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dangerous and tricky situations, and he thought that they could do
it once again, even if there was a slight chance.
    He examined the strange alterations, with erratic
characterizations, in
the equipment and realized there had been a change, and they all
started examining how it was now affecting the shuttle and its
performance, and he checked the pilots and saw that they had seen
something in the increasing darkness ahead and wondered what the
shuttle was going over, and was surprised at how fast it was
getting dark and he managed to adjust his eyes and followed one of
the pilot’s eyes to a location ahead.
    He joined in
examining there in detail. It was incredible! There was nothing
visibly there but he knew there was something! He had seen nothing
like it! At that distance it seemed normal though, and he was left
confused as he was sure something was going to happen there, and he
and the pilots started preparing for something to occur, and he
decided to ignore the dangers and to handle everything he could as
best as he could as it appeared.
    The area was
not properly charted and there was nothing shown there, and the
satellite photos showed nothing but another area of Mars, and he
suddenly wondered what was there and where the hell it had come
from!
    Areas
surrounding the region had a volcanic appearance, and it was
definitely old.
    Campbell
discussed it with Stanley the pilot and tried to get anything he
could from the pilot.
    “ We
should get someone to check out what’s there as soon
as our communications return !” Stanley replied. “It seems to be where the disturbances
are from!”
    “ That
looks empty?” Orwell announced, looking into the front window with
high powered binoculars, hardly able to see in the blackness
there.
    Campbell took
the binoculars and searched where he was looking, and stood
confused, and replied, “What happens now? How the hell could
anything be there?”
    “ I think
we’re going down …” Stanley shouted, and the shuttle started going
downwards.
    “ I’ve
recovered control of it!” he gasped, after a few minutes of
struggling to control it.
    “ We’ll
have to land!” Lyndon announced, checking everything about him,
preparing himself.
    Cronenberg gasped at the situation and rushed into his
shuttle commander’s seat, one of their impact protection seats,
designed for him, and the shuttle started reacting crazily and
viciously shuddered, as if caught in some force, and they started
descending swiftly and he realized like most of the crew that the
worst outcome could become real, and he saw them reacting and
preparing themselves for their worst fears.
    He copied
positioning himself in his seat and prepared for what was ahead,
and considered using something for violent impacts.
    As
it hurtled down wards he spotted the last shreds of sunshine illuminating the sky on an area of the
horizon, and he spotted the startled faces of the two pilots recalling emergency procedures,
and others swiftly securing equipment or themselves.
    He wished he
had a better view at a main window of what was happening! He
imagined it bursting into flames with the powerful fuel and the
entrance being blocked.
    The last shades of
weak light pulsated , in various motions, through the front pilots window , and he
considered what could happen! Would it ruin everything if the
shuttle was destroyed and they survived?
    Yet they had
revealed something, and with incredible powers, powerful enough to
take down a powerful large shuttle, with such high technology, and
he wondered if they could discover what it was and save the day! If
they survived to see what was there!
    All they could
do was wait for the outcome, and try to do everything they could,
and he realized he was actually part of a real drama and
occurrence, perhaps for the first time in his life!
    He started
realizing how professionally skilled and proficient the crew
actually were, and how far they had gone out of their way to get
them and carry out