STRANGER DANGER

"But you can, you must, and you will."


  As soon as Victor said those words, murmurs erupted in the hub. Trying to assure each other that they had just enough time. But, even they knew it was hard. Maureen immediately set up a course to find John, but there wasn't sufficient fuel. Maureen wouldn't budge, even after Dr. Smith's manipulating and threats.

Then all of a sudden, the ship started moving downwards towards the planet in a bad state. Alarms started blaring, warning the pilot to pull up. Well, that was a part of the plan. Just as quickly, the robot sensed danger and in order to save Smith he made her move in the hub while Maureen told the kids to get out of there.

The doors closed once Smith and robot entered the hub, trapping them in there. Maureen handled the ship just after that and the orbit was stabilized.
The doors of the hub were locked, there was no getting out of there.

Maureen knocked one of the glasses of the hub from the outside, calling Smith. Smith walked to her, robot following suite.

"You're in the safest room on the ship. It was designed to survive an asteroid collision. It was designed to withstand solar flares. It was designed to repel temperatures that drop to absolute zero. And do you know who designed it? Me. So don't expect to get out any time soon." Maureen informed with a sass.

Without responding verbally, Smith raised her hand and formed it into a fist. Robot did the same like a kid who copies their mother. Well that wasn't the same here anyhow.

"Break the glass."

Thumping sounds could be heard as robot constantly started hitting the glass. It didn't break but it did have a few scratches on it.

"You can't keep me I'm here forever," Said the trapped lady.

"Thats true. But you'll be in there for long enough. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go find my husband," And with that she exited to find the kids.

"You do realize that you can never criticize us for being reckless again," Remarked Penny as her mother approached the kids.

"Of course I can, I'm your mother," Maureen replied. "Hey sweetie you alright?" Maureen asked Anna, who looked a little shaken up.

"Yeah, just got a little deja vu, except it was real," The girl mumbled in response.

"Oh I'm really sorry about that. All of you." They all just smiled in response.

"You girls get the harpoon ready," ordered Maureen.

"Wait, we have a harpoon?" Asked Penny, but she was ignored by her mother.

"Will you're with me," Maureen grabbed his hand and then both went to the cockpit while the girls used the stairs to go to the garage.

***

"We actually have a harpoon gun," Penny said in a surprised voice as she opened up a box which had the gun. "All my life, I feel like I've been missed out on harpooning things."

"All this talk of harpooning reminds me, we never got to finish Moby dick. Only got to like page 30," Reminded Judy as she started to assemble to the harpoon gun.

"The whale kills Ahab," Penny disclosed.

"Spoiler alert."

"It was written in 1851. You had your shot."

The sisters chatted and then laughed a little. Once they quieted down, Judy jerked her face towards Anna to Penny, who had been awfully quiet as she put the harpoon gun where it would get launched from.

"Hey Anna?" Penny called to her.

"Yes?" The girl closed the lid of a box and turned to the sisters, who almost had pity in their eyes.

"Do you want to talk?" Penny started with her words but, got a confused look from the girl, so Judy took over, "About what happened back there in the hub."

When in order to distract Smith, Maureen piloted the ship to move downwards to the planet in a dangerous way, Anna wasn't in best condition. She did have training for this situation, ways to handle the stress during that time, but that wasn't the problem.

Once you through something bad, the trauma just sticks to you. Often, one may get flashbacks which was the case here. That moment took her back to the moment when her family's ship lost its fuel and crashed on the planet. Just the mere thought of it, flashed memories of her dead family in her mind. Even though she completed trusted Maureen, she couldn't help but think that the same could happen to the Robinsons.

At that moment, her body felt heavy and she has a hard time in controlling her breath. Once the ship was stable again and the kids got out the hub, she was panting and her whole face was covered in sweat. Will was sweet enough to give his friend a hug to help her calm down.

"Not really, no," Anna shrugged off the girls' question. The sisters shared a look and walked up up her.

"You can always to talk to us," Said Judy, putting her hand on Anna's shoulder.

