Yellow fields of sand stretched out and dominated the horizon; there were no dunes, dry dessert plants or insects to be seen. This dessert was completely flat with no hills or holes. The atmosphere in this area was too thick for life, the gravity would force any passer by to crawl, but there were never any passers by on Jupiter.
This could be said four minutes ago and be true, no passers by , but four minutes ago a ship from earth landed on the surface .from this ship a small boy dressed in a white astronaut soot stumbled out wearing an expression beyond proud.
“ this is it” he told himself “ all my life was designed for me to experience this moment” he stood on the last step of the ships stair case “ the first human to set foot on Jupiter” he said and then he stepped .
He half walked half crawled on the dry flat surface trying to fight the stong gravity. The orange sky was scared with thin red clouds , to Oscar this was not strange at all for he had never seen the blue skies of Earth . He was taken at birth to the ship and placed in a glass container were a machine raised him , fed him and taught him until he was seven and allowed out of the container. He was the chosen one , as the machine said so many times when he doubted purpose, he was the one to save man-kind by finding a new planet which would be habitable.
He stood now, not wanting to go too far from the ship which was Known to him as “the womb”. You would expect him do feel lonely , but for Oscar , being lonely was like bieng consious , always there and never fading. He stood gazing out, imagining The human race building houses and starting empires “ but first” he told himself “ the vital test” as these words were said panic took him, what if the machine was wrong , and Jupiter was not an oxygen planet .
He slowly lifted his hand to the glass helmet, he gripped the sticking out hinge and pushed up . For a second he held his breath, his heart beat like a clapping crowd, his face was hit with dry, strange wind and then he sucked in .
He fell to the floor within seconds , the acidic air had done it . He thrashed on the dirt spitting blood on the sand and gasping for air, but no air came . He then died a lonely death . A life that was filled with nothing other than a computer program for company ended.
The blood was absorbed by the earth . Over thousands of years it was broken down into DNA and proteins , they sank deep into the crust and found the ice seas of Jupiter, six million years pass and a tiny gland of life is born out of the remains of the boy’s blood, the life evolves as it happened in our world .
Mankind by now has been wiped out from its own doing; they had destroyed the planet by years of air poisoning , but far away, in Jupiter , life evolved to survive . and it was human life , from a human boy.
Man kind was given a second chance.
