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across the board with furious intent. "I can't lock them out. The only thing that will be sent back through the event horizon is radiation. It will affect everything in the cave."
"Why would you, let them do it."
"I can't," she cried out. There was no noise to shout over in the room, but she was edging on panic. "If he tries to push that energy through the breached core the feedback will cause a chain reaction that-"

"Would be bad," he finished off. "I get the picture."
"I- I can't," she panted.
"There's nothing more you can do?"
"No," she looked up at him with sad eyes.
Deep inside he knew what was about to happen, but Alex was on the verge of a complete break down. He did not want the both of them to die during a hysteric fit of emotion.
He forced a smile, "well at least we know why Christ disappeared."
She sniffled, "I guess."
He frowned, "I just wish the temporal wake hadn't passed or I would send the abort message."
Suddenly Alex's demeanor changed. She stood from the stool as light burst out through her eyes, "the temporal wake doesn't have anything to do with that. You can still send the abort message!"
Large red letters appeared over the wire frame model of the core, flashing CORE BREACH IN PROGRESS' over and over again. Marcus turned to the control panel near him and saw a green rectangle in the bottom right corner labeled ABORT'. As soon as his eyes came to rest on the screen the room rocked to the side and the two of them were thrown to the ground.
Red lights flashed on the control panels and the room rocked again. A rumbling sound crept up through the floor and the white lights in the room went out, plunging them both into darkness. The panels continued to flash as the room was rocked again and another rumbling crept in through the walls. Marcus strained to see in the darkness, but the flashing lights and constant vibrations made it impossible.
Something hit him in the side of the head and his mind whirled around, dazed. The darkness seemed to swim around him as the red lights flashed to the left and then to the right. The entire room seemed to slip into a slow crawl. The darkness could have lasted for hours and the rumbling for even longer. Another object smashed into his head and the red flashing light was finally extinguished in perpetual blackness.

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