Space and time are the same, or so that was what they said to me then. I am the proof that it is so. But you can’t see me because I no longer exists from your point-of-view. I have traveled in time, but, traveled in space. Let me begin my story at the beginning. It…

I should stop here because I can think of several twists, but it will not end and will go everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Let’s end the story here as mission succeeded. There was a sacrifice, Dio could come back, but the ship and the people on it returned safely. I will post the entire story tomorrow, after going through self-editing, and call it a day with Neva and Dio. Thank you for sticking through the story with me and hopefully my next story would be much better than this.

Then the whole show halted just as it started without warning. Colors merged into the green light as it was before. We stood firmly on the ground like statues with our mouths opened wide enough for the ship itself to be emerged from them. I had to force a slap myself to make my body move from the events that just taken place right in front of me. Something had happened since Dio went into the light. Could he had brought back the ship like we intended? The static noise from the scanner suddenly echoed through the silence.

Once all of us took the implication in, silence fell on us like a giant boulder crushing the ants. Stopping the transmission would mean that one of us would have to be a sacrificial lamb, if successful. But whether the mission was successful, he would be stuck on the other side of the signal and could never come back.

“Space Chicken. Oh, yes. I remember it from the Academy. You mean the robot that travels across the universe and uses the resources to multiply itself?” asked Neva. Being one of the top graduates, the other being Dio from the Academy from his cohort meant that Neva was a walking, talking encyclopedia. His “elephant” memory helped a lot. He could recall facts and writings that most students in the current Academy would not even remember after midterm examination.

Both Neva and Dio went to work immediately. Each of them took their turns, scanned the words and paired the respective words in the Alien language of Sanskrit. Thankfully, Sanskrit was heavily utilized in the latter half of the 21st Century for its linguistic roots corresponding to the fields in Artificial Intelligence. In no time,…

“Maybe, if we go down to the pyramid again to observe the surroundings, we might have a better chance than just sitting here?” asked Neva. He was right. We need to move our butts or else we too would be out of food and out of minds soon. We owed the people on the ship with their lives. With that realization, we stood up, dusted our clothes, and made our way back into the stairs down to the underground chamber.

“How? How can we go back to Earth now? There isn’t any other way?” I scratched my head furiously. Losing the ship with a few million people wasn’t bad enough, but now we had to go back to Earth, a galaxy away, to bring them back? Those millions of people put their trust and lives with me and then they disappeared into nowhere. That would make me the worst Captain in history since Edward John Smith, the Captain of the Titanic.

“How can a ship this size could disappear in an instance? Check for outer galaxies,” said furiously, while walking around  in frustration. First, the landing, then the signal which led to the underground chamber, the pyramid then now my ship had disappeared. The series of events were making less sense than I could take and it was affecting my mood, to put it mildly.  

The rest of the crew rushed towards the spot where he was pointing and found ourselves staring at an odd metallic object on the ground. One of them bent down to pick up an object only to stopped by me before touching it.