My New Companion (because every hero needs a companion)

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I got in the spacing capsule, and accepted my fate. The spacers sealed the capsule and got ready to launch me to my grave. I heard the telltale buzzer "bzzz, bzzz, bing!" And was shot into the cold abyss of space. I tried to hold my breath for as long as I could, but it wasn't long until I passed out from the lack of air.

I woke up on a strange planet that reminded me a lot like Earth III, but just, way smaller. I could still see the stardancer, and it looked like they were about to launch another capsule. I wondered out loud, "who else could have screwed up as bad as me?" I soon found out. It was the janitor, who apparently had tried to stop them from spacing me, but then got spaced himself. The janitor wasn't human, he was a Bignok, a kind of weirdly large shrimp that had evolved to grow large back legs and speak English. This was my new companion, a giant shrimp.

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