The Last Of Humanity/Episode 01

"The Prologue" is the first episode of The Last Of Humanity. It was released on 3rd January 2018.

Previously On...
In the future, Humanity has advanced to the point of being able to travel to the other planets in the system in hours as well as made other technical advancements that has led to the nations working together in order to build a spacestation and recruit a crew that will explore their system after revelations were made in learning that the other planets have mysteriously been evolving in the latest years against all the known found science.

Synopsis
With the fateful day having finally come for Humanity to send it's people into space for the goal of learning their system's mysteries, the volunteers are preparing themselves for the next few hours which will change their lives extremely, more than they actually know as an enemy force made out of Aliens is coming from the shadows to invade Earth with the intentions of conquering it and it's population for their own dark and unknown purposes.

Episode 0 - "The Prologue"
19th January 2029 - 09:44 - Spacestation Headquarters, Caribbean

“We are all in this together and together we are going to build a better future for Humanity.”

As the last of the introduction to the spacestation leaders videos came to an end, you couldn’t help but let out a breath that you had been holding for a length of time that you had no idea had passed.

This was the day. The day that you were going to be one of one hundred and one crew members to head into space and explore the unknowns of the new frontier. You still couldn’t even believe that not only did you volunteer but you continued to train up to this day.

You had to be honest with yourself, it was scary just as much as it was exciting.

Taking a deep breath, you looked down to the invitation letter and entrance card you had been sent through this morning, picking up the latter and shoving it into your pocket before you then turned to grab a backpack from your side, full of the few belongings that were allowed to be brought with you on this trip.

This was it, the big day, was what you kept telling yourself. It still almost felt like a dream, a dream where you were going to space and exploring the new frontier. Was this maybe all a television show and you were just an actor for the background? It didn’t matter, this was going to be the time of your life and you knew it, even if you woke up later to find it all to be a dream.

With that in mind, you finally made yourself get up from the sofa, switched off your television and headed over to the door, quickly making sure everything was taken from the apartment, that they provided all crew members in the days that had led up to today, before exiting through the door, being greeted by the sight of many other fellow soon to be explorers as you closed it behind you.

After that, there was no activity in your temporary apartment. None at all.

That was until the television started to randomly flicker before it turned on again, a weirdly shaped Humanoid appearing on the screen, covered in shadows and barely seeable, and didn’t say a word as it seemed to look around the room before it grinned and the television turned off again.

Witnessed by not a single soul. --- *Cue Theme Music* *A Mix Of Sad, Dramatic But Inspiring* *Enter scenes in the background while pictures of the main characters pop up on screen with the cast names*

The first scene is the spacestation's shuttle flying away from Earth and towards the spacestation.

Starring Chloe Bennet, Sophie Turner, Freema Agyeman, BJ Britt,

The second scene is the crew members of the spacestation going about their duties as well as taking time off throughout multiple rooms.

Kit Harington, Christopher Larkin, Shay Mitchell, Laila Rouass,

The third scene is a group of explorers, in spacesuits, exploring the surface of Earth's moon.

Jamie Chung, Christian Serratos and Oscar Isaac

The fourth and final scene is an overview of Earth in whole while both the spacestation and the moon is seen in the background, orbiting around it, as the title of "The Last Of Humanity" appears over the scene. ---  19th January 2029  - 10:00 - Spacestation Headquarters, Caribbean

Mindlessly, Phoebe was tapping her fingers against her leg, she had just finished packing everything she had been allowed to bring with her and she probably should’ve left already but she couldn’t help but just sit there and look around the temporary apartment she had been given.

Of course it was too late to back out now. Even if her nerves got the better at her, they wouldn’t be able to last minute replace her. One of the minor crew members? Probably. Phoebe the Horticulturist? Nope. Too many people were counting on her now. She had to commit this time.

Fuck, what was she thinking? Oh yes, what a great idea it was to randomly throw herself into volunteering at a spacestation. Not only had she surprised herself by somehow managing to stay committed throughout the program but she also surprised herself by becoming one of the head personnel.

She was a mess.

Her watch suddenly started beeping and once she looked down it, she could see why. It was the last reminder message sent out to the crew in order to tell them to start moving to the hangar if they weren’t already.

Phoebe practically had to drag herself off the couch and walk to the door with her belongings, having to carry her saxophone in a separate case, before stepping outside and joining the few other crew members who were rushing not to be late now as they had decided to go last minute, just as she had done.

She shifted the weight of what she was carrying a bit before she let out a breath and kept walking down the corridor along with everyone else, a few of them were talking but it was nothing special. Just excitement about what they were all about to do and she really didn’t bother listening in, she’d probably meet everyone sooner or later more properly anyway.

Completely unaware of her bag being slightly unzipped, Phoebe shifted the weight again which led to a scrunch ball of hers falling out of her bag but before it could hit the floor, a woman walking behind her managed to catch it before poking Phoebe’s shoulder in order to gain her attention as she held it up and said “this tried to make an escape attempt.”

“Oh, thank you” Phoebe said after taking a moment to process it, taking the ball from her before then awkwardly about to start sorting herself out in the corridor before the woman chuckled and took the ball back from her.

“Here let me” was what the woman said as she shoved the ball back into the bag and zipped it close, Phoebe awkwardly giving a grateful nod as the woman came to walk up beside her and smiled “I recognize you, you’re Phoebe, our Horticulturist, right? I’m Kat, the counselor.”

“Great, I can’t wait for you to start analysing us every day, all day” Phoebe said, offering Katerina a sly smile.

“No need to wait, I already am” Katerina replied with a chuckle, eyeing Phoebe up and down for a moment before her eyes curiously went to the backpack over her shoulders “a scrunch ball, huh? Kinda weird thing to choose as one of the few items you can take. No offense.”

“All offense taken. I guess it’s just nice to toy with now and again” was the best reply Phoebe could come up without telling the complete truth, her memory near instantly flashing back to multiple times throughout her life where she had the ball in her hands and was trying to calm herself down, from being bullied to being depressed.

Of course, the lie didn’t work and both woman could tell that just after a moment but fortunately Katerina didn’t push it and just gave a smirk as she playfully nudged their shoulders together “us woman and our toys, huh?” she joked, resulting in the pair of them laughing and even gaining some side glances of confusion from the others as the group of them continued walking along.

“Well, you’ve got a sneak peek at one of my belongings. Do I get a sneak peek at yours?” Phoebe asked after another moment had passed between them, curiously glancing at Katerina’s bag which looked to be quite smaller than the ones everyone else had.

“Technically, I’ve gotten a sneak peek at two of your belongings. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out what is in that saxophone case” Katerina said with a grin, her eyes and tone of voice clearly giving away that she was interested in hearing the music at some point before she shrugged her bag a bit “I bought my gaming square and some games with me as well as a music player, that’s why my bag is so small.”

