RE:Inspiration; Titan II

By James Phillips II

The second chapter in the RE:Inspiration; Titan quadrilogy. After being rescued from certain doom in the dark void of space, Captain Jacobi Myles tells the tale of how he and his crew wound up stranded in space and left to die.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Phillips II
• Release date: Aug 2, 2012

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Part Two

By James Phillips

Copyright 2012 James Phillips

Smashwords Edition August, 2012

Cover art by S.M. Rameez

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I want to give extra thanks my good friend S.M. Rameez, not only for creating the cover art, but also for lending a hand in editing this story and helping make the Tel'atomic Pulse-Propulsion system seem somewhat plausible.

The dark haze that held his mind started to dissipate, the pain that had plagued him was gone and Jacobi Myles, Captain of the Outrunner, knew that death had beaten his will to live. Light blazed into existence from within the darkness and Jacobi was drawn to it.

Shortly after the arrival of the light, sound started to flow into the tunnel that led Jacobi to an unknown fate. The sounds were muddled voices, speaking unfamiliar words in a familiar tongue.

Beyond the strange voices speaking alien words, words that he knew but could not place, was the sound of mechanical whirs and digital beeps. Cool air caressed his skin as he drew nearer to the end of the tunnel. The black void called him once more, but it was weak this time and Jacobi turned from its pleading. Life or death, Jacobi had chosen his path and he would not change his mind.

He reached the end of the tunnel before he knew it and stumbled over the edge.

As he fell he could feel his conscious slip from him.

This is it… He thought, but those thoughts were lost as he fell.

All that remained of Jacobi’s mind was the blinding light and a terrifying silence.

Suddenly a voice broke through the awful silence. It was loud and clear and a rush of emotions flooded Jacobi’s previously blank mind.

Captain, he’s waking up. The voice was female, but not quite human. It sounded odd, almost synthesized.

Another voice quickly followed, it was another female. He doesn’t look like he’s awake. Sarcasm practically oozed from the words and if Jacobi would have been in control of his body he would have smiled.

Just give him a minute, he’s still coming to. Yet another voice retorted. This time the voice belonged to a male, he seemed annoyed by his female counterpart’s sarcastic quip.

Was he alive?

Jacobi’s eyes sprung open. Blinding light -much less brilliant than the light in his dream, but bright none-the-less- seared his retina and his eyes snapped shut. He tried again, this time slowly opening his eyes, allowing them to adapt to the brightness.

People surrounded the small bed that he was laid out on. An astonishing assortment of machines and gadgets, with a plethora of wires and tubes leading to his bed, sat to his right.

Above him, past the light that shone down on him, was the unmistakable metallic gray of the hull of a spacecraft.

Space?

Memories flooded back into his mind and a mixture of panic and adrenaline burst into existence. Jacobi shot up in his bed. The pain from earlier, while exponentially less painful than before, returned and a harsh cry escaped from him.

Every eye in the room -except for one pair that might never open again- turned to him.

Are you alright? The owner of the voice was a young-woman; Jacobi judged that she was in her late teens or early twenties. She had a pair of sparkling lavender eyes that resembled two amethyst diamonds hidden behind a small pair of glasses. Her