Nick exhaled long and steady as the door to the chamber sealed and disappeared - he floated alone and free in a vast spherical vault of midnight black. The HUD of his suit claimed his heart rate was one hundred five - excited but acceptable. Nick commanded the maneuvering jets to take him towards the only thing in the kilometer wide chamber.
The vault was built for the Entity; a sentient swam of nanotech that looked like a great glittering cloud to his suit's enhanced optics. Nick closed the distance, and the cloud began to shift, coil, and spike.