“Nothing else?” Phoebe couldn’t help but ask as if she had just heard the most ridiculous thing ever “you know we weren’t limited on items as long as they fit, right?”

Katerina nodded with a “duh” look before laughing a bit “you don’t really think we’re going to get a lot of free-time, do you? Well, maybe you will but I’m the counselor. I’ll be surprised if I even get any sleep with the amount of time that I’m going to be either talking to people or reading up on them.”

Phoebe saw the point that she was making there and couldn’t help but agree. She was sure she would have some time as she not only had a small team to work with but also doubted they would find that many samples to study quickly anyway. Still, she licked her lips before looking back over to Katerina “you could’ve still brought some more stuff anyway.”

“Meh” Katerina replied with a shrug “my only other interests are fashion and dancing and god do not get me tempted to bring clothes on this trip, I’d turn my entire room into a wardrobe.”

“I don’t know, we could’ve felt like we were entering Narnia everytime we came to see you, the wonderful witch of counseling!”

Katerina rolled her eyes at that but just as she was opening her mouth to reply, they watched as the group around them started to eagerly run forwards to the exit that they were arriving to, the two woman sharing a confused glance as they instead kept walking until they two walked out of the exit and to the outside which caused them to see what had got the other crew members to become excited.

Not far from them, the shuttle that would be taking them to their new home and workspace was sitting on the landing pad, it’s next passengers climbing on board at this right moment.

Honestly, it didn’t even look too impressive, not that different from a helicopter and in fact it moved like one, at least in Earth’s sky until it needed jet boosts to go through space, and it was even more basic on the inside which looked like some kind of bus but while it didn’t look like much, it was still one of the most amazing things Humanity has recently created, aside from the space station itself of course.

“I can’t believe we’re actually going to do this” Katerina said after a moment of silence between the two of them, both woman staring in wonderment at the shuttle that would be taking them on their adventure soon but Phoebe just let out a nervous laugh at that statement, her mind going straight back to being swarmed with all her doubts from before, something Katerina seemed to pick up on but she didn’t point it out, instead she just smiled and nodded to where they must enter “ready to go? Don’t need to go to the girl’s room before hand?”

“What are you, my mother?”

“Don’t get snappy with me missy.”

Phoebe rolled her eyes but she was grinning as the two of them headed over to the entrance, waiting in the line until it was there turn to pass through the checkpoint, their items being checked extremely carefully which neither could blame for. This was the biggest step in Humanity’s history. There was no limit to how sure the security could be today.

“Shuttle is to take off in one minute” the announcer's voice sounded through speakers around the area, just as the two woman passed through the checkpoint and joined the rest of the crew members waiting for their turn on the ride, causing everyone’s attention to be drawn to the landing pad as the shuttle got in gear to take off “enjoy the view folks.”

“This is the first take-off, I think? This is going to be so cool.”

“Well, technically it’s not the first take-off. There was all those test runs, all the flights it made to build the spacestation…” Phoebe began but when she turned to see Katerina slightly glaring at her, she just raised her hands in defense while wearing a smirk on her lips “I’m just saying.”

Katerina didn’t bother with a retort and instead she, along with everyone else, eagerly waited and watched as the shuttle started to raise up into the sky, just like a helicopter, Phoebe just now noticing on the other side of the nearby fence that family members of some of the crew were either saying goodbye or waving at the shuttle, a few kids around letting squeals of excitement as it flew away, slowly at first before it suddenly let out a burst of energy and flew away like a jet.

A really, really cool but rusty looking jet.

“Damn, I can’t wait to ride in that thing.”

“Try to remain that excited when your throwing up.”

The worried look crossing Katerina’s face nearly made Phoebe burst out laughing but she kept her composure in order to keep the lie up as Katerina questioned it with “I thought the shuttle was built so it would practically be like you were sleeping as it flew?”

“You really believed that? It was all just lies so people wouldn’t get so worried about it before they take the trip.”

Katerina started to grow pale but it wasn’t long before Phoebe could stop the grin from appearing on her lips, giving the lie away and making Katerina groan in annoyance as she lightly pushed Phoebe’s shoulder “you’re a jerk.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m a complete angel who has never done anything wrong ever” Phoebe retorted, sticking out her tongue as to prove her point but she only received a doubtful look from Katerina who just casually pointed up to the scar on Phoebe’s face with a raise of an eyebrow.

“That scar of yours somehow makes me question how true that statement is.”

Phoebe knew that Katerina hadn’t meant anything bad by that statement but she couldn’t help but feel affected by it, her thought process immediately going back to memory flashes of her being in front of a mirror, crying as she looked at the newly formed scar from being bullied earlier that day, her bullies either always making fun of her for her condition of rememberance or how who she really is wasn’t who she originally was.

Luckily by the time Katerina had stopped looking around and turned to look back at Phoebe, she had managed to break herself out of these thoughts and give Katerina a grin who returned it before gesturing to some seats not too far away “wanna sit down while we wait for our ride? We can go back to talking about our mysterious belongings.”

“Sounds good to me” Phoebe said with a wink as she shuffled her bags a bit before making her way over to the seats, making sure to do anything to keep her mind on the present rather than all her doubts and past experiences while Katerina just happily followed behind, starting to talk about all the different clothes she had been extremely tempted to bring with her on the trip. ---  19th January 2029  - 10:05 - Spacestation Headquarters, Caribbean

Trying to calm herself, Elicia stood at the entrance of the shuttle, the last one to be climbing aboard of it for the first trip of the day. She hated flying, scared to death of the idea in it yet here she was, boarding a experimental shuttle that would be flying her into space.

What made it even worse was she was doing her best to keep up an appearance, she had to as she was soon about to be the overseer of one hundred other people and clearly a lot of eyes were on her right now as she boarded the shuttle. Imagine how doubtful people would start getting if they saw the person in charge become nervous at a simple thing like getting up to space compared to actually staying up there.

As Elicia looked around the shuttle again at the other nine passengers, she realized that they were all about to be fully seated and if she stood here any longer, she’d become the center of attention so she let out a breath and forced herself to walk further into the shuttle, looking for whatever seat that wasn’t taken while nervously gripping her bag as if she was threatened someone was about to steal it.

“Planning to stand up during the trip? Sounds really brave to me” a voice suddenly said from near her which caused her to look down and realize she had maneuvered herself to the only available seat without realizing while the man sitting beside said seat just grinned up at her “I know you’re our overseer and all but you’d get wait to sick trying to look all brave as you stand up.”

For a moment, Elicia pursed her lips as she thought about that before she forced the thought out of her mind just in case she made herself sick. Instead, she just gave him a polite smile and sat down beside him, holding her bag tightly still as she looked over at him “you’re our head of security, right?”

“That’s right, name’s Nolan. Nice to meet you, overseer” Nolan said, his grin never fading as he offered her his hand which she took and shook but she also rolled her eyes.

