Stories tagged “mission”
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Downloading
It floated in the sickly pale yellow fluid, pulsating slightly from the electrons rushing through it every half-second. Two wires, one red, one blue, were attached to either side, connecting it to a series of databases. The color of the fluids reflecte...
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Rescue Mission
McCragen wandered into the situation room. Already the vultures of the press were massing outside, waiting for some juicy morsels of information to blow out of proportion. There was a committee of fifteen people gathered around a large topographical ma...
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Mission: Implausible
“It took you five years to figure out you didn’t like taking orders?” the DI asked. Sera shrugged. “I’m a slow learner.” “Well, you’re not gonna have any choice from here on out, soldier!” the DI ba...
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Back to the Moon
“The world looks so small from here.” Paul Bishop said standing on the grey surface of the moon. As the first astronaut to set foot since the original Apollo missions in the 1960’s Paul was proud of himself. He had every right to be. ...
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Drowning in Nothingness
The ship floated away in silence, everything muted in the nothingness in space. Crewmembers gathered around the portholes like fish at feeding time, only they weren’t nearly as content. I watched, resigned to my fate, as the damaged craft drifted...
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On the Trail, Day 26
Day 26: As we raised the flag, a low rumble was heard in the distance. My first thought was that Colin and the boys were returning from the scout. Sure enough, a few minutes later the vehicles began coming up over the hill to the South. It would be a l...
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Go for Launch
The hastily-compiled crew was ushered through the agora of the Sea of Tranquility Mall with the highest priority. Bystanders who did not move out of the way with enough rapidity were blown over, sent bouncing and skidding a considerable distance in the...
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Edifice's Reluctance
Grammy Lo moaned, eyes lolling back. The air in front of the gargoyles wavered, a flicker of reality you could easily miss. With a nod Curr was off, zig-zagging low amongst the ornamental shrubbery. N-ka began a slower, slinking course to follow. ̶...
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Silver
The conditions were perfect – a blanket of thick cloud covered the full moon, casting the terrain into deep shadow. The two of us were perched high on the hills overlooking the valley, scanning the ground far below. The spotter looked up from his sco...
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Broken Shadow
In the silence of the night, a few more syllables. I gave the silhouette one notch left on the scope, and two up before placing my finger on the cold steel trigger. “Target confirmed.” It was the biggest I’d ever seen, certainly. A hundred kilos ...