The Alien Star Chamber (Part One)

The Alien Star Chamber

(Part One)

V Bertolaccini

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Victor Bertolaccini

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Prologue

The Voyager

The voyager sphere shot out of an awesome
black abyss into this galaxy, with spectacular beams of radiance
spraying out, and its outline emerged out of obscurity and hurtled
into star formations, on its expedition through the universe.

At its center the monstrous energy formation
controller lit up with red shades as it altered its course.

The
voyager
hurtled endlessly on through space at a
tremendous rate chasing
a similar voyager of unknown origins that it had
encountered, which it was desperately trying to capture!

Like something
out of the realms of hell it shifted with fury forcing the voyager
repetitively on, while it and the voyager altered shape and form
improving itself, seeking to affectively achieve its objective!

Vast amounts of senses burst into life all
over it and it went into a strange state as it properly detected
the other voyager and it decided to do something desperate, and it
functioned at an accelerated rate.

The voyager
partially vanished out of space and time and parts of its
composition frequently altered into past states and into other
things that it had been as it lost some control of itself.

The
voyager was
enormous
, and its state altered, with powerful vast
unstable energy explosions powering it, which were so powerful that
they ripped at the fabric of space and time, and made it temporary
warped and unbalanced.

The voyager
shot through vast amounts of solar systems as it furiously forced
itself to go faster than it should go, going to dangerous levels,
and it screamed through the universe, seeking the exact location of
the voyager and its capture.

S
tar formations flashed by at a vastly
increasing tremendous rate and it passed through the vast depths of
the galaxy, and it entered unknown and unexplored depths of space,
with
its massive white
ghost shape
flickering through solar systems in far
less than a second, while it transformed its voyager and existence
further from their original energy states and they began to
function wrongly, and it gradually lost control of them.

In a blur of lights it shot through
space with the voyager as a ball of turbulent complex energy states
and it watched on in horror as it started getting closer to
crashing, but in a last desperate bid for survival it managed to
slow and partly control it and it detected an inhabited world and
it managed to deliberately and accurately crash it into it without
damaging it, where it partly returned it to its former voyager
state, and before it died it put itself into a form of suspended
animation
!

Part One

Ice Station X1

Chapter 1

The Alien
Encounter

Out of the silent empty Antarctic night
high-powered rifle blasts were astonishing, especially in the fatal
blizzard engulfing Willis! The explosions sounded so powerful he
believed they were using some form of powerful explosive in the
bullets!

Whoever was after him had to be crazy and
out for the kill, and stupid for entering them into such a blizzard
and fury of snow! He could not realize who was there and just
accepted that they might be trying to kill him for being a leading
scientist at the ice station!

Ice Station X1 had to be located in the
coldest and most remote place on the planet! Even in the summer the
place had been deadly cold to him! As far as he was concerned there
was nothing there to kill for and nobody there that he thought
capable of doing so! It and the coldness made him cringe, and
blindly rush on through the blinding blizzard, lost.

A loud explosion blasted out and a bullet
thudded somewhere nearby and he had to run through the dark snow
landscape for his life! He dared not use his light and he could
barely see anything!

The men could be heard over to his side and
he realized that they could have infrared sights and he just dived
into a pile of snow, and buried himself deep. Surely they would not
find him!

Once he realized that nothing had happened
he started to enjoy the rest and being free from being attacked.
His mind raced through what had occurred! Yet he only realized that
the location that he strolled into had been a region that nobody at
the ice station went in, and he started to wonder what was
there.

Why would they go to such lengths to kill
him? What could possibly be there? What could be there in such a
desolate place?

When he finally left where he was and
started to return to the ice station, he started tracing where he
had been where they had appeared and started looking around, and
strolled around and found something buried beneath a region on flat
snow, which he wiped the snow and ice away from and revealed a
wooden cover.

Below it he found a vast hole going straight
down deep into the ice below, which had clearly been hollowed out
with some large powerful machine, which he had not seen there. Yet
the region was vast!

Who had dug such a hole? And he wondered if
it was by some foreign country that intended to destroy the secret
military station?

It was then that he discovered an old rope
and harness buried away in the snow, and knew he had a way to climb
down, and he decided to investigate it, while avoiding being killed
by them or the blizzard! He was sure it had been dug for a reason
and that something was just below him!

He swiftly attached the ropes and fitted the
harness around him and shifted in, and turned on his light, and
covered the top with the wooden cover.

