Science fiction horror story

Here's the introduction to a science fiction horror story I'm gonna write in a few chapters. I haven't titled it yet but I probably will when it's finished.

She'd found it. The Dark Node. In a remote research facility in Antartica her, Julia Summers, and her team had been searching for a notorious type of Dark Matter particle called a Dark Node. A Dark Node is significantly easier to detect and capture due to its size and ability to withstand the low levels of radiation that are present almost everywhere in the universe. Luckily, Dark Nodes are hypothesized to solve even more problems in physics then regular Dark Matter.

It was Julia's own brilliant invention that allowed them to capture the Dark Node, a chemically created substance she called "Heliogel." Heliogel was really just a lucky accident but Julia DID discover it so she tended to brag about it to her fellow co-workers quite often. She was searching for a substance that could send extremely low frequency audio throughout itself, blocked as much radiation as possible, and that was also self-structuring. The self-structuring properties she instilled in it would be capable of creating its own matrix in a large room that would attract and hold Dark Nodes. She was searching for any chemical combination or solution that would have these qualities and after a few months of research she stumbled on the Heliogel. The substance had everything she needed and despite knowing its formula and ingredients, she knew she had only barely scratched the surface of what it really was but after 3 years of searching for Dark Nodes the team's funding was running low and there was no time for further research into Heliogel.

Radiation is so ever-present, especially on Earth that cosmic rays are constantly bombarding everything and even humans give off some radiation. They were already in Antartica which was one of the most secluded places on Earth from human contact and machines that would cause disturbances. Capturing Dark Nodes required such extreme isolation that an enormous... "Hole" for a lack of a better word, was dug into the ice and rock. At the bottom of the miles long hole was one of the coldest, deadest, quietest, most inhospitable places on Earth. It was at the bottom of the bottom of the world that the secrets of the universe would be unlocked.

There's the end of the introduction, I'll write more next Sunday. Bye.


- By Ashton