[ WP ] Mankind took their first step at interstellar travel , and unknowingly travel to a progressing alien warzone .

The engine powered up behind us as we waited in anticipation for the first space warping flight in human history. The ship worked by folding space time and whizzing through the fold, in 10 or 15 minutes we would be by Pluto, floating in the freezing outer solar system. The engine continued to groan and pulsate and then I felt the tingling all over my body, we were moving, it was happening. The colours around us started to blur and shift, suddenly the back of the ship was in front of us, yet it was n't. Nothing made visual sense as we flew at hyper speed toward Pluto, to this day it was the most magical experience of my life, and the scariest. 
 
 After 15 minutes, it stopped, there was no sound except for a buzzing, blinking red light on the dashboard. I looked outside and could n't see Pluto, or any of the celestial bodies we were told to expect. I looked at the little red blinking light, we had lost all connections with Earth, the positioning system was just throwing out errors, the computer did n't know where we were. 
 
 Suddenly a black blur flew past, I looked at the other members of the crew and asked if they saw the same thing. They were n't sure, maybe it was an after effect of the space warp flight. It happened again, but this time we all saw the black blur, no one spoke, no one had a rational explanation, this was the first encounter with another alien ship because that thing certainly was n't an asteroid or anything natural. 
 
 Another black blur came past the window, but stopped instantly in front of us. Our ship was now moving toward the bigger black ship, as we got closer we could see the detail it seemed to absorb light, it was blacker than the black emptiness that surrounded it, its hull was covered in rigid spiked and groves. We were still speechless, this was all happening too fast. 
 
 We were dragged inside the ship by an invisible force, and were inside the cargo bay of the ship it was strange and looked different but we could just tell it was a cargo bay of some sort. The inside was mysteriously human almost like military, there was standard lettering throughout the place as if it were sectioned off into parts similar to a big military hanger we were in section 27B. The computer indicated that the air outside was breathable and fine, so we prepared to get out of the ship and meet whoever it was who owned this thing. The fear was gone now, we were the first team to fly a space warping flight, we were resigned to death from the beginning, curiosity was driving us now, not fear. 
 
 As we left the ship a number of armed guards approached us, they were carrying black riffles and wearing gas masks, they were oddly human shaped. They surrounded us and as a man without a uniform or mask walked up to us, we did n't have a single weapon between us, we did n't plan on finding anything we needed to shoot at on Pluto so all we could do was wait. 
 
 `` Who are you'' the unmasked man asked us. We explained we were flying to Pluto. 
 
 `` Pluto was destroyed 500 years ago'' the man said, `` we are in the middle of a war with them, the others, we have colonised several of the moons in our solar system and we are defending our territory.'' 
 
 `` So our co-ordinates are correct?'' I asked. `` But the time is wrong.'' 
 
 `` It seems like it'' he said, `` its the year 4500 and I am going to guess your warp drive is faulty''. 
 
 `` How do we get back?'' I asked, holding back hysteria. 
 
 The man explained that we are stuck here, they ca n't send us back and risk us being killed or captured by the enemy. So we waited, we waited in the hanger inside our ship as we heard deafening explosions all around us, we felt the huge ship shake and rattle, and finally it stopped. 
 
 A team of engineers came on board and fixed our ship, several parts were replaced and we were given a box to take back. 
 
 `` Give this to the intelligence forces when you get back'' he said, `` this box contains what we need to avoid this war. Since you have come from your time, you can go back into it without a paradox being created, maybe you can fix things for us here''. 
 
 We left the ship, and the computer was preprogrammed to take us back, the light around us blurred and warped again and before we knew it we were by Earth in a stable orbit. We had full communications and told HQ what had happened. 
 
 We had 3 hours to kill until the re-entry window opened again, I could n't help but look in the box, there had to be an amazing piece of technology inside. 
 
 I opened the box, there was nothing inside the box except a hand written note folded in half. I opened the note, it had only one word. *'' Compassion'' * 

