systems on the control console went dead.
"Fuck I got no sensors here!" Hughes said.
"Keep it together we'll get through this." I said.
"David there is only one way that I see us getting through this." He said.
I turned to him and said, "No were not doing that we can't we devoted our lives to these people we can't just abandon them."
"Sir, were not going to make it. They are holding us back. We need to let them go or no one is going to survive." He said.
"Ah! Fine initiate undocking procedures!" I said.
"Yes sir!"
I turned back in my seat and stared Lindsey in the eyes tears were rolling down her face. I got up from my seat and walked over to her. I knelt down and held on to her and as she was sobbing I could feel the ship detach from the housing modules.
"May God have mercy on our souls." I said.
I let go of Lindsey and got back in my seat. I checked our speed and it had tripled in just a few seconds. From what sensors we had left I could see that the alien crafts were ignoring us and staying with the colonist's housing modules.
I started our course back to earth and set the ship on autopilot. I looked as Hughes and he had a look of regret on his face. What had we done? We had just left 50,000,000 people to die just to save our own lives.
"David."
"David."
"David listen to me!" Hughes said.
"Wha! Whats going on." I said shaking my head.
"David you going to be ok? Come on its not your fault we had no choice. If we didn't detach from them we all were going to die." He said.
"But at what cost we left them all to die we could have at least tried to evacuate as many people possible." I said.
Putting a hand on my shoulder Lindsey said, "David, Hughes is right there was nothing we could have done to save them. Don't blame yourself for all of this."
"I guess both of you are right. I just didn't think we would lose so many people so fast." I said.
"I know but we can't change what has already happened. Come on let's get you some sleep." She said.
"I can't I need to stay up and pilot the ship." I said.
"Hey don't worry about it. I got the piloting all under control. I'll call you if I need anything." Hughes said.
"Alright." I said.
Lindsey took my hand and led me back to my quarters. As I walked inside she closed the doors and gave me a hug. Before I could do anything tears began to fall down my face. So many lives were entrusted to us to get them to their destination and now they are all gone. I wonder what's happening to them.
Lindsey led me to the bathroom and started a shower for me. She waited outside as I got undressed and soaked in the heat of the water hitting my bare skin. Once I was done got myself dressed and walked out to see Lindsey waiting with my bed made.
"Get some sleep I will wake you when we're almost there." She said.
"Okay." I responded while climbing in bed.
As I climbed into bed she started to hum to me and my eyes started to feel heavy. Next thing I know I was asleep. I awoke with a jump and I could see all of my stuff on the floor and ship felt like it was making quick turns. I quickly got out of bed and dressed, but when I reached the door it flung open and Lindsey fell right though and landed on top of me.
"Lindsey you ok?" I asked.
"Y-Yeah I'm ok I was coming to get you when they started to attack." She said.
"Wait. Who started to attack?" I said.
"The same people that attacked us yesterday it's the same ones. They tracked us here and now they want to finish the job." She said.
"Not on my watch." I said.
I pulled Linsey up and we started down the hall to the flight deck. When we entered Linsey sat where she was yesterday and quickly sat in mine. The sensors showed that there were a dozen enemy ships following us. Without the colonists connected to us we were definitely faster and harder to hit, but they seem to gaining on us.
"Hughes, status report." I said,
"Not good Captain. We got 12 bogeys and I can't shake them." He said.
"Where are we then? Can we get some help before they get to close." I said.
"I've already tried and they seem to be jamming our signal were on our own here."
"Then what is our current position?" I said.
"We're near Mars but I don't know if we'll make it to earth." He said.
"We're going to have to try." I said turning back to my controls.
As we got closer to earth and every blast we would take I would hear Lindsey starting to panic behind me. My mind started to panic of what if we don't make it, are we going to die, if we don't die what are they going to do to us. Before I could do anything Hughes started to cheer pointing out that were almost to earth. When there was a large explosion and we started to spin. We started to lose power and our coarse was changed.
"Everyone hang on I'm trying to redirect us towards a safe location." I said.
"Captain I've lost control of stabilizers 1 and 2, and stabilizers 3 and 4 are starting to crack we aren't going to make it." Hughes said.
"There is one way some of us will survive." I said.
"You don't mean. That means one of us will have to stay behind and make sure the ship has a soft enough landing for the others to survive." Hughes said.
"That's correct." I said.
"Wait! You mean one of us is going to die, but how is that even going to work?" Lindsey said.
"Yes. One of us is staying and the other two will go into a cryo stasis." Hughes said.
"Who's staying then?" Lindsey said.
"I am. I'll stay and make sure you guys survive." I said.
"No. With all due respect sir, but it should be me. You got more of a future than I do I got no one right now." Hughes said.
"David please don't do this. I need you." Lindsey said as she started to cry.
"I'm sorry both of you, but this is my job and my call. Hughes initiate cryo protocol." I said
"Yes sir." He said.
I got out of my chair and started to pull the seat back. Underneath was a cryo pod ready to be used. I looked at Lindsey and tears in her eyes as she walked over. She gave me a hug and a kiss as I lowered her into the pod. Once the pod closed she made a "I love you" sign with her hands. The next second she was frozen. I closed the hatch and watched as Hughes began to open up his pod.
"It was a pleasure working with you sir." Hughes said.
"No the pleasure was all mine." I said.
As he climbed into his pod another explosion went off and shuck the entire ship. I looked at the control panels and saw that the 4th stabilizer was hit and we were out of control. Hughes had gotten out of the pod and began to help take control of the ship.
"Hughes. I gave you an order. What are you doing get in the pod." I said.
"Sorry sir, but we all know that its impossible for someone to pilot this ship with one stabilizer alone. It's better with two people." He said.
"You know what this means right." I said.
"Yes sir. I do." He said.
"Alright then let's get this over with shall we." I said.
"Sir Yes sir." he said.
I pulled back on the control stick and started to direct the ship towards a softer landing area. As we watched the earth get closer and closer all I could feel is regret for not doing so much more before I died. Lindsey please live on for the both of us.