“Please don’t call me by my title, that’ll get boring way too quick. I’m called Elicia, Eli, if you like.”

Nolan chuckled at that but before he could offer a response, their pilot spoke up from the front as the shuttle door closed behind all of them “everyone in their seats? Good. Make sure you’re seat belts are tight and don’t let go of your bags because we are in for one bumpy ride. Just kidding, it will be one smooth ride, take off in one minute!”

Excited talking rose up between the majority of the passengers but Elicia only grew pale at the thought of take-off and it wasn’t long before Nolan noticed it and gave her a gentle smile “scared of flying?”

“Very.”

“Well sister, we’re in the same boat, sort of. I’m scared of heights.”

Elicia couldn’t help but let out a small laugh at that as she looked at him with a doubtful look “no way…. What the hell are we doing here with these problems of ours?”

Nolan didn’t answer straight away, at first he just simply enjoyed the view of those outside waving in farewell or the excited faces about to see the takeoff before he then turned around to look at her, a crazy grin on his face as he replied with “about to have the greatest adventure of any lifetime to ever live?”

Elicia couldn’t help but allow a small smile to form on her lips but before she could even reply, all of it started to go into action and the shuttle was lifting up into the sky, the smile quickly fading from Elicia’s lips as she instead tried to remain calm while Nolan, despite his quickly growing anxiety of the height that they were going to getting to him, let out a little laugh as if he was a kid just realizing what he was doing and where he was going.

“Take-off initiated, sit back and enjoy the flight” the pilot said from the front, a large grin on her face as she slapped her googles down over her eyes before letting out a little laugh “damn am I so glad this thing is built without the need for spacesuits, do you have any idea how cool I probably look right now?”

Elicia and Nolan shared a slightly nervous glance in response to that, a thing that the pilot noticed in her mirror and caused her to laugh as she waved her hand “don’t worry about it, I’m a professional.”

Neither of them looked any calmer from that statement as Elicia instead looked directly at the pilot and grasped her bag nervously “Rae, right? Exactly what were you before you volunteered for this job?”

“A bus driver!”

Elicia let out a little nervous laugh “you’re kidding, right?”

“Nope!” Rae replied with a grin, earning complete silence from the entire shuttle down and resulting in her turning around to face them, her grin never fading as she gave them a thumbs up and a chuckle “oh come on, I wouldn’t of been hired if I wasn’t the best.”

“She’s got a point” Nolan muttered, his excitement having already gone as he tried to avoid looking out the window and seeing how high they were while the other passengers all nodded and muttered in agreement.

“Hell yeah I do!” Rae said as she turned back to look at what she was doing, her hands casually flipping at some switches before grasping the steering wheel and using it to start pulling the shuttle further into the sky “now who wants me to do some neat tricks?”

She only received a fearful silence in response to that which caused her to let out a very loud laugh as she pressed a button and suddenly the shuttle surged forward through the sky, it’s thrusters starting to send it flying like a jet and causing Elicia and Nolan to grasp each other for support as the clouds outside slowly got thicker and thicker, fear turning into wonderment for everyone as the shuttle burst out of the atmosphere and into the darkness of space.

Even with her fear of flying, Elicia couldn’t help but be taken back by the sight as she softly said that “it is beautiful.”

“Yeah, almost as good looking as you two love-birds” Rae called out from the front, bringing Elicia and Nolan back down to Earth as they looked at each other confused before realizing they were still holding hands, Elicia quickly pulling away and instead holding onto her bag with both hands as a flustered look rose to her cheeks and Rae just winked from the front “hey, nothing wrong with making love in space, dears.”

A few chuckles went around the shuttle which caused Elicia to flush even more but Nolan just started to enjoy himself again, enjoy the light-hearted feeling of this group heading up into space for an adventure even as he turned to look out the window and see where they were going, watch as Earth came into full appearance.

“Well folks” Rae spoke up again after a few moments of silence, looking at them in her mirror as she smiled genuinely “I hope you enjoy your new home away from home” she continued before she pulled a lever, causing the front of the shuttle to suddenly start sliding down, revealing glass that had been built strong enough to hold against space and giving both the pilot and her passengers a fantastic view of the spacestation that they were approaching.

Like the shuttle itself, the spacestation didn’t look glorious in the general sense but the massive size of it as well as its ability to just stay in space like it did, rotating the Earth in orbit like the moon does. This paired with the fact that it is livable for one hundred and one crew members made it the greatest development in Humanity’s existence and as the onboard systems automatically opened the hangar for the shuttle to dock, it also opened plenty of doors of opportunity.

“Touch down” Rae announced as if she was announcing a sports game while the passengers could see as the system went to work in filtering what needed to be filtered into the hangar before Rae could finally open the shuttle’s hatch as she stepped from her seat and now faced them all directly as she clapped her hands together “well then, it’s time for you all to go and explore, you know where you’ll be working and what apartments you’ll be living in, the rest of you will be joining you soon.”

Elicia didn’t even get a chance to let out a breath as the rest of the passengers but her and Nolan excitedly got out of their seats and headed out through the hatch, bags in hands, as they talked among themselves, Nolan falling a bit behind as he had to squeeze past a still slightly embarrassed Elicia who, once they were alone, shared a look with Rae who in turn let out a chuckle.

“You’re in for quite a mess, aren’t you, overseer?”

“Yeah, I am.”

“Good luck.”

“Thanks” Elicia muttered as she finally unbuckled herself and stood up from her seat, avoiding the gaze of a grinning Rae as she put her bag over her shoulder and walked out of the shuttle, having to take a long deep breath once her feet touched the metal floor as she tried to compose herself.

She wasn’t on the ground down at Earth, she was in space and now one hundred other people were going to be relying on her to lead this spacestation to success.

With that in mind, she tried not to think about it much more as she instead walked around the shuttle and headed to the exit of the hangar, her eyes taking a moment to look over everything as she mentally thanked herself for not being claustrophobic before she noticed Nolan standing not too far away, looking out a window and too Earth which caused her to smile as she came up to stand beside him and leaned in as she said “don’t look down.”

“Very funny” Nolan sarcastically replied but he still had a grin on his face as he took a moment to continue staring out the window and looking at Earth before he finally glanced at her from the corner of his eye “I should consider myself lucky that they decided to not go with the glass floor, huh?”

“Well, I think there are still some rooms that feature glass floors.”

“Great, I’ll have to find out which they are so I know the rooms to completely avoid.”

She let out a light laugh at that as the two of them fell into a little silence again until the hangar doors suddenly opened again and they watched as their shuttle flew back out and headed back towards Earth, going to pick up the next load of passengers which caused Elicia to sigh as she came to remember all of the preparation she had to do before they got here.

