Nothing in Space

      "ROCKET MALFUNCTION!  EVERYBODY TO THE ECAPE POD!" cried Starry Night, securing on his helmet.  "An stray asteroid hit the back of the ship!"

      Twilight looked around.  The small spacecraft was surrounded by huge asteroids.  The ship must have swerved INTO the Cloud.  Everyone sprang into action.  As Spike and Starry bolted through the escape pod door, Twilight fumbled with her suit.  Her thoughts swam, her head spun, she was sweating like crazy.  All of a sudden, while she was putting on her helmet, everything was quiet.  Then a giant space rock crashed head-on into the cockpit.  The shrapnel  hit Twilight at a thousand miles per hour, taking of a chunk of her right leg.  She cried out in agony, but there was no sound.  She realized all at once that she didn't put on her helmet in time.  She immediately thought The other escape pod, it's my only chance.  Her vision was going fuzzy as she floated her way to one of the remaining escape pods, but she looked out the observation deck only to her friends' damaged pod swerve into an asteroid of equal size.

     The collision shook the space shuttle.  Twilight bit her lip, and tears began to flow as she opened the airlock to the pod.  Those were her only peers on the mission.  She couldn't get help.  The ship was in kaput, and there was no hope for her precious friend, Spike.  He had been one of her closest friends for over fifty year since he had been hatched, and he was gone.  Twilight knew it was her fault, that if she had triple checked the ship, she could have prevented it.  And Starry Night was gone, too.  Their computer scientist and co- navigator, now in bloody, messed up pieces floating around in the vast expanse of space.  Twilight had sealed the airlock, gasping for breath.  Luckily, she had some.  She pulled a lever on the control pad, and pressed a big blue button labeled "LAUNCH".  The small craft immediately burst forward.  Twilight collapsed on the floor and began to sob.  There was no hope for her.  She couldn't go out of the ship without suffocating, she had no help, and she to navigate a tiny ship through a giant asteroid cloud.  She suddenly realized that she had let go of her helmet during the chaos.  Damn.  She thought shuddering.

      She banged her head-on the tiny dashboard.  She had to try to get to the Space Station.