Chapter 3

"Come on." Daniel exclaimed with hopefulness.

"Ship has changed direction. Initiating all engines." Dana paused.

Daniel was waiting for the result with mixed expressions on his face. It was like hope and anxiety mixed up.

"All engines started. Engines are functioning properly." Dana announced.

"Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes." Daniel was getting mad with happiness.

"I have done it." He raised his fist with joy. He was in heaven. He would have done a victory dance, only if he could stand up.

"The ship is halting. The ship has suspended. Ship is not moving."

"We have penetrated 310 kilometers in the field. The gravity control system is not working properly." Dana warned.

"What? Come oooooonnnnnn." Daniel was not expecting this.

"Okay! Dana! I am going to fire weapons on the count of three."

"I am ready sir!"

"One."

"Two."

"Ugh. Aaahhhhhh." Daniel screamed in pain.

"Gravity control stopped working for a moment. It has been stabilized for now."

Daniel was breathless and in lot of pain. He gathered all his strength and screamed "Three" And pressed the button.

"The Nuclear weapons have been fired and support engines have been ignited." All the lights turned off and ship felt a huge thrust away from the gravitational field. The thrust was so powerful that Daniel flew from his chair and crashed into the wall behind him. His banged his head into the wall. He writhed in pain and at last blacked out. The last thing he felt was his warm blood on his hand, gushing out of his head.

As soon as the Nuclear weapons were fired, Dana ignited support engines with full power. The Ship, with a very high jolt, accelerated away from the Black Hole. The Weapons could be seen for a while and they disappeared as if they were never there.

"The ship has escaped gravitational field. Administrator please instruct the course of action to take." Dana paused.

Daniel was lying on the floor bleeding from his head. A small pool of blood had started to form round him.

"Administrator! please respond." Dana waited for a few seconds.

"Administrator is not moving. Checking Administrator's vitals."

The red siren light went out and a light blue light spread in the room. The Bright White light flashed for a few times.

"Beep. Beep. Beep…" The high pitch siren went off abruptly. The blue light switched to normal light.

"Administrator's vitals are unstable. Overriding Administrator's privileges and rights over ship." Dana announced in mechanical voice.

"The Performance of ship is being set to last known stable level."

"Course of the ship is being set to initial destination."

"To repair the damages to the ship, repair-bots are being activated."

"Initiating Health Emergency Protocol." Dana announced one after another.

As soon as announcements finished, two Nozzles came out of the bottom left and right corners of the wall with a click. Nozzles started spraying gas in the room.

"Injecting coagulating agent and reducing room temperature by two degrees." Room temperature was decreased to further assist in slowing down bleeding.

The room was now filled with gas and the glass of the room had become hazy from the gas.

After a few moments, the door of the room opened, and two weirdly shaped robot entered.

"Medic Alpha 1 as arrived." One the robot said.

"Medic Alpha 2 as arrived." 2nd robot said.

Both the robots had the body like bell. They were white in color. The towered 5 feet in height. A blue glass strap in the middle split their body in top and bottom parts. A small plus sign was painted on top of their body and their names were written in the middle above their waist strap. They each had four arms and they were floating in the air. Their hand had four fingers and their arms were very thick and made of stretchable materials.

On top of bell like body, a glass head was attached. The head was round and two red lights were brimming indicting eyes of robot. The glass was same material as used in making the window of stateroom. It was dark and only eyes could be seen. When they spoke, a visual graph of sound would appear at the location where the mouth should be.

Alpha 1 went near Daniel and bright white light shone from its head. The robot scanned him for a while.

"There seems no fatal injury on his body. He has lost a lot of blood. Arrange two packs of O negative." Alpha 1 instructed.

A compartment opened in lower right part of Alpha 2 and it put out 2 packs of blood. Then, a compartment in lower left corner opened and it put out other equipment for blood transfusion. Alpha 2 started to put the equipment for the procedure.

In the meantime, the index finger of right hand of Alpha 1 opened from the top and a syringe came out of it.

"Administering pain killers, Anesthesia and coagulants. Getting ready for transfusion." Alpha 1 explained.

After a little while, robots had stitched Daniel's wounds and transfused the blood.

"Administrator is out of danger. His vitals are stable now." Alpha 1 informed and both robots left.

"Cleaners and nurses are being activated." Dana announced as soon as Alpha 1 announced.

After a little while two pairs of robots entered that just looked like the earlier robots. Two of the robots had Cleaner 1 and Cleaner 2 written while the others had Medic Beta 1 and Medic Beta 2 written on them.

As soon as they entered, the Cleaners started cleaning the mess that was made by the thrust. Meanwhile, the Nurse robots came closer to Daniel. A long compartment opened on the left side of body of Beta 1. There was a rolling stretcher in it. Beta 1 took it out and both Nurse robots unrolled it and placed Daniel on it. Robots were performing like experienced Medics. Then they, took the stretcher up and hovered towards the exit door in the middle of Back Wall.