- Looks so archaically!

   The having exit to the mezhdugalaktichesky Printseps-Internet (Functioning in hyper space, and kinezprostranstvo vectors) which is built in in Hermes's ring, through the hologram issued information.

   This construction, is the legendary Black castle. The well-known place which inspired local cinemas on shootings of tens of movies and writing of hundreds of criminal fighters and detectives. In it there were also battles of knights-inogalaktov on racers and in armor, it was necessary to endure to these walls attacks of pirates, invasion of the poisonous insects eating the atmosphere. The present is not so romantic; in the most ancient Black lock the whole network of lush institutions and a den of the gangster Lucher, largest in a galaxy, by nickname the Kvazarny dragon was attached. The symbol of the criminal world more than on twenty five miles bit into soil and there were over six miles in height, miles twelve in width. It was built for many millennia, and maybe by millions of years, until, when stelzana "made happy" with the occupation this galaxy. Walls were under construction according to confidential recipes of the disappeared types and were strong, almost like latest alloys, fighting, space starprobe vehicles.

   Hermes shouted to the hologram:

   - Go out! We do not need it!

   The flaneur landed on the extensive platform literally filled by the flying cars of the most various, sometimes wildish and mad elaborate designs. Near the broken multi-colored configurations creatures, generally not humanoid type pottered about. Beings were multi-colored, motley, in scales, feathers, thorns, armor with needles and edges of type shaving, with suckers, plants, live minerals and is still unimaginable with what, not having analogs on Earth. The lion never before saw such variety of space fauna. It caused curiosity and subconscious alarm. There were representatives of different types, structures and forms. Transparent and in the form of the thinnest worms, tiny and enormous, there are more elephants. Even amorphous beings met. Hybrid types of all colors. Billions of original planets... Trillions of years of the evolution going waves, generated an incalculable variety of types.

   The black lock was specially adapted for many intergalactic types.

   Though the aircraft softly sat down on a dark-violet covering of a park zone, shook it a little as if from below tried to escape captivated by Zeus Titan. Dzhover and Eraskander without paying to it attention, left (more true the young man jumped out as a cheetah, and stelzan descended solidly in style of the ancient prince) and went to one of lateral entrances to this intergalactic "hotel".

   The way was suddenly barred by two slonopodobny door-keepers with dozen of horns, they literally blocked up pass with the five-ton hulks.

   - What race? Look? Persons? Invitations are? Your purpose of visit?

   Unanimously, as if the overloaded dressers creaked strappers. Carcasses of "elephants" were dressed in a camouflage of black color with white flakes. In paws they held ten-barreled luchemeta of gun type.

   - I am Urlik, on the slang nickname Ferrous metal. This is my personal slave Lev Eraskander, on a slang Lev. There is an invitation diskette.

   The policeman clumsily took a diskette. Such small diskette with half-meter fingers was difficult to be held in a mighty paw, but the policeman had skill, dexterously inserted it into the cybernetic observer. That considered all information on persons. The violet bulb of the free admission flashed. Security guards slowly, even necks cracked, nodded, having passed a stelzan with the slave forward. The door from a heavy-duty alloy silently opened. A lion having taken couple of steps inside, the covering was warm and soft as a female body inside. Unexpectedly movable by naughty thought, the boy turned and winked at guards:

   - It is unprofitable to protect the good, and others it is troublesome if you do not need guards then, you were absolutely ruined!

   Horned mastodons, only clapped big as glazishchama sinks. Hermes seized the brawny boy by a brush and pulled:

   - More bright legs!

   From corridors of a starinneyshy den, pulled hydrogen sulfide and something else more stinking. The surface of a covering became firmer and colder, on walls the painted ugly faces of ghouls of various types were visible. Feeling as if artists avant-gardists competed whose drawing fast will force to stammer. And in completion to all paint highlighted.

   Powerful explosions were suddenly distributed, chaotic firing began. The most difficult life forms watered each other with volleys of the diverse systems and types. The rolling voice of lethal megawadded shells was heard. Starprobe vehicles flashed and broke, corpses of ill-matched reasonable animals instantly charred, getting under killing beams of blasters, ecolasers and other types of the weapon. The lion saw space fight thanks to time which flashed a corridor, the lock to five holographic projections. The fighting ships of Stelzanat, despite suddenness of attack, automatically were under construction in system "flexible chain". Guns of huge calibers threw up clots of annihilation gifts which rushing on the broken trajectories stuck into the closest space submarines of a menagerie. Here, for example inomiryan began to scatter one of krupnevshy starprobe vehicles as if the burned-down cardboard. It seemed to a lion that he sees biped chickens with the monkey pads which are in panic running up along corridors of the padded space cruiser, without success of the painful "kiss" trying to avoid, a relentless flame. Saving modules as if color children's pills jumped out from damaged, the running-away, chaotically untwisted ships. The plazmorubka for all fighting models was so prompt. Looking at it, Dzhover-Urlik was stupefied with fear, he was not a fearless professional soldier. After the next shake-up which kicked up prickly dust from a floor, the economic general, at last, drapanut deep into the narrow black corridor lit with dim red light.

   On the platform several explosions thundered, pieces of meat and splinters of metal reached an entrance to a corridor. Eraskander managed to lie down, but one of splinters nevertheless rassek his bronze skin, having passed on a tangent, and another cut off a short lock of snow-white hair. At the same moment ten impressive figures appeared at an entrance. Shveytsary-slonopotamy jumped aside in the parties.