There are still several occurrences that may be disturbing to some people, so I will specifically give you a warning for those chapters, which there aren't a lot of, fortunately. This chapter has nothing too extreme, but the next one definitely will.

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And special thanks once again to: infinitymagicalstars.

CHAPTER 3
Jade's POV

"Good job, Beck," André greeted when we entered the cockpit.

"And you too, Jadey!" Cat said, her voice so full of happiness it made me sick.

"Thank you, although my beautiful wife here did do most of the work." Beck addressed them, nudging the side of my head with his in an adoring fashion. Once we had finished cleaned up the storage room as best as we could, Beck and I left the suits to dry and came back up here.

"Yeah. We were watching from one of these monitors that suddenly the pressure in the storage room went down; I guess that was when you sealed up the glass, right?" André patted my shoulder, smiling like a father proud of his own daughter.

Tori and Robbie were talking to Trina through the center monitor still. I knew for a fact that Trina actually had a crush on Robbie, even though he had announced a month ago that he would be marrying her sister.

But then again, Trina had also been hitting on Beck until he proposed to me, and it was only until after our honeymoon that she finally gave up. She was so desperate for a boyfriend, it was laughable. She might be quite smart, but she was so full of herself and would never take any criticism into consideration. It's no wonder she hasn't had a date since iCarly ended.

"For the next thirty days, you will remain in orbit around the moon," Trina explained. "Just live your life as normally as you always have. We'll be helping observe your progress from down here. If anything were to go wrong, whether it's one of you or Berglemir itself, exit out into the Jovian and fly back down here. Don't forget what you learned during your seven years of training.

"The procedures are the same as you've always practiced on Earth. One person always needs to monitor the controls up front, and make sure you all know where each other are at all times. Be careful going down to the basement room; don't open any loose hatch that seems unsafe on the other side—"

"We know, Trina. Stop being so bossy," Tori sulked.

"All right, well if you need anything, I'll be right here. And if I'm not…then Sinjin will be. Do you all remember who he is?"

Oh I certainly did. The lanky, six-foot-one, Robbie look-alike who really, really liked me. Sinjin Van Cleef was extremely creepy (he kept a collection of 'food he never digested' on his work desk) and like to follow me around, especially if Beck wasn't there. Just thinking about the memories brought a shudder to my shoulders.

"Yes," we all answered.

"Good. I'll log off for now to leave you guys in peace. Have fun!"

"I'm going to take a nap," I said immediately once the oldest Vega's head was off the screen. No one shot me any looks as I left the cockpit.

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It had been almost a week since we first arrived on Berglemir, and I have to admit, we were actually getting along quite well. The food was okay, most of it just being flavored powder with water added in a vacuum-sealed pouch, but since Cat would attend nonstop to the garden, I had a feeling we would be able to eat something healthier (and tastier) soon.

We had no cable, cell phone service, or Internet. Berglemir connected directly to satellites so we could communicate with Trina, but I never wanted to talk to her anyway so that was pointless.

I spent a lot of the time walking around or staying with Beck in our room. On occasion, I hung around André, with whom I usually had a nice chat with, and also Cat. Tori I tried to avoid as much as possible, and Robbie kept himself in the cockpit all day so I couldn't really get to him anyways.

One of the biggest obstacles anyone needed to overcome to stay in outer space was being able to keep yourself occupied. It was easy to go insane in a confined space for a long time, even if you were surrounded by some of your closest friends.

The NASA workers on Earth insisted we send them a video diary every day, which I hated doing but it helped me think straight at least once, and sometimes they would relay responses that were supposed to be funny but I never laughed.

André and Beck visited the tiny gym located in one area of the 'basement' to work out and do something physical for a change. I went there once with Cat, but it was extremely cramped and when she couldn't keep up on the treadmill she slipped and flew off straight into me. It took all my strength not to kill her; and afterwards I marched upstairs by myself and went to bed.

Tori and Robbie were in their own little world inside the cockpit. Sometimes, out of sheer boredom I'd go up and peek inside. They were sitting in the pilot seats, holding hands, facing each other and talking quietly. I almost puked on many occurrences. It was just…so awkward to watch, not that anyone asked me to.

"Hey, Jadey, do you want to come and help me water the garden?" Cat asked as she stood in the doorway of Beck and my bedroom.

"No." I didn't even look at her.

"Please! André went with me yesterday but now he's hanging out with Beck. I don't want to go by myself."

"What could you possibly be afraid of?" I countered, propping myself up on the single, floppy pillow and trying to read from my PearPad.

"Last time I went I heard noises coming from the floor."

"So? Maybe you're gaining weight and the sounds were just your footsteps," I said, knowing perfectly well that the woman probably only weighed like ninety pounds.

"You're so mean to me!" Cat left the room in a burst of tears.

I sat up, my hair falling down my face and brushing my cheeks. "I was kidding, Cat! I'm sorry!" The words blurted out of my mouth without warning. Suddenly, I stood up, chasing after my best friend before I had another second to think about. "Come back!"

I found Cat hiding in the hallway, curled up in a little ball and sniffling hard.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that," I said, sitting down next to her and crossing my legs.

"Then what did you mean?"

"Nothing. I was just trying to make a joke."

"Okay!" The tears stopped abruptly and she smiled at me. My eyebrows came together as I stared at her. It was almost frightening how fast her mood could change. "Now will you come with me to the garden?"

"Fine."

She took my hand and led me in the direction. I could feel her fingers touching the expensive jewelry wrapped around my own. "Ooo, Jadey, I like your ring."

"Thank you."

"I wish André would give me one like yours. But I don't think he's ready to take it that far yet," she added in a small voice and I squeezed her hand in a comforting way, not wanting to say anything that might ruin the mood.

