The Sunshine Crew turns fantastic

The Sunshine Crew turns fantastic


Doctor Rosenberg asked “Tell me Capa, how are you feeling, both physically and mentally?” Capa replied “Physically I feel fine. And mentally, I suppose I feel better mentally then I ever have before, even before the mission. I never felt this confidant and content mentally. I suppose whatever that cloud was that hit the ship and all the crew members, did this to me.”

Doctor Rosenberg paused before he asked “Excuse me, a cloud, what do you mean by the term cloud?” Capa replied “Just as I had released the pay load into the sun, I and Cassie were under the impression that we were going to die; the other members were already dead. The ship had been damaged to the point that we would have never been able to move it from the sun. Cassie was in no fit condition to pilot the ship. So we were heading straight into the sun.”

He continued after a brief pause. “But just as I could feel my skin start to melt, this reddish gold cloud appeared out of no where. Now that I’m thinking clearly, it looked like one of those storm clouds. It would seem the radiation from the cloud has mutated mine and Mace’s and possibly the others DNA.”

Doctor Rosenberg looked horrified and asked “Could you explain how the others could have been dead, when they are quite obviously alive, and we are just waiting for them to wake?” He added “Stephen Mace, by the way is already awake. He woke in the early hours of this morning. He showed the most extraordinary physical effects.”

Capa frowned and asked” What do you mean effects, am I not the only one who was affected?” Rosenberg shook his head and replied “Apparently not Capa. Mr. Mace was fine for the first few minutes after he had woken. But after that he started to panic, ranting about how he had died and should still be dead, and he also mentioned some cloud had revived him and healed him. When we tried to restrain him, he showed unnatural amounts of strength and shot actual ice from his hand at a nurse, sending her across the room.”

Capa felt his eyes widened before he shook his head and commented “That was the worse thing the cloud could have possibly done. Making Mace stronger then is considered normal, his temper was bad enough without that added into the mix.”

He added, frowning thoughtfully “The ice, well I’m not sure I’m even going to go there right now.” He added “As for him claiming he was dead, well, he was, I saw him. I had been stabbed by the insane crew member of the previous team, and had lost a lot of blood, but had by no means been delusional. I also think I understand why, but not how he is shooting ice from out of his hand.”

Rosenberg was frowning as he asked “How could have Mr Mace been dead and, now suddenly be alive as you and I currently are?” Capa replied “When I walked passed the room he was in, I saw that his legs had been completely crushed and trapped inside of the tank that holds the ice chemicals in the maintenance room. His skin had gone completely blue and icicles had started to manifest on his flesh. He was dead, frozen completely in place.”

He went on “Our ship had been sabotaged by a member of the crew from the previous team that went out into space and failed. He had gone insane, he was raving about how God had been talking to him for the past seven years that he had been alone. He kept saying that God insisted we all needed to die and go to heaven. The man’s mind had been completely shattered.” He went on at Rosenberg’s look of sheer horror.

“Cassie was attacked by the same insane member from the previous crew, who had also stabbed me in the side of the chest, luckily missing my heart.” He added “I’m presuming he also stabbed Corazon.”

He sighed before continuing “And then there was Trey. Towards the end of the mission, Trey unintentionally made a mistake, but it was a deadly one to say the least. At the time we weren’t far from the sun, or the ship of the previous crew. Anyway Trey made a mistake and half of our shields were badly destroyed by the sun.”

Capa pinched the bridge of his nose and continued. “Our captain and I had to go outside to make repairs to the shields. Unfortunately there was complications, I made it back safely to the ship, he didn’t, he was burned to a cinder by the sun. Trey was so riddled with guilt that he went into depression. We had him on suicide watch. Eventually he did kill himself, he slit his own wrists. I’m presuming the storm cloud must have revived him and healed his slit wrists. I just don’t know about his current state of mind.”

Rosenberg asked “Tell me how a member from a previous crew ended up on your ship, after he’s been stranded for seven years on his own?” Capa replied “After shields were burnt, the room that housed the plants used for oxygen was burned down. There was an accident and we had to destroy the whole plant patch.”

