Finally updated this story! Yay! It was pretty hard trying to adjust things to be in space rather than under water, but I think the magic entity thing worked out very well. I'm just passing time until the good stuff happens.


Chapter Four: Escaping to the Hidden Dimension

As Timothy reached the meeting area, he spotted Darcy ordering commands to the crew that was piloting the spacecraft. Valtor was also present, along with a few of the other crew members Saladin had mentioned. Walking to the front of the room, Valtor was the first to greet him.

"Welcome, Mr. Windez," he began, "Everyone, I need your attention please."

"Good afternoon, I've prepared a presentation to explain the course of this journey, from what I've gathered it will be a long and difficult one. From doing some extensive research, I have discovered a enormous entity of celestial matter that is supposed to occupy the area of the Magic Dimension in which we are headed. It has been said that crews attempting to cross those particular coordinates have gone completely mad just by looking at the pure magic energy of this entity." Timothy explained, then turned on a holographic projector to show his crew an image of what the entity may look like. One of the crew members was the man he met earlier that was carrying the box of explosives, the man just gazed at the image with uncertainty.

"Wow, I think that looked like the night light I had as a kid." He chuckled.

"All right, say we find this colossal energy ball, what do we do then?" Valtor inquired.

"Once we destroy it, or at least distract it long enough, we should be looking for a secret portal that will take us to another distant dimension, where Zenith is said to be relocated." Timothy continued, showing the crew another slide of his presentation.

"Sir, I think you should see this." One of the other crew members called Valtor over as he ended the meeting.

"That's everything,." He declared before turning to the man, "turn on the exterior lights." As the gigantic lights shone to life, the crew could see all sorts of debris drifting into space

"Whoa, look at that." Darcy gasped.

"These are all the spacecrafts from missions to find Zenith over the past ten years." Timothy told them in awe. Meanwhile, the lady in charge of making all the announcements on the ship, Griselda, heard a noise coming from outside, and contacted Valtor on his pager. At that moment, he was observing Timothy while he was translating the information from the Zenithian thumb drive on his handheld device.

"Sir, I hear something outside the ship." She warned the rest of the crew.

"Put it on the speakers, Griselda." Valtor ordered, and suddenly everyone could hear the sound while Valtor, Darcy and Timothy came up to check it out for themselves.

"Could be some interference from a nearby satellite." Valtor thought.

"No, it's closer to us then that." Griselda told him.

"Perhaps it's just an echo." Darcy added.

"Hey, if you want to do my job, then go right ahead, I'm close to retirement anyway." Griselda scoffed.

"Um, guys, I think the sound might be getting louder." They all turned to look at Timothy, only for the noise to stop completely.

"I guess whatever it was, it's gone." Darcy replied after a couple minutes of silence, but she spoke too soon when the Owl began to shake violently. As everyone began to run to their stations to maintain the ship, they were getting ready to fire lasers at whatever was attacking. They were all trying to keep their balance as the ship continued to shake. As Timothy was tossed around, he landed by a huge window, and got to witness exactly what they had come across.

"Holy crap, it's the entity I read about." He gasped in shock. Escape pods were ejected every which way from the Owl, and lasers and torpedoes were being shot at the energy being. Once the ship was free from it's grasp, more attacks were thrown at the entity of space while the crew tried to escape. However, the Owl took a great blow in the process. A woman named Layla was in the mechanics room, making sure that everything was maintained, she noticed that the engines were hit, and hoped that everyone had time to escape before the entire ship exploded.

"Valtor, our engines were hit by the dark magic of that entity, I don't want to be here when this thing blows to pieces!" She yelled over her pager.

"How much time do we have until that happens?" Valtor asked her.

"Twenty minutes, if we're lucky," Layla estimated, when suddenly a small explosion could be seen behind her, "better make that five minutes." With that, Valtor ordered his left over crew members to head to the nearest escape pod, even Layla managed to make her way to join them.

"Come on people, move it!" Darcy commanded, "Any day would be perfect!" They all huddled in the tiny escape pod, Valtor, Darcy, Timothy, Darkar, Layla, Brandon, the guy who had the explosives, and even Griselda were crammed in.

"Darcy, get us out of here, now!" Valtor ordered.

"What do you think I'm trying to do!" She snapped impatiently. Suddenly, the energy form blasted the Owl to bits, and the escape pod flew through outer space at rocket speed.

"Now what are we looking for?" Valtor asked Timothy over all the commotion.

"Now we look for that portal!" He answered. The entity was still following them, however they managed to spot a shimmer of light in the distance, coming at them quickly.

"There it is," he shouted, "full speed ahead!" The pod sped right towards the portal only to reach it just in time. The energy being guarding the portal was no longer in sight, and they made it through to the other side. There were little to no realms occupying this other dimension, and the remaining crew members looked onward to try to search for a planet or station to set up camp. Surely they couldn't all sleep in the tiny escape pod. Then, they came across an abandoned space station floating in the middle of nowhere, complete with living quarters, empty though they were. They landed the pod, and looked around from the station at the vast emptiness of this hidden dimension.