Chapter 20: "Hateful starfuel and an aggressive Absol"
Johnathan and David decided that the best course of action was to get on the sphere and travel to the home universe of where the sphere came. In order to be train by the inhabitance on Null-A. David also wanted to get technology from a galaxy swallowed in dark matter. He wanted to gather information on the technology there and replicate it to fight the insurgency.
Aby had no choice but to come with them considering how the foundation would treat her and how the G.O.C would most likely kill her. And David had refused to take her back to her native universe for various ships. Saying "We can't risk disrupting their timeline any more than it has been." Aby also had interest in Null-A. She wished to get rid of the insurgency. All three knew how the insurgency could destroy all the universes that exist with wormholes.
David had secret plans though. He wanted to visit the observer. If he laid in its suspended animation coffin for an allowed time. It would enhance his abilities near that of a reality bender, only if combined with Null-A training that is.
They were all siting around the in living room of the Bokak bunker.
"We can't just sit here and do nothing." Johnathan said.
"We can't just chase after the insurgency guns blazing either. We need to find out where they whent what they are doing and how we can stop them. It can help you understand how the insurgency works." David said.
"I want to talk to you David." Aby said getting up and walking toward David's study. Getting up David followed and shut the door.
"Take me to the sphere with you." Aby pleaded.
"I had every intension to."
"I mean don't return me to my home world."
"I wouldn't do that it would leave you vulnerable. They would use you as a bargaining chip against me. Or blackmail me."
"You're too stubborn to notice that I really like you aren't you?!"
"N-NO…I uh…"
"Just shut up." Aby said walking out the door.
In the southern Indian Ocean sat a frozen Island. With rough geography and very few residence. None of them permanent, just on guard and researching the mysterious buried and flooded structure. A light snow fell with a dark overcast. Just enough to block out the sun's position. Pacing back and forth around the 1 megawatt electric fence that encompasses the huge site, was the members of Task force 2111-J . They were about 50 soldiers strong. But the next few minutes would decide all of their fates. When commander Barnsworh called in the boring hourly status report, the site came under attack.
Within minutes His team was overwhelmed by a multitude men and women yelling religious verses and screaming every time one of his own was down. The entire site was in ruins due to the resonance weapons and meth bombs. Ruble had buried some of Barnworth's men. He had to retreat and run whiles watching the chaos unfolding around him, having to stay out of sight as much as possible. Some of the attackers seemed to create metallic grinding noises and gear whirring sounds instead of screams and yelling. Some were coordinated like a bunch of drone soldiers quickly and silently moving in perfect unison like soldiers in a cheap video game. Nearly all the attackers had remarkable strength. They would move ruble off of one of his men only to stab or shoot him as soon as he was clear of the ruins. They were armed with everything from Pollywell fusion rifles and hand held resonance canons to the standard 9mm pen gun. Before he knew it the site was in ruins, and he was the only man left defending the researchers and scientist. There were only about nine of them left.
Barnsworth had been forced to hideout in a trench about 10ft deep. It was one of many trenches that seemed to poke up out of the ground like a mosquito bite. Some researchers and scientist had grabbed microwave-radio guns and hopped in the trench with him. They were found about 10 minutes after the attack. Barnsworth and the men he defended held their hands up and waited for the attackers to respond. About a minute later an extensively aged but ruddy looking man stepped forward from the crowd that had lined the trench edge and spoke to them.
"Today our greatest enemy, the wicked and blasphemous Foundation has suffered a loss. And our broken god has had a victory" he said. With that the crowd of attackers began yelling, screeching and whirring, shooting Barnsworth and the scientists until they were dead.
David walked out and signaled Johnathan to come in.
"I've got to monologue here a bit." David said.
"Shoot" Johnathan replied.
"We need to investigate certain areas of gravitational influence called Lagrange points. I think they hold the key to finding out where the wormhole went. Although I think we have a new enemy that wants the engine for themselves.
"Ok one question, when do we leave?"
"Now." David said
On the sphere David decided to take a shower since he hadn't in days. Johnathan decided to cook some food, particularly steak and burgers. Aby couldn't help but stand and drool looking at the steaks. She had been feeling weird lately, like a burning or itching was building up inside her. She knew what is was and needed relief. Johnathan was in the kitchen cooking.
"Please Johnathan give me some."
"It's not quite ready yet.
"Pease."
"Ok Ok…just don't eat it too fast."
Johnathan handed Aby a rather large steak and a bottle of BBQ sauce. She sat down at a table and began to eat.
"Thank you so much."
"Your welcome."
"Where's David?"
"In the shower…I know what your thinking don't try it."
"Why not?" Aby said with a grin. "I'll just give him something else to think about."
When David was done with his shower he decided to get the Valkyries ready for missions to the Lagrange points. He had the living room transform into the command center it really was and decide to check the fuel levels. He hated what he saw. He saw the needles almost on empty, somehow he had to get fuel for the sphere. It needed to be refueled on plasma from a star. It kept a miniature star going in the center of the sphere to power it.
Depending on what it did, it had to at some point be refueled. He only knew of a few places nearby suitable for being a refueling star. He couldn't use the sun due to the fact that the sun was vital to earths survival he couldn't risk taking several thousand years' worth of fuel from the Sun. Or one of the solar systems gas giants for their hydrogen content, which would throw the solar system out of balance. He had a crooked thought that would save the foundation some work and get him some fuel. He could refuel from SCP-1548 the "hateful star". It was close by and needed to be eliminated anyway.
It was a pulsar star. A magnetized neutron star that rapidly spins and shoots out high energy rays in two different directions because of its extremely powerful magnetic field. Pulsing rapidly, this particular one was a little larger than Manhattan so the sphere dwarfed it. Such stars were some of the most powerful stars in the universe. This one apparently was heading for the solar system but it would take 5,700 years to get there. For some reason it was intelligent and sending hatful messages to earth by pulsing in Morse code. Witch the foundation had to constantly suppress. It apparently wanted to destroy the solar system. The sphere could easily overpower out of sheer size and time-space warping abilities.
David felt something soft rub up against his arm, he had a sudden urge to punch and run because it made him jump but he restrained when he felt a sharp blade come close to his neck.
"Oh…crude Aby I thought you were something else for a moment."
"I need your help with something.' She said slyly. "I told you that I would get you after our mission on the asteroid and I meant every word."
David was oblivious to what Aby meant but couldn't do anything because aby held him in a headlock.
"HEY JOHNATHAN I NEED HELP!" David yelled at the top of his lungs. He had the feeling Aby had some sort of thing he wouldn't like in mind.
"YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN I'VE CONSPIRED AGAINST YOU!" Johnathan shouted back. His face with a grin.
"I guess I'll have to help you. What do you need help with?" He said regretfully.
"I need relief down there." Aby whispered in his ear suggestively. David's reaction was anything but what she wanted.
"LAWD NO! n-not yet anyway." David said with a bit of fear. He may have been taller than Aby but she was far more powerful strength wise. He feared that.
"Why not?!" Aby whined.
"I-I'm not ready." David said managing to escape from Aby's deadly blade-headlock witch had loosened. He ran down a hall as fast as he could. He had no chance for escape as that Aby was a lot faster than him. David soon had his body be shoved onto the steel floor grate. He felt himself being picked up by soft fury white arms and carried to a bedroom. He had to act fast!