h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

[YK flew around the reactor chamber, blasting at everything in sight. One of the enemy starfighters barely avoided getting hit, and crashed into another. Both exploded, knocking a third out of alignment. This one crashed into the reactor. YK, getting what he took to be a clean hit on the generator, started flying out of the chamber.]

Side note: Sorry.

Side note: 's ok.

Anyways.

"Well then, my dear Verawn, before you decide upon a melodramatic and awe-inspiring method of destroying us, would you like a cup of coffee?"

*Ioreth stepped out of the dark mass, holding a mug of coffee.*

*Psychic to Aerol: It's decaf!*

"It's decaf!" said Verawn verbally, in a voice identical to that of Ioreth. Then, in his normal voice, "Sorry, but I have a strict diet of life force."

The darkness abruptly became a blinding flash of light for one second, and no one could sense Aerol Nex. The cloud shrank until it was the size of Aerol, and then faded out. Aerol fell to the floor.

But, as it happens, he had set into motion a technique which he had rarely used without the Schrodinger's Box, and was much more difficult without. After he landed, he and Ioreth dematerialized, reappearing in the Radon-Ulzer ship with the tractor beam and all else preventing them from leaving defunct.

[YK suddenly realized he had gone down the wrong tunnel. He was headed straight for a wall. Using a Force technique he thought he would never have to use --]

[The X-wing impacted against the wall, exploding brilliantly.]

[In the Radon-Ulzer ship, YK materialized, almost at the same time as Ioreth and Aerol but with a different type of shimmery light.]

What appeared to be Aerol -- or, to be precise, a semitransparent apparition of Aerol that glowed blue -- faded into view next to the ship. He seemed to consist entirely of the Force.

As the Radon-Ulzer ship flew away from the Cataclysm Sphere, they heard Verawn's voice, laughing through their heads. The laughter rose in volume, seeming to consist of a hundred voices, each of them mocking the two humans for trying to best them, and trying to escape when it was so obviously impossible.

And then, it stopped.

Verawn said, }Oh foo{ with annoyance, and then the Cataclysm sphere exploded.

Not in the burst of fire and metal that they expected, but instead a blast of energy that thrusted the surface away.

}It's as if it's hollow,{ said Aerol's image.

Then some of the debris seemed to get their images refracted, and they vanished.

Bigger than the Cataclysm Sphere, bigger than the Death Star, almost as big as a world, a giant refraction took place. The immensity of the scale was brought home with the fact that the explosion itself was in front of the refraction. It refracted far past blurriness, and behind it another image appeared. The refraction reversed itself, the image coming into focus.

A giant oval, with a red sphere in the center, appeared.

This was what Verawn had really been making. The Cataclysm Sphere was just made to draw attention from what Verawn had really been making.

And, by all indication, it was nearly complete.

The Radon-Ulzer ship entered hyperspace. The three minds that inhabited it were all too aware that they were up against something much bigger than they had expected.

Ah. That sounded like an ending.

I guess, to go with http://www.h2g2.com/A351109 we should say "To be continued" me-sa thinkin'?

"I guess."