He went on “In the end it was discovered that there wasn’t enough oxygen left for all of the remaining members of the crew. So we had a team vote and it was decided we would try and find the ship of the previous crew seven years ago. We had thought hopefully that their source of oxygen hadn’t been the source of their failure. And we were going to go to their ship to see if there was possibly any survivors and if they had any other functioning equipment that could aid us. It was also decided that we would take their own pay load, we figured with two pay loads, we’d have a better chance of success.”

Capa sighed and revealed “Apparently we were mistaken, we lost two more members of our crew, after our means of getting from one ship to the other was sabotaged, and I think that was how that crew member got aboard our own ship. Only Mace and I survived that plan.”

Capa looked thoughtful before he asked. “Can I ask you trust me, as I know away of how I can show you how the others were killed and how they were revived, I understand you and the medical board are going to require some form of proof that I’ve not gone insane?”

Rosenberg nodded wearily and said “Of course. Anything that can be used as proof or means to waking the other crew members quicker, I am willing to cooperate and give you my trust Capa.” Capa nodded relieved.

Capa then stood and bent down in front of Rosenberg, before lifting his hands to the Doctor’s face, before lightly resting his finger tips against his temples. He warned Rosenberg. “I recommend you imagine a door as a barrier to prevent me from seeing what you don’t wish for me to see, as it can accidentally happen. Please try to relax.”

Rosenberg nodded and took a deep breath, before doing as Capa had instructed. He gasped slightly as he felt Capa entering his mind. It felt like an invisible pull, before seconds later he was hit with memory after memory.

He saw all of the crew members dying, and watched in horror, as the five members currently being held in quarantine, were all revived by a reddish golden storm cloud. Everything Capa said had happen did in deed happen.

Seconds later Capa gently broke the connection so as not to startle the Doctor, or leave any kind of mental or nerve damage behind. He rose to his feet, and slowly made his way back to his chair. He waited for the Doctor to gather his wits, as he clearly looked overwhelmed and horrified.

Rosenberg choked out in stunned horror “Jesus H Christ! Its all true, all of it.” He was clearly shaken, and placed his hands over his face and shook his head, letting out a deep and weary sigh.

Once he had calmed slightly, to the point that he did not fear he’d be violently ill, Rosenberg finally said. “So it would unfortunately seem neither mission to prevent the sun from extinguishing its self, was ever meant to run smoothly.”

He added “Anyway you think this storm cloud, somehow mutated you and Mr. Mace and quite possibly the other three surviving members as well, when they do finally decide to wake?”

Before Capa could answer Rosenberg’s eyes widened before said. “I know you’re not aware of this, but about a week ago a group of scientist from New York City went up into space on one of Victor Von Dooms space shuttles. He was also aboard that shuttle. Apparently they were going into space to experiment with DNA, and were going to use some kind of storm cloud that was scheduled to appear above the Earths atmosphere in Space.”

Capa said “And you’re saying you think the same cloud they had been experimenting with, was the same cloud we were caught up in?” Rosenberg nodded and said “Yes, I think it may well have been. The news that has broadcasted over America has said the mission had been a failure that the storm cloud had somehow managed to seep through the shields of the space shuttle, and had surrounded the five occupants on board the shuttle. It has been said that the five of them have been released from quarantine.”

He paused before he said “But that isn’t my point, my point is that four of the five people aboard the shuttle were seen on the news this morning. Apparently one of the four has been radically transformed; he was huge and made completely out of what appeared to be solid orange rock.“ He went on as he saw Capa’s bright blue eyes narrow.

“Also the only woman of the group, it seemed as if she became invisible and let off some kind of force field, which held back a large rush of fire. Then there was another man, who saved a fireman from falling of off a bridge. He stretched his arms to an amazing existent, he was incredibly flexible, in-humanly so.”

He concluded “And finally a man who appeared to look exactly like Mr. Mace, could have been his twin in fact. He burst completely into flames and protected a little girl from being burned alive by a fire caused by a car accidentally being blown up.”

Capa couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He said “Perhaps when the others wakeup and we’re allowed to leave after being questioned and have dealt with all of the press meetings, then the five of us could travel to New York and speak with this group of scientists. Maybe we could exchange ideas of what has happened to us and, if there is some kind of solution to reversing its effects.”

AN: I made some adjustments.