1 We got a situation sir!

Time: 2 am.

Location: Indian Ocean.

'Knock Knock' The sound echoed through the room as a middle-aged man in his 40's turned his head slightly towards the door as he said "Come in.", in a stern manner.

"Sir! we need you on the deck immediately." The words of a sweating Flight lieutenant Azar, who had run all the way from the deck, were raspy as he entered the Air Marshal's chambers.

"Let's go." The middle-aged man got out of his chair and signaled the cadet in front of him to follow him. This was the Indian Navy aircraft carrier patrolling the Indian ocean which had all the best equipment in India.

The middle-aged man sat across the control room in the deck as he glared at the Captain demanding to know why he was summoned at this time of the night.

"We got a situation, sir. Look at this." The Captain immediately handed over a Fax to the middle-aged man whose eyebrows knitted together as soon as he finished reading it.

"Order the best pilot we have to suit up to fly. Send him over immediately, now!"The seemingly harmless middle-aged man sprang from his seat. And as if he was a different person from before, his eyes turned serious as he stood on the deck staring towards a direction into the Indian Ocean. This man was the Air Marshal of the fleet, Ravinder Singh.

As soon as the order left his mouth, the whole deck turned busy. It wasn't long after which an F-35 was on its way to the coordinates 4°55' South and 78°9' East.

The Fax was from ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) which reported weird and troubling Electromagnetic activities in a particular location in the Indian Ocean. ISRO couldn't handle the reports they received themselves and had immediately contacted the patrolling carrier to clear their doubts after receiving permissions to utilize the navy.

The F-35 didn't take long to near the location in question.

"Shh...Come in ranger-7." The radio buzzed in the heavy silence.

"This is ranger-7, I am presently 3 klicks away from the destination and I am starting to have a visual. Over."

"Can you identify what we are dealing with, ranger-7?"

"Negative sir. I have no idea what it is."

"Reduce your speed and proceed with caution, ranger-7. Over...shh."

"Copy that."

The Air Marshal tapped his legs impatiently as he leaned on his chair lost in thought. "What can it be?" The question echoed in his mind as he uttered it out loud. He rose from his seat and exposed himself to the light night breeze that entered the deck.

"This is ranger-7 reporting in!" Everyone in the deck turned their attention to the radio, all of their faces painted with the same grave expression.

"I have never seen anything like this, sir. I don't even know how to start describing it. Is that a..." His words stopped in his tracks as he hovered his jet at his present location.

"Complete your report ranger!" An angry voice rang in his ears.

"Sir. Umm...I think I see a man." The doubtful voice reached the Air Marshal sitting across the control room, whose eyes narrowed as he commanded: "Send in a drone, I need to see for it myself." He ordered sternly as his eyes once again stared ahead, into the distance.

A Drone was dispatched immediately to the location while the ranger hovered the jet at his present location. As the drone neared the location in question, everyone in the deck slowly rose from their seats as their mouths gradually dropped in shock seeing the visual on the big screen.

The screen displayed a large whirlpool with at least a radius of two kilometers, which could probably devour anything that neared it. Above it was something that they still couldn't comprehend.

As the drone neared the location more and more, the more serious the Air Marshal's face turned. Everyone held in their breath as the drone finally gave a clear visual. The Drone hovered at its location as the people on the deck contemplated among themselves.

Under the Moonlight, they could see a black colored portal. It was like a round shaped black door, leading to another location. And exactly in the center of that portal was something that resembled a black skeleton of a man.

"Contact ISRO and connect them to the Drone." Ravinder ordered the man beside him as he calmly looked at the screen.

"Sir, ISRO is online."

"What is this?" Ravinder didn't waste a second before he asked the obvious question and was met with an answer he was expecting.

"We have no idea, Marshal. It seems like a portal made by bending the space fabric, connecting two points of space."

Just when the ISRO and the navy were conversing about the situation something started to change at the portal.

"Sir!" Someone in the deck shouted as he pointed towards the screen.

White and dense strings of energy started to make their way from the ends of the portal towards the black Skeleton in the center, in spirals and lit up the skeleton, which now resembled more of a demon's skeleton than that of a man's.

"Call the ranger back, now!" Ravinder shouted as his eyes stayed fixed on the screen.

As soon as the white light of the energy strings lit up the skeleton, a sound started resonating in the head of everyone that saw the floating skeleton. The skeleton's body started to shake but it did not move from its location.

The words they heard were simple and clear.

"Hand them over."