The saloon pod window gave a direct view of nearby asteroids, one which seemed to resemble the Ceres station. Suddenly, the wasp stopped in its tracks and looked toward the complex, and took flight.
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Nights in white satin.... Never reaching the end...
Ronson and Gill barely heard each other over their com links as the haunting yet soothing piece of music echoed through the damaged building. The original Ceres base loomed in darkness on the dark side of the asteroid had been scheduled for demolition since its destabilisation four months ago, and the new station had been constructed. Everything still went unnoticed to the unobservant race we call humans.
Letters I'd written, never meaning to send...
Ronson's headlamp illuminated the magnified jukebox which amplified the daunting soundtrack. Through the next doorway seemed to be a depleted fusion reactor. The Plasma tubes were seemingly intact. Around the core were dull shapes Ronson thought he recognised, but wasn't one-hundred percent sure.
Beauty I had always missed with these eyes before... Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore...
Ronson reached for the light switch and pulled it upward. The alarm sounded, and Gill came running.
"The hell did you do!?" Gill scolded Ronson with a hint of terror in his voice.
And I love you...
"I turned on the... lights!" Ronson replied, realising what he had done. The shapes were bodies, all of urban explorers.
"My guess is... So did they!" Gill cried over the eighty-decibel alarm.
Yes, I love you!
"Christ!" Ronson murmured, noticing that plasma was beggining to arc around the electromagnetic tubes. The ball of hydrogen, chlorine, and light whirled around the pipe. They both noticed it rapidly approaching a small crack in the pipe.
"OH GOD!" Gill screamed.
Oh how I love you!
Dane's head jolted up, startling Kooi, back in the saloon pod.
"Guys... What's going on in there?" He asked through the com link. All he heard in return was screams.
Gazing at people...
"WHAT DA HEW!?" The loudest scream yet came from Ronson.
"YOU FUCKING MANIAC!!!" Gill screamed.
Some hand in hand...
The singularity attracted the urban explorers' bodies, all of which were consumed over a one-second period.
The glass wall which separated the men from their destruction began to creak and crackle.
Just what I'm going through...
"Stay here, I'll go check it out" Dane advised Kooi.
The small Jetpack used oxygen to propel Dane to the abandoned complex. The screams and bright light added to Dane's confusion as did the fact that he could clearly hear the complex collapse in on itself - in space.
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A is for Ares
General Fiction[COMPLETE] A is a nameless man who goes by the first letter in the alphabet after a traumatic experience. He has found a cure to mental health - but he fails to realise his discovery's true nature. He doesn't know that he is a serial killer. Garrett...
