Oxygen Level Zero Mission 1 by Sigmund Brouwer

Author:Sigmund Brouwer [Brouwer, Sigmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, young adult, Childrens, Adventure
ISBN: 9780842343046
Goodreads: 896749
Publisher: Tyndale Kids
Published: 2000-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

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When Mom asked me to write this Mars diary, I

thought it was going to be about living and dying

under the dome. Instead, it has become learning

about myself.

First of all, I’m scared. And it’s been that

way ever since two days ago, when I learned the

truth about my handicap. At first I was excited

about the thought of zooming around in a robot’s

body. But then reality settled in. This afternoon

I’m going to be hooked up to the computer drive

of a robot through the nerves of my spinal

column. Rawling says it should work, but no one

has ever tried it before. He says something might

go wrong. It could do something to my brain if

the electrical circuits haven’t fused properly to

my body with the biological plastic connections.

I say, what does it matter since I might die

anyway from the oxygen problem in this dome?

I’ve also learned I’m crippled not from birth,

as I’ve thought all these years, but because an

experimental operation went wrong when I was a

baby.

I don’t know whether to be mad or sad about

this. Or happy that I’ve got a chance to do

something in space that no other person in

history has been able to try.

Either way, it won’t change the fact that my

legs are useless.

I stopped typing at the keyboard. I reached for my red juggling balls from my wheelchair pouch and tossed them in the air. My hands automatically juggled while my brain thought.

I needed to comfort myself with juggling because if I let myself think about what I didn’t want to think about, I’d go crazy.

But here I was, beginning to think about what had made me cry all last night. I told myself to think about the operation that crippled me instead.

In a way, I felt more sorry for Mom than I did for myself.

She’s the one who feels guilty over what happened because of the operation, although it isn’t her fault. She didn’t have much of a choice: Either she had to send me off to certain death on the spaceship or allow me to stay and become part of an experimental procedure. And she’d only had a short time to make the

decision—and all when my dad was out of communication range, so she had to make the choice on her own.

Maybe I should be mad at Director Steven, who forced Mom to make the choice. But he didn’t plan on the operation going wrong.

It did explain, though, why he always seemed to dislike me.

Now I knew I reminded him of his terrible mistake in forcing me to be an experiment without any choice. At least that’s what Rawling says.

It wouldn’t do much good to get mad at Director Steven

anyway, since it wouldn’t change my situation.

And I knew Director Steven had plenty of other problems now.

I stopped juggling and went back to writing.

Late the night I’d found out the real truth about

my legs, one of the scientists went to Rawling

with a committee’s decisions—the committee

Rawling had refused to join.

They call themselves the “Life Group.” They

now have seventy-five people, too many for

security to arrest or fight.

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