Chapter 25: Face to Face with Anti-Cursor
The Anti-Cursor spaceship was an irregular shaped meteor from outside. It was an object dark reddish in color and a maximum size of 1000 meters in one direction and was 100 meters in the perpendicular direction i.e. 330 and 3,280 ft along its widest dimensions. The GRIID based CoM software was not entirely wrong except that it did not tell anything about the inside an asteroid.
The inside of the irregularly shaped meteor-cum-asteroid from out of solar system-cum-Spaceship of Anti-Cursor had width and thickness ranging between 35 and 167 meters (115 and 548 ft). The thickness was because of several layers of carving which were used by the Aliens of the Proxima Centauri to convert this natural asteroid into an interstellar spaceship. This asteroid was carefully chosen since the outer shell of meteoritic-iron gave it strength as well as camouflage. Intricate carving and delicate mining work had converted enough space into a space laboratory with a propulsion system. The outer shell was again reinforced inside by nuclear shock absorbers.
Ryan's module had hit the Anti-Cursor spaceship and the two had glued together to form a single body. The whole module was slowly absorbed into the Anti-Cursor spaceship. Ryan floated toward the opening of his module. All communications with the earth had stopped working.
Ryan pushed electronic control of the double gates of space-module. Gates opened into the control area of the Anti-Cursor spaceship. From the design it was not very clear it was inhabited by a large number of alien spaceships. Maybe it was a short tour spaceship with not much payload. No alien crew was there. One of the first things Ryan noted was marks of a few hold on the interior wall of the spaceship. Ryan pushed his feet down from the gate of his space module. There was fog occluding everything on the surface below. It hit a pillar-like thing, a short pillar of about half a feet, the pillar was able to withstand the pressure of Ryan's feet.. weight was zero anyway because he was in space. Ryan put his feet on the surface and it also hit another pillar of the same height. It was like a big chessboard with pillars at every black square. He was able to move on those pillars. Why the hell would any civilization make such a strange floor on a spaceship.
An image of his dog Dodji appeared on the monitor. Its eyes were as much as if it was real. The dog came out of the monitor and jumped on his lap. Ryan was apprehensive but looking at its eyes he became nostalgic.
The dog jumped out of his lap and moved into a corridor.. as it moved ahead there was a trail of bright light behind it. Ryan followed the trail of bright light.
Ryan moved ahead and reached a big room. It looked like the control room of the spaceship. A monitor in the front wall with cable protruding off the wall. Several small sized monitors were below it.
The entire scene of Megan and Awasthy getting hit by Aurora, Megan being saved by Awasthy after she was hit by the green ball, Susan offering her a lift to both of them in her was being streamed on a monitor in the front wall of the Anti-Cursor spaceship. On another monitor a video with a landscape of an alien planet was being displayed. However no aliens could be seen in the video.
'Now this is the time to give them an ultimatum to hand over the GRIID to us..,' a black colored Cursor looking very much like our Chris the Cursor but with much bigger eyeballs on its top wrote on the monitor.
'You are running away now but I shall catch you all and take my revenge,' the black Cursor wrote on the small monitor and hit a <send> button next to it.
Ryan was able to put together all the pieces of the puzzle surrounding Aurora Anomaly, the abduction of Megan and Awasthy as well as the attack by Maljen in his car.
'Welcome Ryan,' a sound came from behind the monitor. 'I am the Anti-Cursor. I have been waiting for you for so long.'
'So you know who I am.' said Ryan.
'We know everything about you. I only got you here. That dog which you wanted to save was nothing but my ploy.'
Dog turned into a cloud of black-colored particles then disappeared.
'But how do you know me and what do you want?'
'I have been tracking you for the last several months.'
'Why? I have nothing to do with you.'
'Ryan.. you have a lot to do with me. Mr. Awasthy, Ms. Susan, your fiance Megan all have cheated me..not only once but twice ..first when I was born and again when I asked Mr. Awasthy to upgrade me.'
'But.. what this has to do with the entire human race..'
'Because all of you.. entire mankind is like that... When Susan got to know about me she threw me into a dustbin. Let me ask you one question... Do you ever throw your child if you did not plan for it?'
Ryan looked down and tried scratching his head but there he could not reach his fingers in bulky spacesuits. He put off the headgear by his sides and replied,
'I understand but revenge is neither good policy nor a feasible one.'
'Since then I have been looking for ways to come back and teach you and your people a lesson.'
'Ok but why did you cause the anomaly in Aurora.'
'That's also something tried by me to contact other members Aliens of Proxima Centauri. I tried to use the magnificent and bright auroras on earth for conveying signals to other planets beyond your solar system.'
Ryan raised his eyebrows in appreciation. Ryan's iWatch vibrated and Ryan tried to have a glance to read the notification. It was nothing but Chris asking him to plug his USB into the spaceship.
'Don't be clever I very well know you and your good friend Chris the Cursor. I need access to the GRIID. After that I and my Maljens can rule over the world.'
'Well... that is not in my hands.'
'Ryan you are useless then, be ready to be finished with your friend Chris or whatever you call that scoundrel.'
A ray beams up and iWatch dropped off the wrist of Ryan. Ryan went back and tried to hide behind the wall but a ray hurled upon him. Ryan pushed his feet ahead to get hold of his iWatch.
Don't do any stupidity Ryan said the Anti-Cursor. Ryan did not give it any heed.
The monitor screen used by Anti-Cursor to talk to Ryan went blank. The inside environment in front of the spaceship got charged up. Ryan saw Chris the Cursor and big black Anti-Cursor appeared from thin air and were staring at each other.
'Dear Anti-Cursor we do not have anything against you. You must conform to the BitConstitution and come back to the Cursor community. We shall arrange a new spaceship for you to go to the Aliens of Proxima Centauri.'
'There are hundreds of spaceships wandering in deep space. What I want is access to the GRIID.'
'You are not going to get it'.
'But I will take it.'
Maljens started attacking Chris with arrows. Chris saved himself by leaning sideways.
'Dear Maljens you are like our brothers. Accept the deal.'
'No.'
Now it's a wrestling match between Chris the Cursor and Maljens. Chris was being attacked from all sides. Ryan takes hold of his iWatch and increases signal strength. There was a notification on iWatch- 'Ryan, try to cut the power source of the Anti-Cursor spaceship. There should be some source of power supply either solar or nuclear.'
Ryan ran out of the corridor checking on the sidewalls and on the floor if there is any opening or the chamber from where he could reach the possible energy source. A huge laser beam that turned objects into clouds of black-colored particles started following him. On its first hit Ryan's iWatch turned into a black-colored cloud.
Ryan ran across the spaceship. The laser beam came behind. Ryan followed a thick wire which was going along the roof. The laser beam again followed. Next Ryan's spacesuit was torn from ankles. Ryan thanked the Anti-Cursor for making a spacesuit look like torn jeans in line with trending fashion.
Ryan noticed that there was a chamber above the ceiling from where the wire was going inside. Maybe this was the place from where the power was coming to the Anti-Cursor spaceship. Ryan jumped up to crack the ceiling with his helmet. The laser beam followed him but missed his hands and instead hit the ceiling. A big hole was formed in the ceiling.
Anti-Cursor announced-
'Don't forget that the entire mankind is on my target especially the GRIID.' The display on the monitor changed to the video stream of the GRIID.
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