“I best take that as my cue to head to my office, huh?” Elicia said, more to herself really as she gave him a nod before continuing to walk down the corridor, her eyes naturally just looking around at every little detail of the spacestation as she walked by them until she finally found herself at her office which, once she had opened her door, also turned out to be her room and she could already picture how messy it would soon be with the reports and other sort of notes but despite this terrible promise of a clusterfuck, despite her fears and doubts, Elicia was smiling.

They were here. About to change the life of all of Humanity. ---  19th January 2029  - 10:15 - Spacestation Headquarters, Caribbean

Bringing the shuttle’s systems to a stop once it had landed on the headquarters landing pad, Rae smiled as she opened up the hatch again for the next batch of passengers just as she heard the announcer making it clear for the next group of people to board.

Today had been an excellent day and it was only just beginning.

Just as Rae had this thought process, her watch suddenly let out a few beeps and when she looked down to notice that it didn’t mean it was a new hour, she quickly realized what it meant and pressed the button to open up communications with the announcer “this flight is gonna run a bit late but get everyone on board as scheduled.”

“Wha-?” the announcer didn’t get to finish her reply as Rae broke the communications again before rising from her seat and quickly exiting from the shuttle, ignoring the curious looks from the next set of passengers, as she tried to casually make her way through the crowd and to the meet up point without raising anyone’s suspicions too much.

“Took your time, hmm?” a woman said from the shadows of the alleyway just as Rae turned the corner and entered it but she didn’t even give her a chance to reply as she just walked up and shoved a heavy bag into her arms and asked “you have your orders?”

Rae nodded in response but she had a rather confused look on her face as she looked the woman up and down, unable to help but note that she was dressed so no part of her could be seen “I’m not to open the bag until THE emergency but what the hell kind of emergency are we talking here?”

“You’ll know when it happens” was all the mysterious woman said before she walked back into the shadows, about to leave the area until she suddenly stopped and turned around to face Rae again, softly saying “good luck” before then leaving Rae’s sight, leaving the pilot to be completely confused as she looked into the shadows but then down to the bag in her arms.

Truthfully, she was considering opening it and looking inside it at this very moment. For all she knew, it could be a bomb set to sabotage the spacestation, to kill them all, surely there had to be some people out there who wanted to bring a stop to this big step in Humanity’s development, but at the same time, she had been told that this package was coming from the nation leaders themselves.

Of course she didn’t know if this was true or not but when she heard the announcer clearly trying to quell any rumors as to why the shuttle hadn’t taken off yet and her watch beeped multiple times frantically in order to tell her to get back to work, Rae decided she’d just have to do as she was told and bring the bag along.

She couldn’t help but notice that the bag was suspiciously heavy as well while she struggled to carry it as she headed back to the shuttle, having to politely decline multiple offers of assistance sent her way and practically being out of breath by the time she was pushing it up the shuttle’s hatch and she was getting on board.

“There’s our amazing pilot!” the announcer called out through the speakers, everyone having clearly caught on that she had run off “looks like she had to go and pick up a bag of hers before the next flight, woopsie! This is a great reminder for everyone to make sure that you have collected all your belongings before you head on-board as you won’t be returning for a while!”

Rae couldn’t hold back her slight grunt of annoyance as she carried the bag over to her seat, giving polite smiles and greetings to all the passengers that were now on board as she went by them, before putting the bag down between her legs as she sat, making sure it wouldn’t go anywhere before offering a laugh “sorry about that folks, last minute pick-up. Everyone good and ready to go?”

Despite the excited responses that she received, Rae couldn’t shake the bad feeling that was now growing inside. ---  19th January 2029  - 10:47 - Earth's Spacestation, Space

Knocking the door to her room open with her mechanical leg, Jodie let out a sigh of relief as she finally entered her private space and could put her bag down, taking a very brief moment to look around the room and take everything in before she sat down on a chair and smiled in relaxation.

Unlike what the reactions of most of the high personnel, probably, were she was quite content with her room also going to be serving as her office. Not only did she tend to work from home a lot anyway but at the very least they didn’t have to bunk with fellow crew members like the lower personnel.

However, for now, she couldn’t think about resting. There was so much to be prepared and so much to soon be done which had been leaving her so energetic all day. As her eyes scanned around the room and landed on the laptop that had been left to her, like every other crew member, she also remembered another certain, more personal, thing she had to do and quickly rose from her chair in order to head over to her desk.

While making sure not to lean on her mechanical leg too much as it had already seen so much activity over the day, Jodie ended up limping a bit, as she made her way over, until she had sat down at her desk and was starting the laptop up, grateful that it only needed a simple login pass as the organization behind this spacestation had already made sure all laptops were ready and waiting for their owner for the big day.

It wasn’t long before she had logged onto discordbook and entered the chat room created for herself and her family, instantly being spammed with multiple messages from each of her family members.

“OMG MOM?? What is space like???”

“Are you working with super cool cuties?!”

“Have you banged an Alien yet?”

“You forgot to take your space hamster!”

“I still can’t believe you went to space lol”

The messages went on and on in a similar fashion until they finally ended when her wife typed into the chat room with “alright everyone, give her a moment to breath”

“Thanks boo x” Jodie typed but she was still smiling heavily at the mess that was her family before she continued typing “and ya’ll have ridiculous questions”

Husband - “Hey! Banging the Aliens is important!”

Wife - “Darling, please. Not with the kids here.”

First Daughter - “Oh come on, we all know about banging, how old do you think we are?”

Wife - “Not old enough!!!”

Son - “But we’re literally 19 lol”

Wife - “Ugh.”

Second Daughter - “So, mom, how is it up there?”

Jodie - “It is fantastic, everyone I have seen is just bursting with excitement to get to work but first we’re having to make sure that everything is ready.”

Son - “Where will you be going first?”

Jodie - “Our moon.”

First Daughter - “The moon? Isn’t that so been there, done that?”

Jodie - “lol, we have to check in with the group of scientists there, they’ll give us their latest readings on the system so it can be best decided where to go first.”

Second Daughter - “Sounds dull.”

Jodie - “Hey! I’m in space, this isn’t dull at all!”

Husband - “Just make sure to let us know as soon as you bang a-”

CONNECTION LOST

This surprised Jodie as the message came up onto screen and soon the page to discordbook was closed, leaving her unable to do anything but look confused before she let out a sigh and rolled her eyes “great, the technology around here is already busting up.”

Trying a couple things in order to attempt to get it working again, Jodie was only met with failure so she let out a groan of disappointment before turning the laptop off and getting up again in order to make her way out of the room already, she figured that their engineer should already be on board somewhere, she just had to be found.

Walking through the corridors, she could see how everyone everywhere was bustling with activity and already working to get half of their preparations done, clearly none of them wanted to be wasting their time doing the simple tasks when they could be exploring the unknowns of the new frontier tomorrow.

