Dreams do come true

Chapter 20

T-minus 1 hour to land

Messages to and from Earth could last between five and twenty minutes so they were on their own, but they'd trained for this.
The six of them were there for a reason and it was most definitely not because they wouldn't have sex out there. They were the best, their equipment, their ship, everything was the best of the best and they made it this far without a glitch. They could do this too.
Of course, they were still live streaming, even if it got to Earth with delay. They'd been live streaming for a few days. Not everything, of course, just the cameras outside and the one in the control capsule, where all of them were right now.
Maggie had easily undocked the control module, leaving the rest of the ship in Mars' orbit. They went through every checkbox, every detail, they were on course and kept updating each other and the whole world on each technical step forward, each minute that passed.

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On Earth, Ruby and Eliza watched every NASA monitor hand in hand and with the same look of horror and wonder in their eyes. Houston had let all the families go there. Maggie's mother was with them, apparently not even his daughter on Mars could make her dad forget about her sexual orientation. Nia's whole family was also there, Brainy went with them but was soon next to Ruby. Lillian Luthor showed up just in time to watch the last half hour and it didn't surprise Eliza how scared she looked.

It was even worse knowing that they had so much delay. On the monitors displaying video they were almost an hour behind, the only-audio stuff was close to twenty minutes, but Eliza couldn't take her eyes off the faces of her daughters.

T-minus 10 minutes to land

In the ship, they were on the final countdown and it was taking forever. Every minute seemed to stretch for far longer than that. Every button they touched was a breath they didn't take. Every affirmative sentence from one of them was like breathing fresh air again — and it had also been too long since they did that. They couldn't afford any mistakes.

T-minus 5 minutes to land

"I'll have to go manual, Commander."

They all heard Nia, but even if their training would have let them react to that, the rocky descent didn't. The whole thing was shaking with a force that didn't let them move much.

"You got this, Dreamer." Alex acknowledged and encouraged.

There was no better pilot, they all knew it.

T-minus 1 minute.

"This is it, ladies!" Alex sounded as confident as ever. Even if she was feeling the opposite.

They kept checking, kept reminding everyone the time left every 5 seconds. They kept working.

Nia was struggling to keep it steady, but she'd done it a million times before. Of course, she'd have to make sure they adjust the accuracy of the simulator because she definitely never felt it was this difficult during training. Or maybe it was just the added pressure of knowing it was the real thing.

Either way, it was tough. But as Alex and Kara talked to Houston like they could answer right away, everyone was doing their parts. Maggie was also encouraging Nia and it felt good.
With these five women by her side she could do anything, even landing on Mars.

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