The End of the Universe

         Silent, blackness. Suddenly an explosion of color, but no sound. A swirling vortex opens out of the nothingness, leading to worlds far away. A ship, dwarfed by the mass, emerges from the depths of the portal. A single man with thousands of instruments pilots the ship. He looks around at the nothingness. He looks at the gauges and meters, all of which tell him that there is nothing here. The portal snaps closed behind him, cutting off his only way back. You can't hear a scream in space.