Witnessing the Event

"Well, that sucks," our commander remarked, as we watched the asteroid fade away. And he was right, it really did suck, watching that asteroid slowly (at least in our frame of reference) destroy years of work, after decades of travel, research, and planning.

Decades of _my_ research and planning.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. You're probably wondering why we even were _near_ that black hole. You see our species always had this problem with the *_hugeness_ of space*, and how to traverse it quickly.

Well, I finally figured it out: Harnessing gravitational waves of a black hole and using it to create a _safe_ space warper, since collapse would occur inside the hole, and so not affect our reality.

Of course, I needed a black hole to do this. So we had to go _a lot of light years_ to that one.

And after setting up the very complicated graviton harnessnet, and _making sure_ its orbit won't degrade and fall into the hole, that _damn asteroid_ gets in the stupid way.

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Oops. I think I wet myself. Nurse?