We arrived at the open-room garden and the plants actually did look like they were growing, even if it was just a little. Cat went over to a box mounted on the wall and opened it up, pressing a button, and suddenly, I saw a small stream of recycled water traveling through the irrigation system set up in the pots, bringing them their daily dose of nutrients.

"Isn't that really cool?" Cat asked, smiling joyfully.

"Very," I replied, not bothering to tell the girl what I really thought. It's so cool that one day we're going to eat plants that grew using our own pee filtrated into water.

"Do you want to fertilize the plants, Jadey?"

"No." And stop calling me that.

"But it's really fun!" Cat waved the watering can-shaped device in her hands, and I shook my head. Heaving a big sigh, Cat proceeded to spray the tops of the vegetation carefully; when she was finished she set the container down and stood back by the box. "Okay, now I need to adjust the temperature of the lights and I'm done."

Looking up at the ceiling, the overheard lamps adjusted brighter and dimmer, according to which way Cat was turning the knob. Suddenly, they blinked and shut themselves off completely.

"Wait…why did you turn them off?"

"I didn't." Cat furiously twisted the disc.

I looked down at my body, noticing that my suit was emanating some sort of green ghoulish glow. Then I remembered that depending on which type of material we were wearing, it would glimmer if it got dark, allowing us to find each other, especially if we were in the bare outer space.

Cat's eyes, as I could see from her orange glow, were big and filled with fear.

"Come on. Let's find the others."

She took my arm and held it tightly as we made our way to the cockpit. It had gotten unnaturally cold, and I tried to keep from shivering, knowing that it would only scare Cat more.

"Jade? Cat?"

We turned around at the sound of our names. Beck (who appeared to be blue) and André (who was yellow) rushed up to us. Beck scooped me into his arms and I pressed his face against my shoulder, breathing in the recognizable scent of his hair. André was holding Cat in a similar manner.

"Are you guys okay? Anyone hurt?" he asked, pulling away.

"Wow, Beck. Because you can totally get hurt when the lights turn off," I responded sarcastically.

"I'm serious. Did you trip or anything?"

"Why don't you ask that to Vega?"

André shook his head, his arm protectively around his smaller girlfriend. "We were just coming to find you both when all the lights went out. Anyone have an idea of what happened?"

"No. We were going to the cockpit to find out."

"Okay. Tori and Robbie ought to be there."

And so the four of us, each gripping our partner's hand tightly, made our way up the front. The door to the cockpit was closed and Beck banged on it furiously.

"I thought this entire place was solar-powered," André commented as we waited.

"It is," Beck replied grimly, "unless something happened to either the panels themselves or the wires in the energy room."

The energy room was located underneath the cockpit, and pretty much without it, the Berglemir would be screwed. It held all of the giant machines that kept our space station afloat, as well as was the main source for all the electrical wiring, water filtration and many other important pieces of equipment.

"Who is it?" Tori's voice squeaked from the other side.

"Your mom!" I yelled back irritably. Beck put his hand on my shoulder.

"It's Beck, Jade, Cat and André."

There was some mumbling on the other side as we waited patiently. I glanced over and saw Cat huddled into André, her face buried in his arm and he was petting the top of her red velvet-colored hair. Beck's hand squeezed my shoulder lightly.

"I don't know how to get the door open." That was Robbie's voice.

"What? You just pull on the handle, Shapiro!"

"Jade, it's a double-door, remember?" Beck spoke to me kindly like I was a child. My eyes grew big in anger at his tone of voice. "And I think the power needs to be on in order for it to unlock."

"Then turn it on and let us in!" I shouted, almost frantically.

"I'm trying! Stop yelling at me!"

"You think this is yelling? Wait until you see me—" Beck's hand came in front of my face and I flinched, thinking he was going to cover my mouth with it. Instead, he stroked the side of my cheek while whispering the word 'shush.' Okay, fine. We'll just wait here for another half-hour until those nitwits figure out how to flip a light switch.

We grew quiet, listening to the to-be husband and wife argue.

"Just press the light switch!"

"I am!"

"Harder!"

"I AM! And stop yelling at me!"

There were more shuffling noises, and Tori sounded frustrated. Good. They were trapped in that little room, and we had the entire station to explore if there was no possible way to turn on the solar power and let us in.

"Try the emergency power button," Robbie exhaled.

Suddenly, the lights turned on, and we all sighed in relief. The buzzing sound, indicating that we were slowly regaining power, filled the air. There was a hiss and the doors opened, revealing a red-faced Robbie and pale Tori.

"Why was that so hard?" I snarled at the woman.

She frowned but said nothing as we piled in.

The control room was a complete mess of annoying, blinking, flashing lights. Other than that, it was deathly quiet. No beeping, no humming, no nothing.

"Everything is working through the emergency power system," Robbie informed us.

The emergency power system, or EPS, was the back-up for Berglemir in case its main wires were damaged of some sort. Because we had solar panels, we technically couldn't run out of actual energy, but if the system that converted the power was broken, it was pretty much as good as useless.

"I'll go down to the energy room to check what's happened, although I can't imagine why this is happening," Robbie mused, stepping towards the exit.

"I want to go with you," Tori said suddenly, chasing after him.

"No, you should stay up here. It's quite dangerous down there."

Tori stubbornly refused, and realizing he had entered a battle he could not win, Robbie took her hand and they disappeared together. Beck sat down in the pilot seat and André did the same to the co-pilot's.

"Geez, we're not even getting a signal to our satellites or Earth. I think something more than broken wiring happened down there," André observed, tapping and clicking random buttons.

"What happens if they can't figure out what's wrong? It's not like we can communicate with anyone, can we?" Cat asked worriedly.

"I don't know, baby. I just don't know."

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