Today is a little late post but I hope you enjoy it. It was interesting prompt today to write based on a picture from the top of /r/imaginarycharacters on reddit. I ended up choosing this picture:
This is Valor by dCTb on Deviantart , http://dctb.deviantart.com/art/Valor-454507975 she has many more pictures in the Annie Mei Project so please go and visit her. Thank you so much dCTb for your artwork.
It was my
second birth; the first was a long time ago. I don’t remember much from before
it. All I remember is the accident; it plagues me to no end. Especially when
all I have is time to think; floating in space there isn’t much to do. Just lay
here and wait for my retribution. I was exiled deemed unfit for society, my new
life is in the hand of the black nothingness of space. My only option is to
wait for some sort of pity from fate. If and when I make it out I will start
new again like a third birth, one where I can do the right things I learned my
lesson having only time to think. I messed up once and I wont ever again.
Beep
Beep **Warning** Beep Beep
“What is going on?” I start to pound
on the glass of the small pod they put me on as freight set in. “What’s wrong?”
I couldn’t move much in this metal coffin I couldn’t do anything.
Entry into unknown atmosphere
Brace for Impact
The pod began to shake from the
atmosphere around it. In my head the calculations for how long I had ran
automatically. I had maybe two minutes left, and I had to time this just right.
My grey space suit began to glow red as all my functions came online. I could
see my eyes glow green in the glass in front of me. The pearls in my hair
warmed around me the energy they had flowed through out my new body. My body
was made of a mix of biological computers and advanced robotics. I am the
culmination of years of secret underground research. I could have done amazing
things and I still can.
Impact in thirty seconds. I didn’t
know what the outside world is like but It was my only chance of surviving. My
helmet goes on for better or worse it should protect the energy cells in my red
hair and my face. I took ahold of the emergency eject, one shot. 10 9 8 I took
a large breath 7 6 5 4 pulled on the tab. Instantly the window flew open and
the rocket propelled me out with great force.. It sent me out at an angle. At
the apex I dropped out of the platform and started my decent. Pulling my legs
in I start to flip over and over. My black jacket began to flap in the wind
around me dragging down my descent only slightly; it is my only remnant from
the old world.
I land on my feet facing the crash
of the pod that was once my death sentence. Dust and was still rushing past me
it lifted my read hair and jacket. I couldn’t believe I was free. I had been in
that pod for far too long. Annie Mei was free. Now, what is my first move? I
scanned the area as the dust settled. Even with my advanced sensors I couldn’t
find any signs of life. With out
thinking about it probability tables of the world I landed on actually having
life. It was low but the oxygen and the vegetation did give a little hope but I
need to make sure I could have any chance of getting off this planet.
Walking over to the pod I checked the
wreckage. There had to be some surviving parts of the computer that could help
me. The scan of the wreckage proved fruitful with some of the parts to a signal
being in tact. With out knowing much about technology I found myself creating a
distress signal that I could carry with me that might have a ship come and find
me wherever I went. Now all I had to do was walk and find some remnants of
civilization. So I turned and walked toward the only vegetation near by.
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