CHAPTER 11: THE CORE OF DARKNESS
She meandered into the council room with a curious but exhausted face. Warfish didn’t understand why Shadowjack had summoned a meeting that required all the lords of each alliance in the entire galaxy. It had never been done before but apparently FU was volunteered as the host. The leaders of each alliance began to gather at the great round table. Representative officers and leaders had joined in meeting to discover what imminent danger their galaxy faced.
Th cautious faces filled the room. Yesman stood up and the officers of FU rose and bowed to the other lords in respect.
“We have called for this emergency meeting because one of our engineers has discovered a threat so great, it could destroy all we have built here in Tyrfing”. Yesman looked to Shadowjack and sat down.
Shadowjack began to pull his charts and graphs up on a holographic screen for the entire room to view. He explained that there was a rip in the space, the same one that had caused their galaxies to collide.
“The rip is entirely different. Its possible this is a collision of a black hole with a white hole trapped within. I’m really not sure, its mostly speculation at this point. What I know… is that in order for US to seal this hole, we need to come together!”
“That’s what she said!” Warfish blurted. The room filled with a mixture of awkward laughter and silence. Shadowjack partially chuckled realizing the context of what he had just said, but continued on.
“From my scans and calculations – we have 24 hours to prepare as a whole galaxy. We need to stop this enemy from entering that while hole. I believe the white hole is the core within and its what is keeping this black hole open. We can enter the black hole through different portals but what I believe is that there are other galaxies in the same dilemma as us. Once we reach the white hole at the center – we can block in off with some matter I made to seal the galactic tear. In theory the white hole should spit us out in the same location we entered the black hole from.”
Warfish stood up “I can create a small task force to guard the entry ways, if we have other galaxies, its possible they are going to try the same method as us”.
Shadowjack nodded, “I also created a small gadget for everyone to place into their station allowing us to warp them back into the white hole one the main team reaches the entry way point. Once this sucker detonates – we will all be transported as a group”.
“$FC stands by you!” Phoenixis, lord of $FC stood up. His scarlet cape had looked more magnificent since the last time Warfish had seen him.
A few disgruntled officers of BU crossed their arms. How could they even consider working with Warfish after the recent attacks she had led on them. What if this was merely another trick.
The leader of BU, Hueputalo rose from his chair with a stern look on his face.
“And how are we not sure, this is a clever guise to excuse Warfish of her crimes against us?” He was a very serious man who had recently overtook BU as they began their merge into $FC.
The officers of BU filled the room with their rabble. The chunners of Vankessel were most audible to Warfish who shot a look of distaste for their inability to put the galaxy above their petty egos.
The leadership of U5E and TFN among others rose and nodded their heads in agreement to help fight as a team.
The $IN council had slowly diminished since the passing of Intoccible. What remained was a small headquarters in scare alliance called Unity. Yesman began to explain the concept of having everyone join *U* in Unity of honor of Tyrfing.
“We stand united and survive united!”
Everyone began to cheer. Shadowjack looked at Yesman and the round table was dismissed. They had less than 24 hours to prepare. Everyone began to describe their best ship designs and work to formulate multiple ideas on how they could seal the core.
Warfish left to back room and grabbed a handful of vials. She walked over to Phoenixis and smiled and placed one vile on the table in front of him.
“Do you want to join…the redrum club?”