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I've been a bad Raven, not updating and all that… I've been working on other stuff… like high school… *shudders*

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Chapter 33

The Devourer of the Universe

The Massive, surrounded by the Armada, advanced towards Mars and the Seeker. Unaware of the danger that was impossible to see, hidden neatly by space. A dark, dangerous object…

"I don't care how much money we could earn by selling the scrap from their ships!" Tallest Red snapped. "Just blow them up!"

"Y-yessir…" Whimpered the techy who had suggested minor damage so that they could pawn off the remains of their enemies.

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Seemingly from nowhere, the song Mars by Holst began playing as Zim steered Mars towards the armada.

"Do you mind?" He snapped at Night, who had pulled a speaker from midair.

"Sorry." Night shrugged. "I just was trying to set the mood."

"Bum, bud-da-da-dum, da-da-da-dum…" The Reverend hummed, much to Nny's annoyance.

Johnny growled.

"So, ah, why exactly are we boarding the shield stations?" He asked.

"Each shield has three phases," Tina explained. "If the phases are not shut down in the proper order, namely, the first shield in each station, then the second, and finally the third, the shield will basically go into emergency lockdown."

"In other words, imagine trying to knock down a steel building with a fly." Zim grimaced.

"Oh. Well, I guess that makes sense…" Johnny mumbled, turning just in time to see a handful of Irken ships disappear into the void.

"Uh… a few ships just vanished." He noted nervously.

"WHAT!" Zim gasped, spinning in his seat. He studied the spot that Nny was pointing out. His antennae rose into the air, his eyes widened and possibly for the first time in his life, a look of sheer, absolute terror came across his face as he saw a barely visible ripple in space.

"ABORT!" He yelled into the communicator. "I REPEAT! WE NEED TO EVAC, ASAP!"

"What the hell are you saying Zim?" The crackly response came over the speakers. X. "We haven't even been shot at yet."

"NO!" Zim screeched. "WE ARE FIGHTING WITHIN BARELY ANY DISTANCE OF AN EVENT HORIZON! WE COULD BE OBLITERATED WITHIN SECONDS!"

"Aw hell!" Sarkon's voice came over the speakers. "Yer right! I just saw a Shuvver fall in!"

"A whatnow?" Johnny raised an eyebrow.

"A black hole." Tina was turning a lighter shade of green, like a human would pale. "Infinite nothingness. We fall in there, we get crushed with more force than ANY machine can EVER produce."

"Oh shit…" Nny groaned, as mars suddenly heaved to the side. The black hole was more visible now, an infinite circle of darkness that was so powerful that it literally warped the space around it.

"DAMN IT!" X yelled as the Seeker was pulled towards the black void. "Shadow, you did a study on black holes right? How long do we have before we fall over the horizon?"

"About two minutes." Shadow yelled, not sounding much louder than normal. "I can try and rip a trans-dimensional hole so that we are merely warped to a random point of space, but, key-word, randomly."

"ANYWHERE IS BETTER THAN DEAD!" Dib yelled as he was thrown against the wall.

"I still need an energy source!" Shadow managed to yelp as he too was flung against the wall. His eyes pulsed with power as he scanned for a suitable source.

"AH-HAH!" He yelled as he glanced at Dib. "You have a portal in your head of some kind! That would explain its unnatural size."

"MY HEAD'S NOT BIIIIIIG!" Dib managed to yell as Shadow tapped into the portal. Suddenly it became visible. A huge swirling vortex. It began to wildly draw things toward it. Quickly, Shadow froze it, before unleashing a huge pulse of energy that went through everyone on the Seeker and on mars. There was a wrenching crack…

And the black hole devoured them. It sucked them in like a vacuum cleaner sucks up dust.

Suddenly the black hole grew bigger. Just enough to see. One of the Techies noticed.

"Sirs?" He asked nervously. "There's a black hole there… and it's… drawing us… OH FUCK! WE GOTTA LEAVE!" He wailed as the Massive bucked wildly.

The ship groaned with protest as the thrusters shoved in the opposite direction that the Massive was moving. But it was getting closer…

And closer…

To the Devourer of The Universe.

I can't believe how long it's been since I updated…

*SOB* I am so horrible…

Please… for the sake of my horrible update schedules hope of returning to its former glory!

…That's probably not gonna happen till I finish this story.