15:55 Days on Mars |
Day 12
Phobos. So here it is. One of the moons of Mars. There were four of us on the aircraft. Steven commander, Paul navigator, Kelly his assistant and I’m a type of journalist blogger. The rest of our company stayed on Mars. Alex restored the password to the on-board computer. Mary helped him. She studied as a programmer and it is quite logical how we all believed that she stayed with Alex. Jason and Christine went on an expedition to where we found artifacts and again lost Khana. Rather, she just ran away. Iren and Mila were preparing a surprise for Steven. Tomorrow is his jam day. We all pretended to forget about it, but actually remembered and wanted to surprise him. Not everyone is lucky to celebrate a birthday on Mars. "Gyes, Phobos"! Steven exclaimed, "we are going to lending." It seemed to me that all this was a dream. First Mars, now Phobos. But it was not a dream. Phobos was real. “And there’s another satellite in the sky,” Kelly pointed a finger at the monitor screen, “Deimos.” “We can fly there too if you want,” Paul said. “Indeed,” I supported, “And why Phobos, but not Deimos?” “Jason said so,” Steven answered, “if you want to fly to Deimos.I do not mind." I shrugged. "Yeah, I don't mind either. For some reason, everyone is talking about Phobos. Maybe on Deimos all the most interesting. Maybe that's why everyone is talking about Phobos in order to divert attention from Deimos. Do you understand?" I looked at my friends. "Are you talking about alien laser guns?" Steven joked. “We are aliens here,” I objected, “and they are here at home. Just imagine, you have been doing your business on Phobos or on Deimos or on Mars for thousands of years, and then someone pinned down on some kind of kerosene rocket and claims that he is the discoverer of Mars, sets some flags of his own. It is clear that you want to bring him down and all things. Right?" Paul noisy sighed. "Can we go back? Okay, joked. There will be nothing with us. No one here." “Why come back,” I said, “we’re flying already.” "We have already arrived. We are going to land. I have already chosen a place. Well, not me ... but okay, we are landing." Excitement swept over us. I suddenly thought that when we landed on Mars, for some reason I was not worried like now. Perhaps because Mars in some kind is similar to Earth. Of course there not cities or trees, but you can see around stones, mountains, plains, sky above your head. But here on Phobos a black sky in the stars and dark yellow in the gray spots of Phobos. Everything was strange and mysterious. But in the next moment nobody understood anything. Bright light flashed and abruptly disappeared. The spacecraft fell apart and we began to fall to the surface of Phobos. Well, it's happened to us. The laser guns of the aliens, as Steven jokes, shot us down.
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