Chapter 2

Meet sam decker and his crew as they fly to jupiter to blockade any of Mequis attempts on exploring the black hole.

nMarch 4, 2105, the sun slowly creased over the horizon glimmering into the waves of the ocean. the light broke through thick forest and slowly rested over the ocean down towards the beach of the Galactic Naval Base. bordered by the ocean to the west and hidden by forest to the rest of it. The towering Oak trees reached so high you couldnt see the nearby mountain ranges. It was Morning and men started to wake up and carry to the duties on base. a golf cart came rushing down the side of the base runway. the young male driving it was in a hurry, he was running a few mintues late. he drove the cart zipping into the on base cabin neighborhood. this is where the base personel lived most of the year. he pulled up to a cabin at the end of the road. he ran to the door and knocked as quick as he could. right by the door was the names of the men living inside. the list read from top to bottom LCDR. Seth Evans, Lt. Zach Harvey, Capt. Sam Decker. three of the four crew members of W.S.S. Washington, also nicknamed the Rift-Hawk. a grouchy guy in a robe opened the door.

"yeah whatcha want?" said the grouchy man in the robe.

"the crew of the W.S.S. Washington must report to there hanger, sir", replied the nervous private with the cart.

"alright ill get the captain." the grouchy guy said as he closed the door. the young private waited on the cart. fifteen minutes later a tall blond man with a rough short beared stepped out. his jacket thrown over his shoulder and a cigar hanging in his mouth he pointed at the private on the cart.

"You our ride?" said the tall guy as he lit his cigar and puffed on it a little.

"yes sir, im suppose to pick the crew of the W.S.S. Washington sir." replied the private as he seemed to be a little nervous. the tall guy walked over and reached out his hand.

"Capt. Sam Decker of the W.S.S Washington, nice to meet you private." Decker said as he smirked his cigar in his lips. then two brown haired men stepped out of the cabin." these are my crew mates, Leutenent Commander Seth Evens, hes my co-pilot. and Leutenent Zach Harvey my gunner and class A mechanic." Seth Evans hopped on the back of the cart as decker put his jacket on and sat in the front seat.

"move over Evans, i need room". said Zach as he pushed seth and grabbed on the back of the cart. Evans and Harvey were well dressed in uniform and clean shaved men compared to Decker. their uniforms were all purpose boots and cargo pants along with grey and blue jackets of their own choice in style. Evans was wearing the classic issue bomber jacket with blue sleeves. Harveys jacket was more of a cargo military jacket, it had chest pockets and a hood. Deckers jacket was slightly longer though and rested ab out his mid thigh. it also had an exterior belt around the waist and two chest pockets. Decker also wore a blue Shemagh around his neck which is a really light scarf like head wrap. Decker also liked to keep his sleeves rolled up as he did so it was seen he also wore a watch. as the private was driving back to the hangers decker spoke out to him.

"wait we forgot our other crew member", Decker blurted out as he realized they forgot to go to her cabin.

the young private replied" , shes already at the hanger waiting." that she was Lt. Lynne Riley, and she operated life support systems aboard the ship. she was a very by the books sort of girl. as they pulled up to there hanger she was standing at the front of the office entrance with her arms crossed.

"your an outstanding Leutenent Ms. Riley, you know that?" said Decker as they stopped the cart right by her. 

"you do know your father is waiting inside dont you?" said lynne as she walked over to Sam Decker and gave him a folder." heres this, its the mission details."

"thanks," said decker as he sighed."I better go talk to him, meet me on the ship for the debriefing." Decker walked in the door of the hangers office along the side of the building. inside his dad, John Decker, was sitting at a desk along the window side facing the runway and the ocean.

"You ready for this?" his dad asked as he sipped his glass of water. he put the glass down on the desk in front of him. he swiveled around in his chair and stood up.

"I've been to jupiters moon twice dad" sam replied.

"yeah and that was how many years ago"

"I keep myself prepared, My crew and I are in the simulator twice a week." sam said as his tone escalated. his dad walked over to a lamp turning it on.

"Mequis is determined to get his team through that hole, your gonna be expected to keep him from breaking through," john explained. "chances are though is that the black hole might react and start growing extensively once his ship has passed inside... just be carefull okay... too many things can go wrong and we dont need this to turn into a rescue mission." john walked to the door of the office that entered into the hanger where sams ship the W.S.S. washington sat peacefully. it sat on three landing legs, two in the back, one in the front. its black tinted hull was detailed by a red stripe running down the side. its wings where narrow and ran from the back all the way into two points extending from the front of the ship. between the two extended points was the command bridge. behind the bridge in the middle of the ship was the living quarters consisting of six bunks along the left and right walls of the ship. in the middle of the room was a table where the crew held meetings. finally behind the living quarters was the cargo and engine room at the back of the ship. underneath in the middle was the extended entry ramp that led up into a small doorway between the living quarters and engine room. on the entry ramp was deckers crew sitting waiting for him.

