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Chapter 22eaven And Earth



History is funny, really. Ironic, more accuratley. Like how sacrificing yourself to

save the galaxy inevitable ends up causing the destruction of the universe, so on...

It was midnight by the time our heros found a ship suitable for there cause. It was a

very sleek ship, not unlike Kallis' ship which they got there with. Ofcourse, it was

made out of 2850 technology, obselete (but the best they had) in there time, but absolutley mind boggling to our heros.

Sitting in the leather officers chairs on the viper shaped brige of the Ashail'a'Akali (A Gerenpfpssh word phrase meaning Heaven and Earth) our hapless crew went over the battle plan.

"So, we arrive in orbit, Tyio and me go out in EVAs and together form a vortex big enough for us to go through, right?" Aldan stated.

"And once in the other world, we dig up the Katalym, bring them here, and have them create the time portal, right!?"

"Right!" The others chimed inthusiastically.

"Okay, let's go!" Aldan turned to man the controls, but found Kazooie drooling over them.

"Kaz! I know it's a good ship but I'm flying!"

"Buh why?"

"'Cause you got to last time, now shove off!" Aldan violently pushed the rapt bird into

a heap on the floor, then half grabbed, half stroked the control stick.

"Uh...Aldan?" Grath said.

"Yea?"

"Mightn't we...take off?"

"Oh uh, yea, commications, request the bay to open the doors!"

"Aye." Tanpopo said, holding a earpiece in her ear.

"Permission granted." No sooner had she said this than, ever so slowly, the doors opened.

"Okay, let's go!" Deftly, Aldan flew the ship out of the bay and into orbit, which was

no great feat considering the thin atmosphere

of the world. In a few short minutes, Aldan supposed they were far enough out, and he and

Tyio donned EVAs and jumped into the void.

It was no great ordeal, situating themselves ontop of the Ashail'a'Akali, but generating a vortex big enough, through gloves, was another matter entirely.

"Okay, how we gonna do this thing, Tyio?" Aldan questioned, trying to keep his balance

as the ship drifted slightly.

"Suppose we begin a small portion of it locally, and then feed that directly, otherwise it might burn a hole in our suits.

"Right." And so they did. To tell you the details of this would be boring, so we shall

skip to when the vortex is complete.

"Wierd, I've never seen a vortex look like that before." Aldan commented. It was true,

usually vortexes is a single, continus disc of swirling blue, but this one was a spiral

of blue, and where the rest should have been, was black.

"Maybe it's the contitions, anyway, hurry, we need to get back into the ship before it

closes!" Tyio shouted, and they began the bounding fly to the underside of the ship.

Once securly inside, and Aldan prying the controls away from Kazooie, the ship eased forward, into the swirling hole of subspace.

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No one can quite describe, if you've never done so yourself, what it's like traveling in the vortex. The best way to say it is that

you feel like you are everywhere and no where. You can see everything for a googol lightyears, perfectly, all around you, yet

you feel asthough it's a dream, like all the parts that should be there arent there, like

it's missing. That's what it should feel like.

But now, it was abyss, utter abyss.

"It's totally black...this is strange." Ducky said, bewildered.

"Don't worry, it's over...now." And they popped into the Other World like a cork.

"Yea! Were...here..." Aldan's voice fell.

Everything was completely black. Utter abyss, no ligh, no junk, nothing.

"What...is this place?"

"It's the other world, I can assure you that." BlackSheep said, peering into the

scientific console.

"But theres...nothing here."

"Infact, theres nothing anywhere, the telescope and sensors show theres nothing,

no space dust, no atoms, nothing..." BlackSheep's voice was utterly grim.

"Hull integrity falling, the void is sucking at us, hard." Tyio checked off.

"Are you sure theres..nothing?" Aldan asked.

"No...wait, I'm picking up some trace elements, yes, E13 hyper excited particles are everywhere." As soon as the words had

come out, Black realized what she said.

