Ch1 The Crash

It's been a busy couple of days for Holiday. First, she was reassigned to that research station out by Wolf 359. It took about a week just to get to the system on one of the fastest military transports. Not to mention it is the furthest point any human has gone, the scientists there were tasked with finding the best place to start the colonizing and resource acquisition.

Holiday’s botany skills were why she was reassigned all the way out here, so as soon as she arrived many of the scientists started shoving work in her laps.

“All new plants and soil to study, how fun!” was all she could say as soon as she arrived.

Today was just like the others, first, she woke up and started taking notes on the crop samples and experiments she started last week. It turns out this alien soil isn't all that different from Mars dirt. It's pretty good at growing most of Earth's crops pretty easily with the exception of a few more picky plants.

Her studies were cut off suddenly with another false alarm, whatever the other scientists were doing kept setting those damn sirens blearing. Holiday wasn't told what the others were studying exactly but whatever it was it's confidential apparently from the scientist's standards.

“Why isn't that damn alarm shutting off!” Holiday complained as she started heading to the door.

!!Crash!!

The station flour lurched beneath her as something on one of the higher levels exploded. Struggling to keep her footing she sprang into action military training kicking in. She sprinted across the station only to hear more explosions and the flickering of the power. Scientists running and panicking running straight to the escape pods. The stations suddenly started waving back and forth. It started falling to the surface. Holiday shoved the last of the panicking scientists into one of the pods and ran for another.

As she dove into one an explosion rang out separating the pod by force. Unfortunately, the explosion damaged the main console of her pod, meaning she couldn't launch to safety. Instead, she was dragged down towards the planet with the rest of the orbiting science station.

Her pod was spinning uncontrollably, tossing Holiday around like a ragdoll. With a bang across the head, she was out. The station crashed on top of the mountains and hills. Holiday landed in the forest just to the south. The pod was slowed in its descent by the many trees leaving the pod dangling over the ground by the sturdy branches and vines.

(This is my first attempt at writing a story if you like to write a chapter feel free to ask)