Which World is Real?

Chapter 7 - Hyperspace

We left earth now and we are in hyperspace heading for the Acturion system. But it wasn't easy to leave the solar system, it was intense and we barely escaped as we almost got caught by Azaria's patrols.

Chloe "take the weapons"

Me. "What weapons? How? "

That is when my suit formed a helmet over my head and I could suddenly see all around the ship, I could feel everything around the ship, I immediately knew which weapon systems we had, how they worked, what each weapon does.

Chloe. "Are you ready?"

Me. "As ready as I will ever be."

Chloe. "Here we go, we are breaking atmosphere now."

I didn't even notice us leaving the ground, the ship moves so fast and so smoothly, or she is just a brilliant pilot, maybe it's a combination of both.

As we entered space I could feel a shift, almost like a split second of seasickness.

Chloe. "I'm sure you felt that, that was caused by the artificial gravity kicking in, it takes a few seconds to calibrate it to match that of earths once we lose planetary gravity."

I could see it now, space, earth from orbit, I have always seen photographs and videos of earth from space, but nothing could compare to seeing it yourself. Earth truly is a beautiful planet.

Then I received an alert, ships approaching. Without thinking I targeted each one of them with every different weapon system we have on-board. But Chloe stopped me. "No, they are not enemies, it's ships from the united space force, they are just making sure we got a clear path to leave. "

That's when the transmission came in. "This is forward command from the united space force. The general wishes you well and says you must please bring good news. We will await your return.

Chloe. "Thank you, tell the general I will do my best."

That's when the ship sped up, the moon was right ahead of us, but then she turned the ship to head in a different direction, a part of space that seems to be completely dark.

Me. "Where are we going?"

Chloe. "I'm taking a detour."

Me. "Why?

Chloe. "If my mother has patrols in this solar system then she will have a jump ship here as well, and if I'm correct then it will be stationed behind the moon. "

Me. "Why behind the moon? I thought they can cloak."

Chloe. "They can, but if she wants to send a message to any unwanted crafts she will keep part of it decloaked."

Me. "Won't that make it vulnerable?"

Chloe. "No, their armour is already completely impenetrable and can withstand the pressure from a black hole. But they are equipped with shields advanced enough to withstand a close flyby to any star."

Me. "That's not possible, and even if it was, why so?"

Chloe. "The fractures are basically temporary black holes, but the light around the ship helps to control the fractures are blue light based, but it burns at almost the temperature of a sun, it's the only way to stop the fractures from actually going out of control and becoming permanent black holes. "

Me. "This is frying my brain."

Chloe. "Shit, they detected us and are preparing to create a blockade."

Me. "Who? "

Chloe. "My mothers patrols."

Me. "I thought you got technology to cloak this ship."

Chloe. "It can cloak, but if we cloaked they would still detect us and it would have made our situation worse."

Me. "How would they detect us?"

Chloe. "All our ships are designed to detect each other even when cloaked. That way we don't accidentally crash into each other."

Me. "What now? "

Chloe, "I will talk to them and use my authority as a princess to order them to let us go."

Me. "And if that doesn't work?"

Chloe. "Then we are in for a rough flight till we can jump to hyperspace."

Me. "Why can't we just jump now."

Chloe. "We need a clear line of sight and once the hyper drive is ready to jump we need a straight line without any obstacles in our path. Otherwise any ships in our path will be destroyed by the force we will create once we leave normal space. "

Me. "Okay, I don't really understand much of what you are trying to explain, but I trust you and I'm sure you will explain everything to me one day."

But she didn't respond to my comment, I could see a few ships moving to form a blockade just ahead of us. Chloe was slowing us down to almost a halt, I noticed they had similar designs to our ship, but even at this distance you can see that they are much smaller then our ship.

Incoming transmission, transmission accepted, opening channel.

It was a female voice, I was starting to wonder if there was any males left in her species, but she explained to me afterwards that females are in charge and all key positions are held be females in her race.

Voice. "Princess Sarine, you are not authorized to leave this planet, power down your weapons and relinquish control of your ship, a docking pilot will bring you in after which you will be arrested for disobeying High Queen Azaria's orders. "

Chloe. In shock. "Arrested?"

Voice. "Orders from your mother herself. "

Then it happened, it decloaked right ahead of us, just behind the blockade. It was huge, I've seen them in orbit from the planet before when Azaria took me to the queens retreat planet. But even though I knew they were huge, I never realized how big they really were.

I couldn't even see where it ended, it was as high as I could see, went down as far as I could see, I looked towards each side and it just looked like it went on forever.

I gasped in shock realizing the sheer size of this ship.

But I was pulled out of my awe when we received an alert, the ships forming the blockade suddenly ignored us and moved towards the direction of the moon, the larger ship suddenly started moving out of the way, opening space for us.

Me. "What's going on?"

Then I saw them, a fleet of mixed ships, hundreds of them, heading our way, a few of the leading ships looked exactly like the ship that took myself when I saw Chloe for the first time.

Voice. "Sarine, they are here for you, I'm not sure why, but if they are this determined to stop you from leaving then you must go, go now."

Chloe. "Let me help fight them."