This also reminded Jodie to make a mental note to find her team and introduce herself to them at some point after she had her laptop problems reported just as she reached the door marked with “engineering” and pushed her way in, being greeted by the full team of engineers and Nikolina, the lead one, standing in the middle of the room with multiple reports already in hand as she said “Rodriguez, get me a double report on those readings of yours.”

“Yes ma’am” said one of the engineers as she quickly but safely made her way back over to one of the desks and typed away while Nikolina turned around and noticed that Jodie had entered the room, letting out a sigh as she rolled her eyes.

“There isn’t a mechanical problem to report already, is there?”

“I’m afraid so” Jodie said with pursed lips, looking around at the room of engineers as they went about their work, her eyes landing on a group of engineers that were talking amongst each other as if they were discussing a rather big secret “my laptop lost connection rather weirdly and suddenly. Thought it might be best to report it.”

“We’re in space trying to connect to the Earth, there are plenty of things that can go wrong with it but be fixed on their own, I’d recommend just waiting first, if it’s still like this later then I’ll send someone to check it out” Nikolina waved off as her eyes returned to looking down at one of the reports just as Rodriguez returned with another report which made Jodie realize something.

“If my laptop was having a simple and common problem to do with connection, wouldn’t that affect all laptops? She just used hers without a problem.”

That caused Nikolina to immediately stop her reading and instead look at Jodie again, giving off the sense that Jodie was about to be yelled at until Nikolina gave a nod “very true. What were you trying to connect to?” she asked as she shoved the reports into Rodriguez’s arms and made her way over to the same laptop that had just been used.

“Discordbook, one second I was talking to my family, next the connection was lost.”

Nikolina pursed her lips for a moment as she used Rodriguez’s laptop, promising that she wouldn’t look into her personal stuff as she tried to access Discordbook on it, only for the connection to suddenly be cut “huh, very weird” Nikolina said, her head tilting in curiosity as she thought about it “it was fine but then you access that and everything shuts down.”

“Could it be from the mysterious signals we’ve been getting from the scan?”

“I doubt it but have a look into it.”

As the engineer once again ran off to do a task, Jodie couldn’t help but walk over to stand next to Nikolina, also staring down at the laptop in curiosity as she asked “mysterious signals? Is it anything that we should worry about?”

“Not likely but it is something worth looking into anyway, at least for us. You shouldn’t even bother yourself thinking about it” Nikolina said with a gentle smile as she turned to look at Jodie once again “I’ll send someone down to look at your laptop when we are less busy here, okay?”

Jodie nodded “that’s fine, thank you.”

“It’s our job” Nikolina simply stated before she went back to focusing on Rodriguez’s laptop, giving Jodie the sense that this conversation was finished and leaving her to make her exit from the room, leaving the engineers to their work and instead stepping into the corridor where she found herself looking out of a window in order to gaze at Earth across the space.

She had only been gazing for a few short moments when suddenly the view of the shuttle making its way from Earth and to the spacestation caught her eye. This would be the last trip the shuttle was making today, with the passengers onboard that shuttle about to be onboard the spacestation, all of their crew would be accounted for and Earth would just be waiting to hear the exciting news about their adventures into the new frontier.

Why was Jodie getting a really bad feeling about this? ---  19th January 2029  - 13:47 - Earth's Spacestation, Space

The fire looked so very beautiful. Shining bright in her eyes, so easily calling Galia’s attention to it and giving her a sense of satisfaction as she watched the little piece of paper burn in front of her. She would almost reach to run her finger along it’s flame but she managed to restrain herself, she couldn’t waste medical supplies on patching herself up for such a small thing, as delightful as it would be.

Of course, Gaila was keeping the room safe, making sure the small fire she had created wouldn’t grow out of control. She had done this many times throughout her life and she was a professional at this. The ultimate fire controller she sometimes liked to call herself as a joke.

She knew she would have to put it out soon but she wanted to enjoy every second she got staring at it’s beautiful form, a smile creeping on her lips at the thought.

Around her the room was already set up and stocked to how it should be, everything was prepared in case anyone suddenly came rushing in for a medical emergency or a simply cut of the finger so here she was, enjoying herself. A doctor had to do something to keep herself occupied, right?

Suddenly there was a few knocks on the door that diverted her attention to the door, staring at it for the moment as if she was making sure she wasn’t hearing things before her attention then suddenly returned to the fire in front of her and she panicked as she realized she had to put it out before whoever was knocking for her got suspicious.

“Hold on a moment, please” Gaila called out as she quickly but carefully moved the paper on fire to the floor and stomped it out, making sure that it was completely out before she hid it somewhere and then moved over to the door, brushing herself down a bit and putting a smile on her face as she opened it “what can the resident doctor do for you today?”

The man at the door seemed to be taken back a bit as he looked her up and down, making Galia briefly wonder if she had forgotten to put clothes on or something as sometimes she has gone clothless for her fire. Don’t ask but as she was checking herself down to make sure, he spoke up “uh, hello, I’m Dominick Maples, the “resident biologist” and I came here to ask a favor.”

That caught her attention a bit more as she wondered and stepped aside, gesturing for him to enter which he gave her a thankful nod as he stepped into the room, reaching up to adjust his glasses a bit as he looked around the room before he finally turned back to look at her “thank you, I was wondering, if it isn’t against your role here as our resident doctor if you could share the medical files of our fellow staff.”

Gaila’s eyebrow raised a little at that “what would you want those for?”

“As our resident biologist, I decided that it may come to me ending up studying how our explorations of the great unknown frontier may or may not be taking an effect on us, physically, mentally and all other types of tallies and I would best do that if I knew what state each of our team was in before these changes affected us. Make sense?”

“Sure. I don’t think I’m supposed to share such things but I’ll make an exception, if you do something in trade for me.”

“Name it, ma’am.”

Gaila smiled a bit as she said “first of all, don’t call me ma’am and second, I’d want to see any results you may come up with, it can help when it comes to me attended to medical issues” but when she saw him awkwardly scratch his head as if there was something wrong with the idea, she couldn’t help but question him “what is it?”

“That was two things.”

“The first one was just me telling you not to call me ma’am, the second thing was my actual request.”

“Ah.”

She kept her polite smile as she nodded and then walked past him in order to start going through her drawers, looking for the files he wanted but when she felt his eyes still upon her, she looked back up at him through the mirror on the wall and tilted her head “you have something to ask me so ask me.”

Dominick coughed a little awkwardly at that as his eyes began to travel around the room and refused to look at her while he asked “I couldn’t help but wonder, if it is no offense to you in me asking, where you were from.”

Gaila laughed at that, picking out the folder of files she was looking for and closing the drawers before she turned back to him “Germany, what, do I not look German to you?”

“No offense but, ah, no.”

“Mhm, I get that a lot.”

