Core Establishment by Jonathan Brooks

Author:Jonathan Brooks [Brooks, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-01T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

“We’re in—”

“Initiate the trans-dimensional drives!” Milton shouted. According to his sensors along the outside of the station, the Heliothrope fleet was approximately a minute out from being in range to dock at his dungeon entrance. Whisp had belatedly warned him that any ships within about 1,000 miles might be sucked into the other dimension along with them, so he wanted to ensure none of the Heliothropes got pulled along for the ride.

The next second, a strange force passed through all of Murder Station, originating from seemingly two different directions. The drives had been activated and were passing a resonating force between them, back-and-forth, at an increasingly faster speed. The force wasn’t exactly harmful, but those on the command bridge looked more than a little uncomfortable at the feeling.

Thankfully, it only lasted about 10 seconds before the resonating force became steady, and then it disappeared as it was used to open up a gigantic tear in the dimension fabric separating this dimension from the traveling dimension. Normally, the process felt as if they were being squeezed through a tiny hole in order to fit through the tear, but this time he could see through his sensors the other dimension directly in front of the station, its multicolored light streaks there as if he was looking through a window. The second after this window opened, all of Murder Station was pulled violently through it as if it were being sucked through an enormous straw. Instead of feeling like they were compressed, it felt like what he would imagine the g-forces in a fighter jet would feel like back on Earth.

The sensation lasted for a brief eternity before things went back to normal, and Milton touched his avatar’s body, feeling for any type of damage. When nothing seemed to be wrong, he looked around the command bridge and saw that everyone else had apparently passed out. Checking them over quickly with concern, especially Trinket, he was relieved that they seemed fine, though unconscious. He supposed it was like the g-force training in the Air Force, where pilots would have to undergo being spun around at increasingly faster speeds, and they would invariably pass out from the sheer forces at play against their bodies. Hmm… I think the astronauts did that too – now I know why.

“That was… uncomfortable,” ALANNA said, reforming into her usual form after she had been dispersed into a cloud of nanites during the dimensional transmission. “Where did you want to go, by the way?”

That was a good question. Milton had been so intent on leaving from the system that he hadn’t even thought about where they were going to end up.

“Let’s put a bit of distance between this last system and our destination, if you will. We could use the time to fully recover from our disastrous defense.” He wasn’t ashamed to call it what it was with ALANNA without anyone else listening in: a disaster. If it hadn’t been for Brint and the Bearilla at the end, it was entirely possible the Soldier-type Heliothrope would’ve made it to the command center.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.