As soon as it started, and it ended. It was only seconds long and yet I felt a pull so strong that I couldn’t breathe. I never felt something like this before and it was starting to scare me. I needed to tell Ave about this. I left the bridge in search of my friend and doctor to see what the hell was going on with me. I was making my way to med bay when I ran Matthew.” Hey June, great news the ship is at 90% function and in just a few more days we will be able to move at full speed with no problem,” he said. “that’s great keep it up and when it is at 100% just throw it into full speed,” I told him and walked away. I find Ave sitting at her desk going over patients care reports.

“Ave, I need you to run some test on me but don’t tell anyone, “I said to her. She gave me a look, but I told her I would explain everything after. She did what I ask her to and run some test. She did an MRI, a hearing test and a phycological test on me. A few minutes later she came to me. “Hey June, everything is fine, you brain scans are normal and so is everything else what’s going on,” she asks me. I close my eyes and thought about how to answer that. Just as I was about to answer Paul come in looking pleased with himself. “Oh, look the captain got hurt an- “before he can even finish his question Yuri came and tackle him to the ground. I was stun. “Woah hey guys what the hell is going on!” I yelled.

“Nothing Captain we are just sick and tired of this guy’s shit that’s all, no one bad mouths out Капитан (captain),” and before I could do anything else Paul’s men came but did not try to stop Yuri from handling him. “Si Paul is a culo and we had it up to here with him,” said one of his men. I just look at them. “Yes, that is right Captain we all had it with Paul dissing you and we don’t want him as our leader any longer,” another said. I look at them all and thought about it. Paul was the most senior, so it would have to wait until we landed on Mars for a new leader but for now, his men can take turns. “Alright but it will have to wait until we land on Mars,” I told them, and they all agree. They left with Paul and I turn back to Ave to continue talking about my head.

“June the is nothing wrong with you,” she said once again, and I shook my head. “You’re wrong Ave I can feel something wrong with me. whenever that signal comes on I feel I pull towards it and I don’t understand why “I told her. She looks at me and said okay, she was going to run some more test but with the signal playing.

She hooks up my head to this weird hat thing and told me when she was going to play the signal. She didn’t give me any warning and just played it. I immediately felt my body relax and a warmth spear throughout my body. It was so calming and warm that when she stops it I felt something inside me sadden. She looked at me and the real-time brain scans and notice something. “I need to look at this more so I'll see you later June and ill find you when I have something,” she said to me and started working. I left her and went back to the bridge when I saw a red face Russian taking up the screen before me. “You have no right to cut me off when I am speaking!” he yells. I didn’t want to deal with him, but I have to.

“Ah hello again how can I help you,” I spoke up and he stopped yelling at Ling-yu who look like she about to cut the video again. “We will be launching a second rocket to mars and calm what we want to calm,” he said to me. “I don’t think so, as we stated before none of that will be happening on Mars we will not let earth history repeat itself on a new world and beside the only people who can make an interstellar rocket are the Americans and I don’t think Maxwell will be doing anything for you anytime soon,” I said to this balding angry man. “How dare you!” before he could get anything more I cut the signal myself. “Hey Ling-yu don’t me a favor and never let him see the inside of this ship again,” I told her, and she was all too happy about that.

After some time on the bridge, I check the distance from our current location form the red planet and we were exactly two days and two months from her. I was going over the writing that was sent with the signals between earth when Ave messages me to go see her. I went to her and she told me to meet her in her room. Once we were behind closed doors she shows me my brain scans. I couldn’t understand it. She took her tablet back and started talking a mile a minute when I grab her and told her to slow down. She took a deep breath to steady herself. “The way your brain is interacting with the signal is well normal in some mating rituals find in some birds and monkeys on earth,” she told me. I look at her like she lost her damn mind. “So, wait you're telling me I want to mate with whatever is making this sound,” I said, and she said yes. “Listen this is already crazy and now this, what the hell,” I said and sat down. I did not believe her, but she was the head doctor and she said she wanted to run more test with the other recordings as well and with anymore new ones we would encounter.

I went back to the bridge to do some work. They weren’t much to do now since most of the crew was in here doing everything the Miles would be doing if nothing hit us. We kept receiving transmissions from Russia, but we ignore those. Other countries ask us how they can part take in sending some people mars and I told them what had to be done personally. It was a year-long training program and you could be older than 34 with the exaction of miles being that he was our captain. I also told them to speak to Maxwell since he was the CEO if they can send people to mars or not. We had close to six hundred people anyway and we can quickly grow our population without need anyone from earth. But if they pass they all the test and training them they can come.

The day was coming to an end when we receive that alien signal again and I felt like body relaxes and warmth wrap around myself. It felt so nice that I didn’t want it to stop. I open my eyes and left the bridge and went to my room. ‘What the fuck’ I thought to myself. This was too much. How can one sound bring me to this? I need this to stop. But now I think I understand what this is. It could be a mating call if Ave was right or it could be something entirely different.