"You can expect the same from me," The bespectacled girl smiled at both of the girls and got a hug from each in response.

Back in the cockpit, Maureen and Will were finding John and Don using the heat sensors. Will also got to know that he didn't really pass the stress test in order to come to alpha centauri.

"I'm picking something up," Said Maureen when the infrared sweep pickup up something hot.

"You girls ready with the harpoon?" Asked Maureen into the radio.

"Ready," Judy answered back.

Just in a moment, John and Don were in the view and the radio caught up. They all said their hellos, and then Maureen got the harpoon ready for launch. It would be in range in a few seconds but, then the pounding of the robot hitting the glass stopped.

Sensing trouble and assuming Smith and robot got out, Maureen launched the harpoon even it was out of range and took a run for it with Will.

"You stabbed me in the back Maureen. Our fuel's gone. The resolute is gone. I'm stuck here drifting nowhere till I die," Smith called out in the emptiness of the hallway when she managed to get out of the hub.

"Hey Maureen! You missed," She heard John over radio. She signaled robot to find Maureen and walked into the cockpit.

"And all because of you. You and your family," Smith continued as she stared outside the glass.

Meanwhile, Maureen and Will managed to get to the garage without the robot finding out.

"Hey what happened?" Judy asked hurriedly when Maureen and Will climbed down the stairs.

"Get in chariot," Maureen ordered.

"What? Why?" Asked Anna.

"Yeah what's going on?" Penny asked suite.

"It got out," Will answered. The girls' confused looks vanished when they heard loud thudding clearly created by the robot.

"Get in now," Maureen handed them their helmets. Judy and Penny got in the chariot while Anna stayed back wanting to help in every way she could. However, she stayed out of Maureen's view not wanting to create an argument just while yet.

"Seal the doors. It'll maintain the pressure long enough," Maureen closed the doors of the chariot.

"Mom we can help you," Judy cried.

"Stay in there," Maureen said, sternly and the doors closed.

"Hey where's Will and Anna?" Judy owned when she found not sign of them in the chariot.

There Will revealed himself from the back of the chariot and encountered robot who stood there looking and Will, his lights swirling in a way as to indicate he was staring at Will very intensely.

Anna was hiding beside the chariot and that when her eyes fell upon a weird oval shaped thing, blue wires were coming out of it as it spread just below the chariot upon it. Reluctantly, she stretched out her hand to touch it but stopped when she heard Will say something to the robot.

"You know who I am. It's me. It's Will Robinson," Will voiced, completely ignoring the muffled calls of his sisters, begging him to hide.

"And we're friends," Will finished once robot walked up to him. The boy stared upon his once friend, hoping he'd remember and change for the good. He covered his face, preparing himself for pain when robot raised his hand. But, it never came as an invisible force pushed the robot back and he fell upon the metal pillar with a loud thud.

Will turned his face only to find Anna glaring at the robot. It didn't even take Will a second to realize that the girl saved him. Almost immediately Maureen came in the view and handed both the kids their helmets, which they put on an quickly as possible.

The robot who had been previously pushed back, got up only to be shoved even harder by Anna's telekinesis powers.

Taking this as a chance Maureen quickly told the kids to buckle up and tie themselves up. Just as the robot got up from his earlier position, lying prostrate, Maureen opened the gate of the garage.

Alarms started blaring with red light as the valve opened, such great force of the space was pulling everything. Luckily they all were tied to something. Robot struggled to hold on to himself and eventually a box flew into the space, hitting robot in the process and taking him with it.

Maureen pushed the button to close the gate while everyone let out a sigh of relief.

"Air pressure stabilized," The automated voice said.

The three unbuckled themselves and Maureen went to check whether her daughters were alright in the chariot, after doing the same with Will and Anna.

Then just as suddenly the realization hit Will that robot really was gone. A huge part of him wished he hadn't. He just wanted his friend to be as he was, he never really wanted to lose him. His thoughts were interrupted with an annoying creaking sound.

