"I want to try the forcefield," you say. "A 50% chance is better than nothing. We're sure to get pulverized if we just stay here."
Zell sighs and nods her head. "Okay. I agree."
You take her hand with your right hand and hover the left over the toggle to the generator. "Here goes. Keep your fingers crossed."
You switch it on. Within a split second, everything outside goes dark, like earlier during your tests.
"It worked!" Zell whoops in delight.
"Thank goodness," you breathe. "That should protect us until this earthquake is over."
However, after a few minutes, you hear a crackling sound from the panel before you. The blackness outside seems to waver, and the walls around you creak and shudder.
"Uh-oh," you say with a sinking stomach. "That doesn't sound good."
Smoke starts issuing from the panel.
Zell half-rises from her seat as she looks over the readings. "The magnetic fields are weakening! What happens if they fail?"
You look at her with dread. "The antigravity forces will tear the ship apart."
"Then turn the singularity off! Turn it--"
Zell never manages to get another word out.
The magnetic fields fail simultaneously, and in that instant, the unstoppable vacuum of the singularity is unleashed outward from its cage below the ship, vaporizing everything in a several hundred-meter radius to its component particles. The singularity itself, robbed of its anti-matter fuel, only lasts a few microseconds before evaporating, and an immense amount of water rushes violently back into the void, making the underwater earthquake even worse. More boulders rain down the ravine from above, eventually burying the crevice under a pile of immovable rock.
No one ever discovers what happened to the White Singularity and its crew.
THE END.
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The White Singularity: A Choose Your Own Adventure
Science FictionYou are Dr. Brent Phillips, scientist extraordinaire, and have explored all the frontiers on Earth. There's only one place you haven't been... the very center of our planet. Until now. What will you encounter on your way down? Extinct species...
