A Voice out of Time

**Starting Location:** PNF-622

**Ending Destination:** PNF-443

**Recording Evidence:** All Current Recordings

**Discovery of Event:** The PNF-443 event has been named *A Voice out of Time* due to the nature of how this event was cataloged and discovered. Messages were intercepted in June 22, 1974 by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). These recordings were logged and categorized as they were received, dates and time signatures of the messages have not been edited and show that these recordings were likely from a future date or a universe far away. The nature of the recordings resulted in the VLA staff to escalate them to the team of pizza lore curators to decipher.

**Description of Event:** The first recording is of Nivosus (PNF-622) detailing that he is sending the message from before the inevitable time split. He warns that the timeline is not fixed and not stable. He questions if he hears Rob or Ducki and then he quickly warns that if Pepper dies, it's lost. The recording suddenly cuts out after this moment, we were unable to decipher what *it* is that Niv warns about losing. The next recording sounds like a twisted version of Low Rider by War as Niv cries out for Noah, asking if it is him. The third recording received was from Pepper, confused and asking where he was and saying Niv's name. The fourth recording was of Pepper stating there were people inside this realm with him, he warns that he doesn't have much longer.

Radio silence, the VLA didn't receive any new transmissions for 4 years and on June 22, 1978 at the exact same time a recording of Niv was picked up. He was calling out for Pepper, crying out about the amount of water as his muffled voice is over taken by the sound of the ocean. The next recording received was damaged during the transcribing process, though you can vaguely make out the words, "Pepper is gone." before the audio cuts off abruptly. The next recording caused many workers at the VLA to terminate their contracts due to the next transmission that was received. We can only classify this recording as otherworldly and likely comes from a plane of existence. The speaker has been defined as *The Voice* or *The Entity.* This voice warns of the things being as they always were and that Pepper has *joined the celestial body.* This voice warns that there is no running from your destiny before fading into echos.

Years go by until the next transmission is discovered, 16 years go by before the next transmission is heard by the VLA team. This transmission has been labeled *A Call for Aid.* June 22, 1994 a chaotic transmission was obtained that contained Pepper listing off his location as PNF-443, he states that they can get out of there if Niv can get to him. Following this recording was a twisted and jarred recording of What's New Pussycat? By Tom Jones that cuts out just as Jones says the word love, scholars have speculated on the meaning and purpose of this recording, though nothing has been determined as of yet. The next recording received contained what was believed to be a voice, but it was so twisted and distorted that there was no way to know what it was saying, though many have noted it sounded like cries of pain.

June 22, 2000, 6 years after the last recordings were discovered a transmission was received from Niv as he declares he has reached PNF-443. In this recording Niv is detailing the area before he cries out to Pepper and What's New Pussycat? can be heard once more from far away. Before Niv is able to state what he sees, the transmission is cut. A short, "Niv, Niv I am over here! Niv!" was received seconds later and this was believed to be the first moment these two men were able to make contact. The next recording is of Niv detailing a strange crying that sounds like a baby before saying that they were trying to warn him. The ones he speaks of are unknown and we can only speculate that whomever they are, they may have been warning Niv about The Entity. The last recording received sounded like Pepper being distorted telling Niv to not go near the baby before cutting out.

June 22, 2007, no transmissions have since been received until this day 7 years after the transmission. This signal was Niv describing his location, but his voice was detached from him, he speaks of houses, windows, doors, the child, and states it is like a dream before his voice rips from the recording and vanishes. It was this same year that Pepper was hired at the VLA and was one of the young researchers tasked to observe these recordings. Something called to Pepper when he listened to these messages and he decided to record and send a warning to this Niv, stating the Pepper he was hearing was not him because this Pepper was from PNF-664 where that same year his friend Niv had mysteriously disappeared May 15, 2007 on a trip to the International Space Station after having a successful launch from the Kennedy Space Center. Pepper believed this was the same Niv and that he was trying to find his way home. The last recording was of this mysterious second Pepper stating that Niv had fallen into his trap, and that Niv must prepare to die. This was the final transmission of 2007, Pepper (PNF-664) left his career at the VLA and started preparing his journey after detailing his findings to NASA. He began sending recordings to the same coordinates in space that The Voice had been heard from; he listened every June 22 in hopes of Niv returning his calls.

June 22, 2019, a single recording was received by the VLA and sent to Pepper (PNF-664) for study. This transmission seemed to be The Entity calling out to Pepper, his maddening whispers fueled Pepper's drive to find his friend, fearless he set forth to replicate the launch that lead to Niv's disappearance May 15, 2007. On September 19, 2019, Pepper left our world just as Niv did before and this replicated launch left NASA lost for words as yet another shuttle vanished just after leaving the atmosphere. No other transmissions were received in 2019, the whereabouts of Pepper remain unknown.

June 22, 2020, awaiting eagerly; faculty and staff of the VLA listened as the first transmission was received. It was Pepper making log entries, but he states the date is September 3, 2104 and he states that it has been over 7 years since his last transmission from Niv. Pepper's shuttle was equipped with an atomic clock so the researchers believed that Pepper's disappearance was likely due to the shuttle making contact with an Einstein–Rosen bridge which would explain the time skip and disappearance without a trace. The next captain's log received by the VLA was of Pepper detailing he has lost track of time and that he had discovered the wreckage of Niv's shuttle. Before the recording cuts, you can hear the crying of a baby, just like recordings from 20 years ago. The next recording received could only be described as The Entity as he requested Pepper and Niv to find each other and that they would always be here. His disjointed voice drove many VLA interpreters into madness as the voice beckoned them to find it. Researchers believe this voice to be that of an old god or celestial being. The final transmission received was a warning from an emergency distress call from Pepper. He states to not come looking for them and that there are things he cannot describe there and it is a small price to pay to leave them there rather than bring what is in this new reality back to earth. Based on the recordings we have pieced together enough evidence to suggest The Voice or The Entity is somehow manipulating things from beyond the vale of space and luring people to it. Due to this all recovery missions have been halted and the recordings have been sealed away.

As of June 22, 2020, we have received no more transmissions and we fear what may be received in 2021 when June 22 returns. All records of Captain Pepper and Commander Nivosus have remained deeply classified. The United States Space Force continues to deny the existence of PNF-443 to this day. All known recovery missions have met the same fate as the original astronaut. Two men went to the stars looking for each other and they say on quiet nights you can hear them call out for one another with no answer.