Chapter two yeah thanks for those who wrote comments any way chapter two Awakening R+R excuse my grammar it does suck!
4001:A Space Odyssey
II* Awakening
And they told us we wouldn't dream, thought Mike Crawford, more with surprise than annoyance. The glorious pink glow that surrounded him was very soothing; it reminded him of barbecues and the crackling of logs of Christmas fires. But there was no warmth; indeed, he felt a distinct coldness.
Voices were murmuring, just to softly for him to understand the words. They became louder-but still he could not understand.
"Surely," he said in sudden amazement, "I can't be dreaming in Russian!"
"No, Mike," answered a woman's voice. "You're not dreaming. It's time to get out of bed."
The lovely glow faded; he opened his eyes, and had a blurred glimpse of a flashlight being withdrawn from his face. He was lying on a couch, held against it by elastic webbings; figures were standing around him, but they were too out of focus to identify.
Gentle fingers closed his eyelids and massaged his forehead.
"Don't exert yourself. Breathe deeply…again…that's right…now how do you feel?"
"I don't know …strange…light-headed…and hungry."
"That's a good sign. Do you know where you are? You can open your eyes now."
The figures came into focus-first Teela zain elmes then Keahi. But something had happened to Teela since had seen her, only what felt like an hour ago. When Dr. Crawford identified the cause, it was almost a physical shock.
"You cut your hair!"
"I hope you think it's an improvement. I can't say the same about your beard."
Dr. Crawford lifted his hand to his face, finding that he had to make a conscious effort to plan every stage of the movement. His chin was covered with short stubble- hair a two or three days' growth. In hibernation, hair grew only at a hundredth of its normal rate…
"So I made it," he said, "we've arrived at Zion."
Teela looked at him somberly, then glanced at Keahi, who gave a barely perceptible nod.
"no Dr. Crawford," she said. "we're still a couple of weeks away. Don't be alarmed-the ship is fine, and everything's running normally. But mission control asked us to wake you up ahead of schedule. We've come to believe that HAL has developed some sort of glitch."
"A problem with HAL what sort of problem?" said Dr. Crawford with a serious face.
"well Doctor, HAL insists that there's something wrong with the AE35 antenna a problem that neither us or mission control can find we have the unit on the bridge doctor." Said Keahi with some determination.
as Teela, Keahi and Dr Crawford made their way to the bridge, passing an observation window Dr. Crawford could see the planet Zion still a far way off. When they reached the bridge there on the consul was a small cylinder that looked like a water bottle as Dr Crawford picked up the cylinder he noticed how cold it felt against his skin, after a while of examining the cylinder he concluded just like every one else that there was nothing wrong with it, it was working perfectly. Then HAL abruptly interrupted Dr. Crawford and said
"the AE35 rotating unit is absolutely broken and must be replaced, I have had many situations like this and problems have occurred because of human error, may I suggest that we re-install the Unit and wait for it to break I still have the most assurance on the completion of this mission"
it took Dr. Crawford a few hours to examine the rotary motor, so when he looked out of the bridge windows for the first time since he started Zion was much closer so close you could make out land formations on the surface it had greens, yellows, blues, whites and if you really looked close some reddish colors too you could also see Zion's many moons such as Io, Callisto, Europa, Iapetus, Ganymede, Sol2, and many more[which I can't remember at the moment]. As dr. Crawford stared out of the window Teela came up be hind him and grabbed his shoulder and ordered him to his quarters being a respectful man he did so, in his room he laid down attached to his bed elastic straps he closed his eyes and fell a sleep for a few minutes to here the loud roar of the discovery's engines. When he heard this he made his way to the observation deck and he could see Zion filling the sky as the discovery began to orbit at the Lagrange of Io and Zion it was beautiful site because on the left there was the large and stunning site of Zion and on the right there was the small and ugly volcanic Io spouting sulfur out of its volcanic surface once every so often and straight ahead the vast empty ness of space and once in a while you could see the moons callisto, Europa, and Ganymede dead head as well.
A few weeks later they awakened Elias and Healteage, in side the ward room/observation deck they had a party with wine sandwiches and a small cake for the whole crew that night they all got drunk and sober so drunk that nobody even knew how to float in zero gee anymore.
The next day everyone seemed rather dead but still alive especially that very day was the same day they were to launch the discovery Lander on to the surface. the Lander looked like a dome with four legs sticking out of the back and a box, which was LM landing module, the dome was the heat shield.
Dr. Crawford looked really nervous compared to the two Russians going down with him, when the time finally came to launch everyone inside the LM could feel slight jolt as one of the four doors hidden under the ship opened and ejected the LM towards Zion. At the right distance the main boosters fired and hurdled the LM into Zion's atmosphere. In side the Discovery everyone cheered as a long trail of flames and smoke could be seen out side the window, as the LM came out of the upper atmosphere and into regular airspace the ship flipped over and exposing the legs of the ship to the ground the heat shield flew of and parachutes opened to slow the craft. The LM came a sudden but gentle stop as it hit the ground.
Back on the Discovery every one was cheering until Teela ordered for silence she was listening along with every one else to a message it said:
"This Discovery1 ground crew we have safely landed on the surface we'll be setting up so we won't have much talking time so we'll be in touch with you when you reach the moon callisto"
After that every one began to clap and cheer but this soon died down as every one aboard got ready to leave Lagrange and explore all the moons of Zion.
Okay so that's chapter two and if any of you didn't get the zero gee thing that means there's no gravity your weight less you literary float so yeah you know the deal R+R thank you have a nice day