The Catherine Kimbridge Omnibus Collection II by Andrew Beery

Author:Andrew Beery [Beery, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven – Vaalbara

A wave of nausea passed through the Yorktown. It lasted only a fraction of a second but even crewmen who had been asleep woke up with a start. Cat and everyone else on the bridge of the GCP Yorktown gasped. One moment the stars were there… the next they were not. Instead the forward view screen was filled with a deep purple undulating haze. It reminded Cat of the transdimensional conduit between the alpha and beta-verses but it was much deeper in color.

“Report,” she barked at the sensor station just off to her left.

“I don’t know what to make of these readings,” Lieutenant Kipling started to say. Before she could finish Captain Kirkland was at her side. He reached forward and tweaked a display.

Ken looked over at the Admiral. The look on his face was one of shock. “Admiral, if I’m reading this correctly we are traveling through a temporal vortex the likes of which we’ve never seen.”

“Specify”

“Admiral… The vortex is massive beyond belief. The entire Agur system is traveling with us. As best I can tell we’ve already traveled backward something in excess of a million years and are still accelerating!”

“Are we able to communicate with the other ships?” Cat asked.

Commander Ben bent over the communications station. “Negative Admiral. There is too much space-time distortion even for quantum-entangled communication links. Whatever is going on, we are in it alone until we are out of this conduit.”

Cat looked at Ken. “Any idea when we might arrive at ‘whenever’ it is we are going?”

Ken shook his head. “There is simply no way to tell Admiral. We have already travelled close to 50 million years into the past. It’s anybody’s guess how much further the Agur are going to take us.”

“So we agree it’s the Agur and not the Modos doing this,” Ben asked.

“I don’t see them having the tech to pull this off,” Ken answered.

“True,” Cat acknowledged. “On the other hand I would not have said the Agur could have done this two weeks ago.”

“Point taken Admiral,” Ben said turning he faced Ken. “What are your orders Captain?”

Ken walked three short steps to sit in his captain’s chair. “My orders Commander… are to sit tight and see what happens. Take the ship to condition yellow. It’s still morning ship’s time so I want duty cycle one to remain at post for another six hours. Cycle two and three are to stand down. Get some rest – get something to eat. We may be at this for a while.”

“Understood Captain,” Ben acknowledged. He toggled ship-wide comms. “Attention crew of the Yorktown. This is the First Officer. We are currently traveling through a temporal conduit. We don’t know how long we will be traveling nor do we know ‘when and where’ our destination is. We are a ship of exploration so this should not be unfamiliar to most of you. The captain has ordered Condition Yellow. Be ready to go to Condition Red at a moment’s notice. We are currently duty cycle one.

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