Silence. Nothing more. Nothing less. That’s all that there was, its all anybody could remember. They forgot their names, their lives, each other. All that they knew was the silence that made everything else seem so pitiful. Nothing else was worth remembering.
But all at once they were through, and the roar of the engines replaced the deafening silence. A splash of water could faintly be heard as the shuttle burst through the ocean, just to be grabbed back up by some unseen force. The ship spiraled downward to the new found planet, leaving a wake of fire and water behind it.
No other planet had ever been discovered quite like this one, where the ocean was in the sky, and all the light and warmth on the planet came from where the ocean should have been. Where volcanoes spewed tangible icy darkness, and the rain brightened the world with liquid light rising up from the lakes and see’s and rose to the ocean in the sky, piercing the water. Nothing like this had ever been discovered before, and nothing like it would be discovered again. It was the opposite of everything mankind had thought possible, it was an opening for a new breed of science, a new earth, a new everything. It was doors never dreamed of, opening. But yet, while those doors opened, the crew on the shuttle shivered. For this new world was now their prison.
The flames surrounding the ship faded from blue to white. The paint on the ship had melted off leaving only a silver gleam where a blue and yellow coating had been before.
“Captain!” the first words on the new planet could barely be heard over the roar of the flames that had over taken the now seemingly weak engine. “Pull up, Captain! PULL UP!” And at one single moment, the whole crew was very aware of who they were, and what they were doing. Captain Erickson pulled back on his handles with all the strength he could muster. It wasn’t enough. The ship continued its downward spiral until it crashed into the liquid light of a sea, sending droplets of light towards the ocean above.
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