Mind-bending sounds and echoes from the
haunting blizzard screamed down through the ice shaft with fury and
left him stunned at the dangers, and no matter how he tried to
shake it off and contemplate identities his thoughts never formed
stable recognitions of what was occurring in the blizzard
above!

The ice that the tunnel went through
fascinated him as it was different from the regular ice below the
ground there! It looked to him to have been formed from water that
had melted and had been frozen quickly afterwards!

Clouds of powdered snow and snowflakes
swirled down and through the beam from his light and he continued
to release the rope, edging him down, seeking to discover what was
below.

He realized that he had avoided being killed
after all and wondered if he was going to be killed later, when he
climbed back up and went outside.

He groaned as he moved down, realizing the
mistake he was making and the trouble he would have getting back to
the surface and trying to find the ice station in the dark.

He stopped and dangled about on his rope and
examined how the tunnel had been cut, while glimpsing parts of the
shaft above, and was surprised again at how large and expensive the
equipment used must have been.

He had always wanted to investigate some
great mystery and it had even helped lead him into becoming a
scientist, at such a far out desolate location, and he wanted to
explore more. He had wanted to explore and discover new things of
value and greatness, and perhaps even be remembered in history
somewhere!

What interested was why they had gone to
such lengths to kill him, and why he had not known about the
tunnel! Surely they had a way of examining below the ice and would
have done it while constructing the underground ice station,
especially with it being of so confidential and belonging to the
military.

What treasures could be hidden away in such
a region, with it being one of the last not properly explored
regions?

What was he dealing with though? Why were
they trying to kill him? Were they protecting something that they
had hidden there?

Something of unfathomable unidentifiable
nature could be under him and he had to explore it!

As he lowered himself progressively he
started to realize the depth of it and that there could be
something there!

Something could be secretively built there
with the help of the Russian spies in the ice station, and to be
used to destroy the entire ice station in an atomic war!

He realized the implications of the find and
that he would have to check what was there, no matter what! He
could not let it go, and he had to survive and give the information
to someone.

Willis was blinded by the black abyss below
him as he lowered himself down through the cold tunnel, uniquely
drilled with an incredible precision.

He gripped the rope hard, but spun round,
and fixed his foot against the tunnel wall to stop it, and looked
up to the top of the tunnel and just saw darkness there now, and
looked and listened to what was there, and realized that if he was
caught there they could cut the rope and let him fall to his death
at the bottom. If he never died he would starve to death there!

So far he had been unchallenged with his
insistence in going down and he realized that he best increase his
speed!

A silent thud echoed down from the top and
eventually a cloud of snow came down making him gasp and search for
anything, and consider putting his light out, but he saw that it
was a freak gust of wind blowing into the cover.

He wondered why he was lowering himself so
slowly down when they could easily fall down by freeing the rope
and using his hand to slow and stop it, but it could be
dangerous!

The dangers of being caught were greater and
he did it, and raced down the shaft, with him continuously having
to slow down, while also using his legs and boots against the ice
to slow himself.

When the bottom appeared he stopped and
stared in wonder, and considered what was in the blackness there,
and considered the incredible trouble he would have climbing back
up.

He was mainly confused as to what was there
to be discovered as he made his way there slowly. The ebbing
radiance of the light clearly was increasing and he realized how
tired he had become, and he decided it was best sleeping at the
bottom! Surely the men with the guns above would not come down at
night? They would know the trouble it would be to get back up!

The coldness entering his throat gave him
cough sensations, so he speeded up and unleashed the rope allowing
him to fall faster.

What would the outcome of it be? Would he
even find anything? What could be there? It could have belonged to
earlier scientists, checking for something? The ice station was
old, and a great deal of research had been done there!

Hazy echoes off his deep breathing broke the
extraordinary silence and he examined the ice as he shifted
downwards, and he started to find the cold air was damaging his
throat and was harder to inhale, and he frequently stopped to gasp
for air, while dangling with hideous expectations of plunging into
something dangerous.

A distant upper rumble of wind
eventually released chunks of ice and he realized how dangerous the
place might become if solid ice came crashing down, and that the
place the rope was attached to might not be able to support such
weight after all, of him and the immense rope,
and he considered how he could survive at
the bottom if he fell down there!

In an instant the rope jerked and wildly
oscillated and he spun uncontrollably around and a surge of
blackness engulfed him, and he realized the light had been banged
against the ice and had been turned off, and he realized what he
had missed and what it would be like if he got stuck there in
complete blackness, with him trying to climb back up!