<strong>~ Enio Pellegrini: Caught in the crash, caught in the luck.</strong>~<br/><br/>* * *<br/>Enio repeated his call over the communication line but the response was a steady stream of static and he gave up, murmuring an obsenity at technology for not being there when most needed.<br/>As he reached the end of the corridor he felt quite surprised, actually happy, when he realised that the people coming out from their living quarters just rushed through the preasure sealing chamber that connected the living chamber corridor to the next section that would eventually lead to the bridge. Noone paied attention at the yellow blinking light over the door where three vacuum walk suits were always kept, part of every preasure sealing chamber!<em>Oh, precious. These people have never laied foot on a space vessel before or these three would have been the first things sought after in here!</em><br/>Frantically he took his sleeping pajamas off and he slipped inside the suit fast, using all his skill from countless times of having done that for surface walks on every possible moon of Sol system! The suit was truly state of the art equipment! The pannel on his left arm indicated atmospheric auto balance, body heat and moisture regulation, and a myriad of other good things of which he had only seen the designs and pictures of!<br/><br/>He got out of the chamber and started to run. The forearm instruments indicated gravitation increase outside of the "bubble" which the ship generated! It only meant that some huge body was closing in... the planet was closing in! They were falling, the massive ship was falling! It was a dreadful discovery, the city sized ship was built in space and should remain in space. Planetfall would likely equal destruction, for the ship itself and for everyone else onboard!<br/>He ran like hell towards the upper part of the aft. The ship was falling nose-down and he was in trouble if he didn't move away. "Run run! This way, there is no time, this way, to the aft!" He shouted to a group of people that he saw while he didn't stop running to the best he could.<br/><em>""5 seconds till impac..."</em>Speakers sound seemed like thunder in his ears and he felt his adrenaline effect imediately. Everything would now fall, tumble, roll and dislocate. While still running he turned towards the side wall of the corridor, activated the suit's magnetic holds and started to climb up as fast as he could. Two seconds later the entire place shook violently as the ship obviously hit the surface and instantly most everything was flying about, everything was crashing and smashing and he felt his body being pulled by inertia while his limbs remained adhered on the wall. He looked far down inside his helmet where the eye command reader was and he blinked the sequence of lowering the helmet visor, which came down instantly and sealed itself.<br/><br/>He witnesed the havoc of the following minutes. All the five people that happened to be around were smashed and thrown away like rags from the objects and the furniture. Emergency lights went off as well and only the sound of objects colliding and metal screeching and distant explosions could be heared. Horrified Enio realised that the distant explosions were actually getting closer, the destruction was coming closer! He wanted to do something but he knew there was nothing he could do, the deafening noise was now coming from everywhere and the place was all darkness! Death was only a few moments away! From the end of the corridor came a booming sound and the corridor itself moved. The walls shook and some feeble rays of light came from somewhere, enough to make him realise in terror that the corridor was being deformed like a piece of paper, ripping apart and allowing in other feeble rays of light!<br/><br/>And just then the chaos ended, the movement stopped, the noise paused! His eyes were wide of terror and fear, he looked around in disbelief at the destruction everywhere around him. At the next moment his jaw dropped from wonder and surprise. While the dust cleared away, he looked through a small opening against the wall he was attached to and he could see outside! Several layers of metal from the ship's hull had been torn like paper and revealed a most unbelievable view: An alien ruin loomed. Quiet and ominous, it was clearly visible in the distance!<br/><br/>Terrified and speechless, Enio could as well be dreaming, but he wasn't.