Chapter 31

Colin

He awoke in a very bright white place, he opened his eyes and immediately regretted it. "Sheila, polarize visor please."... Silence. He pressed a few buttons on his wrist without looking and he opened his eyes again. His visor had been polarized, but still no response from Sheila. He looked around at the bright white all-around, it was like he was swimming. He flipped around and looked at his surroundings, everything was white. "Sheila, are you there? Do you read me?" he asked again. He heard his systems booting up and his HUD came online. "Hello sir, how are you today." Came her reply. "Can you tell me where are, and please bring all of my suit systems online, were running on emergency power." He said "Yes sir." She said as the miniature antimatter reactor on his back fired up and his shields came online. "Sir, it appears we are in a neutron star."

"How the fuck did I manage to get stuck in the center of a neutron star?" he asked rhetorically. "Sir, if I'm honest. You've done worse." Came Sheila's sarcastic reply. "Ha-ha, very funny. Now fire up the thrusters and let's get out of here." He said as the thruster pack on his back flared to life. He started shuddering at the thrusters hit their maximum output, but still no movement. "Sheila, what's going on?" he asked as the thrusters powered down. "Sir, the gravity pulling us towards the center of the star is too great for our thrusters to overcome. We might be stuck for some time while I find a solution." He sighed and rolled around, looking for anything that wasn't completely white, to no avail. "Sir, I'm afraid there is really only one option. Overheat the antimatter reactor and eject it." "Let me try going angelic first." He said closing his eyes. "Sir, I would not recommend that course of action, you were just engaged in the largest battle this galaxy has ever seen, cooling off is a must." He sighed in defeat and opened his eyes.

"Prep the reactor and switch power to backup fusion reactor." "Already done sir, just say the word." "Activate thrusters and eject core on my mark. 3 . 2 . 1 .. MARK!" he shouted and the thrusters flared to life and a small orb floated away from him. A muffled BOOM! Was heard and he was thrown out of the star and into space. He looked back and saw the star explode behind him. "Shields!" he shouted and Sheila routed all remaining emergency power to his shields. BOOM! The shockwave threw him wildly flailing through space. After a few seconds of flailing the thrusters kicked back on and he slowed to a stop. "Sheila, where are we?" he asked looking around at unfamiliar stars. "We are approximately 100,000,000 light years away from the Eclipse." "Ok, do we still have the quantum drive working?" "One moment sir… The quantum drive was partially damaged and is working at 73% effectiveness." "With how broken it is, how long will the journey take?" "Calculating… 2 Hours and 7 minutes, factoring in deviation and 50% wormhole stability." He thought about his chances of getting a stable wormhole for a moment. "Then what are we waiting for, let's go." "Yes sir. Opening wormhole." She said as a small blue projectile shot from his chest and went about 100 miles before exploding into a wormhole massive enough to swallow a planet.

He smiled and shot forwards into it, crossing the event horizon and into the Warp. To his surprise he was not greeted with thousands of demons, just with one derelict cobra destroyer. Seeing his chance he flew towards it, landing and entering through one of the airlocks. He made his way past the skeletons and dead bodies to the bridge. "Sheila, how old is this thing?" he asked kicking his way through a mound of bodies. "Scanning… Approximately 11,000 years old. This was the first exploratory vessel ever to enter the warp, the Illustrious. She was presumed lost with all hands. Seems they were right." He kicked a door open revealing the bridge, and more dead bodies. He went to work on the consoles powering them with his suits backup reactor. "Sheila, does this ship still work, or are my eyes deceiving me?" he asked looking at the main control panel with awe. "You are correct sir, ship systems are 88% intact and if powered correctly will work." "Holy shit, that's amazing. Link the fusion reactor into the ships…furnace. Wow this thing is old, but use the reactor to kick start the furnaces and get the shield online.

Ian

He quickly ran to the bridge of the Eclipse to see what the hell just happened, and was greeted by the same confusion. "What happened!" he shouted "We have no idea sir, a massive hole in space time just appeared. The ship rocked again and the lights flickered. "Get me a visual!" he yelled running to the captain's console. "Oh…my… may god save us all." One of the female crew said getting up from her station and kissing a cross. "Put that on screen!" he shouted and an ensign ran past the dazed crewman and put the scan on the main viewer. His heart stopped and he was frozen in terror. Just then Maria and team ruby entered, and stopped in their tracks. What they saw struck fear so deep that multiple crewmen started screaming. It was Satan, and he was the size of a galaxy. His features shifting into more and more horrible things the longer you looked. Then a massive blue light engulfed the viewer and the ship rocked and shuddered.

It was a massive Golem made entirely of light. "Colin" he whispered softly The Golem attacked the hideous creature and a massive battle ensued. No one could believe their eyes, or move to stop watching. They watched as the Golem slowly started kicking the shit out of Satan, then in one punch and a blinding flash of light, it was all over. They stood in place for at least a minute, only broken out of their fear induced trance by a massive shockwave that sent the ship sideways. Ian staggered to his feet and shouted at the crew to right the ship and check on the fleet. He turned around to see the horrified faces of Ruby, her team, and Maria. There was nothing he could say to help them, so he turned around and yelled at the crew to hurry up.

Colin

He felt the ships furnaces flare to life and heard the roar of the engines as they started. The entire ship vibrated like it was alive. "Sheila shields would be great right about now." He said raising his voice concerned about the gigantic demon to his starboard bow that was turning around. Nothing too big, not even the size of the ship. But in his state he didn't want any fights. "Anytime now would be great!" he yelled as the demon sped up and was closing on his ship. Right before the demon impacted the ship, a purple field of pure Fuck You appeared with a resounding BOOM! And the demon ran right into it, and exploded. He sighed in relief, then Sheila plugged him into the ship. He screamed as pain coursed through his body, as he became one with the ship. The screaming stopped and he hit the floor on one knee. "Warn me next time." "Your connection with the ship is complete, engines fully functional, warp drive 92 percent functional, shields at 56 percent, hull at 86 percent, ammo reserves at 95 percent." Came the status report.

He smiled and turned the ship around and headed towards the Eclipse. Thousands of different types of demons felt his presence and he knew it. Closing his eyes he did a weapons check. Anti-aircraft weapons at 100 percent, anti-ship weapons at 65 percent, 22 torpedoes left, laser lances at full charge, and the main weapon at 21 percent. He was only going to get one shot with that thing. Reaching out with the scanners he felt for demon, and demons he found. They were rushing his ship by the thousands, growing closer with every moment. "This is going to be a fun ride" he chuckled to himself as he armed the weapons.