Re-Entry Bonus chapter! (aka, writer's block filler)
Chapter 4 is being hit by a very TINY case of serious writer's block, I haven't been able to finish it by my deadline. As a consolation, here's a bonus mini-chapter about what happened to the Space Core after chapter one. I originally put a shorter version of this at the start of chapter 4, but for this I've extended it for this. It also feels like I'm making more and more mistakes while I'm typing. Again, let me know if you see any that I missed so I can fix them immediately.
"Earth? Earth!" The Space Core was ecstatic. He was heading right for earth. Oh all the great things he remembered about earth! …Well he didn't have many memories of earth but he knew he loved it! A lot more than boring old space. He couldn't hear much because of the roar of the meteor entering the earth's atmosphere but he heard something from the blue eyed core. He wasn't sure what it was because he was so caught up by the fact that he was heading toward earth. It was something along the lines of 'Earth's alright mate!'. Of course it was! It's earth! And he was going to be on it soon! What was he going to say when he got there? He needed to make a better first impression than he did with the sun. Bits of the meteor began to burn off and the Space Core began rattling around in the indentation that he had become wedged into.
"Dad! I'm going to earth!" Space Core eagerly awaited a response. Dad hadn't said anything in awhile and it was starting to worry him. He was pretty sure that it was because he'd grown bored with space.
"Losing altitude, activating emergency thrusters." Space Core heard a little voice in his head. He wasn't sure what it was. Was that dad? Was dad on earth? His thrusters extended from his sides and pushed him free of the meteor. He watched the meteor fly past him as his thrusters carried him upward. Oh hey! That blue eyed core was on the back of it.
"Hey wait! Grab me! Grab me! Grab me!" The blue eyed core yelled. Why would he want that? He was going right toward earth. It just hit Space Core that he was not. He was going up! He didn't want to go up, he wanted to go down! How do the thrusters turn off? Suddenly something hit one of the thrusters sending him spinning around. Another smaller meteor had hit it. He spun out of control in some random direction, eventually passing over a forest. The thrusters began to run out of power and he crashed into a tree. Space Core went offline from the impact.
The Space core opened his eye panels, the top on moving slower due to a rather large dent in it. He looked around, trying to see where he was. He could make out a few things, his vision still a little blurry from having just come online again.
"Trees... Grass... Rocks..." Only one place had two of those things! Space Core gasped... or at least he would have if he had lungs.
"I'M ON EARTH!" He could hardly contain himself. Sure he was stuck in a tree, hanging by one of his thrusters from a branch, but he made it! He was on that little blue and green planet! He looked around, trying to see everything earth had. The trees, the rocks, the little furry thing that was curled up on top of him. He wasn't really sure what that was called. Maybe he could ask that metal thing out in the middle of that field he was next to. He didn't have to wait very long, it seemed to be heading in his general direction. As it drew closer the furry thing on Space Core's head got up and climbed back up into the tree's branches and he could see that there was a human sitting on top of it.
"Hey!" Space Core called out, the human who until now had looked more focused on the ground now looked up at him, it's face was frozen in surprise. He didn't know why it was so surprised. The metal thing stopped moving and making noise and the human stood up and stared at him.
"Earth guy! What's your favorite thing about earth?" Space Core was happy to have someone to share his thoughts with again, especially now that he was back on earth. The human slowly approached him, the same expression still plastered to their face. It reached up and slid Space Core off the branch, holding him sideways by both his handles. After staring at him for a good five minutes the human carried him over to the metal thing, another thing Space Core didn't know about, although at this point is was more interested in where he was being taken.
"Where we going? Hey! Hey person! Where we going?" The human tied him to the back of the metal thing before sitting down on top of it. It and turned something, apparently causing the metal thing to start shaking and make noise again. Space Core was beginning to get frustrated, this human reminded him of that lady who introduced him to that blue eyed core, never talked. At least she seemed to be listening and taking intrest. Space Core didn't really have anything else to do now but look around at the stuff in this field, like the birds they just flew overhead.
"Ooh! That's a bird! Earth bird! Chirp chirp!"
Again, I'd like to apologize for the delay. Writing is a lot harder than I thought it would be, and I've learned that now. I still hope to get at least one chapter out a week starting with this one, but I'm not going to make a promises I'm not sure I can keep. Another thing I'm noticing now. 'Wasn't sure'. Another thing I'm using too much. Gonna have to work on that too I guess... 'Another thing'. Dang.