The Ship

My entire body ached, I had been walking for hours, but I'd finally arrived at the foot of the starship. My only illumination was a torch that I had painstakingly made with a piece of my shirt, a stick, and a black sticky substance dripping from a large thruster. It probably wasn't oil, but it sure was flammable enough, The sun had set over an hour ago, and I was starting to get cold. Those dark clouds on the horizon are looking menacing, threatening a storm.

When looking at the ship from my vantage point earlier today, it seemed like a flat triangular cone, kind of like a flat ice cream cone. It was at least one modern airplane in length or possibly even more significant and was over fifty yards wide. But yet it was my duty to get this giant facing upright again. Currently, it was leaning with the top of it facing the ruined remains of the larger starship while being supported by the port side of the ship, which looked worse than I felt right now. I think my plan will work, its so precariously balanced, and it's literally is standing straight up and down as if reaching for the sky.

Glancing to the right of me, I noticed the remains of a wing just close enough to the ship that I might be able to get up there. Walking up to it, I carefully started climbing the side. While trying not to cut myself on pieces of jagged metal sticking out from the surface, reaching the top of it, I precariously reached out with my left hand and grabbed onto the skirt of metal on the back part of the ship. Using this, I hoisted my self onto the top. Standing on top of the vessel I inched my way to the middle of the craft and placed my torch a few feet to my right. I walked up to the wall and moved to get into position. I put my feet on the base of a radar dish and shifted my back onto a smoother part of the torn wreckage and pushed for all I was worth...

The ship beneath me groaned in protest and I swear it moved a foot from the wall 'maybe', but it wouldn't budge. I stopped pushing against the giant mass and straightened back up. 'Well, it was worth a shot.' 'Maybe I can get a rope and pull it down that way... Looking to grab my torch, I moved my eyes to where I placed my light, As I moved to where I thought it was I realized it was under my feet, but it was too late, the last sight I saw of my torch was it falling over the edge into darkness. 'Crap.'

A loud boom resounded under my feet and the ship started shaking underneath my feet, getting the clue to run, I ran and jumped to the wing that helped me get on and turned back to see what was happening. I heard it before I saw it, the entire vessel started tilting to the left. My mouth gaped open in shock, 'Just how in the world is it doing that?' The next thing I heard was a loud whining sound like a jet engine was spinning up right next to my ear.

Moving my eyes to the source of the noise, I saw a giant stream of blue fire shooting off the port bow of the ship, I smacked my hand to my forehead, 'my torch must have ignited one of the thrusters, I swear I'm so dumb sometimes. The entire thing groaned and shifted soil as it descended to a less the less than forgiving ground. The dense mass slammed into the ground, throwing looser parts of metal on the ship a couple of feet away, the thruster continued to burn for a couple of seconds more and then burned out.

My only illumination of the event happened to be the two moons of this planet, which I named on my way here, a bigger blue moon, which I've proudly named Bob, and a smaller yellow moon which I've named George. I chuckled to myself, laughing at my dumb names for them. I walked over to my soon to be, new home, hoping for shelter, food, and water, ok maybe not food, any food I'd find would probably not be any good anyways.

I ran my eyes along the side of the ship, looking for some sign of an entrance. There were lots of windows along the port side, and some broken windows, but no sign of entry. Going over to one of the broken windows, I swiped the glass off the lip of the window with a piece of scrap, then lifted myself over the side. 'Not exactly the front door, but its close enough.' Although after getting onto the window and peeking into the hall, I only saw a deep void of darkness. 'Guess I'm going to need my torch, at least, if it hasn't already vaporized.

I jumped down to search, and I quickly found my torch and lumbered back over to the window, I climbed back in and walked forward back into the darkness. Swinging the light along the walls of the hall, I saw wires strew about, metal fragments, and a chair, a big chair, with a lot of fancy looking buttons attached to the end of the armrests. 'Now if this is a real-life spaceship, which is already cool enough, it should have a bridge, from there, I should be able to find out what's wrong with the ship and how all of this came destruction came to be conceived and possibly claim this ship as my own. At least, if there's any power, or if it will ever actually fly again. Before I could continue any further into the ship the blue glow of my new accessory flashed in my peripheral vision, curious, I lifted my arm to open up the system.

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V.A.L.O.R

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"Congratulations on claiming your first Starship.

+2,000 experience

+gained skill Mechanic

+gained skill Pilot

+gained skill Programming

"Congratulations on leveling up to level seven, you currently have 28 unassigned characteristic points to distribute, please do so within the next three days or they will be randomly assigned for you. Error, your current Intelligence stat points are not enough to unlock level one of programming, please raise Intelligence to 18 to unlock. Error your current Dexterity, Strength, and Intelligence are not enough to unlock level one of Pilot, or Mechanic, please raise the listed stats to 15, 13, and 18 respectively before continuing."

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'Wow, I swear this day just keeps getting better and better.' I see how Mechanic and Pilot can help me, but why programming? Shrugging my shoulders, I opened up my status page and assigned the points. After the screen closed an immense pain overtook my whole body, grabbing the sides of my head I screamed in pain. Blackness overtook my vision, and I collapsed to the floor.