Too the moon
June 28, 2026•555 words
A man is walking down a tunnel, similar to one leads out to a football field.
As he gets closer, he is more visibly nervous. Until the point where he stops.
Camera is behind him putting him in sillouette.
He reaches out to the wall to lean on it, with his right hand, which is holding a briefcase.
He leans on the wall with his head down. And he sees a NASA sticker on it, an old one.
He tries to touch it and hesitates. He is going to give up.
He grows to grab the door handle with his left hand, confirming he is giving up.
Something grabs his briefcase.
It's a 5yrs old kid. Offering the adult one of the two rocket ships in his hands. The adult gently takes it from the boys hand. Caressing the toy.
The man stands up admiring the toy he clearly remembers. Hesitant to make it move in the air, like he's playing with it. He starts to do it, and a smile comes across his face.
A tear hits the toy.
The man rubs his eyes.
When looking at the young child, there's an older boy behind him, wearing a space helmet with a sticker on it from the briefcase. And a rocket in his hand.
The adult nods in confidence. Picks up the child. And the child points to light of the hallway, with the rocket.
The adult leaning forward and with the rocket in his hand, starts running.
The older boy with the helmet, not to be left behind, grabs the briefcase, and starts running.
The light starts getting brighter.
Cut to a young man, leaning against the wall with a stack of papers, a pencil in his ear and one in his mouth. Wearing a baseball cap, with a NASA logo. He looks stressed.
Cut to our three trailblazers running towards the glorious light.
Back to our stressed college student and a light coming onto him like he is about to get hit by a car.
Cut to him with the light of the tunnel behind him, but the light approaching is brighter. He is a deer in headlights, all of the papers fall from his arms, a pencil from his ears. Fades to white.
Cut to all of them running towards the light. The young man trailing behind the boy with the space helmet, holding up his baseball cap with the rocket logo in lieu of having a toy.
They are charging like mad, with even sillier faces on. As they begin to emerge from the tunnel into the light.
(Similar to avengers age of Ultron opening slow motion of the avengers assembled.)
Cut to a shot of all of our characters in sillouette, behind, slow mo shot as they ascend into the light, looking happier than they ever have. Papers strewn about in the air, the briefcase open, the boys helmet half off, the tie from our adult almost off his neck.
Fade to white.
Fade onto a door. Which has the NASA/Rocket logo.
Our adult enters the frame, knocks with a moment of hesitation.
Pauses for a moment, opens the door AND enters the room.
The door gently closes behind him.
The camera pulls away to reveal a plaque the reads "Recruitment".
Fin.
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