*0800 hr*

*Alarm blaring*

"Attention. Hull failure imminent. All personnel abandon ship!" the PA system says with the voice of the captain coming from it. Screams of horror echo throughout the hallway only to be muted out by the alarm sound and destruction of the captain pushes his crew out of the captain quarters telling them to make their way to the life pods as the last guy is pushed out the captain locks the doors behind them locking himself in the captain's quarters. He smiles as the crew runs towards their lifepods through the window of the door now between them. The captain makes his way toward his command chair and sits in it. The captain closes his eyes and leans back into his chair just listening to the sound of the life pods deploying one by one. The captain mumbers his prayers for his crew to make it safely to planet 4546B. A single tear runs down his face. The Aurora hits the surface of the planet.

Lifepods are deploying with extreme pace toward the planet. Lifepod 5 is flung away from the rest when lifepod 8 deploys to close to the same time causing the 2 lifepods to collide. Lifepods 9 and 10 were hit by debris when they deploy causing the 2 lifepods to explode before ever reaching the planet surface. Other lifepods are scattered throughout the planets surface. Each lifepod comes with a fire extinguisher, med kit, storage bin, radio, fabricator, and 2 seats that have harness to hold the passengers in place during deployment.

My name is James Arrowood I am 19 years old and I am a passenger on the Aurora with my mother Lily Arrowood, father William Arrowood, and my brother Caleb Arrowood. When the Aurora crashed my family was one of the first ones to make it to the lifepods. My parents push my brother and I into lifepod 5. They manually close the door to lifepod 5 and start the countdown for our launch. They got into lifepod 6 and start their countdown as well. 3...2...1. My lifepod shot out of the Aurora, only a few seconds later the lifepod took a heavy hit causing our fire extinguisher to come loose and destroy our radio cords and breaking a chunk of the wall off the inside of the lifepod. The pressure of our lifepod falling toward the surface causes our lifepod to shake around moving the now loose fire extinguisher and the chunk of the wall that broke off violently. I hold on to my chair as we fall fast toward the surface. Just moments before we hit the surface the chunk of the wall flies and hits me in the face knocking me unconscious. I wake up to see my brother putting out a fire that must of been caused by the impact. I sluggishly get out of my chair harness and start to regain my senses. I start for the control panel that is slightly burnt along it's right side. I manually deploy the lifepod's flotation device. The control panel burns my hand as I deploy the emergency system that is already programmed in all the lifepods. I fight through the pain of my now burnt hand and continue to finish the necessary protocols. My brother puts the fire extinguisher back on the wall and sets the wall chunk below it on the ground. I feel liquid running down my forehead and wipe it away just to find out that it is blood. I go to the storage and find a few medical wraps, as i start to wrap my hand my brother grabs the wrap from me and starts to wrap my burnt hand. After my right hand is wrapped. Caleb wraps my head, the wound from the impact is just above my eye so the wrap covers my right eye and is wrapped just above my left ear. Caleb puts the leftover wrap on top of the storage container, then sits back down in his chair and sighs deeply. I thank my brother then I climb the ladder and open the top hatch letting out the smoke that is building up in the lifepod. I climb on top of the lifepod and sit down. The sight that is before me leaves me with a feeling of hopelessness and sorrow. The Aurora is sinking deeper into the planet's endless ocean. I just stare at the ship that once was my home for years sink. I laugh with my sorrow in my voice, tears starting to stream down my face. Caleb comes up the ladder and just sits next to me. He puts his hand on my shoulder in a comforting manner. Caleb is 5 years older than me but when I look over to see how he is handling the situation. He is just crying just like me, it seems that no matter how old you are this isn't easy to take in.