carried me in, barely. The teacher’s wish was finally granted as he closed the doors with the push of a button. Sandwiched between the tumultuous blob of students and the metal doors, I smacked the “DEPLOY” button just beneath it. A heart-churning blastoff.

We fired out the side of Shamus Five and into open space.

My adrenaline spiked so high that I barely felt the pressure. We rocketed from the ship and witnessed the whole phenomenon take place through the 360-degree windows of our pod. The storm was even bigger than I thought, swallowing up and attacking well over half of Shamus Five by now. From here, the destructive force seemed to stretch across all of space itself. Not a single artificial light emanated from our mothership now. Complete blackout. A dark metal behemoth drifting into...

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