Space AU
@colourful-serendipity
Ja-xon nodded to her words, and together, they went to their seats. Before he sat down, he offered Vlad one of his blue wires, so he could plug him to the spaceship and function as guide. The sisters, Vlad and Butterfly adopted their seats to lead the spaceship. Vlad took the wheel, while Calliope and Clio activated the anti-matter shield, and Butterfly kept one eye on the cooling systems through his screen. "All cooling systems are fully operational, Vlad", he told to his friend. "Very well, now comes the fun part." Vlad commented, beginning to move the wheel. "Everyone, tie your seat belts. Things are going to get dangerous from now on!!"
Haz`le gripped the arms of her seat and double and then triple checked her seat belt. "Okay, I'm ready," she said not feeling ready at all.
She reached over at grabbed Ja-xon's hand. Feeling more nervous than she had been in a while. She had never been through a wormhole before. (She figured not many people had.)
"I'm ready," she whispered to Ja-xon
[Let's go!] He smiled at her, interlacing their fingers.
The spaceship shifted its position toward the black hole, while a bubbly shield of dark matter, supported by a pink plasma shield, protected it. Vlad could feel sweat on his forehead as he drove their vessel toward the black hole. This was the most dangerous maneuver he had ever done!
"OPEN UP, BIG BOY!" He screamed, pushing the wheel forward as they entered the Singularity Horizon. The immense gravity of the black hole sucked them in the blink of an eye, but the dark matter shield cut through the hurricane of light like the sharpest knife. The speed was so huge that it pushed everyone against their seats, and Butterfly teared up in fear. They might not survive this!!
But the moment that they fell into the darkness, Ja-xon's blue wire began to glow and float in the air - along with everyone else! Since they dark matter was cutting the gravity around them, even the artificial gravity was failing. Not that it mattered.
Ja-xon narrowed his eyes. He could hear the voices more clearly now.
[To the right! To the right! Keep following the blue glow!]
Ja-xon squeezed Haz'le's hand. [My people - they're helping us! We have to move the ship to the right! Follow a blue glow!]
Haz’le felt the seat belt push against her as the artificial gravity stopped working and the floated into the air.
She squeezed Ja-xon's hand and almost missed what he said in all the commotion. She jolted slightly. "Vlad, Ja-xon said to move the ship to the right! Follow the blue glow!!" She yelled.
Her heart was beating loudly in her chest. She was worried he wouldn't be able to hear her, though the ride was mostly silent.
"On it!!! Move, you big girl!!!" Vlad squeaked, turning the ship slightly toward a blue glow that had appeared on the radar. The gravity was so strong that he was struggling to keep his eyes open. The ship kept falling deep, deep into the darkness at the center of the hurricane...
And then, the most incredible thing happened. After a "PLOP" that sounded as if the ship had fallen into some water body, the windows revealed... a prism of possibilities. Literally - hundreds, millions of infinite worlds, floating as shards that remained together as a huge ball that floated before their eyes.
"The universe's biggest disco ball...", Butterfly mumbled, before he got nudged by Calliope. "What? What did I say?!"
"What is this?" Vlad asked, both fascinated and scared.
"The Prism of Reality. It's the core of the black hole. Contains all the words and realities it has sucked through millions of years, compressed as shards whose manipulation could spell destruction for that particular universe." Clio explained. "Just like the robot here said - we need to find a blue glow. It's the biochemical mark of ancient civilizations."
Haz`le blinked. "Huh? Core of the black hole?" She didn't think there was going to be a core. "Um... 'All words and realities?'" she repeated. "Are we going... back in time or something?" she asked. This was way out of the realm of plants and other things she was used too.
"Bio... chemical mark or ancient civilization?" she felt like a parrot repeating what she heard, but it was a lot to take in.
