Snippet #2407058

A metal man joined Andromeda in the place with the suitcases. "A-Andromeda... what's happened? What's going on?"

“I don’t know!” she exclaimed. She started tugging at her stuck suitcase again. “Do I know you?”

An old man had an emotional breakdown in the other room. It distracted her. There were so many unrelated things to take in here, and everything was so unrealistically detailed it was overwhelming. What was she thinking about before people started talking? Water! There was water flowing in and she was looking for an exit. There was none here, they would have to climb out through the hole the rocks had made.

She walked/climbed past her pod, and Corki’s, on the way there. Andromeda stopped to look in through the small window in its door. It was fogged. She knocked. “Corki? Are you in there? Wake up!”
Andromeda tried to open the door, but it wouldn’t move. One thing hadn’t changed, she still didn’t have any strength.

She climbed out over the wreckage. The air outside was cold and salty and refreshing and full of oxygen. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and savored the feeling of being alive.

She looked around. There was empty ocean to one side, which reflected the night sky and clouds. She had seen many pretty things while trying to earn points, but this was magnificent. An enormous blue and green moon hovered just above the horizon. On the other side there was a wall of slippery rock. It didn’t look impossible to climb, but it wouldn’t be easy for most people. A dozen meters above her head it looked much less slippery.

Finally, the thing she had climbed out of was a large tube. Was it part of a spaceship? It looked like one.

The electric lights below her flickered out. She looked down. There was more water flowing in now. Her mind combined that with the ocean, the moon (planet?), and the change in the rocks above her. “Oh sh-” She stopped herself from swearing, then remembered there was nothing to punish her for it. “Ohshitohshitohshit.“

Forcing herself to ignore her instinct to avoid water, Andromeda went back into the now dark spaceship. “Um, please don’t panic, but this place is going to flood” she announced. She returned to the luggage. It was almost too dark to see. Using the screen of her laptop as a flashlight, she found her suitcase again and pulled it up with all her strength. She had remembered what tools she owned, and if anyone was alive but stuck in a pod, they were going to need those.