Fiction:Station Halcyon/Episode four:Meeting of the Worlds



It was quiet one evening on the station. Captain Shanna Valerrie admired the gas giant that the Station orbited every day. The view outside was beautiful, the stars and the galaxies that covered the outside. That was, until, she noticed something fairly strange on the radar. Something not right.

According to her radar, a cruiser was outside the Station, viewable from the deck. Yet she saw nothing. It fabricated, into a Xhodocto Shadowstreamer! The station turned to chaos as the cruiser's outline move past the station. Entirely black. The Captain, without knowing, activated the defences. It was only a few miles from the Station, but completely dwarfed it without question. The ship passed by, and then into space. Valerrie was relieved that the ship was gone from their sight, and out of the radar.

There was something else. She turned round to see a destroyed ship many times the size of the station falling towards them. The ship skimmed the Station, missing by a few kilometres that definitely counted. All of a sudden, the station rocked chaotically and then calmed down immediately. Valerrie looked outside of the control room. A huge shard of the destroyed cruiser crashed into the station. Luckily, it missed the cities inside. The shockwave it created knocked her to the floor.

"Get the troops! Surround the shard!" she ordered. The security flooded into the Station and encircled the shard of the cruiser. She didn't know how, but she knew something was inside that.

Xigor was there. He examined the shard, a glowing white shard to be precise. He noticed something odd on the shard. Glyphs. Carefully observing the glyphs, he sighed in relief. It was not Xhodocto, for sure. Not Traffphyd nor Cult, or Sphagarzi. He turned to the troopers. "It's alright. It's perfectly -" Xigor found himself flying into the ground along with the other troops. The shard cracked like a hot rock. And from these cracks, a blinding white light emerged. The shard exploded to reveal a lone being, energy surrounding him. It was a Vi'Navitum.

Xigor watched the Vi'Navitum walk past his somewhat bruised body. He stood up, and stared at the being. The ground froze under the Vi'Navitum's feet. So did the security. For a split second, at least. They once again encircled the being with their rifles ready to fire. The Vi'Navitum looked unafraid, and puzzled.

"What...what?" was all that came from the being. Xigor walked close to the Vi'Navitum, double Xigor's height.

"What's your name?"

"I am -Ni'Namyriat Tan-Ki'Tphal'Kal. I was the only survivor on that cruiser that passed by."

"Survivor?"

"Our power, right now is not great enough to sustain immortality like the Xhodocto. So we die."

The conversation continued between Xigor and the -Ni'Namyriat. It came to the point where Xigor lead him to the Captain. The Vi'Navitum found himself limping. His power was draining from his body. His skin started to dull from the absence of the energies.

"Are you okay?"

"Wait..wait...hold on..."

The Vi'Navitum raised out his arms. The wind picked up around him. Xigor started to feel tired. The Vi'Navitum regained his energies and healed. They continued to the Captain's Bridge. When they got there, the troops aimed their guns at the Vi'Navitum's head, and Xigor.

"What's this?" said Valerrie.

"This is...uh..what's your name?"

"-Ni'Namyriat Tan-Ki'Tphal'Kal."

Valerrie observed the Vi'Navitum. She was amazed that an 'immortal' being stood right in front of her and without a destructive thought in his mind.

"How much do you know about the Xhodocto, Verezaph?" she said.

"More than most."

"Oh, really? Well, perhaps you'd like to meet someone who knows a fair deal as well."

An alarm sounded. The door opened to reveal a blue Xhodocto walking in. A Proto-Xhodocto named Kan'Kun. Their eyes met each other and had many questions to ask. The Vi'Navitum looked at the Captain and said;

"You managed to find a Proto-Xhodocto?"

"Uh..yeah. Sure."

The Vi'Navitum and Kan'Kun walked out the same door and were talking to each other in their old languages.

"This could be the start of something great." said Valerrie.

"Like what?" replied Xigor.

"Imagine. Their knowledge combined could give us information which could help the Station in many ways."

Unfortunately, they didn't know how dangerous it was to have a Vi'Navitum on their station. In the uncharted regions of the universe, the Xhodocto prepared for an invasion...