Jonathan just cannot tell how long the Space Beast has kept staring at him, because all this time he is unable to move his body even for a single millimeter. he is totally petrified in his seat!
but as if to prove that its action is not even the worst it can do, the Space Beast suddenly opens its gigantic mouth wide and eats the Dream Scape whole. the scene of a giant mouth suddenly opening up and instantly eating you is something that even a war veteran like Jonathan cannot forget for the rest of his life.
Jonathan can only close his eyes as tight as possible, waiting for the immediate destruction of him and his ship. there is only a little regret that he somehow still failed to do anything useful with his second chance to live. but Jonathan has already given up life for years, and his new reason to live has already turned into space junk. what he does now is just trying to repay the hope that is bestowed on him.
Jonathan didn't dare to open his eyes, believing that death would come soon and that it was better to not see it coming instead of looking it in the eyes. but somehow he cannot feel anything. no pain, no terrible shake, no sound, nothing. what happens?
Jonathan opens his eyes slowly and he can only gasp in surprise!
in front of him Are millions of stars that move so fast that it looks like warp drive in the movies. humanity also has developed the warp drive tech when they reach the intergalactic level, but Jonathan never really sees how the world looks like when you are the pilot of a spaceship inside a warp drive. but Jonathan believes what he sees right now Is not a warp drive because he is currently in the belly of a Space Beast.
the Space Beast, somehow, has transparent skin and organs so that Jonathan can still see the world outside even from its belly. or maybe he is not?
Jonathan begins to pay attention to his Dream Scape condition via 3D Display and sees that no damage is happening to his ship. Jonathan can even see the Builder Bot that is still fixing his ship with good progress, as it already fixes about sixty percent of the damage.
"How? Why?" that is all that Jonathan can say to himself, and to anyone or anything that can hear him.
with nothing else to do and a lot of questions to ask, Jonathan went back to his seat and watched the scenery in awe. it is like a rain of light comes rushing to his ship only for them to miss him entirely. such a weird scene can only be seen by Jonathan in movies or documentaries because as a guard he has no permission or access to any kind of view.
the view lasts for a full twenty-four hours, based on the internal clock of the Dream Scape, before it finally slows down and stops. builder Bot is already finished with its repair about two hours ago and now it is in the middle of recharging its battery. Dream Scape is in its best condition and ready to make an escape. not like Jonathan believes he can run from such a mighty beast, but at least he needs to try.
then something unexpected happens.
the Space Beast throws Dream Scape out from its mouth and lets it float away at quite a speed. the Space Beast easily follows the Dream Scape and once again stares at Jonathan. this time, Jonathan decides to steel his heart and look back to the Space Beast, showing that he is not afraid of it and ready to face its challenges.
the Space Beast then smiled a little, before it quickly vanished from view as if it was just a bad hallucination from Jonathan's mind.
"eh?"
Jonathan tried to look out from his cockpit window. he even turned Dream Scape around. the Space Beast just literally disappeared from his sight like a bad dream. he cannot see anything around him anymore. not even a single sign of it.
"What kind of creature can move so fast that it disappears like a puffing cloud?"
Ting!
suddenly the Computer Table sounds a notification alarm. Jonathan goes to it and sees a window pop up with the words 'New Biological Creature Found'. Jonathan clicks on it and a window opens up, displaying a part of the Space Beast's body photo with some information on it.
- new entry! please name the creature - Name ?? Length 59 Km Wide 21 Km Weight ?? Details a new type of living creature found in the empty void of space. not much information is known about it. further research is required.
Jonathan read the new information and began to think. can he act like a scientist and add something to this data?
then he remembers that he is probably the only one who will see this data and decide to add his own view about the new creature. he even dared to name it because why not?
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- new entry updated! - Name Space Beast (Star Orca) Length 59 Km Wide 21 Km Weight ?? Details Orca-like Space Beast with a very wide fin like a sail. its body and organs are transparent so anyone who enters its mouth can still see the view from the inside. do not approach!
further research is required.
"hmm, now that is better."
Jonathan is satisfied with his input and saves it. he will update the information later when he can find the creature again and maybe say thank you for the ride. the Space Beast somehow took him to a new place that, based on his own eyes, didn't look much different than before.
what makes him know that he is in a different place is that the cockpit computer suddenly sounds the notification alarm before the 3D Display shows the Dream Scape inside a white ball, showing the Dream Scape's initial location and its range of detection. at the edge of the ball, there is a beeping dot of yellow light with the words 'unknown object' above it.
such a thing never happened before. at least since he was awake last time.
now Jonathan has two options. one is to approach the 'unknown object' and see what he can find in it or get away from it and be safe. his instinct told him to get away as far as possible because approaching the unknown is always the beginning of a problem. Jonathan didn't need a problem right now, he needed a solution.
but then he remembered that Dream Scape, at its core, is a scientific spaceship meant to learn about everything it can find. no matter how dangerous or bizarre it is. Jonathan of course will refuse this idea because it is stupid. he is all alone without any chance to get back up or rescue. one wrong move and he is finished.
but then there is this little, thing in his heart. a little push, that demands him to check on the unknown and act like a scientist he secretly admires. it is just that he is a soldier first, and a guard second.
"Okay, let's check it from a safe distance first before deciding to check it close or not."
Jonathan then moves the Dream Scape to the direction of the unknown object. he also made the cockpit screen to display the distance from their current position to the unknown object so that he could take a good look at it before deciding whether to really approach it or not.
the flight to the unknown object takes quite a while because Jonathan realizes the fuel for the Dream Scape is about to run out soon. after a few hours of boring flight, Jonathan finally sees the unknown object in the distance.
the unknown object looks like a big boulder of rock that floats aimlessly in space. it's just this rock somehow has a symmetric vibe on it, as if someone or something purposely made it like that.
Jonathan kept a vigilance look on it for some time, wary of any unknown danger that might harm his life. after a while, Jonathan is sure that the object is safe. he then activated the Dream Scape scanner and began to check the object.
Ting!
- new object found! please name the object - Name ?? Length 2 Km Wide 800 M Weight ?? Details a new type of object found in the empty void of space with the sign of damage on it. not much information is known about it. further research is required.
based on the Dream Scape initial check, this object is quite large. it is probably something like a spaceship ruins, like what the Dream Weaver found back then. Jonathan then decides to go closer and begin to inspect it with more detail. who knows what kind of alien tech it might have?
slow but sure, the Dream Scape approaches the object with care. for comparison, the Dream Scape is only about fifteen meters in length and ten meters in width. it is so small that the Dream Scape looks like a fly on a person's body.
the Dream Scape is flying closer and closer. in no time it is finally close enough to see the outer side of the object with details. Jonathan can only look in awe when he sees the object's outer side.
"wooww, really?"