Mission

I'm trying to write a short piece of flash fiction everyday from whatever pops into my head at the time. It'll mainly be rambling unsubtle crap but hey, at least its something right?

Friday, 1 October 2021

Depths of Space

The pant and sweat as they run through steel corridors. Blast doors slam shut behind them, one after another, barely holding under the pressure building up behind them. The ripping sound of decompressing atmosphere fills their ears. The space outside the reinforced windows clutters with debris.

They keep on running, vainly trying to stay ahead of approaching explosions. Light flashes in the depths beyond the windows and their eyes are almost instantly overwhelmed. The whole building shakes them to the ground in a tangled mess of limbs and bodies.

Everything is noise and the smell of burning; not even their sense of touch surviving the ripping of plastic and metal. All they can see is white light, burning through contracted irises and melting its shape onto retinas.

Some manage to struggle to their feet and grasp for the walls, only to feel exposed wiring instead as the walls around them peel away from the heat.

And then the sound goes too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They all wake up, still in a pile, on something painfully solid.

*beep!*

“Hello, it is time for your rehabilitation.”

*beep!*

“Please, do not be alarmed.”

*beep!*

“Hello, it is time for your rehabilitation.”

*beep!*

“Please, do not be alarmed.”
*beep!* *beep!* *beep!*

*beep!* *beep!* *beep!*

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