The War Against the Light

When Flurry awoke, she could not see anything outside her ship’s cockpit, except for lights in the distance. She looked at her ship’s status, and her heart sank, because most of her controls were fried. She was above ground on a planet, but her engines were glowing orange and had burst into flames. Looking at a GPS indicated that she was over an ocean, but she did not know where. To make matters worse, the star core was overheating and could explode if she had to make an emergency landing, which would kill her. Switching to emergency battery power, she jettisoned the star core and it splashed into the water. Most of her systems were dead and the exterior lights had melted. She switched to sonar in order to see. She also recorded a video log in case she was rescued and was unable to respond.

**

At a structure that consisted of a red hemisphere, and a black sphere with two smaller spheres for ears, Mickey Mouse and his friends, along with Minnie’s twin nieces, Millie and Melody, were stargazing outside. Minnie was using the telescope to look at the moon. Suddenly, Professor Ludwig Von Drake threw the front door open.

“GET INSIDE! HURRY!”, he yelled.

Mickey and his friends ran inside and Minnie tried to get the lift to take her back down. Unfortunately, the lift jammed and Minnie was trapped near the top of the large sphere.

“Professor, what’s going on?”, asked Mickey.

“I have spotted something coming towards us at a high speed. It could crash into the clubhouse.”, explained the Professor.

“The lift is jammed. I’m trapped out here.”, cried Minnie.

“DUCK AND COVER, MINNIE!”, yelled Von Drake.

Minnie leaned forward and covered her head with her hands.

**

In her cockpit, Flurry saw a collision alert come up. She saw the outline of the clubhouse, but her yoke was stuck. Pulling with all of her might, she yanked the yoke back and went into a steep climb. She managed to get between the smaller spheres, but her wings struck the spheres and were torn off. Her left wing hit what looked like a telescope. Unable to turn anymore, she glided helplessly over the woods and then spotted a lake. She unfastened her seatbelt and got into the escape capsule. The capsule was launched and the parachutes slowed her down until she splashed into the lake. After splashdown, four orange floats inflated and held her capsule on the surface in case the hatch was opened. What was left of her ship crashed in the forest and started a fire. Upon crashing into the structure, a piece of shrapnel from Flurry’s console exploding hit her in the head before she closed her helmet, which left her dizzy. She passed out two minutes after splashdown.

**

When Flurry’s ship impacted with the top of the clubhouse, her ship’s speed created a gust of wind that yanked Minnie out of the tram car that lifted her to the telescope. She screamed as she fell to the ground and landed on her face with a *THUD*. Luckily, she had landed in her flower garden, so she did not end up with a nosebleed. As she rolled over to stand up, everyone heard the sound of metal snapping.

“Aunt Minnie, LOOK OUT!”, shrieked Melody.

Mickey couldn’t watch and covered his eyes. The telescope had broken loose from its mount and was falling to the ground. Before Minnie had a chance to stand up, it landed hard on her lower right leg.

“YAAAAAAAH!”, she screamed in pain.

As she tried to sit up, tears welled up in her eyes and she began to cry in pain. Mickey and Goofy ran outside with Minnie’s nieces following close behind. As Mickey and Goofy tried to lift the telescope, Millie and Melody rushed over to try to pull Minnie out.

“Are you alright, Aunt Minnie?”, Millie asked.

“No girls, I think my leg’s broken.”, she choked out between sniffles.

Mickey and Goofy struggled with all of their might, but the telescope was too heavy and wouldn’t budge. Donald ran out to see if he could help.

“Get the car jack out of the garage. We can use that to lift the telescope.”, said Goofy.

Donald nodded his head and opened the garage door. After getting the jack and placing it under the end of the telescope, he started cranking it up while Goofy made sure it was not going to slip off. Mickey called 911 for an ambulance while firefighters attacked the fire from Flurry’s ship exploding.