The two of them ended up standing in silence for a full moment as Gaila held out the folder for him to take and he seemed to be looking for something else until he finally noticed the folder and took it with a flustered attitude “s-sorry. Thank you.”

“Just remember the deal” Gaila told him as she watched him curiously, he gave her another nod as he kept looking around the room, adjusting his glasses and after another full moment she finally let out a sigh and said “speak your mind.”

Dominick let out a sigh of his own after that statement and awkwardly returned his gaze to hers as he bit his lip “well, I-I couldn’t help but notice that it smelt like something had just been burning not too long ago and of course I was wondering what had happened? Wouldn’t want things to be going wrong already, r-right? Especially in the medical department of all places.”

“I was performing an experiment of my own, I don’t know, it felt like we were all racing to get our first experiments done and make the spotlight on us, right? So I thought I’d get ahead of the pack in our little “race”.”

At first, Gaila felt like she was an expert deceptor. She had years of practice of having to convince people of all sorts of departments and relations to her that she was doing something other than setting fire to quell her desires but Dominick’s curiosity only got deeper as he stared at her with confusion and said “why would the doctor by experimenting? N-no offense.”

Gaila let out a little sigh at that and within a single second, she had stepped forward and pressed her body against his, a sweet smile on her lips as she looked up at him and brought a finger, the same finger she was tempted to play fire with, to run along the underside of his chin “sometimes a girl just likes to experiment and I was experimenting. Nothing more. Understood?”

A heavy blush crept along Dominick’s face as he kept looking down at her, chewing on his lip as he was clearly heavily debating questioning her further but one and quick lick of her lips had him wrapped around her finger as he gave her multiple nods in quick succession “understood.”

“Good, is that all?”

“Y-yes.”

Gaila smiled again and then pushed herself off him, instead walking around him towards the door and opening it, allowing Dominick the mercy of being able to leave the room, and then closing it after he had exited, letting out a sigh as she leaned against it, making a mental note to remember to find some way of getting rid of the smell before anyone else came to discover it. ---  19th January 2029  - 15:51 - Earth's Spacestation, Space

Walking through the corridors of their spacestation, Miguel was bouncing his head to the beat that was entering his ears through the headphones on his head. At the start of this big day, he had been a complete nervous wreck who had spent multiple times throughout the morning, just laying in bed and debating whether or not he should be really doing this but now he felt like he couldn’t have a care in the entire of space.

Here he was, above Earth, about to have the greatest time of his life with a bunch of great people and not only that but he would be aiding their overseer in running the show by being her assistant so he had decided to just stop worrying about things and enjoy it all, hence why he was listening to some of his favorite music while sorting through the multiple files he had collected from doing inspections throughout the spacestation.

He just had one last department to check up on now and soon enough, Miguel found himself standing in front of the door to reach the emergency response department. At first he took a moment to look through the files to make sure he had the right ones ready to write things down in case it was needed while also turning off his music before he reached up to give the door a knock, only to find out that he didn’t need too.

“Woah, careful there my friend. Gonna try knocking me out already? We just met!” the man that now stood in place where the door had been before it was opened said, a big grin on his face as he looked to Miguel “what can we do for you?”

It was at that point that Miguel also noticed that there were several people in the room, the entire emergency response team, all looking towards him and chuckling between themselves, clearly amused by the situation which made Miguel cough rather awkwardly as he returned his attention to the man in front of him “sorry, are you Morris Grimes?”

“That’d be me!” Morris declared, his grin only widening as he wrapped his arm over Miguel’s shoulders and brought him inside of the room, closing the door behind them as he guided the assistant over to the rest of the group “you’re the overseer’s little helper, right? Come to make sure we aren’t breaking things already?”

“Heh, I’d hope you aren’t” Miguel said with a chuckle although he couldn’t help but note that they were clearly in some sort of celebration as he looked around the room at them all, sharing greetings and greeting nods before holding up the files in his hands “I’ve actually come down to see if you have a report to give the overseer?”

“Why would we have a report?” Morris said, laughing as he patted Miguel on the shoulder before returning to his seat and putting his feet up as he took a sip of the beer that he had left beside said seat while Miguel remained standing there, taken back a bit before he could finally come up with a response.

“The heads of each department are supposed to have a report on their department for the overseer to look over, make sure everything is fine and all that… are you sure you don’t have one?”

“Pfft, we don’t need one. The overseer can trust us in that everything in our department is completely fine. If there are any problems, we can come to her” Morris responded, taking another sip of his beer as his eyes looked Miguel over for a moment before he grinned and added “or you, I wouldn’t mind seeing you some more” which caused even more chuckles to pass around the room.

“Well, I’m sure it wouldn’t take long to write up a report anyway, right?” Miguel asked as he began to fiddle around in order to get a pen out of his pocket “could you let me know on what you learned when you checked out everything?”

Morris let out a sigh at this and once again placed his beer down in order to stand from his chair and wrap an arm around a confused Miguel, guiding the assistant away from the rest of the team and towards a corner of the room where only the two of them would hear their own as Miguel added “I’m sorry, I’m just doing my job here and that is getting reports. Believe me, I can’t wait to have fun either.”

“I’m going to be frank with you here, little helper. I don’t like this kind of authority. In fact, I hate it, on this spacestation we are a team. All of us, working as one and the way the overseer is already acting with reports, intentionally or not, is making me feel like I’m below her.”

“Well, she doesn’t intend it to be that way. She’s just trying to do her best for all of us.”

“Then let her know that the best for us is to let us do our job without having to give her a multitude of reports every time she thinks she needs them. We all know what we’re doing here, we’re the best suited for this job otherwise we wouldn’t be here. If the personnel on this spacestation are going to work as a proper team, to be able to live here happily, we’re going to need to trust in each other and let the individual heads get their own business done, understood?”

Miguel wasn’t sure how to reply at first but the more he thought about it while looking past Morris at his team of emergency responders who were casually going about a small celebration, Miguel started to realize where Morris was getting at with this.

Some of the personnel, Miguel himself included, were getting so caught up in what work they will have to be doing that they forgot that this is also going to be where they will live for who knows how long. One year? Ten? The rest of their lives? Most of the people who will be working here wouldn’t want to feel like they’re stuck in a workplace. They want to feel at home and with that thought in mind, Miguel looked back to Morris and nodded “I understand, I’ll let her know.”

“Good man” Morris said, his grin returning to his face, as he patted Miguel on the shoulder before grinning even more as he walked over to a small fridge and opened it up “hey, take two of these. One for yourself and one for our overseer, don’t want to get off on the wrong foot with either of you” he continued, taking out two beers and nudging the door closed before he waited for Miguel to shove his files under his arms so he could take hold of the beers.

“It’s lucky that I got no other rounds to do today, huh?” Miguel said with his own smile which caused laughs to pass around the room before he departed from it and started walking down the corridor again, being careful to not knock into anybody that passed by him in the hallway as he headed towards the overseer’s room. A surprising little bounce in his steps.

