The Cube kept spinning, removing energy from the portal that kept trying to increase. The situation was confusing even for Ryan's eyes, which could observe the flow of energy. As the portal tried to increase in size, the cube drew more and more energy.
'This is going to start getting dangerous' he thought as he walked away.
The portal had grown to the size of a tennis ball, and remained fixed, unable to grow any larger than that. The cube kept spinning, as it lifted some of the sand from the beach. Pieces of glass were emerging from the heat.
Within seconds, Ryan's vision went completely dark, and he was thrown along with Aether into the base again. "What happened?" he asked confused, but the blond man put his hand on his shoulder, telling him that everything was fine, "Someone returned us to the base, the cube must be unstable."