The cold artic landscape of the Northern Pole, it was a snowy desert. But instead of a warm sun and endless sand. It was cold cold snow and a cloud layered sky. " Is this "Orb of Roanoke worth it?" Skinner said over the roar of the wind. Captain Nemo turned to him, " Imagine someone getting their hands on an orb that would make 100 people drown themselves in an ocean just to get away." Sawyer lowered his scarf so he could talk. " So what did this orb do anyway?"
Nemo said " It asorbs a certain quality of something. When it was found by colonists it was lodged in a rotting tree. So it absorbed rot. When they brought it back, indians attacked the settlement, and in the chaos the orb must have somehow unleashed its power, and started to decay all life near it. The remaining people were driven mad, and fled to the ocean to escape." Jekyll, with a shivering voice struggled to shout over the wind. " How do we know it can absorb a certain quality?" Nemo pulled out a scroll and held it out to be seen. " It was recorded to have attacked cities over thousands of years. 600 years ago it buried an entire village in China in a flood of Silk. 300 years ago it burned an entire German hamlet, leaving nothing and then of course it did its worse to Roanoke. After that it lead a trail of destruction till it was tracked here." He closed the scroll and looked out from the deck of the Nautilus. " We have a chance to keep it from doing its worst again I suggest we pounce on it and stop it.."
Mina opened the hatch door of the Nautilus and said " Supper is ready Gentleman! Come on inside before you catch your deaths!" " Well I guess you dont have to worry Mina ol' darling you've already caught half of yours!" Skinner said to her. Sawyer slapped him over the head as they walked in. Soon they sat down to dinner, which was a nice hearty meal of some fish stew and some vegetables. " So Nemo.. you said this orb can move right?" Skinner said. Nemo looked up from his meal, saying " Yes it can, but its movements are erractic and random." " Could it strike the ship?" Nemo chuckled, saying " Mr. Skinner this ship has heavy armor plating. It couldnt get through it unless it slammed through the hull itself. Suddenly a WHOOSH of wind and blast of sound came as a ball of silver light somehow phased through side of the house and landed on the center of the table. Every one leapt away and kept away as the orb descended to the table. Nemo ran to a intercom and said " Guards! Guards! Someone get down here now!" Suddenly the orb started to glow and started to expand.
Mina shouted " RUN!!!" no one needed the word. They ran as fast as they could to the door. But the orb suddenly burst open a icy gust that froze on contact. They ran out of the door almost running in a line. Jekyll tripped and fell to the floor. " HENRY!!" Mina stopped and tried to help the man but Skinner pulled her away as the frail mans body froze solid. They soon found themselves running into the freeze and have it at the back of them. They heard screams from the ship as men tried to run and other froze and turned into ice. Skinner was frozen next, it started at the back of his leather jacket and soon spread across his body. Soon it was just Sawyer, Nemo, and Mina. Soon they found themselves cornered. The last thing Sawyer would ever feel was Mina pressing her terrified body into his her cries of fright piercing his mind. Soon Nemo was clung to the both of them.
And they were taken into icy sleep...
The Orb suddenly reformed itself back to its normal size. They are needed elsewhere, not in this time but instead far into the future... everything we have told you to do has drawn the captain to find you. You left a path of destruction till you lead them here... The Orb was told to go to the engine room. Turn the wheel and lead them away from this slab of cold ice... The Orb turned the wheel by pushing the frozen pegs and turning the ships towards the south. The Orb pressed itself into the accelerator and the ship moved foward, slipping under the surface. The Orb soon dissapeared into the void leaving only a trail of mist.
Atlantic ocean, present day..
Tyler and Julia Lam watched from The USS Robert Shaw as 5 Navy submarines set out from the surface and sunk under the waves to examine the newfound ship. Soon they sat in the meeting room onboard the ship and were conversing with the captain as they discussed the photographs they took of the ship. " Sir as you can see here." She pointed to the ornate headpiece on the top deck of the ship. " It must have been built over years time. But there wouldnt have been enough resources to build a ship this huge." Captain Patrick Jeeves looked at them saying " Than what is it then?" Tyler looked at the captain, saying " We have no clue in hell Sir. But what we do know is it," He pointed to a huge hill of sand that made the ship look as if it crashed into the sand. " moved for a long distance, and judging by me and my wifes calculations of its fuel tank. It may have started its journey somewhere in the artic." Jeeves looked at them saying, " That will be all you two. Now theres a helicopter waiting for you so you can get to Bermuda and get a flight into Washington. The President wants to see you both..."