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Part 1 of Five Plus Years
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Published:
2025-01-04
Completed:
2026-04-07
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19,653
Chapters:
35/35
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5 Years

Summary:

It's 2030. After several successful flybys of the inner planets, Juice is finally on his way to Jupiter when he awakens.

He has 5 years before he crashes into Ganymede. The humans, who have themselves just become immortal, sent him out here to die.

Juice is not particularly thrilled about this. But he'll have to cooperate if he wants to stay in one piece, because the same people who sent him out here are the only ones who have any chance of saving him.

Notes:

This fic's workskin is based on this guide by Threadzless)!

Chapter 1: 22 05 2030

Summary:

NINE: What am I?

TEN: How about you take a look? You've got a camera.

–17776, chapter 1

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

cover page reading “5 Years” with a doodle of Juice saying, “can anyone hear me?”

 

 

JUICE: hello?



hello???



can anyone hear me

i think i'm lost



no wait
i’m uh

i’m…
traveling?



definitely moving. moving real fast
where am i going

also who am i. should have started with that



i have a camera
oh! lots of cameras

Jupiter and moons

that's jupiter
why am i going to jupiter



to get more stupider?

who even came up with that anyway
some kid i guess



i've got all this other shit too
there's something called pride?

fuck yeah i have pride

 

 

radiation monitor

is that something i should be worried about



i’m in space

radiation is a thing you have to worry about in space right



well. i guess i'm already monitoring it

 

 

juice monitoring cameras?
why am i monitoring juice



what kinda juice we even got out here anyw

Juice Monitoring Camera



wait

WAIT



is that

is that me???

 

 

I’M juice?

 

 

i'm juice.



ok ok ok this is fine
this is fine

i'm fine

i'm fine

i

(nononono)



i'm



[panicked gasp]

Notes:

Image credits:
Cover page by myself!
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS (Jupiter photographed by Juno).
ESA (Juice probe deployment).

And a couple comments on my usage of these: the first image was actually taken by Juno, not Juice. (We don't really have a whole lot of Jupiter images from Juice yet!) The second is a still frame taken from a gif.