Today, on Drabble Wednesday we go
exploring... into space, through dimensions and below the ocean’s surface.
To Boldly Go...
A voice reverberated through the crowd of
eager scientists at NASA Mission Control.
“Discovery One has passed out of the solar
system. The exploration probe is transmitting. We are receiving video
communication. We will soon see what is beyond...” Abruptly the screen filled
with static as the probe’s transmission ended.
“Communication is down! I repeat
communication is down! We’ve lost Discovery One!”
Outside the solar system, charred pieces of
metal, the remains of the ill-fated Discovery One, floated past a black,
cylindrical security drone. Just one of millions patrolling the galactic
quarantine perimeter of hazardous species 4BZ112~THX, native designation:
human.
~*~
Quantum
Phenomenon
Curiosity.
A strange, essential human trait, but a
dangerous one. At least I’ve found it so, for it led me here to a rather
sizable predicament.
I’m a scientist, and you may imagine curiosity
is my stock in trade. My field of study is quantum mechanics, and recently I
made a breakthrough.
I found a method to generate interdimensional
doorways.
Hence my current problem.
It was that last one, you see, the last
door I opened. The one that led to Hell. Now I have demons trapped in the
closet, and I don’t think the lock will hold much longer.
~*~
Under the Sea
They said I was mad!
They were probably right. I may indeed be
quite insane. If my colleagues had been smarter, they would’ve locked me away
in some deep hole and thrown away the key.
For, I found it.
Years of painstaking research, of ridicule,
laughter, but I located the coordinates. I discovered the position where the
city lies beneath the waves. Where He waits dreaming.
But today He shall awake.
I will pierce the black seas of infinity
and rouse the beast.
He shall rise and return to this world.
The Old Gods will walk the earth once more.
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