Of course this bounce of his soon disappeared when he reached the overseer’s door, realizing that he needed to knock for permission to enter and, due to being an idiot and not realizing he could just put the beers down, ended up letting all of the reports and files slip from under his arms and onto the floor in a large mess, the curse he let out after that resulting in the overseer’s door opening and an amused Elicia looking down at him as he now placed the beers down and started gathering it all up.

“I thought that was you I heard cursing outside my door, what kind of mess have you got yourself in now?” Elicia asked with a laugh as she bent down in order to help him pick up all the pieces that had scattered along the floor, her eyes trailing over to the bottles of beer as she did which made her let out a whistle “nice, where did you get them?”

“Oh” Miguel said as he realized she was talking about the beer, offering a smile as he picked one up and handed it to her “a gift from the emergency response department. They gave them to us so we didn’t get off on the wrong foot with them.”

“Why would we get off on the wrong foot?” Elicia asked with a raised eyebrow as she took the beer as well as some of the files into her hands and took them into her room, leaving the door open for him to follow her once he too had collected the rest of it and the one remaining bottle of beer.

“Well… he and his department didn’t want to give me a report. In short, he believes it would be better if all the departments didn’t have to bother with such things and we’d work, and live, better together if we just trusted each other in getting the work done.”

“Ok.”

“Ok?”

As Elicia sat down at her desk, laying out the reports in front of her for when she looked them over, she raised her head to look up at him with a raised eyebrow “is that not okay?”

“N-no. I get it, I think it’s a great idea but… I just didn’t think you’d go for it honestly.”

“Why? Do I look like a stuck up bitch?” Elicia said with a grin, giving him a clear look that she wasn’t being serious in that statement as she uncapped the bottle and let out a small sigh from the sound “I’ll have to personally thank them, a beer is just what I need after a big day like this” she said before noticing that he was just standing there and let out a little laugh “well? You can sit down Miguel, kick your feet up and have your beer. Just don’t make another mess.”

“R-right” Miguel replied, a slight flustered look on his face as he placed the files down on her desk and sat himself down, struggling a bit to open his beer while Elicia pursed her lips, studying him for a moment before she finally spoke up again.

“What’s on your mind?”

“Me?”

“No the other cute guy sitting next to you” Elicia said, barely controlling herself from laughing when she could see Miguel look behind himself out of the corner of his eye “of course I mean you, silly.”

“I-I don’t have anything on my mind.”

“Mhm, sure you don't. Tell me what it is.”

He let out a sigh, looking down at his bottle of beer that he just couldn’t open before looking up at her “I was just thinking about what Morris said and if there is anything else we could do to make things a bit easier here. I mean, I bet plenty of the personnel are already starting to feel a little stressed. I know the engineering department seemed to be when I got the report from them.”

Turning her gaze to look down at the files and reports on her desk in front of her, Elicia thought about it before a smile creeped onto her face and she stood up from her desk, earning a confused look from Miguel as he asked “what are you doing?”

“I’m going to make things less stressful for today” she told him simply, only making him even more confused as she gently took his bottle of beer and opened it for him before returning it to his hands, grabbing her own and exiting from the room, calling out to him with “help me organize everyone to meet in the observatory. I have an announcement to make.” ---  19th January 2029  - 16:15 - Earth's Spacestation, Space

When Elicia had come up with this idea of hers not too long ago, she really thought it was the greatest idea she had ever had and had the excitement of a child on christmas as she went about gathering the entire personnel into the observatory to make her announcement, her speech that would truly mark the beginning of their adventure.

However, now that she was standing in front of of the other one hundred personnel on this spacestation, all of them looking at her at once and waiting for her to say something, she found her words caught in her throat as she became a bit overwhelmed. Of course she knew the large amount of people that would be working with her, of course she knew it was her job to oversee them but knowing it and experiencing it were slightly different things and it was a difference that was rushing through her now.

She had only been an assistant in the human resources department before she volunteered for this program, she had never handled so many people at one time but here she was, about to lead them on their first steps into the big and unknown new frontier.

She couldn’t back down now though, they were waiting on her and with that thought in mind, she took a deep breath, closing her eyes and braving herself in the process, before looking to the entire crowd and giving them a smile as she began her speech with “you’re all probably wondering why I dragged you here suddenly, especially since I’ve been just standing here but don’t worry, I haven’t brought you here just to watch me try and not piss my pants out of nervousness.”

That earned a few chuckles and laughs around the floor, bringing a small but confident smile to Elicia’s face now as she continued “I brought you here because we’ve only been on this spacestation one day and we’re already trying to accomplish everything we were meant to, already working ourselves too hard. I get it, we’re the best Humanity could give in order to explore our system, perhaps even beyond it, and we have a lot to live up to.”

Some glances were shared between the personnel but most just kept their eyes focused on her, nodding along or just listening as she kept herself going, she started this speech and now she was going to finish it with “but we can’t rush ahead of ourselves. This is our life now, not just our work or a day. Our life. We have plenty of time to get things done, plenty of opportunities to make our families and friends back home proud so let’s just take our first day off. We already know things are going as they should be, at least generally, so have fun. Get to know each other, the ones you’ll be working with and the rest. Hell, get drunk if you can.”

She had the focus of everyone in the room on her now but her shakiness was gone, instead she was starting to walk around the platform she was standing on, the beautiful view of space above her as she looked down to everyone and smiled “today, we get to know each other, we spend some fun time together to know what we have to look forward to and then tomorrow, you know where we are going. To our research facility on the moon! From there, we will find where we are to go and go! Together!”

At the end of her speech, Elicia received a full round of applause from everyone in the room and as she playfully bowed, she took a moment to take their faces in, see the enjoyment and the laughter before they all then spread out around the room to start their “party”. Of course it wouldn’t be much compared to the greatest parties you could ever have but it was something and it certainly beat working too hard on your first day.

“Nice speech, knew you had it in you” Elicia suddenly heard from someone directly below her and once she looked down, she saw that it was coming from Nolan who was grinning up at her, a grin that made her grin as well as she made her way back down the ladder and joined him where he was standing “although, it might have been funnier to see you embarrass yourself.”

“Too you maybe” Elicia retorted as she playfully fisted his shoulder, earning an overreacted pained look from the head of security but before either of them could continue, they were interrupted by a third voice joining their conversation.

“You two flirting already?” Morris teased with a grin as he looked them both over, a beer in his hand as he let out a chuckle at their embarrassed looks “I suppose you did say to have fun. I must say though, when I sent little helper back to you with that message, I really didn’t expect you to do this sort of thing. Good to know the type of woman I’m working for.”

“With” Elicia corrected that made Morris’s grin grow even larger before she pointed to the beer in his hand “I hope you have enough to share with us all.”

