“Yes, activated when we approached the pyramid,” Neva repeated the last point.

“So the ground was shaking,” resumed Dio. “The pyramid waking up from a deep sleep?”

“Yes. That is the only conclusion I can think of. But what else will this mean for this planet, I do not know,” replied Neva.

Just as we were gathering our thoughts on the events that happened to us, the ground shook once more and collapsed, revealing the dome beneath it. Then it glowed. Initially, bright red then turned to green and blue as it became brighter. Eventually, the light became focused on a single spot, roughly where the pyramid was and went out into space like a torchlight in the dark cellar.

To our horror, the light went into space just as the main ship was reaching directly above us. It was so sudden that we could not warn the main ship in advance. We could only see the ship enveloped by the light and slowly disappeared from our sight within a few seconds.

“What happened?” I asked with my mouth opened wide while trying to reach the ship’s intercom by repeatedly pressing the Comm button on my watch. However, there was nothing but static noise. It was as if someone or something had sucked the entire ship into the black hole. Neva looked up after staring at the scanner. There was no trace of the ship, carrying over a million people, from our eyes nor from the machines. It melted into the dark space between the stars.