"The entire universe...is filled with magic?"



Chapter 23: Left Behind



"Trace elements radiating from a point thirty-two light years away, the way they

radiate it's almost like...a explosion."

"Teross." Aldan said coldly. No sooner did he say this than the light fizzle out on the

ship and several explosions eminated inside.

After a moment of darkness the lights returned.

"Guys, we can debate this later, but we need out of this dimension before it tears us apart!" Kazooie shouted.

"Right, Tyio, you and me." Aldan and Tyio ran over to the EVA room.

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As the door to the bleak infinity, they could already feel the tug on there suits.

"We don't have much time, let's go." Aldan said, and the bounded out. But, suddenly,

Tyio smacked Aldan back into the bay and began closing the dock doors.

"Tyio! Stop! What are you doing!"

"No sense in both of us dying, so goodbye, Aldan, tell Duck I love her." He said with a nonchalant voice as the doors shut, snapping his life support tube.

"Tyio! Come back!" Aldan banged on the door, he'd already tried opening it, but Tyio

sealed it with his own acess codes. He considered using his sword, but it would

shatter like a twig aginst the neo-tyyrennium. So all he could do was slouch back, aginst the door and say, plead,

"Tyio, don't be a hero."

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The pull of the void and the icy vacuum were already affecting Tyio, so he knew he had to work quickly. Forcing his energy into

creating a rift through the time/space continum, it sapped nearly all his energy.

"Only...one thing left...now." He floated to the idle engines of the ship and gave it a

swift kick into the vortex. And now he drifted, alone in a empty universe, the swirls

and patterns of the vortex a long ago memory. Time stood still for so long, and he

awaited the cold embrace. But it never came,

indeed, it began to feel warm, and he could no longer tell he was drifting. His suit had

many punctures, yet he wasn't depressurzing. Fearfully, climatically, he turned around to,

what he described many years later as, the

most beautiful thing ever, the swirling core of the universe. He stared into it for a

long time, minutes, hours, days, months, years, he didn't know, time seemed to come

and go as it pleased in this place. After this long while he felt a prescence behind him. It floated to

his right side. It has torn, scraggaly black, and white, partially gone flesh. Its

jaw had left it, and has a scarf half-heartedly thrown over it.

"Welcome to Appolyon."

"Who are you?"

"Teross."

"But I thought that in this time..."

"I was destroyed by the blast, but not killed by it. I don't have that glorious pleasure. I am a ****ed immortal, and welcome

to the core of the universe, the center of

all."

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The tiny ship dipped and bobbed between incoming blaster and missle fire.

"C'mon, I need that trajectory, now!" Aldan said, waiting for the time of entry that

would take him to Katalym.

"Enter...now!" The ship ducked into the atmosphere, as heat began to collect around it.

"Time to activate ceramic shield." Aldan pressed the corresponding button, but

instead of a great shield of ceramic spouting

out of the ships mouth, a giant piece of paper came out.

"I...O...U? A IOU? AHHH! WE'RE GONNA DIE!"

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The ship crashlanded in the side of Katalym's mountain. Not much was salvageable,

so they had to inhabit a dome shaped tent

through the desolate storm.

"And then out came the giant foot monster, with a foot for a head! Duh duh daa daa!*"

Aldan told his story.

"But if it had a foot for a head, how'd it eat the farmer?"

"Doesn't matter, Duh duh daa daa!" With a

sigh of disgust, they all reentered there

sleeping bags.

"Hey, one thing still bothers me guys."

"What?"

"How come you guys weren't all sad when I told you that Tyio sacrificed himself."

"Don't you read the entire chapter! Lazy!"

...

...

"Well, that shut me up."



Chapter 24: The Primeval Nexus(Prelude to The Final Battle)



Equipped with there futuristic blasters, our heros scuttuled through the trenches

and hillets torward the base that engulfed

the former town of Katalym. The clone wreches walked soulessly on there patrols outside the sensor base. The sensor itself was awkward, it had a octagon shape, and out of it's top dispired a beam of blue energy.

