Galactic Mirage {18+}

[Key-Tokki]

 

Name

Nathaniel Powell

 

Age

19

 

Occupation

Ship Technical Engineer

 

Position

Uke

 

Likes

Hot chocolete, Warmth, Sleeping, Playing with His Gadgets.

[Anessen]

Mark Valentine

 

 

Job Title:

Pilot

 

Position:

Seme

 

Age:

23

 

Small Bio:

A passionate man with strong ambitions. He is direct and tries to earn everyone's respect with his accomplishments. He doesn't care for two-faced or weak minded individuals. He is a fan of jazz and classic literature.

[Key-Tokki]

 

"Did you hear? They are leaving today, imagine if they could find us a new home."

 

"Mommy, are they going to save us?"

 

"Sweetie it will be fine, they will find something, somewhere. They have to."

 

Murmurs ran through the huge crowd, the Cloud 9 shuttle was to leave today, and it would be the longest journey yet. Humans had been using up natural gases for a long time, expending poisons into the envornment, and laying over all waste to the place that they called home. Due to this,this Earth has become unlivable, everyone knew that it was coming. Each nation had collected and are sending there finest into space to find a new home for the inhabitants of earth, the first one there gets to lay claim to the planet. It is a space race to the finish, and the loosers may not live to tell the tale.

 

Nathaniel leaned back, sighing to himself as he glanced around. Everyone gathered, it was a huge event, but they knew that they could very well be sending the Cloud 9 Team to there deaths. So many things could go wrong in space, and Nathaniel was more scared than anything else. He was already in the launching dock, waiting for the rest of his team mates. He was the Techie, someone names Mark was there piolet, Jayson was the Medic, and then there was one soldier and one captain. They were supposed to be the best fo the best, that is why so many people threw a fit when they heard that there was going to be a 19 year old techie. As the youngest, no one really thought he was qualified for the job, but somehow he had been selected anyway. A lithe young boy who had his entire life ahead of him was about to launch into space, he really was the best of the bet in his area so it was not like he had never done it before, but he had a bad feeling this time. He stoof back and waited for the rest fo his team mates to finish there farewells and climb aboard the launching dock. He had never even met this people and he was probably going die with them. Closing his eyes he leaned his head back and beganto say goodbye to his planet one last time.

[Anessen]

"Mark! Are you coming back for me?," said a misty eyed child. The tall man the child clung to could only smile and pat the small child's head. "Now, now Matthew. The Valentine's are the greatest when it comes to flight. Soon, you'll be up there with me. Has anyone ever bested me before?," said the proud, young man. Matthew smiled and shook his head. "No, my big brother Mark has always come out on top!" Mark laughed and replied, "That's right. So you just look to the stars every night and wait for my return. And keep out of trouble, okay?" His little brother saluted him and said, "Aye sir!" with the widest smile. Mark knew he couldn't waste anymore time and kissed his little brother on the forehead, telling his last goodbye.

 

"Mark!," yelled Matthew once more. "Will you find mom and dad out there?," the child said with a small ounce of hope. Mark froze for a moment, but turned back with a gleaming smile and said, "If I check the right spots, I'm positive I will." The child once again smiled and started to wave his arms, yelling goodbye. Mark turned back and made his way up the stairwell. He knew his parents weren't out in space, but he wanted to give his brother something to hold on to. Mark felt confident enough about their mission and could not see how they would fail. He knew every country with some form of wealth was in this race and only cared about one thing: survival.

 

"Power hungry idiots, I don't understand why we can't just help one another. A race that only ends in death is a ridiculous one at that," thought Mark to himself. As Mark was making his way to the main room, he saw his reflection in the metal of the ship. He was slim and tall, shaggy blonde hair and green eyes. His uniform was white and skin tight, showing off every inch of his body. He placed his hands on his rear and grabbed it gently. "Ugh, why do I have a girl butt?", thought the pilot to himself. He made his way finally to the room and noticed the others had already made it. He looked the clock and saw he wasn't late at least. He walked over to the pilot's chair and sat down, looking over his controls. Mark then looked up and saw where his brother was standing. The child kept saluting and Mark could only smile, saluting himself to his last family.

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Nathaniel looked up to see another of the teamwalking in, he recognized the mans uniform as a pilot one and assumed that thwas was to be there pilot. He could not help but notice how good looking the man was, he could be off modeling or doign practically anything else, so why was he here ,doing something like this? He watched as the man waved to someone who looked like his younger brother. Ah, so maybe family reasons? Nathaniel glanced out of the window, he didn't have one of those, there was no one that was going to come to say goodbye to him. Still, watching the man say goodbye somehow warmed his hearted a bit. Smiling softly he continued to watch until the rest fo the tea managed to wonder in, the tallest man who he could only assume was the Captain spoke first.

