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3...2..1...no go.
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May. 19th, 2009 @ 03:17 am
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"No, Johnny!" Reed yells. A fire in the engine room was the last thing they needed right now. And Johnny's life was in danger. Guilt washed over Reed. This was turning into a complete failure, and he had dragged his best friends down with him.
"Ben, we need to abort this mission!" Reed looks to Susan, quiet for a moment. "Susan, I'm sorry."
"I'm tryin' big brain, I'm tryin'. We got half a dozen system failures, an' I guarantee you if we land at all, its gonna be the hard way. Buckle up, cause we're goin' down hard."
He fights the controls, trying to get any kind of readings off the instruments and keep the nose up. He finally gives up on getting anything past all the alarms and warnings and zeroing dials, piloting from pure visuals and just trying to keep enough of an angle to make a survivable crash.
Its a rough landing, skidding and bouncing for almost half a mile, nearly rolling more than once before the ship finally crashes into a rock pile, smoking badly, but more or less in one piece.
Sue gasps as Johnny's cut off in a rage of static and her eyes catch Reed's. She's sure, she's sure her heart just stopped.
"Johnny!"
And then, against what Ben is telling them to do, Sue unbuckles herself. "I can't just sit there... I can't... Johnny..." She wasn't happy with her brother sneaking on the spacecraft, but he was her brother and he was caught and he could die. She doesn't think, just unbuckles herself as the ship rocks. She couldn't make it up out of her seat though and ended up hanging on as they begin to crash back into Earth.
For a moment she sits there in her seat. Her arms hurt, they throb from where she was forced to grip her seat in order not to fly out of it. She pulls herself up forcefully and then begins to stumble towards the engine room. "Johnny! Johnny..."
When she arrives a horrific sight greats her of a human-shaped pillar of fire. There is no skin or hair. Just fire. "Sue," he says in a kind of shock. "Sue, it doesn't hurt."
"Johnny!" She almost rushes at him, but the heat is like a bonfire and she needs to stay back.
"Johnny you're on fire! What do you mean it doesn't hurt!" She wants to tell him to stop drop and roll but he's completely consumed by the flames. Her heartbeat trips and unbeknownst to her she begins to disappear slowly, first becoming translucent.
"I already did the stop, drop, and roll thing. It doesn't work. I'm still here and on fire. Think I can be like the Human Torch and T-" He stops dead in his tricks and reaches out. "Sue! You're disappearing on me!"
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