Successful Launch
I don’t know what this is again. Shit. Human!Au, no pairings.
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“Preparing for launch”
“All systems in order”
“Fuel full”
“Operation Apollo-XXI beginning”
“Are we ready, captain Logan?”
“Affirmative. Prepared to launch. Pulling the levers”
Shaking. An explosion. Pressure.
Logan can’t see a thing, but he is flying away from the ground, he is flying into the void, into the universe, and he can get worried about everything else later.
He is the first man to travel to another planet and he feels free for the first time in his life.
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“Dad? What are you doing?”
Patton smiles at his son, Thomas, picking him up and nodding to the TV.
“The first man to ever travel to a planet is leaving right now, and I love seeing this space thingies” he says, smiling as Thomas grins.
“I love space too!” the small boy says, curling up to his father’s side and watching attentively as the rocket gets out of the ground with a big explosion and lots of smoke, making Thomas squeal and hold onto Patton as he laughs, grinning.
Another point of humanity, he thinks as he watches, wondering who is the lucky person to be travelling so high in the sky.
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“Roman, dude, we have theater today! I can’t believe you’re missing the rehearsal over something dumb like this!”
Roman rolls his eyes as he turns the call off and throws his phone away, watching from his computer as the people in the field count the seconds for the launch.
He starts to mutter the numbers together with the people in the video and he is grinning as they get to zero and the rocket blows and it starts to go up the atmosphere, releasing smoke and heading to another planet, another place in the universe.
And he feels his excitement growing at every second as the rocket goes up and people film it live.
Another planet. That was dream material.
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Ann is running. As fast as he can.
He gets home with tears on his cheeks and his heart racing and he needs a distraction, anything, so he grabs his phone and checks on Tumblr and sees a live video and when he clicks it, there is a rocket and several voices around it.
He relaxes a bit, remembering the launch of the rocket to Mars with the first person to travel there and he watches it quietly as someone behind the camera explain what is happening and the rest start to count down the seconds.
A small smile grows on his face as he watches that giant piece of metal going up the skies into the void, where he wanted to be at that moment, and he wonders if whoever is in there knows how lucky they are for not having to be on Earth anymore, even if they die in three seconds with an explosion.
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Successful launch.