Voice. "No, go now, we are detecting more coming, they seemed to have a wormhole generator hidden behind the moon. We will hold them off and destroy the gateway. "

Chloe. "And my mothers orders? She will have you arrested for letting us go."

Voice. "I will explain to her what is going on here. A signal has already been sent. Now leave before she arrives."

Chloe. "Thank you."

Then the ship started moving again, picking up speed fast. As everything started to blur I heard a strange sound. Like a scraping sound, then a high pitch sound followed by a rhythmic humming. And then everything around us vanished, we were in hyperspace.

The weapon system disarmed and my head was free once again, I fell to the floor, I haven't realized how I was holding my breath till now. And once again Chloe came and helped me up.

Chloe. "There is nothing more for us to do now till we reach our destination, let's go, I'm starving."

Me. "We never had time to get supplies."

Chloe. "The general had his men stock up for us, and the ship itself has a permanent supply of food, it's just not as good as what I planned for us."

We left the bridge which sealed behind us and made our way down along corridor, there were doorways all over the place.

Me. "Where does all these doors lead? "

Chloe. "Oh to living quarters, some to entertainment areas, this ship is basically fully equipped with everything you need to spend even years in space at a time. "

Me. "How many people can it accommodate?"

Chloe. "A few, it has multiple decks."

Me. "But from the design it seems to be designed for people our height, not Seleons."

Chloe. "My mother had it designed for me, she designed it like this so that I can take friends with me whenever I want to."

Me. "I doubt any Seleon would be able to talk in these halls. "

Chloe. "No, like the hybrids on earth, she started the program years ago so I could have friends. But I just never took to anyone, I've always been a recluse and a loner, I could never really imagine hanging out with anyone, that was till I met you."

We arrived at what looked like a kitchen designed to cook for a restaurant of atleast 50 people. She made her way in and found boxes stacked in the corner, she started digging through them and pulling out cooler boxes and going through everything. Then she grabbed some stuff and chucked it on the table and got busy.

Me. "Can I help you?"

Chloe. "No, get out of my kitchen, you will see across the hall there is a lounge, wait for me there."

Me. "Are you sure I can't help you?"

She just glanced a look in my direction which was enough to get the message across.

So I left the room and here I am, I'm sitting in her lounge typing this. I know I won't be able to post it till I return to earth. But it's best to keep track.

Every once in a while I will hear her humming or signing, but not in English, it must be in her native language.

She just popped in with 2 cups of coffee and we chatted about stuff, nothing really important. Just nitty gritty stuff.

And that's when she got busy, I heard rattling in the kitchen and shuffling around. Then she called me. I met her in the passage and she blindfolded me.

Me. "Do we really have time for games?"

Chloe. "We got 2 days in hyperspace with nothing else to do, so why not have fun?"

So she took my hand and led me down the passage a bit and through a door, then she helped me into a seat, and I heard her sit down.

Chloe. "Okay, you can take the blindfold off now. "

Which I did. "Wow. "

I was staring at a table all set up for the most romantic dinner, candles, wine and she cooked a feast, she was wearing a low cut red evening dress and she even had make up on, she looked absolutely stunning.

Me. "You look beautiful and wow, this is amazing."

Chloe. Blushes. "Thank you, I'm new to all this, but I wanted to make it special for us while we got time."

Me. "You are speaking like we are going to die soon."

She looked down, I could see that she's worried.

Me. "What's wrong?"

Chloe. "Don't worry about it, I will deal with it when we get there."

Me. "To the Acturions?"

Chloe. "No, when we get back to earth, my mother will be very angry."

Me. "I'm sure she will understand, just..."

She interrupted me.

Chloe. "Forget about it, let's enjoy the moment."

She then fiddled with her phone and put music on.

I had a lot more questions, but I decided to let it go.

So we enjoyed our dinner, we had a lot of wine and danced together.

Chloe. "Let's get out of here."

Me. "Go where? We are in your space ship."

Chloe. "Not like that, let's go to bed."

So I started collecting all the dishes to tidy up. But she stopped me.

Chloe. "Don't ruin the mood. We can clean up in the morning, let's go to bed."

Me. "You got a bed on this thing?"

She looked at me shocked. "Of course, where do you think I sleep at night?"

Me. "In pods?"

Chloe laughing at me, "you are cute, no I got a beautiful bed, let's go."

She took my hand and let me down the corridor towards her room, "wow" I couldn't believe what I was looking at. If I didn't know we were on a space craft then I would have thought we just walked into the most expensive 5star hotel on earth, well even that wouldn't come close to her room.

It was absolutely stunning, the bed is huge, as in bigger then any bed I've ever seen, she seems to have a thing for pillows though, then she has a lounge in the one corner of the room, a huge bathroom, beautiful bath and shower, well the bath could be a pool if you look at the size, just not as deep, and she even has her own hot tub.

She offered to fill up the hot tub for us, but I think sleep would be better now, my day has been way to full of excitement. She sighed and poured us some wine and we enjoyed some wine, but she wasn't going to let up.

She gave me a sly naughty smile and then said something in her language and suddenly the hot tub started filling up, or well it took it a few seconds to fill up. Anyway the evening went well, it was actually very romantic.

Anyway we eventually went to bed late.

I will write more later. This is it for now.