A Second Chance (Comet Clement series, #12) by George Kevin

Author:George, Kevin [George, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-01-03T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

“Space station, do you copy?” John yelled into the radio, shouting over the sound of the emergency fuel alarm.

He listened for several seconds but received no response, at least none that he could hear.

“I told you we wouldn’t be able to contact them,” John told Lily, who surprised him minutes earlier by demanding he try to contact the station. With the shuttle losing altitude too quickly – not to mention that she still struggled to keep them on course – Lily should’ve concentrated more on the shuttle than the space station as far as John was concerned.

“But now we know Destinee could’ve survived,” Lily said. “We can’t contact the station and we’re still in one piece.”

“Maybe you should focus on keeping us that way,” John said.

John might’ve felt a sliver of relief had their shuttle not been in such dire circumstances. Luckily, Lily wrestled control of the shuttle and their altitude eventually evened out, though they still flew lower than expected. Lily felt comfortable enough to let go of the control stick with one hand, which she used to push a button on the control panel. The flashing red light and blaring alarm turned off and the cockpit sounded strangely silent despite the sound of rushing wind outside the shuttle.

“What did you do?” John asked.

“I cut the engines so we don’t use more fuel,” Lily said. “We barely have any left, maybe another couple minutes of burn time.”

“So why aren’t you using the rest of it?” he asked. “We still need enough thrust to reach the landing zone.”

“We need to use the reverse boosters to slow us when we land,” Lily said. “Besides, we’re not far from the landing zone. We might not make it right on target but Destinee might not have either. Start searching the land for any sign of the other spacecraft.”

John already kept an eye on the land that flashed by them but there was little to see since they moved so fast and were so high in the sky. Now that they were slowing and getting lower, the landscape still appeared bare in most places. At one point, he thought he spotted a group of people on a road but they appeared no larger than ants and could’ve been anything, such as debris scattered about almost everywhere else. Conditions on the surface might have seemed demolished in many areas but when the shuttle traveled farther from the coast, he saw several intact houses and buildings, including a few surrounded by a large wall. Unfortunately, he didn’t see other evidence of humans, though there were so many cracks in the ground that he wondered if everyone was simply swallowed alive.

It wasn’t long until the shuttle dipped so low in the sky that finding a landing zone became an imminent requirement.

“There,” Lily said, pointing to a long stretch of flat, barren land. “I don’t think we’ll have enough time to stay airborne and find a better spot.”

John agreed that this area looked flat and empty enough but there was one thing about it that made him nervous.

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