“Oh yeah, you’d be surprised on what’s in our supply” Nolan piped in, grins on all of their faces now “I’ll have to show you sometime, plenty of all kinds of stock in there. Of course, I’m sure we’ll have to restock sooner or later.”

“That’s for later” Elicia told him, excusing the two of them away from Morris as she wrapped her arm around his and started guiding him through the room “for now, show me what we got.”

Morris couldn’t help but chuckle and shake his head as he watched the two of them leave before he suddenly felt a presence beside him and turned to see Miguel which caused his big grin to return as he addressed him using “and the cutie returns, come to thank me for not making a report?”

Miguel playfully rolled his eyes in response to that as he looked over the crowd of people “I’ll wait and see to make sure this party doesn’t result in the spacestation burning down first before I thank you.”

“Oh don’t worry, if there is a fire, I’ll just fight it off for you like I used to on Earth. Now, you gotta tell me what’s up with the headphones, you seem to be always wearing them.”

As Miguel started to explain the story of his headphones to Morris, Gaila was getting nervous at another part of the room. One of her hands was in her pockets as her fingers fiddled around with the lighter that was in it. She wanted to leave as she was getting the urge to set fire to some more paper but more and more people kept coming up to greet her and she didn’t want to be rude, although her limit was being pushed.

After what felt like forever, Gaila found herself with a moment to sneak away and she took it as fast as she could but just as she was about to exit from the room, she once again found herself in front of Dominick who looked like he clearly wanted to talk to her, leading to her letting out a sigh as she looked at him a bit annoyed “what is it?”

Dominick looked a bit hurt by her brute attitude but he didn’t let it faze him too much as he took a air freshener out of his pocket, made sure she saw it and then put it in the pocket she didn’t have her hand in which left her confused as she tilted her head at him “why?”

“We all have our secrets, figured that as long as yours doesn’t bring harm to the rest of us, I might as well try and help keep it a secret” Dominick simply told her before leaving her alone and walking away, Gaila standing there to take it in for a moment before she smiled and resumed leaving the room, a bit more happier for her need to make a flame again.

Meanwhile, across the room, Jodie was making her way through the crowd, looking for a particular face before her eyes finally landed on their horticulturist and she started making her way over to her, noticing she was currently talking to their counselor until she joined their conversation “hey, I’m sorry to interrupt but you’re the horticulturist, Phoebe, right?”

“Yeah, that’d be” Phoebe said, slightly confused but still being polite as always, at least mostly always, as she turned to address Jodie and shook her hand while Katerina done the same out of politeness as Phoebe continued speaking “what can I do for you?”

“Well, I’m the surveyor and I thought we should compare some notes sometime, see what kind of research our teams can get up too together considering that our field of work could line up with one another” Jodie replied with a grin, both of the other woman taking note of the slight hyperactiveness that was behind Jodie’s actions currently as she continued “whenever you like, just let me know.”

“Sounds like a date” Phoebe said so casually which surprised Jodie as she watched Phoebe then turn to Katerina and grin “sorry love, I’m dumping you for this chick.”

“Already?” Katerina protested with mock shockness as she clearly forced herself to look as sad as possible while Phoebe just let out a little laugh.

“Sorry, she just has more to show me than you do. Don’t worry though, I never really stay with one person for too long so I’ll probably be back before you know it.”

“That’s if I want you back” Katerina retorted, sticking out her tongue at the horticulturist before she turned to Jodie, about to say something, only for her and Phoebe to realize that she was quickly moving into the crowd again, the two woman having missed their surveyor excusing herself to catch up with Nikolina who she nearly bumped straight into.

“Sorry, I can’t chat right now. Please, excuse m- oh, it’s you.” Nikolina started before realizing who it was that nearly knocked her over, putting on a polite smile as if she was talking with a customer “I’m in a bit of a rush but what is it?”

Jodie shifted on her feet a bit awkwardly now as she rubbed her hands together “I’m sorry, I did try and be patient but my significant others and children will probably be worrying right now” she told the engineer, ignoring the judging look she received when she mentioned significant others and instead just going on “I had to come and ask how the situation was going in engineering?”

“What situation?”

Jodie looked confused as that as she started to say “the one wh-” but suddenly found herself being slightly dragged away from the crowd and out of the room where no one would hear her and she found her chance to ask “what’s wrong?”

“Don’t ask me questions like that amongst anyone not on the engineering team” Nikolina bluntly stated, her eyes looking around to make sure no one was getting suspicious before her attention turned back to Jodie “we’re looking into it and we should be having it solved soon. No one has reported it and if word got around about it, there might be some overreacted panic, okay? We will handle it, you just have to wait.”

Biting her nails and nodding, Jodie looked down to the ground, feeling like a child that had just been told off and Nikolina offered no comfort as she left her alone just as quickly as she had dragged her out into the corridor.

Elsewhere on the station, having left the gathering not long after the speech was finished, Rae was nervously looking down at the bag she had been told to bring onto the spacestation with her, still completely unsure how to feel about it and having spent the entire time since her last trip on the shuttle debating whether to open it or not and even with the rest of the personnel celebrating, here she was again.

Eventually she let out a sigh and forced herself to unzip the bag against the orders she had been given and what she found inside took her breath away.

Weapons. The types of weapons she had only ever seen in a sci-fi movie. They almost looked…

Alien.

Meanwhile, in the overseer’s room, an emergency transmission from the research facility on the moon was trying to get in touch with the spacestation and as every single personnel was not in the room, it would go unnoticed until it finally stopped broadcasting...

Significant Events Summary

 * The one hundred and one crew members travel to Earth's spacestation in order to prepare their mission.
 * Rae Gallo retrieves a mysterious package to take with her to the spacestation which turns out to be holding Alien looking weapons.
 * The spacestation suffers a few mysterious connection problems as well as picks up strange signals from their scans.
 * An unknown emergency happens at the Human research station on the moon.

Cast
(The cast list is ordered by appearance in the episode)


 * Sophie Turner as Elicia Harmon
 * You as Spacestation Crew Recruit
 * Uncredited as Television Alien
 * Chloe Bennet as Phoebe Sykes
 * Freema Agyeman as Katerina Durkin
 * Uncredited as Shuttle Takeoff Announcer
 * BJ Britt as Nolan Fredrick
 * Jamie Chung as Rae Gallo


 * Uncredited as Mysterious Package Provider
 * Shay Mitchell as Jodie McKenzie
 * Laila Rouass as Nikolina Radford
 * Uncredited as Rodriguez
 * Christian Serratos as Gaila Kemper
 * Kit Harington as Dominick Maples
 * Christopher Larkin as Miguel Sheridan
 * Oscar Isaac as Morris Grimes

Deaths

 * None

Trivia

 * The "episode representing image" for this episode would be Elicia Harmon overlooking all of the other personnel as she gave her speech.