"Go fig." Aldan said, as they mounted snipering positions, to take out one clone

each. Just as they were about to fire, the clones turned and fired on them.

"Duck!" Aldan commanded, and the bolts either flew above there heads or crashed into

the stone.

"Return fire!" He shouted again, and the peeked over the rock and began firing aimlessly, until ducking again when the next

barrage came.

"Retu-" Aldan was cut short when a blast from a large artillery cannon incinerated the

bolder infront of them.

"-urn...RUN!" They all scattered aimlessly, firing shots at the clones, but very few fell.

"Guys, we need to hurry, the main base is sending reinfocements!" Tanpopo, the one nearest the other base, shouted. Soon, blaster and artillery fire was exploding everything, and our heros were growing tired.

Then, Aldan got an idea, he fired at the conduit just below the flailing matrix of light. It popped like a cork, and out spewed a blast of bluish energy, not unlike the destruction of Teross' ship, yesterday, or

eighty years ago, depending on how you look at it. Yet our heros were unaffected, the energy just poured over them and created a

wake behind them. After only a moment or two, but what seemed like decades, the blast

subsided. The land was unscathed, as were our heros, but the base and clones were ruin.

A lone Katalym, his arms open and facing the

sky. He appeared older than the others had,

maybe he was awake longer. Cautiously, they

approached him through the ruin, he apparently not having noticed them yet.

But, the moment they arrived within a yard of them, his head shot down, and he lowered

his arms.

"Who are you?" He asked in a gentle, sort of eloquent voice, his Katalym charachteristic eyes leaving trails of light.

"We've come a long way, in hopes to find you."

"Would you use me like thease ungodly spawn have for nought less than a century. What

vile intentions do you have?"

"No, we were wondering if you could create a tunnel like your former brethren did,

we need it to save Carrotous." The Katalym studied them for a moment, then replied.

"You lie, you would greater the glory of Teross if I allowed you to traverse time."

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Tyio and Teross were on sort of a platform that moved through the marvels at the core of

the universe. They had arrived at a large asteroid entangled with bitter plantlife of

all sorts.

"And what's it?"

"It shall be my method to crush Carrotous once and for all,and ruin space aswell.

It's technically cheating but no one is here to guard it." Tyio had, many times by now,

tried to strike Teross, but found he was encased in a field of energy, so he asked.

"What is it called?"

"Cheryn Noble." Tyio's eyes nearly jumped out of there sockets. It was a Gerenpfpssh word.

"You...can't do this Teross."

"I can and I am..."

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Finally, new stuffness here! After a long

awaited wait, here it is, the second to last

chapter...



Chapter 25: The Core Of The Universe



The Katalym stood, ponderously. In the past, he had been used by Teross forces to

focous the hyperspace communication network.

That was gone, now. But now thease stranger who rescued him wish to have him create a time portal to travel into the past.

When Katalym think, they think long. A new drift of snow had come and buried most of

the ruins and corpses, making the scene all the more grim. Finally, the Katalym complied,

sensing no evil intentions from our heros.

"I will...do as you ask..." Creating a orb

of blue energy in his hand, the aging Katalym hurled it infront of them, creating a swirling time nexus, similair, yet entirely

unlike the vortex. They stared at it, until

Ducky ventured a question.

"Where will it take us?"

"The year 2817, December 31. Where, it is uncertain, right at this spot, probably,

unless the forces of destiny draw you elsewere. The group stared at each other

"Let's do it." Aldan said, and, after bowing to the Katalym who, unwittingly, just

saved space-time, they entered the rip in the

universe, and passed to the other side.

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The massive asteroid, entwined in plant, and other, massive space rocks began treading

away from there homes.

"I shall smash it into Carrotous, at the time which your friends will, or did, come from the future to smite me.

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Yes, I know it's short, I shall let the suspense gnaw at you're brain.