Alpha 083

The spaceship engine exploded (1- simple sentence). Matt (2- protagonist), the commander of the NASA team, shouted to his crew, "We have a slight problem (3- understatement)". "What is it?" said Carey. "Take a look at this while I (4- point of view) go get Gerry and Gale (5- alliteration)". As Matt was walking away from the ship, a distant object could be seen over the horizon. Matt wondered what it could possibly be since Alpha 083 has been reported it doesn't (6-contraction) have any signs of life. The object was quickly closing the gap between itself and the stranded ship.

It then dawned on Matt what it was. "Get inside the ship!" Matt yelled to Carey. Carey, who was busy repairing the engine, did not hear Matt. The commander (now running towards the ship) (7- parenthesis) yelled again to Carey to take cover.

BANG! (8- onomatopoeia) All of a sudden, a rock as big as a baseball (9- simile), lodged itself into the ship hull only a foot from where Carey was standing. She turned around and saw Matt running from what looked like a person, except it had no skin, metal covered it instead. Suddenly, Matt tripped. The object caught up to Matt and dragged him into the horizon. Carey tried to save him but he was too far away for her to see where he went. She sadly whispered, "Matt where are you?" (10- apostrophe).

That was eight years ago (11- narrative intrusion, and 12- pace).

Carey never was able to fix the ship's engine. Gerry had gotten sick and passed away (13- euphemism) about six months ago now. His tombstone read "Gerry the Fallen" (14- epithet). Carey and Gale were the last two alive out of the original four. Both of them had not given up hope for Matt. Every day they each search the planet but to no avail. Carey was able to put together data (15- data) about what had taken Matt long ago. She had come to the conclusion that the object was some type of robot or cyborg (16- antagonist). That was why it wasn't detected by NASA before sending a team to the planet.

Communications with NASA had ceased because they turned the radio stopped responding. NASA had told them leave Matt and make their way back to Earth but they both knew that was not an option since the only one who could fly the ship was Matt and he was the one who was taken (17- irony). Space life was taking a tole on Gale considerably. He was first determined to find Matt, then somewhat indecisive, and then finally came to the conclusion that they had made the wrong choice (18- parallelism). Both he and Carey had started losing hope a couple years ago. The future looked dim.

"And that is the end of the chapter," Allen's father said. "Please just one more?" Allen whined. "I am afraid not Allen, you need to go to bed". "Goodnight Dad". "Goodnight Allen, I'll see you in the morning". Allen's father closed the door softly. He then walked outside of the house to look up at the night sky. What he saw next almost made his heart stop beating. "Carey come out here!" Allen's father shouted. "Gale, what is..." Carey trailed off while walking out the front door. As she looked up into the sky she saw a green (19- symbol) NASA spaceship landing just a small distance away (20- inference).

The End