I just now discovered Earth 2 (I LOVE Clancy Brown) and I love it! This my first attempt at an Earth 2 fanfic and I'm only on the third episode. O_O R&R tell me how I did. Enjoy. . .
Sirens and alarms rang through the ship. Red lights blinked and people ran in panicked groups to the escape pods. A woman-pilot sat at the bridge, she tried holding the ship steady but there was no stopping the inevitable crash. The pilot was a twenty eight year old woman with curly red hair and blue eyes, a rare combination.
A man ran up to her with bags in his hands, "C'mon Janet we gotta go!" He shouted. He grabbed her shoulder and tried yanking her away from the controls.
"No!" She shoved him away from her and dialed in more controls. "A captain never abandons ship! I'm staying, you get the hell out of here!" She gritted her teeth as another part of the ship exploded.
The man looked at her, at the controls and then back behind him. "C'mon you know I can't leave you! We need you down there!"
She shook her head, and then turned and yanked him by the shirt collar down to her face, she let go of the controls and pulled out a gun, "If you don't go I'll blow your face off." He looked down the barrel and then turned and ran, she let him go. "Bye Salvador," she said to his retreating figure. Her co-pilot and cousin, Salvador shared her family's red hair but, like the rest of the family, had dark brown eyes.
Janet looked back at the window and saw the planet called G889 below, fast approaching. She had followed the Eden project with a group of people who wanted to join the colonists. Personally she had been assigned by the Council. She hated them but being an indentured pilot she had no choice. Besides that they offered a good deal; do the mission and kill the Eden Advance leader, in return they would help cure her mother's dementia and make sure her termanlly ill uncle, Salvador's father, would be taken care of. Seemed easy enough, she had killed before. Something had gone wrong though and the planet's gravity was so strong it had pulled the ship harder than excepted. It wouldn't have been so bad if an unexpected meteor shower hadn't have made contact with her ship and hit a thruster engine.
She wiped sweat away from her forehead; her leaf printed head band was soaked. Her black round glasses were far down her nose. The ship shook violently and then the worse possible alarm came to her.
The feminine voice of the ship spoke to her, "Escape pod malfunction. Pods unable to launch."
Janet's eyes went wide, "Evaluate!" She shouted.
There was a beep and then the voice came back, "Unable to fix damage. Escape pods can not launch."
"No no no!" She screamed and tried to pull the ship away from the planet but it was dead set on course. She gasped and tears began to fall from her eyes as she realized that they were all going to die. The last thing she remembered before the ship hit G889 was the red lights and sounds of people screaming.
At camp John Danzinger watched the sky, his daughter True was asleep in his lap. Everyone else was asleep but he liked to stay up a few hours after them and make sure the camp was safe. He looked down at his daughter and a flicker in the night sky caught his attention. It looked like a giant meteor hurtling towards the planet. It broke into smaller pieces before a sonic boom echoed through the sky. He sat up and looked closer. A few of the others suddenly woke up and looked at the sky.
"What is that?" The man named Morgan asked.
John shrugged, "I don't know." He looked again at the falling objects. "Kind of looks like. . .a falling ship."
The other adults watched the thing in the sky until it disappeared behind the ridge line and crashed to the ground. A few moments later a crash echoed and reached their ears.
True woke up and John looked down at her, "Daddy?" she asked. "What was that?"
He shook his head, "Nothing. Go back to sleep sweetie."
She nodded sleepily and did as she was told. He watched her and smiled as he kissed her forehead. He looked back at the direction of the fallen object.
"Maybe we should go see what it was," Alonzo said, the former pilot of their own ship. The others looked at him, "I mean what if there were people on board? What if they need help?"
"Too many 'what-ifs'," Devon said. "We can't risk losing people to explore a crashed ship that may or may not have survivors."
"But if there are survivors they can help us," Yale, the half cyborg tutor said.
"For once I agree with Devon," John said. "If that was a ship and it did have people on it they'll all be dead anyways."
"Then what about supplies?" Morgan's wife, Bess, spoke up. "Winter is coming and we're low on things to keep us warm."
At that Devon and John looked at each other. "Who actually wants to risk leaving camp and going to investigate?"
Bess, Yale, Alonzo and Heller all raised their hands. Yale though only raised his half heartedly, he was old and while he wanted to see about the crash he didn't think he could make the journey easy.
"They've got a good point Devon," he said.
"Well we can't all go," Devon said and she crossed her arms.
Alonzo looked around. "Me, Bess, Heller and John can go."
Morgan didn't agree, "Hey why my wife and not me too?"
"We need more people to watch over the kids," Alonzo told him. "And uh, you aren't exactly good with traveling and the outdoors."
John carefully moved his daughter and stood up, "Hey now wait a minute. I didn't say I'd go and I won't leave True all alone."
"Our own ship was salvageable, that one most likely is too. They will have supplies on board and if there are people alive they might need Heller's help. If everyone's dead then we'll take what we can manage," Solace responded. He looked at Devon. "We're running out of things we need. That ship didn't land too far away, maybe just a day or two over the ridge. There hasn't been any Grendler activity in weeks, I think we can risk it."
Devon thought carefully. "Alright. I don't like it but you're right. We need medical supplies, power, little things. Solace is right that there will be things we can salvage. We'll discuss it in the morning." She turned and went back to where she and her son slept.
The others dispersed as well. John sighed and turned to True, he picked her up and carried her to their tent where he finally laid down next to her and with a final look towards the ridge he closed his eyes.
