On the way
Trip grabbed his seat with both hands, bracing as he could against the sudden torque.
"What the hell was that?!" Archer exclaimed as he banked left and up hard. "Did you see that?!"
Trip turned to look as Hoshi yelped in the back. "Jon! Another one!" he shouted.
Fortunately Archer had seen it as well. This time the shuttle dropped hard right.
"They're all around!" Hoshi yelped.
Archer swore out loud. "What the hell!"
The tower of water was gigantic, dwarfing the shuttle. Another tower of water sprung up on the left, billowing up and down as if alive. A third one jutted right ahead, forcing Archer to flip the shuttle on its side. Talk about threading the needle...
"Brace yourselves!" he shouted as yet another column sprung up in front of the shuttle. There were geysers right, left, front, center, and above.
The shuttle hit the wall of water. Everything went black. It fell for what seemed an eternity.
There was a lurch. An abrupt bounce at the end. And then silence.
The emergency lighting slowly blinked its way on, highlighting the edges of three shapes sprawled around.
Nothing else moved.
There was no movement. No sound.
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