Chase your dreams!

But as you drive down the decrepit and run down streets of Mars, the words of your boss echoing through your mind, you feel your heart race. You have no job, no obligations to this planet, and an almost endless amount of possibilities.

You think, maybe this is the push you needed? The push to **** you to pursue your dreams!

“Screw your boss, screw this planet, and screw the boring life!” You say. You veer off to the side of the road and into the vast desert of Martian soil, ready to begin your journey.

As you ride, you take in the majestic landscape of Mars, with hills and valleys all over the place. Mutated plants scatter the open field of Mars, most of them having a lush crimson and dark green color scheme. The mountains shine with the glow of the setting sun, meaning it’s almost night time, perfect for someone like you to operate.

As the sun slowly sets, you drive further away from civilization, feeling a sense of freedom. It’s like a massive weight has been lifted off your shoulders, knowing that you’ll find yourself off this planet in no time!

Once you feel far enough from any human, both alive and dead, you park your rover and cut the engine off. You feel your arms shiver with goosebumps, so you take the jacket next to you and quickly pull it on. It’s your favorite jacket, the one your mother gave you before she went off to retirement, which basically meant she left the solar system to go one of the colony planets. You miss her sometimes, but you were so young you couldn’t remember much about her even if you tried.

Anyways, you hop out the river and immediately grab your metal detector.

“2 paychecks well spent!” You say as you admire the sheen of the metal detector.

With nothing keeping you down, you spend hours combing the Martian surface with your metal detector, in hopes of finding great lost treasures like rare metals, artifacts of the old war, or even buried treasure from the first Martians! Your heart pounds each time you hear the lights blink and sirens go off!

But as you dig up what you’ve found, disappointment comes creeping in.

Metal scraps, trash, and the occasional broken geode is all you can find! Hours wasted for literal trash. Previous searches at least had you find something valuable, like a part to an old space shuttle or a piece of equipment you could pawn off, but tonight, it’s just a… nothing!

After digging up another piece of trash from beneath Mars dust, your blood boils! You stand up and start shouting at the top of your lungs, cursing the name of your boss and this god forsaken planet!

You get so mad, that you even through the metal detector at a huge pile of stone a head of you! You hear it almost crack in two as it makes contact with the rock.

“RRRAAHHH!” You scream, before you fall to the ground, tired and frustrated as you used up all your energy.

You look up toward the stars, eyes fixated on the Suns and planets you’ll never explore in your lifetime. You hold your hand out to grab something, anything to get you closer to the dream beyond this planet, but alas, all you feel is empty air.

You rub your eyes, thinking how humiliated you’ll feel walking back into the factory as a failure. “Will he even give me my job back?” You thought to yourself.

You lie there motionless, feeling defeated as you take several deep breaths. You try and rationalize it, thinking that it was better for you to find out sooner than later that your dream is all for naught.

But then, you hear the metal detector go off!

Your ears perk up as you listen to the loud siren of the device across from you. Immediately, you sit up and look at the broken metal detector.

It looks like it’s detecting some metal in the rock, and by the sound of it, this metal may be very strong, and possibly valuable!

You get up and run forward toward the rock, thoughts running wild as to what it could be!

You bend down and take the broken metal detector, somehow still working even though it’s smashed in two! You wave the device all around the rock and notice every inch of this rock is creating readings through the roof! The squeal of the device is like music to your ears as you run around the giant rock.

Curious, you take your hand and touch the rock. As you place your hand on it, you immediately pull away in shock!

“This ain’t no rock!” You exclaim!

No, in fact, this is a giant metal object covered in Marian dust! You figured that this must be something so old, hundreds of years of dust storms covered this thing in so much dust that everyone around the planet just assumed it was a rock!

But as you continue to whip away the dust off the surface, you accidentally press something as you feel part of the metal surface push in!

You jump back and watch as a door slowly slides up, revealing something you thought you’d never see in your life!

“Is this a friggin Space Shuttle!!?”