Fortniteis preparing for its next major event as Chapter 2 Season 7 is set to end with Operation: Sky Fire in a week. Missions inFortnitehave hinted that Season 7 will end with a larger-than-life event that should bring to a conclusion the arc involving the aliens' invading Mothership. Players are already predicting the Mothership crashing to the ground, changingFortnite’s landscape forever. But if a new leak is to be believed, a crashing Mothership may only just be scratching the surface of Epic Games' plans.
Fortnitedataminer and leaker InTheShadeYT shared a curious discovery recently. In one tweet, they say, “We’re getting a Black Hole/Something like in Season 14 after the Event” and then link aFortnitefolder with unclear content. A second Twitter post says that “There will be a special loading screen after the black hole has appeared.” This post links to twoFortniteassets that reference “black” in their filenames. Outside of these filenames,Fortniteplayersare stuck trusting InTheShadeYT’s reporting.
RELATED:Fortnite Releases Shang-Chi Skin to Celebrate Movie Premiere
The black hole, for those unfamiliar, is perhaps the most significant event inFortnite’s history. It’s the event that ended Chapter 1 ofFortniteand gave birth to Chapter 2.Fortniteplayers will recall that the black hole event actuallyshut downFortnitefor over 37 hours, leading to an odd loading screen that gradually changed as Epic prepared to launch its new map.
How the black hole ties into the currentFortnitestoryline or theconclusion of Chapter 2 Season 7isn’t clear. It’s especially difficult to speculate given that InTheShadeYT’s leak doesn’t provide any specific detail about the nature of the new black hole. At best, the entire idea that the black hole could return soon has to be considered a rumor.
However, if the rumor is coming back, it wouldn’t be a far stretch to think that it could be tied to the alien Mothership that’s likely to crash or explode at the end of Chapter 2 Season 7. Within the Mothership is a lot of odd technology that could explode. It’s hard to imagine it creating an explosion as large as theZero Pointdid at the end of Chapter 1, though.
Like with Chapter 1,Fortniteplayers may simply be seeing the first step as the battle royale moves toward the end of Chapter 2. Perhaps the black hole is still some seasons away. Regardless of what’s coming, however, it seems thatFortnite’s upcoming eventsare going to be all the more exciting than expected.
Fortniteis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
MORE:Fortnite: How to Catch Zero Point Fish or Vendetta Floppers from Fishing in Wildlands Survival
