Solar nightmare

January 1 ,2030, 9:00. Location: Unknown.

All there was, was pain of every variant. I woke up feeling the aftermath of the earths ascension and all the implications behind it. All of it was gone, my home, my family, my life and the God damn TV. I suppose to prevent further mental derogation, I should think positively about my situation, or stop thinking about it all together.

Well I still have Zander and Sasha…… Never mind. Ok, not thinking about it anymore. Alright, time to take in my surroundings.

I was still in the ship which could be good or bad depending on who was looking at it. Zander and Sasha had apparently passed out with me at some point. Sasha was leaning against the wall in a seated position, eyes closed. Zander was next to her still in fetal position.

Everything seems to be in order here so I decided to check the window. What I saw was the last thing I would ever expect. A dark and pretty dank forest. Although some of the rare pepes I’ve seen were slightly more dank. Anyway, back to the forest, there were vines, trees, and such everywhere. What the hell did that light come for or where for that matter?

I decided to put my questioning on hold and explore a bit. After checking the pulse’s of my team to make sure they were still alive, afterwards putting them in they’re shared bed. I stepped into the kitchen after making sure they were good. The way the Atlas was set up, it was a cylinder with the rooms going un a line. The control room was in the front, behind that was the lounge/living quarters and bath rooms, next was the kitchen lastly the air lock.

I was on my way through the kitchen when I realized something. I was starving. I looked at the clock and saw it was 9:08. I grabbed a powdery breakfast and rehydrated it and was rewarded by a whole breakfast of eggs, pancakes, and most importantly, bacon. Once I was done, I set two more plates, packets and glasses of water out, afterwards,  I went to the air lock and looked at my space contact suit (SCS for short) and sighed. I put it on, thinking the oxygen percentage may be too low for humans to survive.

Once that was done, I made my way to the air lock and went through the tedious task of locking the main chambers off from the air lock and opened the door to the outside. The outside just looked like a normal forest from earth. That thought triggered a multitude of negative thoughts that I immediately pushed out of my mind. As I stepped further out I got some notifications through my visor that said the oxygen level was slightly higher than back home, about 27% with nitrogen and other such gasses taking the rest. So it was safe to breath. I’m still going to keep the suit on, it was designed to keep the wearer alive through almost anything. How do I know this? Well I designed it because I am one paranoid mother fucker.

As I looked around I saw something I hadn’t seen before. A small tribal looking hut. Well that was less expected than the forest. But what was the metaphorical carrot on the proverbial cupcake was a miniature zebra walked out of the hut. Yeah if I didn’t have the SCS on I would have blamed it on something in the air. But nope, there was a zebra le miniature on my newly established neighbor’s front lawn, that was staring into my soul with huge emerald green eyes. Seriously there could not have been any room for brain matter in there because the eyes alone looked like they took up half the face at least.

But what happen next probably made my life expectance come ever so closer to my current age of 27. “A strange creature coming out a strange craft, if this had not been happening to me, I would have laughed.” It talked. Yeah, I think I pasted out then and there.

Zecora’s POV

“A strange sight indeed, or perhaps a creature in need?” I said to myself as I walked to the passed out…… thing. I couldn’t tell what it was, but I could tell that it meant no harm to me. I brought it back to my hut and set it up a space to rest. Once that was done I tried to find a way to take off the unusual looking suit. I found the release on the back and opened it to reveal a creature just big enough to fill the suit snugly. I also found the suit had two parts to it; The suit itself and the headgear. As I removed the headgear an unexpected sight met my eyes.

The ‘face’ was flat, safe a short mound I could only assume was its….. no his nose. He had a small mouth with equally small ears and eyes. The eyes themselves were a dark green that… wait, that’s not right.

Sam’s POV

Welllllll shit. The zebra lookin mother fucker was staring into my eyes. It wasn’t the worst way to go but who wants to make it to the pearly gates just to tell Saint Peter that you got completely devoured by a mini zebra. Anyway it was staring at me. I decided to speak to get things moving. “So, you gonna get it over with and eat me already?”. I can be snarky when someone has the upper hand/hoof on me. It reeled back as if my face had just sprouted flaming tentacles.

“Oh, no no no! I wish not to taste flesh this day, or in my next life I surely shall pay!”. Oh, so she was an herbivore. I guess the teeth should have given it away. Then she spoke again.

“Do you have a name strange being, or would that be too revealing?”

Ok what is up with the rhyming. “I suppose it was rude of me to not introduce myself,” I said standing up and giving a salute. “I am captain Samuel Paris, leader of the Atlas and its crew. Now who are you, what are you, where are we, and where is my suit?”. I asked/ stated to the strange being. “And as a side note please stop rhyming, it can’t be easy and its making me a bit uncomfortable”.

I was trying not be mean with that last part. I’m not sure how it came out but she didn’t seem dismayed in the least replying with:

“It is not difficult in the least, but if you don’t like it I will leave it to a minimum.” I nodded replying with a thank you.

From that point we just talked about ourselves, Zecora, she told me her name was, kept her promise and rhymed rarely and only out of habit, I learned I was in no area even near earth, in reality I think we’re in another galaxy altogether. I looked at my watch and saw that it was 13:00.

“Zecora, I think I need to go check on my crew, they should be up by now.”

“Yes, that is probably wise, but can I come with you, I would like to meet your ‘team’.” she said getting up from her sitting position. I thought about it and said “I don’t know if it would be a good idea right now, I mean they probably just woke up after just watching there home planet ascend to a star that not only burned every thing they ever loved but everyone too.” I said looking away tears in my eyes at the memory. ”It’s nothing against you it’s just they’re probably not in the best state of mind right now.” I continued seeing her sad expression.

She looked at me and said “Maybe I can help, I have been known to remedy not only the body, but the heart and mind as well.” I thought about and decided she was right, so I nodded and motioned for her to follow me. She smiled and nodded as well. I grabbed my suit, which was conveniently placed by my ‘bed’ then headed out the door. The ship was just I had left it. We got outside the airlock and I put in the code and key and it slid open. Since the advanced technology ‘sensed’ there was sufficient air quality both doors opened as I opened the front one. The only thought in my mind was oh God I hope this works.