CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
"Where are we going?" asked Chloe.
"Inside," said the Squidinator, pacing around. "Threre must be a blow hole somewhere. This is still a whale."
"You think the gateway to the source if inside the whale?" asked Chloe.
"The Starwhale is...was a hoarder," said the Squidinator, almost patiently. "She was always swallowing things. She carried a spaceship with her in the other timeline, for no real reason. She liked taking things with her. I bet there's all kinds of stuff in there."
Chloe listened to thss then burst out laughing. "This is insane. We're standing on the body off a dead whale, in space, orbiting the Earth. And you want to go inside it. Do you ever stop to think about what your life is? Do you ever think back to when you were human?"
"I was never human," he said, his patient now gone. "Not like you. I am the SquidGod, immortal, unkillable. I have survived many deaths and timelines, outlived all others of my time. And I can close to ruling the entire universe. There is nothing human in that."
"Yet you're still shaped like a human," she observed.
"Not for much longer. Come, we have to go to the mouth." He began walking. Chloe followed. She looked out into space as she did, but as they walked over a ridge the Earth was bright in front of them. Her home. Even in the other timeline she'd still be on the Earth. She felt tired, suddnely. "I'm tired," she said and the Squidinator picked her up.
"I should have done this a long time ago," he said and then began to run at super speed. Had he just developed this power? She didn't know. It seemed nothing could stop him. He was destined to be God.
They came to the dead Starwhales mouth. It was closed, but somehow the Squidinator plied its jaws opened with ink. Then they went inside. Into darkness.
"We're not supposed to be here," said Chloe as they moved through the alien environment inside the Starwhale.
"I can feel it calling to me," said the Squidinator. "I CAN FEEL IT." They went deeper and deeper. They found another spaceship, the sleeper ship that was supposed to find a new planet to live on.
"Those poor people," said Chloe. "They didn't know where they were going. They thought man belonged in space."
"Man belongs at my feet," said the Squidinator. "I could kill them for you, end their pain."
"When you're God, send them to the planet they were heading to," said Chloe. "Promise me that."
"I promise," laughed the Squidinator. What did he care? "It's good that you recognise that I will be God."
And then they went further still into the darkness. And out of nowhere, there was a light. A crystal, suspended in the air. It was beautiful and deadly, Chloe felt. "That's it, isn't it," she said, in awe.
"It's a relic of the old days," said the Squidinator. "When the Starwhale still swam the Earth's seas. Yes, that is it. A gateway." He reached out and touched it. Chloe could not tell what was happeneing, at first. It was as if there were a hundred Squidinator's, all around the crystal. Then more. So many they filled the whole chamber. She turned and tried to run, but she was inside them. She was swept up in a wave of bodies, swept up into the crystal itself. It was so bright intisde, as she and the Squidinator rode their own bodies along a tunnel. It seemed to last forever, but neither could move or talk. Soon it was as if she'd always been in this cyrstal, that everything else had been but a dream. This moment, this was all that was real. Nothing else had really happened. She could almost let her memories go, forget who she was. Become nothing...
And then the voices came.
"Inside," said the Squidinator, pacing around. "Threre must be a blow hole somewhere. This is still a whale."
"You think the gateway to the source if inside the whale?" asked Chloe.
"The Starwhale is...was a hoarder," said the Squidinator, almost patiently. "She was always swallowing things. She carried a spaceship with her in the other timeline, for no real reason. She liked taking things with her. I bet there's all kinds of stuff in there."
Chloe listened to thss then burst out laughing. "This is insane. We're standing on the body off a dead whale, in space, orbiting the Earth. And you want to go inside it. Do you ever stop to think about what your life is? Do you ever think back to when you were human?"
"I was never human," he said, his patient now gone. "Not like you. I am the SquidGod, immortal, unkillable. I have survived many deaths and timelines, outlived all others of my time. And I can close to ruling the entire universe. There is nothing human in that."
"Yet you're still shaped like a human," she observed.
"Not for much longer. Come, we have to go to the mouth." He began walking. Chloe followed. She looked out into space as she did, but as they walked over a ridge the Earth was bright in front of them. Her home. Even in the other timeline she'd still be on the Earth. She felt tired, suddnely. "I'm tired," she said and the Squidinator picked her up.
"I should have done this a long time ago," he said and then began to run at super speed. Had he just developed this power? She didn't know. It seemed nothing could stop him. He was destined to be God.
They came to the dead Starwhales mouth. It was closed, but somehow the Squidinator plied its jaws opened with ink. Then they went inside. Into darkness.
"We're not supposed to be here," said Chloe as they moved through the alien environment inside the Starwhale.
"I can feel it calling to me," said the Squidinator. "I CAN FEEL IT." They went deeper and deeper. They found another spaceship, the sleeper ship that was supposed to find a new planet to live on.
"Those poor people," said Chloe. "They didn't know where they were going. They thought man belonged in space."
"Man belongs at my feet," said the Squidinator. "I could kill them for you, end their pain."
"When you're God, send them to the planet they were heading to," said Chloe. "Promise me that."
"I promise," laughed the Squidinator. What did he care? "It's good that you recognise that I will be God."
And then they went further still into the darkness. And out of nowhere, there was a light. A crystal, suspended in the air. It was beautiful and deadly, Chloe felt. "That's it, isn't it," she said, in awe.
"It's a relic of the old days," said the Squidinator. "When the Starwhale still swam the Earth's seas. Yes, that is it. A gateway." He reached out and touched it. Chloe could not tell what was happeneing, at first. It was as if there were a hundred Squidinator's, all around the crystal. Then more. So many they filled the whole chamber. She turned and tried to run, but she was inside them. She was swept up in a wave of bodies, swept up into the crystal itself. It was so bright intisde, as she and the Squidinator rode their own bodies along a tunnel. It seemed to last forever, but neither could move or talk. Soon it was as if she'd always been in this cyrstal, that everything else had been but a dream. This moment, this was all that was real. Nothing else had really happened. She could almost let her memories go, forget who she was. Become nothing...
And then the voices came.