[ WP ] Born too late to explore the Earth , born too soon to explore the stars , born just in time to explore the Internet

`` Hard Starboard!'' I shouted at the crew. 
 
 `` Aye Aye, Cap'tin!'' They scream back. 
 
 The storm continued to rage on in the background, whirling and whittling us in quicker and quicker than ever before. The dark clouds make no empty threats, spitting down on us with bolt of lightning and thunder, slamming against the tattered mast with vile volatile winds and pelt us with hard bullets of water. 
 
 `` Cannons! Cannons! Get down!'' My first mate ducked down beneath the wooden frame. 
 
 His majesty's greatest guns decided to join the cacophony of weather, bringing down brittle shards of splintered woods spinning through the air. They were destroying my ship! 
 
 With three more of my men flung off port side of the ship, my numbers were dwindling, and fast. I jumped up to my feet as soon as I could. 
 
 `` Fire the cannons!'' 
 
 The bright yellow sparks let off a shower of tin and lead right back at them, ripping the air, and rung it like a church bell gone made. 
 
 `` Good god!'' Geoffrey yelped, `` It barely made a dent! The captain better know what she's doing!'' 
 
 I held back a swallow of disgusting horror but could not get rid of the bitter taste of impending doom and defeat. Gritting my teeth and spun the wheel once more and scream as loud as I could at the men. 
 
 `` Get ready to board! If his majesty does not let us see the world, then we will end his!'' I raised my cutlass, slicing the torrent of salty air and ravaging waters. 
 
 The ship was closing in. 
 
 I was so close! 
 
 It's going to hit! It's going to- 
 
 `` Riiiiiiiiing!'' 
 
 `` Ah!'' I fell off my bed. 
 
 Rubbing my sore bottom, I rubbed my eyes and yawned deeply before swiping my phone hoping to end the incessant alarm. Another dream ruined. 
 
 Saturday, a beautiful Saturday. The birds outside were singing like a cliche, the sun was bright out, with few clouds hanging in the air. What a great day to go out to enjoy life. 
 
 What a great day to go meet some friends. 
 
 What a great day to... 
 
 Go to Reddit. 
 
 I threw myself onto the pivot chair, throwing the bra casually off it, making sure to land it on the bed. I pushed my glasses closer to my face and poked the power button on. 
 
 As soon at the monitor flared up, I lazily clicked on chrome and was instantly put onto a YouTube video of cats being cute as always. It did put a smile on my face, but I was looking for more interesting things to read as soon as I get my bowl of cereal. 
 
 `` Eh, steam sale's over,'' I crunched my cornflakes and scrolled further down, trying to find a good weeklong deal, nothing as always. 
 
 Returning back to Facebook, I reeled back with disgust. Simona's getting married to Brian? What the hell? And who cares if Alicia is now in a `` complicated relationship'' with Darrell? This is the third time this week. 
 
 Anyway, I returned back to my original purpose, Reddit! 
 
 I scrolled down the front page as always, up voting some /r/aww photos and /r/gifs gifs. 
 
 Then I came down to the usual /r/WritingPrompts, a nice safe haven for aspiring writers like me, hah-lol-no. Reading through some interesting posts and stories conjured up by users, I finished my bowl and chucked it back into the sink, avoiding eye contact with my mother telling me to `` wash the dishes for once!'' And/or `` Get a boyfriend already!'' 
 
 Asian parents. 
 
 Throwing myself back into the comfort of my room and my seat, I found a post. It read, [ WP ] Born too late to explore the world, born too soon to explore the universe, born just in time to explore the Internet. 
 
 I sat back in my chair, mulling over it. The ceiling looked rather dark with the curtains closed... I should probably get a boyfriend as mom says... I shoul- 
 
 `` Miss! We need orders!'' A maroon shirt wearing man woke me up! Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead as he looked up to me. 
 
 `` Fire up the main engine,'' I instinctively replied. 
 
 The man jumped back to work, whizzing back to his seat and shouting at the other crew members. 
 
 The flurry of movements amongst them was too great for me to comprehend. They ran back and forth throughout the deck. The Bright white lighting was distorted with even brighter lens flare of yellow, red and blue! The window out of the cockpit a world away from ours. 
 
 In the corner was a bright blue planet, the planet of earth. And past its horizon was the calmly burning sun. The rest was pitch black, with a scattering of small blobs in the background, the stars light years away. 
 
 I looked down at myself, sitting in the middle of the room in some weird skin tight suit that managed to squeeze my tits even smaller, the hell. 
 
 `` Where do we go ma'am?'' The room looked at the puzzled me. I looked around. Their eyes were glued to me, awaiting my order, my command, waiting for me. 
 
 None of them were running off getting married. 
 None of them were going to get a complicated relationship status on my front board. 
 None of them was escaping my grasp of comprehension. 
 
 I gulped, they were waiting for me... 
 
 I stood up. 
 
 `` We go.'' 
 
 `` We will boldly go where no-'' 
 
 Clunk! I fell backwards and into reality. I looked up at the grey ceiling again... Great, another dream gone. 
 
 Picking myself up and setting the chair, I waved off my hypochondriac mother who was yapping about `` Maybe we should see someone about your head! Look! There's a bump already!'' 
 
 I closed the door and looked again at the prompt. 
 
 I sighed, who had the time to reply to this? It's too time consuming. 
 
 No one would write about this! 
 
 And I downvoted it. 
 
 /// Jk. Upvotting for sure. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed this. I plan to start to write more on /r/WritingPrompts and this was my first attempt. 
 

