Segment 3 (continued)

I clambered past seven knee high walls, four chest high and one shoulder high barrier to ultimately arrive before the grand mother of them all. A colossal mass of disrupted dirt, pavement, flesh, and twisted steel hovered some twenty feet tall staggering the land underneath a frigid shadow that flew beyond the realms natural border.

"What the hell... How exactly was this anomaly caused by such a simple weapon?"

"It's more then just a simple weapon mister Walsh. Now please... stand back"

In my pack I carried several bricks of plastic explosives as an emergency clause although typically reserved for self destruction in the case of capture or departure from the best laid plans. In my twenty something years guarding the post I never had to use the stuff. Then snap of a thumb later I'm instantly resorting to the last possible scenario.

Walsh caught a glance of my toys and instantly peppered me with uncertainty. "You think you can blast a hole through the earth with that shit?" he spoke half feet in condescending half in inquisitive.

"No Walsh that would be silly." A smirk rolled off my lips "I'm planning on something else occurring"

"Like what?"

Without response I plunged the detonator through the clay like substance and initiated the fuse. Grabbing hold of the nearest hump I took the composite firmly in hand and arched my back in line straight with rolling sides before surging every muscle throughout my body to heave the explosive up and over the behemoth skyscraper.

"Fire in the hole!" my voice was engulfed a moment later by the boisterous thunder a thousand firecrackers.

Walsh lifted his head first, gasping in disbelief. For just a moment the dust-storm washed away the oxygen and clarity around the impact sight. Just a second later it was gone, blown away by a furious wind.

In it's steed rest a hole the size of a common day sedan smack dab in midst the world.

"What the hell is that Jerry?" Walsh's out reached finger sprung towards the missing splotch of Terra-firma.

"It's a drain hole Walsh. Coincidentally also exactly where we were headed."

A counter clock wise spiraling gap in known physics. Not a black hole, an actual garbage disposal that ran the earth's crust in length all the way to the core. But that wasn't where I was leading the sheep.