My Little Kingdom

"Kid how was on your side?" Burt asked. "Almost done, 20 seconds more". Was Old Burt already finish his installation? Well that was fast. I should hurry too. Glenn thought. "Okay, I'm done. What now?" Glenn look at Old Burt who was still looking at other parts of this Space Station. This Space Station was called Atlantis-X, It was build as a joint space project between USA and PRC. Burt Magur and Guang Li a.k.a Glenn were the two latest astronauts sent by each country as a maintenance team in this station. Glenn was a chinese, he had a short cut black hair, high nose bridge, and white skin but unlike other chinese he was really tall about 188 cm. He was born and grown up in Nanjing city, China. He was the first son among his three other siblings. His parents were both Professors of one of the famous university in Nanjing. Influenced by his parents, Glenn, ever since his childhood was always eager to learn about everything. Either it was Science, Sports, Martial Arts or other general knowledge. He was like a Jack of all trade because of his fast learning and understanding. He was a freaking genius. His friends, neighbors, siblings, even his parents start to predict what path would Glenn take as his career. They thought Glenn could be anything he wanted. "Astronaut" Glenn answered. "What ?" Glenn's father stunned. "Astronaut? Xiao Li, I'm serious here." " I'm not joking 'Pop, I'm serious" Glenn said while looking at his father. " Since high school I always wondered about how good it could be if I was an astronaut. That was my dream". " But it's too dangerous son, that was the job with the highest risk, I knew you could be anything you want but couldn't you reconsidered it again? After all you're my first child and I hope after college you would change your mind." Glenn's father tried to reason. Glenn sigh. Exactly at a moment like this he was just really hopeless when it was came about his parents. As a son he knew well how his parents thought about him. They always wanted him to be together with him because they love him very much, he thought deep down no parents would want their children to take a high risk job. But what could he do? Ever since he learned about Space, Universe and its infinity he was enchanted. He took aerospace engineering as his major because he want to take a path as an astronaut. He was challenged to peel the layers of mysteries in the space and universe because space and universe was the last mystery that human still barely touched up to now so he wanted to be an explorer of space, he was never changed his mind since then. "Ok 'Pop let's just see after that then." Glenn Laughed.

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"Let's recheck once again we should certain there were no errors, after that we could go back to the shuttle" Old Burt said through the radio. "Okie Dokie" Glenn gave him thumbs up.

" whew, finally we finished it, it was really taken a long time" Old Burt talked while lay down on his chair and sipped his favorite drink. " to be exact 4 minutes 25 seconds and I was late by another 20 seconds, damn it " Glenn pouted. " hahaha, relax kid, I was just have more experience that's all. In 2 years, no 1 year I guaranteed you'll surpassed all your seniors including me, You're the best prodigy I have ever partner with, even in my own country there were no one like you so far, so relax, hahaha ". Old Burt said while gave another drink to Glenn. " Slurppp… well I hope so, but Old Burt we already finished our job here and just waited to get home, what other mission would you took after this?". "Oh me… I forgot to tell you didn't I… well… actually this was my last mission." Old burt smiled. "Shit, really? How were we supposed to compare our skill later then?" Old Burt was very confused with Glenn's attitude and then asked "How old exactly were you kid?, Why were you so eager to compete?" Old Burt asked while looking curiously at Glenn. " 19… no already 20 this month, and maybe I thought it would be too boring if there were no competitions, just imagine Old Burt, a world without competitions… ugh… that would be to bland of a world, competitions were always stimulate me to develop myself, if I have you old Burt I thought I would faster develop my speed in installation...By the way what did the relation between my age with competitiveness? I thought every people wanted to compete themselves, didn't they?." Glenn blurt out "Only kids had a fierce feeling of competitiveness Kid, if you said you were 14 or 15 rather than 20 maybe I would believed it instead,,, when I was in your…" suddenly Old Burt stopped talking

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"tremor?" Old burt jump off his chair and immediately looked outside through the shuttle glass " what happened? There were no meteoroid out there, why would it be shaken? were we forgot to recheck the pressure cabin?" Old Burt thought. "Kid, were you sure you were already rechecked the every parts of our shuttle according to procedure before?" Old Burt turn his face to Glenn. " Yes, In and Out, every-time before and after we enter the shuttle I always rechecked everything" Glenn replied. "Well I guess I have to check it again then…" Old Burt thought. " Kid you checked outside of the shuttle in case there were some little materials that disturb our shuttle and I would checked the pressure cabin " Old Burt said. "Ok, immediately, Old Burt" Glenn replied. Glenn immediately walk off, wore his shuttle suit, unlocked the door and took off outside "well, this zero gravity thingy really addict me every-time" glenn thought to himself. After Glenn finished check every cranny on the outside part of the shuttle, he found nothing. "Probably the problem lay in the pressure cabin room" Glenn murmured. " There was nothing here Old Burt, No anomalies detected, How's in there? " Glenn asked through his Radio.

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But there were no answers. " Old Burt, This is Glenn do you Copy ?"

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"Old Burt, Do you copy?"…

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" well maybe there was just a little disturbance on the waves, I guess I would just go back in " Glenn thought. Just as Glenn turned back he saw movement on the darkness of space not far from the shuttle. " What was that? " Glenn murmured. Driven by his curiosity he got closer and closer to the the source he immediately identified the movement that was seen before was actually a distortion. The distortion was so tiny so it really hard to see without a careful observation. Glenn panicked and frown, if his guess was right this was the legendary black hole that so far just an assumption of many astronomy connoisseurs and he himself realized he was just too close to the source. Glenn immediately thought he has to go as far as possible from this source, to go the shuttle and inform old Burt, but suddenly he feel like his body was being sucked by a swirling water, "shit, I'm doomed" he cursed. He tried so hard against the pull of the source but to no avail, every movements of his body, every struggle is futile, Glenn sunk in despair because for the first time in his life he couldn't do anything, he who was praised as a man capable of everything can only gave up himself in front of the nature face. "I will be rip into pieces by this hole and nothing will remain from my body, This was so unfair" Glenn repented.

"If only... "

Finally he gave up his resistance " So was this how I gonna die? "and suddenly the faces of his parents and his three other siblings flashed across his mind, " 'Pop, 'Mom, Xiao Lan, Xiao ni, Xiao Yan, I'm sorry and goodbye " Glenn murmured while in tears and then lose his consciousness.