Scream Particles

Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Before I say anymore, I have to in all good faith, give you the chance to turn this off now, and you can keep everything you think you know from being ripped from your perceived reality. I wouldn’t blame you; I would trade you if I could, but unfortunately, I didn’t have a choice out there.

If you are still with me then I can tell you were the right person to ask for help. There is a rip in our existence, and the fabric of all Scientific Laws and Theories hang on a thread, and that thread is dangling on the fine line of what we know and the unknown. Unfortunately, there is no way of telling or detecting when or where something unnatural will occur, but it all started in space, and with a scream.

You will soon hear stories from around the world about bizarre phenomenon. You could be driving to work one day and look up to see everything in the sky completely frozen in time like we just heard about in Japan, every plane, bird, cloud just suspended like a photo. Or sound amplified so loud that even a whisper blows ear drums, like the story in Canada from yesterday. Our team suspects more will soon follow: gravity increasing, extreme temperatures, unworldly storms, oxygen levels fluctuating, etc. And that is just the theories we have as of right now. We have the best of the best on a solution, but they will need time, whatever time means at this point.

That is where you come in. We need another Pod built like the one you did for the race to Mars. I know you said you were done with everything that has to deal with traveling past our atmosphere ever since greedy corporations bankrupted everything you worked for, but we were hoping you would make an exception for mankind’s sake.

The Pod we were in at the time was your everyday observation shuttle for our research team. We were tasked to coordinate when the next safest course to Mars would be by calculating Amor asteroid’s paths, along with any other orbiting bodies. We made it to the Tanker-001 for fuel and the fueling boom on our pod hit the side of the refueling Tanker and crimped the tip of the hose. That is when I had to suit-up and go manually open the hose back up so we could refuel. The shockwave hit when I was out there in space. The impact hit so hard that it cracked the visor on my helmet. I screamed out of pure terror, anticipating a quick death. Miraculously, not only was I able to hear my scream dissipate into the void, but I could breathe for the few moments immediately after the initial boom. The shockwave must have brought along some makeshift atmosphere. Panicked and trying to control my fight-or-flight response to what just happened, I gained my composure the best I could and got back in the Pod. The work I was able to accomplish on the fuel boom before the chaos was enough to make-do, and we were able to fuel up and head back to Earth as fast as our rockets would let us.

We believe there is a parallel we can pinpoint that connects the shockwave we felt out there, to the abnormalities we are seeing here. We are needing a Pod like the ones you have designed before, with a little upgrade… it will need to float. There is a floating water cloud with 140 trillion times more water than on Earth heading our way this time around. We suspect the shockwave sent it in our direction, and our answer might be found in that ocean in space.