Back in the golden age of the NASA, They received a transmission from something Out There. They had no idea where it came from, but They knew it had to be important, cuz’ They’d never received a signal like it before. The signal could only be solved using a matrix of differentials with the right coefficients, and nobody working for NASA, the CIA, or the Secret Service had the aptitude to accurately guess them. Their best shot was to hire some of the finest mathematicians in the country to solve it, but even they had been stumped. Even more confusing was the title associated with the message- that a “nightmare” from deep space was coming to Earth.
Mike Maynard stirred his coffee as the inner galaxy spun before his eyes. What horrid visions of the future lay beyond that black horizon? Globecorp had inadvertently tapped into the shadow source and the wizard had brought them this far. Cogwheels in the cosmic web spun astral dust about gravitational vortexes. The cartographer’s discovery meant that they could finally get back there, back to the place where the code from the future had been sent, back to the time when rationalism was still abundant in the bank of human thought.
“Hey stranger, still running away?” It was Luna, the brainy beauty with grapefruit tits. No mission would be worth certain death unless a gal like her came onboard; the general had been smart to bring her along.
“I’m just minding my own business and you’re nothing but trouble. Can’t believe they sent you.”
As she sat down next to him, she looked at the strange hieroglyphs tattooed on his skull. He wouldn’t look at her, which didn’t surprise her one bit.
“You never wrote me, asshole. Don’t think you can get off the hook that easily.”
They’d had a fling back on Chimera, an Earth-like planet that had been settled after the Exodus. Both were enrolled in an elite training program run by the military that was meant to inspect the safety of new planets before they could be settled. Even though Luna had been great in bed, after about a month she’d gone completely nuts and stalked the living sanity out of him. It was no secret that their domestic affairs had gotten in the way of their training, but they’d also had the highest performance training scores of any team at the academy.
“Luna, we’re going to have to put the past behind us if this is going to work”, he said calmly. “The fate of our race should not be decided by your bitterness.”
“Who said I was bitter?”, she laughed. “I hear they got this crazy map maker coming with us- the one who discovered meridium.”
“He didn’t discover meridium. He simply used it to design the BH compass.”
Luna threw up her arms in surrender and left the control room.
He’d always felt that somehow, she’d be the death of him. The bitch had ruined the last relationship he had by spreading false rumors about things he’d said about his new woman. Sometimes you have to just let people go, whether they like it or not, and he’d learned that the hard way. Now that they had to save humanity together, the chances of success seemed about as likely as finding a wormhole inside an asteroid.
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