Thread: Across the galaxy (Scrum x Blazorna)

Melissa had been incredibly excited when she'd been successful in signing up for the ship, a new top of the line exploration vessel that was going to explore beyond the minuscule part of the galaxy that humans had so far expanded into. She had been signed up to work in the engine room, the perfect assignment for an engineer like her. Even better it meant she got to work with this completely brand new engine. Yes, it was safe to say that until now Melissa's excitement had been almost incomprehensible and impossible to dampen, but that was only before the alarms had started to sound all across the ship. There had been some kind of accident, a power surge in a few systems combined with a navigation error meaning the ship had ended up in an asteroid field. She and the other engineers were working furiously to try and get the main engine back online so the ship could jump to safety, but everytime they repaired something more asteroids struck the ship and damaged three more systems in their place. The last impact had caused the engine core to start destabilising and now the captain had given the order to abandon ship, meaning people were rushing furiously to reach the escape pods. Melissa had been given the responsibility of staying behind as long as possible to try and buy time to complete the evacuation and she had succeeded in keeping the main engine core stable for far longer than it should have been, but now it was her turn to get the hell out of here in the last escape pod, fortunately the one nearest the engine room had been left for her. Melissa let out a sigh of relief as she pulled the harness around herself and hit the emergency launch button, the doors closing and the pod rocking as it jettisoned from the ship. Just as she did though the Engine core went critical and began to breach, bursts of energy lashing out from the ship. One of them struck Melissa's escape pod, time seeming to freeze for an instant, before the pod vanished and left not even a speck of debris, as if it had never existed in the first place. On the far side of the galaxy there was a flash of light in the sky of a mysterious world, a world unknown to humans, a world where the inhabitants didn't even know of the existence of humans, tens of thousands of light years separating their worlds. From the flash of light something was streaking towards the ground, the tiny escape pod barely holding together as it streaked through the atmosphere, alarms blaring inside. Before Melissa could even begin to realise what was going on though the pod jerked hard as it struck the ground, bouncing and slamming into the ground again, rolling for a few moments before finally coming to a stop. Ungh.... Melissa reached up to gently rub her head, feeling groggy, coughing as the pod was slowly filling with smoke. D-damn....didn't think...we were near a planet... She coughed again as she stumbled to the door, the display showing that the atmosphere was breathable at least. Thank god... She reached up to pull the emergency release, the door hissing and opening suddenly, smoke pouring out of the pod along with Melissa, who went rolling to the ground, landing on her hands and knees and taking a few deep breaths before slowly looking up to the sky. Just where am I...?