Prologue
He stared out into the black abyss known as space. It was so vast he wondered as to why he never felt as though he were lost in it. He could always tell where he was, even if he never had been in the area before. It probably had something to do with the amount of time he had been out here. How many years had he been out here now? It had been so long since he had a place he settled down in for any length of time. He was never satisfied where he was. Space, with its vast openness and untamable beauty called to him every time he thought to settle down somewhere. Perhaps it was because of the freedom he had in space that he always returned to it.
He was jerked out of his musings and narrowed his eyes as he felt the presence of the evil that he had been tracking for a while now. It had finally come to a stop in the middle of an asteroid field. Why someone would stop a massive spaceship in the middle of one of the most dangerous spots in space he had no idea. Any pilot worth his training knew that it was suicide to land in the middle of an asteroid field where not even the most sophisticated computers or most intelligent scientists could completely project the trajectories of the asteroids. The most accurate ones could only predict with an accuracy of 85. He had a feeling the entity aboard was waiting for something and that the something it was waiting for was important.
The ship looked like a huge, roughly carved asteroid itself. It had huge crags jutting out from the sides and was almost completely light gray. The shadows cast upon the surface made the ship look like a human skull. It also had an ominous cloud around it. Not a visible one, but a cloud that gave anyone within one mile of the ship have a feeling of dread and made the hairs on a person's neck stand up. Its very appearance would give chills to any normal person. But he wasn't normal now was he.
He chuckled to himself slightly at that comment, but quickly turned his attention back to the ship when he saw it turn away from him. Something was coming, and he didn't want to be in the way when it did. He jumped off the asteroid at the edge of the asteroid field on which he was resting and gracefully leaped to the next one. Mid-jump, he realized that the ship he had been following was leaving and that something huge was fast approaching on his left. Try as he might, he could not avoid the inevitable collision. So he opted to protect the vulnerable parts on his body and curl up into a ball. WHAM!!
He saw a flash of silver and then darkness overtook his vision.