Chapter 3-The Descent
"Don't worry Chuck they'll be okay," Logan told him as they watched the shuttle Endevor take Kitty, Scott, and Jean out of their reach, to the stars. They wouldn't be able to help them if they ran into any trouble and he knew that that factor worried Xavier. They were his children, his hope for the future.
"I hope so," Xavier only said as he watched as the shuttle went out of his range of sight.
"They'll be back before you know it, don't worry about it. Those kids are smart, they can take care of themselves. They can handle whatever they get into."
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The entire crew entered the station together, they quickly split up to do their own duties. Scott, Jean, and Kitty went together to the control room, it was vacant. They quickly hooked up the device and exited the station, they boarded the shuttle and prepared for disengagement from the station. The rest of the crew soon joined them, everyone seemed tired of space, everyone just wanted to go home. The shuttle began its disengagment from the station. The shuttle was almost clear of the station when the shuttle was knocked away from the station unexpectically by what seemed to be a giant solar flare.
"What was that!?" one of the astronauts asked surprised and afraid of what had just happened.
"I have no idea!" someone answered.
"That looked like a really big flame," Scott said aloud.
"Yeah, like a solar flare, but that's impossible cause we're way too far from the sun for a solar flare to reach us."
"You sure?"
"I think so."
"You don't know for sure!" one of the other astronauts exclaimed.
"Well it's not exactly my best area!"
"Okay, okay no yelling!" Scott yelled at them. "We can figuare this out without yelling I think."
"The whole deal is that no one's ever seen a flare so big and so close to Earth." The shuttle rocked violently and began an unscheduled descent towards Earth. The shuttle was ingulfed in flames, the metal on the hull began to burn up. The shuttle's hull was buckling under the pressure of the descent and the heat from the flames that surrounded them.
"What do we do!?" Kitty yelled histerically.
"We need to shield ourselves from the heat and radiation."
To be Continued...