 

"Alright, men, we are a small crew for a big mission. Have you heard the saying, a small step for man, a giant leap from mankind? Our ancestors said that when they first stepped on the moon, I have always wanted to say it too. So let's find ourselves a planet for me to do that on." He spoke, it was clearly his attempt at an inspirational speech, but it was to short and came out forced which only ruine the mood. Despite how excited everyone outside seemed, it was clear that the crew members knew exactly how dangerous this was, and how likely it was to fail. "We are taking offin five minutes, everyone to there stations, you there, the Techie." Nathaniel jumped slightly at the direct mention of him, "I am still not sure why you are here, so stay out of my way kid." He put his hand on the others shoulder before going to his station.

 

It was clear that Nathaniel was not the captains first choice for a techie. Everyone scattered to there stations, the two soldiers ran back to there seats, Nathaniel made his way down to the engine room and the doctor made her way to the medical bay. They were going to be followed by two larger ships that held fighters and more soldiers if needed but they were to stay otu of the way and only there for protection, with any luck they would not be needed. "We are good up here, start her up Techie!" Yelled ou the Captain who then turned to the pilot "Alright, Mark. Bring us up!" At this the crowd outside of the launching dock screamed in awe and excitement, ready for the five others to bring them there salvation.

[Anessen]

Mark looked over his shoulder and lightly smirked at the man's attempt at a speech. He didn't understand why there was such a defeatist air hanging above. Mark believed in himself and even though he didn't know the others, he believed in them as well. He had to if they were going to succeed. Suddenly, he raised his eyebrow at the comment made by their leader to the youngest of the group. "If he's here, he must be good at what he does," Mark thought to himself. As the commands were shouted, he got ready for his command. He felt the engines blast as the techie started to heat up the ship. He gave one last wave to Matthew below as he heard his command. He kicked on the accelerator and the ship started to take off in a perfect line upwards. He knew that if he even went at a slight angle, they would never escape the gravity. With this knowledge, he kept a tight grip on the handle. As they escaped the atmosphere, Mark lowered the accelerator and set the ship at stand-by. "Escape of Earth accomplished. Where to Commander?," asked Mark.

[Key-Tokki]

Nathaniel felt the suttle jerk that was the ship disembarking from it's latched and then the sudden kick as the rockets fired up, before another thought they were blasting straight up, this was always the worst part for Nathaniel because it relied on someone elses skill level, not his own. If the pilot messed up even the slightest bit, then the entire ship would catch fire and burn in in seconds. However they managed to succesfully make it out, causing Nathaniels shouldners to slump. He climbed back up towards the cock pit just in time for Mark to ask which way to go, "We are going to head towards the sun and go around, see what we kind locate in that direction first." He stated simpley, however Nathaniel pipped up, "Sir, if we go that way we are going to have to take the time to goall the way around the orbit, and we could damage our heat shields if we get to close, however getting far enough away will waste a few days at least. Perhaps we should head in the direction of the milk way, where they found those black holes? See what we can find there?" The captain looked annoyed however he did have to agree with the younger boy, looking back at the pilot he spoke, "Well let's give our little techie a chance, towards the sun or milk way, your choice Valentine."

[Anessen]

Mark blinked in disbelief at both of his colleagues. "Umm, sir? We are already in the Milky Way. That is the galaxy containing our Sun and solar system. I will agree though that we should head towards the new black hole that was formed near Saturn. We could check the satellite Titan to see if it could sustain life. If it can't, we would at least be on track towards the galaxy Andromeda." He didn't honestly know if his commander was testing him or if he legitimately didn't know. This started to eat at him and he waited for his leader's response.

[Key-Tokki]

Nathaniel stood back as he watched the commander stare on in disbelif of the huge galexy that they were now preparing to cross. He made his way to one of the side windows and glanced out of it, taking in the vast stares that were surrounding them. They had found many planets, many other species over the years, however nothing ever managed to be suitible enough for humans. If they did not find somewhere soon then the rest of the inhabitants of earth were going to be loaded onto a huge spae shuttle that was still in preperation and simple removed from earth. That would be fine but provisions from earth would only go so far, eventually they would have to find a place to live. "You are the pilot, you can set the course, just keep going, as soon as he find somewhere that seems like it could be possible, let me know and we will get everyone geared up to go down and check it out. We will be having dinner on the observation deck at 7 sharp, I expect everyone to be there. " He stated clearly before turning and heading to where his quartres were located. This ship was extremely large, Nathaniel for one, saw no need for sucha large ship for only the fiv main crew members and then the random maitanence and support crew however he also saw no need to argue over it.