"i better get up there, who knows when Mequis's crew may arrive." said sam.

"hurry to Jupiter son, im afraid of what mequis will start up there. who knows what the black hole will do." john Decker said as he opened the door for his son. john then held out his hand to Sam. Sam honorably shook his dads hand and walked to his crew.

"alright everyone, get on board for the mission briefing." decker said as him and his crew boarded the ship and took there seats at the briefing table."You all now that yesterday Oliver Mequis stated that he was to send a crew through the black hole around jupiters mining moon. We have been selected to be apart of the blockade to stop him. besides that this is just another trip to jupiter, any questions?" Sam finished as he kicked his legs up on the table.

"what if they get through?" Evans asked.

"well there not gonna that's why we are up there," Sam replied.

"well lets do this!" exclaimed Zach Harvey. 

"prepare for lift off" Decker exclaimed as he stood up and entered the cockpit. seconds later the ship powered on its fusion engines and raised its landing arms. the ship slowly floated its way out of its hanger maintaining its hover position. as the ships nose emerged the hanger door the sun beamed in showing the cockpit and all of its crew sitting inside. capt. decker with his co-pilot Seth Evans can be seen at the front of the cockpit sitting at the helm. in the back of the cockpit was Ms. Riley and Zach Harveys positions where they had terminals that assessed the life support and weapons systems.

"all systems normal, the ship is ready for take off," Ms. Riley reported as she read through the life support computer terminal. Sam looked at the dash of the Rift-Hawk where he kept a picture of his mom and dad. sam then grabbed the wheel and gently pushed it forward urging the ship forward. the ship hovered its way to the take off strip then slowly accelerated down the runway. just at the end it flew off into the air reaching atmosphere breaching speeds. they quickly propelled out into the atmosphere where they joined two other world senate ships on there way to the black hole. with them was the W.S.S. pensylvania and the W.S.S. texas.

Capt. Johnson of the W.S.S. Texas came over the microphone," capt. Decker, you and your crew ready for this mission, its been how long since you been up here?"

"my crew is ready and its been a while for all of us Johnson" Decker replied to him. as they sped through the galaxy you could see saturn out of the windows. coming up ahead was jupiter, they made there aproach to the moon when the black hole came in sight. the three navy ships set peremiter and waited, watching the radar for any approaching ships. as time passed the crew aboard the Rift-Hawk became more and more restless. suddenly a ping came up on radar...

"we got something over here" Evans reported as he watched the radar screen.

"bring weapons systems online," Decker said as Zach quickly turned to his terminal powering on all defense weapons. suddenly a ship was spotted skimming quickly across the face of the jupiters moon.

"thats them, the Assendence, prepare for evasive maneuvers!" Decker exclaimed as he grabbed the wheel spinning the Rift-Hawk as they watched Mequis's ship aprouch around the moon. suddenly Mequis's ship opened fire on the W.S.S. pensylvania.

"they've opened fire!" Evans exclaimed.

"thats a class 3 violation, we are clear to return fire," Decker ordered as he threw the ship forward sending the Rift-Hawk into pursuit of the Assendence. While the Rift-Hawk came screaming in it was too late. The Pensylvania was caught off guard and its engines exploded. then the assendence made its move. without hesitation the assendence flew right through the pensylvanias wreckage and impacted the black hole disappearing into the black. the Rift-hawk came to a stop looking right at the black hole.

"there gone?"evans said very puzzled.

"what happens now?" said Ms. Riley. Sam looked ahead into the black hole then a flash emerged from the heart of the black hole. a giant stream of lighting exploded from the black hole striking the Rift-Hawk. suddenly the black hole started twisting and growing pulling harder on the vaccuum of space. 

"Code Red, Code RED!" Ms. Riley started panicing."the black hole is pulling now eight times harder, where gonna get consumed!" then the W.S.S. texas came over the radio...

"S.O.S. may-day, may-day, the W.S.S. texas is going down, we are being pulled through thee..." then suddenly it stopped as the W.S.S. texas could be seen twisting through the viscious black hole. before sam and his crew could make evasive decisions and even have a chance of getting away the cockpit of the W.S.S. washington turned black and the ships systems started crashing. the Rift-Hawk was consumed right before the black hole summited and collapsed along with half of jupiter leaving behind a crumple of rock.