The sound was coming from the door which was slowly opening as if someone was forcing it to open from the other side. The door was half open when they all caught the sight of a spaceship. It was dangerously similar to the alien ship they found down at the planet. The worse thing was it was working and there was a huge possibility there was someone in it.

The garage's door was half open when robot climbed on the ship taking its help. He wasn't alone, instead he had company. Another robot but with fours arms and red lights upon its face. It didn't take much time to realize it was like the robots that attacked the resolute.

The robots climbed on the ship and rose, and a strange trepidation cracked through the room. The group watched them, anticipating their next move. Fear was evident in each of their eyes.

Both the robots looked at each other once they were on the ship, each their lights forming into an oval shape. Anna recognized that it was similar to the ball things she saw below the chariot but didn't understand as to why that's robots were referring to it although Maureen had an idea. Will's robot's lights turned red as well and he pointed towards the chariot, panic rising inside the two girls who were in it.

"Why is it pointing at us?!"

Maureen told Will and Anna to go away from the scene and walked up to the other robot, glaring,"You stay away from them," But, she was pushed away harshly by the robot. She was sent to the side where her helmet hit something, making a crack.

"Mom!" Her three kids exclaimed in worry the same time Anna said,"Maureen!"

The robot raised two of his four arms, which became red, and shot out something, attacking the chariot. The chariot movies from its place abruptly and the oval, blue thingy disattached from it. Black marks formed on the chariot where it was hit.

Will was hit slightly too, making a hole in his suit. Because of which, it was becoming hard to breathe.

The four-armed robot picked up the ball and looked at Anna who was crouched near Will.

"Anna windsor," It said as it opened two of its hands. The girl gaped at it, confused and scared, wondering how did it know her name. It was going to attack hence she had to think fast.

Just as it was about to attack, Anna stood up and the next thing they knew, the robot was on the floor, the oval thingy falling out from his hands. On the other hand, Will's robot saw how hurt Will was and something happened like a change of heart as his red lights turned back to blue. He crouched down beside Will and put his metal hand where it was torn and sealed it.

"I knew it was still you."

"Friends, Will robinson!" Every person in the room smiled at this encounter of reunion.

The other robot got up in the time being and got ready to attack, its hands burning hot. The fastest reflex of Anna was to create a big flame of fire and attack as well. She shot out the fire from her hands just as the robot attacked her. It was egregious and the latter watched in weary.

Both flames met in mid air, not ready to budge. Anna tried to push the robot back by putting more force and it did glide back a bit, but it didn't last longer. Anna grew a little weak, for she hadn't used her powers in some time.

Not able to stay put anymore, she gave in, her head feeling heavy although it never hit her. Will's robot defended and began fighting with the other robot. It was brutal. In the end, Will's robot tackled the other one and jumped off the ship taking it with him.

Will was in a loss of words. He just stared out the ship at the the two robots flying in space, still fighting until they were out from the view. He was on the verge of tears but pushed back his emotions in a second, there were other things to deal with.

"Ship's oxygen loss will reach critical levels in T-minus two minutes," The automated voice broke the silence.

Maureen, who was passed out in the floor due to lack of oxygen, woke up coughing and Will and Anna ran to her.

"Are you both okay?"

"We will be," Will answered for the both them.

"Hey! There's a crack in the glass, we're losing air," Judy called out from the chariot.

"Its not gonna hold," said Penny scrutinizing the glass.

"The ramp won't close, the hydraulics are damaged," Maureen broke the bad news.

Will stood up realizing something and said,"There's a manual crank outside." He then proceeded to walk towards the opening, hearing his mother's protests.

"Will you can't!"

"What good is protecting me my whole life if I can't grow up to protect you?"

"You be careful," said Maureen to which Will nodded to.

The boy was just about to turn around, making his way out when someone hugged him tightly with great force. He didn't even hesitate to hug the person back.

"Good luck and be careful," said Anna as she pulled away from the hug.

"I will be."

Updating after what feels like an eternity. Season 1 is almost completed and it's a little overwhelming
Sorry for not updating just been really busy
Don't come up with too many expectations alright
Bye<3

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