Fight To Live… Hope To Die

Something was happening over at the wormhole. A visible distortion surrounded its outer frame as ripples indented the space around it.

Alerted, everybody drew closer together and observed the phenomenon. They wondered what was about to emerge from the other side of the wormhole but soon all their eyeballs bulged from their sockets as they looked on in shock at the behemoth that slowly crawled through the wormhole.

That round surface, the thick dark rocky layer of its body, and the stretch of gaseous condensation that covered its entire mass like a thin film…

That was… a planet!

Emerging from the wormhole was a small dark planet about the size of the moon if only a little bigger. Its round frame slowly extended out of the wormhole mouth like a child’s crown escaping its mother's womb.

By now, the mouth of the wormhole had grown to a proportion that was enough to accommodate the emerging planet. But this was not where the problem lay.

As wormholes only possessed imaginary ma