Electric Magazine Volume VI (Spring '19) | Page 44

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Collins jumps from the lander to Dawson’s spacecraft and begins to slip further to the end of the ship.

Collins (speaking to Dawson through the PA): Dawson! Turn your radio on! You’re acting crazy!

Dawson turns on the radio to speak to Collins.

Dawson: How am I acting crazy, Collins? I am doing this for the same exact reason you are.

Collins (distraught, and holding on for his life): What do you mean?! Open the back door! You don’t know what you’re about to do!

Dawson: Don’t try and stop me, I won’t open the interior door!

Dawson opens the first door, Collins gets in and the section in depressurized.

Collins: Please, you can not dock FA landers onto the main ship! You’ll blow everything up, ruin everything we’ve worked for!

Dawson: We can’t both survive this, you know that already Collins. I was thinking about my family. You know there isn’t enough fuel on the main ship for all of us to get home. Think about what you love Collins, fight for it, and don’t give up on it. I was told these exact words by Jonson, and I will follow these words to my grave, I will survive no matter what, just as you are doing now Collins. I’m too far in now, I can’t go back.

Dawson’s craft arrives at the main ship, Mackenzie’s lander has run out of fuel, and Dawson begins the docking process.

Collins: You can stop this now Dawson, this isn’t your only choice, please don’t do this.

Dawson is disengaging the alarms, hooking onto the main ship, and is about to depressurize, he looks back to Collins.

Dawson: I love my children, I love my wife, I love my family and I’m willing to let you guys die for it.

Collins switches from FA Lander channel to the main ships PA channel.

Collins: Eva, Eric, put on your oxygen masks and suits on now! Dawson is trying to-

Collins is cut off by Dawson switching to the Main ships PA.

Dawson: I’m sorry, Collins, Mackenzie. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself watching you suffocate here.

Dawson depressurizes and opens the airlock. Collins is blown into space. Dawson depressurizes the FA lander. Mackenzie, in the distance, sees the 4th section of the main ship explode, following that is the 3rd, then the 2nd, and finally, the last section.

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