Doomed by Adam Moon

Author:Adam Moon [Moon, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Gealach Publishing
Published: 2013-12-12T23:00:00+00:00

Meeting

Melanie knocked on Mike’s door. When he answered, she said, “That aggressive guy wants to hold a meeting.”

“Who the fuck put him in charge?”

“I don’t know but we should go. There’s a lot we need to figure out about this place.”

Over her shoulder Mike could see the humungous orange planet coming over the horizon. It was easily three times bigger than the moon appeared on Earth.

“Where are we supposed to meet?”

“There’s a common dining hall in between the houses. They’re gathering there right now.”

When Mike saw that Melanie was still wearing her mechanized armor he decided against showing up to the meeting in his colorful poncho. He changed in front of her and she whistled at him playfully. He smiled, happy despite everything that had happened.

She said, “You’re pretty hot for an old man.”

“I’m only a few months older than you.”

“You’re seventy six million years old.”

He laughed. “So are you, you old hag.”

Once he was changed, they braved the winds as Melanie showed him to the dining hall. It was a huge nondescript structure. Like the houses, it looked to be made of stone or packed dirt, with plastic barn doors.

The hall was already abuzz with chatter as they came through the doors. They found an empty bench and sat down, waiting for someone to lead the meeting.

Within a few minutes, the angry guy stood up and walked to the front of the crowd. He turned around and smiled.

He said, “Hello. My name is Paul. The first order of business is this: What should we name our new world?”

The hall went silent. Clearly Paul had his priorities back to front. They needed to figure out who would be in charge of cultivating the fields. They had to make sure the well had water. They had to find out if anything on the planet could be used to make fire in case it got cold at night or in case the winter was harsh, if there even was a winter. They needed to send a scout team out to assess the alien threat. They did not need to waste their time naming the planet.

When a woman yelled out, “How about Nova-Earth?” a few people murmured their disapproval. Paul countered with, “How about just Nova?”

Nova sounded decent so they adopted that name for the new home of mankind.

Paul pointed towards the back of the hall and said, “The aliens that abducted us left sacks of seeds for us to use. I think we need to set up a system to guard them. I say we take shifts. Everyone gets one shift that’ll last all day and then they don’t have to do it again until everyone else has taken a turn.”

No one even knew how long a day lasted here so that was another stupid statement. What if a day took a thousand hours or more?

Mike desperately wanted someone bigger and tougher to make the douche bag sit down but no one volunteered. If he wasn’t such a coward he would have done so himself.

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