Chapter 9: Singularity

"What happened?" The dazed and confused red dragon said to herself. Anja had finally woken up only to find herself being shot at by lasers. She was hit a few times on her wings but unfortunately she was hit on her left arm.

"Crap that hurts." She said to herself as she flew away from whoever her attackers were.

She flew away without checking her surroundings at all. Anja stopped to check where she was, and all she saw was an infinite amount of space. She had no idea where she was or what happened to the city. She watched in confusion at what was going on around her until she noticed familiar buildings floating around.

"Was zur Holle ist das?"(What the hell is this?) Anja said to herself in German.

She couldn't believe what she was seeing and what was floating around her. Anja flew over to one of the floating buildings to see if there were any other survivors of Xana's attack.

As Anja began to just let herself float through the halls of one the corporate buildings from the city, she noticed something at the end. It looked like a hand of some sorts.

"Hello," Anja said as she floated toward the hand. She noticed it was behind a corner and so she proceeded to fly there in hopes of saving whoever it was.

Once she rounded the corner though, she saw the rest of the body and was in horror. The body was swelled up and burnt completely. The eyes were the first things Anja saw; only they were swelling out of the person's skull. Anja backed away from the swollen, dead body. She grabbed her mouth and began to cry with her back towards the wall as she saw more people floating in the air and in the same condition.

"Oh mein Gott." She kept repeating to herself with tears running down her face. She had no idea what was going on or where she was, but one thing is for certain, she was surrounded by so many dead faces. Anja couldn't take the death around her, so she flew as fast as she could out of the remains of the building only to be stopped by even more bodies.

The sight of all the men women and children was enough to break Anja completely. She began to weep at the many people she and her friends had failed to save from Xana's machine.

She continued crying until the thought of her friends and family being caught in whatever Xana's machine was crossed her mind. Anja didn't know if they all made it out or not before whatever the machine did destroyed the city.

"Guys," Anja whispered into her communicator, "are you there?"

There was only static on her comm, and she began to panic.

"This can't be happening. This can't be real." Anja said to herself. She floated there for a few moments in a dazed and confused silence. The silence was slightly broken when Anja felt lasers striking her scaly wings. She turned to find a few Krabs and some Bloks firing at her. Anja's sadness turned to rage as she pulled out her chain whip and flew as fast as she could toward the floating monsters. As quickly as they were firing at her, was just as fast as Anja was destroying everything shooting in sight.

After a few seconds of fighting her, the remaining monsters not caught by her yet tried to retreat from Anja's wrath. Anja saw them attempting to flee and she flew as fast as her wings could to destroy them as well.

"Why did she do this?" Anja said to herself as she destroyed all the monsters. "What did she do to all these people?"

The question swirled around in Anja's head for a while, but as she finished destroying the final Blok, she heard a faint voice behind her. She turned around and looked for where the voice was coming from. Anja continued until she finally found where the voice was coming from, a Blok.

"There you are." The Blok said in a faint robotic tone.

"Whoa," Anja started as she saw the Blok trying to move what little it had. "But, how can I understand what you're saying to me? We were never able to hear any of you talk on Lyoko."

"Our coding is not very different from one another," the Blok started, "just as you and the others were able to be materialized into that world with knowledge of how to speak, so was Xana."

"That's not answering my question. Why can I understand you now of all times?"

"Because my coding has been fractured and corrupted by passing through the event horizon." The Blok explained.

"Event horizon?" Anja asked as she tried to remember what that phrase meant. "You mean like a black hole?"

"Yes. Xana has created a machine that can manipulate space and time, causing what you humans refer to as a black hole."

"Wait a minute that means that I can get back." Anja began to get excited as she started to think black holes could be ventured through on the opposite side.

"No," the Blok continued, "the event horizon and singularity prevents that."

"Then how will I get back?" Anja said in a fearful tone.

"There was never supposed to be any survivors in the vacuum of space. You should have died along with the others, but your coding prevents this from happening. It is not logical."

Anja couldn't believe what she just heard; she couldn't believe that she was stuck in space, forever.

"You are an anomaly among the others." The Blok continued as it was beginning to lose power. "I may not know why it is possible, but if you can pass through the event horizon, then maybe you can stop her."

Anja looked at the Blok in surprise. "Why would you want me to stop Xana?"

"Xana does not know the true power of her machine. You need to break through the event horizon and pass through the singularity to reach your world." The Blok's light from the eye of Xana started to dim with his last words. "To break the event horizon, you move faster than light."

The Blok's light finally faded and Anja was left alone again, only this time to wonder how she is supposed to fly faster than the speed of light through the point of no return.

This Chapter Is Short For A Reason. My Head Hurts From All The Research I Had To Find On Event Horizons, Black Holes, And Singularities. If It Doesn't Sound All That Scientific Then Oh Well. Hope Ya'll Enjoyed This Chapter, Chapter 10 Will Be Here Next Week. And As Always, PEACE!