A meeting between Space and Time.

Aurora was looking at the statistics of her tests at her holographic display when the door rang. ”Come in,” she said. She swivelled her chair around, away from her desk to face the door. Her apartment was small but larger as she was used to on cruisers and carrierships. The apartment had one large room that acted as both living space and kitchen and then at one end two smaller rooms, the bathroom, and the bedroom. Her desk was on the opposite side of the door. The door opened on her command and through it walked an android. It was humanoid but it was neither man nor woman. It was coated in a dark grey hue and its head was faceless. A curved screen was there instead, with two cold blue dots that were supposed to resemble eyes.

“SL. Aurora, I am Chief-Inspector G. Grant and you are to come with me,” said a computerized voice. The android turned about 180 degrees and walked back into the hallway.

Aurora was baffled for a moment and shook her head. ”Were is inspector Eran? Sir,” she asked as she jumped off her chair to follow, grabbing her gloves from the cabinet next to the door. She was dressed in the skinsuit she normally wore in her pilot-life-support suit. The suit was dark blue and grey with white. White boots and gloves.

“Inspector Eran is delegated to a different case, I have assumed his duties,” said the disembodied voice, “That’s all you need to know.”

”Why? And why are you not here in person?” asked Aurora, wondering why he was send off the case and why Grant was here as an android.

“I am the one who asks the questions, refrain from doing so in the future. All you need to know, I will tell. But for your second question, and be content with this one answer I will give you, I need to be at multiple places,” replied the android, which kept a steady pace through the hallways and corridors of the research facility. Until stopping for a door, where armed guards stood to watch. They were heavily armed and armoured.

Excessive, thought Aurora. This was a military medical research facility, why would they need an armed guard. Grant passed the guards without being stopped, but the door did not open for her. The android touched a password in the control and the door opened. They stepped through it and once the door closed, the android began speaking again.

“The same day you crashed upon that planet; a space-observatory had a strange reading. Its readings are similar to your radiating signature. An exploration team was sent to investigate the signal and they found something… It is a lacrima of some sort, but we cannot get any information out of it other than the signature reading. We want you to use your new abilities and try it,” said the Chief-Inspector as it walked into a room.
In the room were four other guards. At one end of the room was a mirror, which was likely a one-way window. From the ceiling came different arms with tools and sensors, hanging above a table with a large slab of crystal. Aurora looked at it. She removed the glove from her right hand and reached out her hand but stopped. She looked at Grant. Cold eyes stared back but remained silent. She placed her fingers upon the lacrima and quickly retracted. It was cold, colder than she had ever felt before. It was intense than in the shadow of the vacuum of space. It felt wrong. ”Am I asked to do this or ordered?” asked Aurora, looking into the glowing blue dots.

The android was silent for a moment. “It is an order,” it said coldly.

Aurora clutched her hand into a fist, it began to glow iridescent in different hues of gold, blue, red, and purple. Somewhere a signal went off, beeping. She placed her hand upon the lacrima. Nothing happened. She unleashed an energy blast. The lacrima, which first had been opaque, became transparent. There was a young woman in there. Then the lacrima shattered. Aurora took a step back. The crystal then turned to dust. Leaving the woman upon the table, surrounded by a pile of coarse sand. ”What does…,” Aurora could not finish her sentence before being interrupted by Grant.

“Leave, that’s an order.”

Aurora hesitated.

Something was off. Aurora could feel it, a sensation that gave her goosebumps. A chilling feeling, not like winters cold or the intensity of the shadows in space but something that was felt within bone and marrow creeping outwards. Aurora’s eyes were fixed upon the girl. She was then met by another cold, emitting from the centre of the room; where the girl lies. Alarms went off, lights flashing before it all became to a stop. It was dark for a moment. Aurora took a step back. The backup generators kicked in. The girl on the table rose up and stared Aurora in her eyes, Aurora’s right hand searched for her gun upon her right hip, but it was not there. She had the right feeling, as a few seconds late, nearly all the people in the room safe for her, the girl and two guards were dead.

”What does that mean?” managed Aurora to say. The guards tried to seize the girl, but died horribly in pain as they grew in size and mutated. Aurora could only look in horror. The girl told they would meet again and the monsters charged at her. She had no weapons on her, did not knew how her powers worked and had no where to go. Flight was no option, attacking was suicidal but her only chance. She sprinted forwards and slammed her fist into one of the abominations. It came to a stop and flung backwards and broke through the glass of the observatory. Aurora looked at her glowing fist, that radiated golden energy. It had felt as if all a surge of heat, like she had felt when being bombarded by photons of the star, and the cold of the void when she floated in space. It came from all fibres in her body and got stronger as it travelled to her fist. It felt different as before, much stronger. The other abomination tried to grab her, Aurora punched once more and made the monster fly.

The girl was gone, through a hole in the wall. Leaving a trail of what could only be described as corrupted material. Howling and roars were heard, followed by screaming. Aurora jumped through the hole and went after her. On her way she found another abnormality, munching upon half of a security guard. Her eyes glanced at her fist, which began to glow golden once more and blasted the creature to smithereens. A rifle laid upon the ground, next to the puddle of pus, blood, and bone. She picked it up and checked the magazine. Full,/i] she thought to herself and reinserted the magazine at the top of the gun, lunged at the bolt to insert a round. She followed the trail of destruction.

Would she go after the girl, or should she fight the monstrosities? But as she was running, she could her guns blazing. She ran through a corridor and saw one of the beasts lying silent upon the ground, and ahead of it a handful of security guards. If they can on these, I should go after her, decided Aurora as she leaped over the beast.