In Amrica city, the robot unit managed to get away from the fake king's eyes. They got all the way to technician square and suddenly they saw the young auror they had spoken to a long time back that told them to dress like humans.
The auror came up to them. "What are you doing here?" the auror asked. "The master said you should chase the color purple. The color purple has already left the city!"
The five robots looked at each other. "Which direction do you see the color purple going?"
The auror pointed. Wasn't that the direction of the sea?
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Violetta stared at the first page of her father's book. Her book. The words began to move and turn into pictures. The pictures came to life playing before her like a hologram.
She saw a handsome man in some kind of uniform sitting in front of some other men in the same uniform. The handsome man's uniform had more stripes. She slowly began to hear what they were saying. She didn't realize she was still sitting down holding the book at first, but then she closed her eyes for a little bit to get her bearings, she felt like she was floating.
When she opened her eyes she was once again on the boat sitting down. This book did indeed hold many secrets. She once again focused on the first page of the book.
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Violetta stood mostly behind the handsome man. She quickly realized he was the main character in this... book? Story? Of course he was. The main character was always handsome or beautiful right?
She followed him out of the room they had been speaking in and out into a new room. There were buttons and dials everywhere, and three people seemed to be sitting there doing nothing but watching the screens. Violetta looked out the windows and saw the stars.
Nothing but stars surrounded them. Were they in space!? How exciting! She instantly wanted to show Heath. But she realized he wouldn't be able to see it. She could only see it because her father transferred the book to her.
What a strange mysterious thing this was. She was wondering what kind of technology would go into making something like this.
"Commander," an annoying sounding voice made her pay attention. How did this guy sound so nasally?
The handsome man looked up from whatever document he was looking at. "Speak," he commanded.
The nasal man pushed his glasses up from the bottom of his nose bridge and continued, "According to the start charts, we are way off course. We don't have enough fuel to get to either our destination or to turn back to earth."
'Earth?' Violetta thought. 'Isn't that the fictional world of humans?'
The handsome commander sighed, "I know, But the instruments are all still showing us on course. I've contacted headquarters, but I'm not getting a response."
He sighed again. He looked at another instrument panel. Violetta studied it as she heard him say, "If we don't find another earth-like planet to land on between here and there, then we are going to have a major problem."
Violetta slowly got an understanding of this panel. It was showing multiple vital signs. And levels of toxicity, oxygen, water, and nutrients. Why were there so many? She wished she could go where she wanted on this thing. Then she could explore and see what kind of ship she was on. She would be able to see it's inner mechanics and workings. Why, oh why was she only able to follow this boring handsome commander guy?
Oops, they were still talking. She stopped looking at the panel to pay attention to what was happening. Oh great!
Boring handsome commander guy just went to his office. Yippy let's follow him. Not like there was another choice.
Violetta watched as the commander opened up a screen.
"Ah. Hey mom. I'm doing well up here in space. I know you said I shouldn't come up here to disturb the great spirit, but I figured he wouldn't mind one of his red people coming up here to say hi. My vision told me to reach for the stars. I know I took it literally. It's beautiful up here. I still haven't met Quillwork girl and her seven star brothers yet though. But there's time."
The commander smiled. Wow. He was really good looking wasn't he?
The commander continued, "Anyway mom, I miss you. I'll see you when I come back from this mission ok? Ayóo anííníshní Shimá[1]"
He clicked a few keys and closed the screen. "I really hope I come back this time."
*Knock *Knock *Knock
"Commander Yazzie," A woman's voice came from the other end.
Yazzie? Like the school?
"We found the problem," the woman's voice continued.
Commander Yazzie walked over to the door and opened it quickly. "What's the issue? Why are we so off course?"
The woman in uniform walked into his office and closed the door behind her. She handed him another stack of paper, "I'm still not sure how we got so far off course. What I do know is we are so far off course that it should have taken us 4 years to reach this distance. Also, it looks like we got caught in the outer edge of a black hole sir."
"Dammit," He said. "Is there a chance we can get out of this?"
"It's a black hole sir," she said as an explanation.
"Great," He said. "We're lost in space, with about a skeleton crew, and no way to get supplies or fuel. We were supposed to land on New earth a week ago, and now we're stuck in a black hole? What do you suggest?"
"Even if we could get in touch with headquarters, there's no way they could get rescue to us in time. If we continue on our present course we become stretched out slowly until we are nothing but a string of molecules." She saw the commanders face looking at her grimly. "But," she said before he could say anything bad. "It's been theorized that if we go into the black hole at FTL[2] speed, we might survive it and pull through it safely on the other side."
The commander stayed quiet for a moment. "And if we use FTL to try to get out of the black hole?"
"Nothing escapes a black hole sir."
"Ok, and in Theory what is on the other side of a black hole?" Commander Yazzie sat down at his desk and motioned for her to sit too.
The woman sat as she said, "Oh that's a huge rabbit hole sir. There are so many theories on the subject that I wouldn't know where to start.
"Start somewhere," he said.
"Ok, but this could potentially turn into a huge talk about physics, time-space, Albert Einstein, the singularity, the multiverse, and even a lovely thing called the veil. I'm just saying that there are so many theories out there that we could spend A LOT of time going over them."
"Shorten it," he said impatiently. "Doctor, I have to make a life and death decision for everyone on this ship. I need as many answers as you can give me. If I don't have information, I can't make a decision."
"Okay," the doctor lady said. "I'll shorten what I can."
She took a deep breath, "First we'll start with the most morbid version. We'll be crushed to death by a gravity so intense that it all focuses onto a single point called the singularity. If we miraculously survive past that point of singularity, we will be where people call 'Beyond the veil' of human existence. There will be no way back."
"That's the most morbid one?" the Commander asked.
"Some people think going passed the singularity will lead to hell."
[1] Ayóo anííníshní Shimá - means 'I love you mom' in Navajo.
[2] FTL - Faster Than Light