Free The Lonely Spy by Mkululi Nqabeni Page B

enter her bedroom but Charles
blocks him. ‘’Can you at least give me a chance to explain?’’ he
said. Yolanda’s face was fuming with anger. ‘’ No, let’s get back
to our workstation and work’’ she said. Charles grabs Yolanda both
on her shoulders ‘’ I need you in my life, have you forgotten
everything I said last night?’’ he said. Yolanda slapped Charles on
his left cheek. ‘’Lets meet at the workstation in 30 minutes. From
now on, it’s strictly work, I can’t believe I fell for your tricks
again’’ she said. Charles looked down and went back to his bedroom.
Yolanda opened her door and slammed it.

    THE BLACK HOLE
     
    Charles arrived first at the
workstation. He cleaned it and put back all the files and books in
the right sequence. Few moments later, Yolanda arrives and sat in
her seat. They both put on their seatbelts. Charles switched on the
spacecraft engines. ‘’Hey, all the engines are working just fine’’
he said. Yolanda looked at him and kept quiet. The spacecraft sped
off. Few minutes later Charles looked at Yolanda. ‘’Could you
retrieve the video footage of the meteors, waves of water, and
tornado that hit us, please’’ Charles asked. They studied them and
collected some of the samples of the water and meteor. ‘’Could you
test these samples at the lab, please’’ he said. Yolanda tested the
water samples at the lab and discovered it was similar to rain
water. She showed it to Charles and he was very impressed. ‘’ Enter
the data and store it. Well done’’ he said. After she finished
storing the data, she went to the telescope section. She looked at
it and saw something strange and familiar. ‘’What do we have here
’’she murmured. She looked again at the telescope and her eyes
looked terrified. ‘’Charles’’ she screamed. Charles turned and
looked back. ‘’ The Black hole’’ she said. Charles switched the
spacecraft on cruise control. He took off his seatbelt and went to
the telescope section.
    ‘’ Wow, we are very close’’
he said. Moments later they went back to the workstation. ‘’Could you please
check the mileage we have travelled so far? He asked. Yolanda
checked the mileage. ‘’ We have travelled 14.5 Billion kilometres
so far’’ Yolanda said. ‘’Wow!! And what is the mileage of this
spacecraft? ‘’ It’s a 15 billion kilometres, we miscalculated on
the distance to the black hole. We thought it would take around 5
billion kilometres.’’ Yolanda replied. ‘’ Alright it’s not a train
smash but I think we will use the solar powered engines when we
come back to earth.’’ Charles said.
    ‘’ That’s good to hear’’ she said. ‘’ Can you also give me
more information on the Black hole report you have gathered so
far’’ he said. ‘’Black hole is in the process of merging with many
galaxies in the Milky Way or its intention is to merge with all the planets
in the solar system. Few minutes later the spacecraft trembled.
They looked around and realised the spacecraft has been struck by
explosions of fire. ‘’Hold tight, I think it’s the rays or
something’’ she said. They can’t see anything else on the
windscreen except fire explosions. ‘’ We are in the sea of fire’’
he said. Yolanda and Charles noticed sweat coming out from head to
toe. Their clothes were wet with sweat. ‘’Charles what’s happening,
why am I sweating so much’’ she said. ‘’ ‘’ It will be ok in few
minutes let’s keep moving, I promise’’ he said. The spacecraft is
under pressure and its temperature has reached 550,000 degrees. The
automated voice message alert came. ‘’ Press the ‘’North Pole’’
button so that the air conditioner can switch on to decrease the
temperature of the spacecraft’’ Yolanda couldn’t locate the button
but eventually found it. Few seconds later, the spacecraft cooled
off inside and they finally passed the rays and radiation. From the
video footage they