The Deadliest Alien Artifacts (Story Collection) (7 page)

To his surprise he recognized many of the
scientists from the other moonbase particle accelerators!

He recalled Lucas
’
s last words and him telling
him that it had been a secret military group there who had been
killing people to stop their secrets being taken and the Russians
had not got a thing!

He had always wondered how far they would go
to stop their stuff falling into the wrong hands, and he realized
that it had to be someone behind the project who had ordered it,
and he wondered if they were a renegade group!

He was taken over and into the main
laboratory, where all the main scientists and people behind the
project were standing behind a window, made of a powerful bombproof
translucent material, and the guards left, and he watched everyone
in the chamber with the sphere enter the laboratories, and they
lowered an immense black dome screen from the roof, made of the
indestructible material, and it was put around the black
sphere.

When he turned he saw the colossal
laboratory further in, and the hundreds of scientists working away
there and his opinion of there changed, as they surely were not
what he thought they were! Yet what were they up to?

The abnormal antics of many scientists
captivated him more and more
–
again mystifying him with the depth of their
nervousness, and fear! They repetitively studied everything around
them, and with alarm, preparing themselves, and he realized how
dangerous the opening of the black sphere was, but he could not
fully grasp it as he had not been told enough!

What would the most powerful explosion known
to man do inside a confined sphere of indestructible material and
enclosed with a time warp and a black hole? All he had from passed
experiments of blasting the explosion in the indestructible
material was it blasted holes in space and time! Yet could it
create a proper black hole? Were they actually carrying out black
hole experiments?

He wondered again why it was really being
carried out there, on the moon! Was it so dangerous it could
destroy the Earth? Was it the ultimate weapon? And what did they
want with it? Perhaps an answer to a future war with an ultimate
alien race!

It confused him and they had not come out
with anything to properly explain anything or what it would
form!

In seconds he and everything about him flew
into the air and landed on the floor, as an explosion blasted
through the ground, and he watched it smash through the laboratory,
smashing things and sending scientists crashing all over the
place!

Many scientists rushed back to equipment and
started fixing equipment back in place and started monitoring what
had occurred outside in the dome, and soon announced that the black
sphere had been opened, and again Weaver realized the dangers!

To the horror of some scientists about his
front the massive protective dome of indestructible material was
slowly lifted, and he wondered what would have happened if they had
not put it around it!

At first he believed that it was a black
hole when the dome rose, but then he knew it was something else,
and gasped and wondered what they were all creating and had been
covering up!

He recognized some of the leading scientists
nearby and listened to them intensely but all they gave him was
that they were going to carry out a series of basic experiments on
it.

Scientists went around monitors in groups
checking the results of things being showed, and he studied inside
the chamber and followed the glares of the scientists to their
smashed equipment there, and realized that they had actually
compensated for it and they had expected something to occur!

What he saw of what it had created resembled
a perfectly spherical black hole at first, but a clearer view had
emerged and showed that it was far more, and more complex!

A powerful magnetic field was suspending it
from inside its chamber of indestructible material, but not firmly
as it shifted wildly in places, and he studied all the scientists
standing in a line about the front of him now, and studied their
blank faces and tried to grasp what they were thinking and
studying.

When he moved beside them he shuddered as he
heard and felt the shudders of its tremendous forces and watched
the power of it on objects all over the place, as though it could
destroy anything put against it, and he watched the way objects
close to it kept altering from one reaction to another, being
manipulated in many different ways, as many forces played
around.

A larger audience formed behind him that
baffled him with accounts of the discovery of things at their
equipment, as they avoided giving detailed information, and he knew
much was missing as most of the equipment in the black dome had
been destroyed, even though they had compensated for that!

Many of them were leading scientists and the
discovery was the climax to many years of work, and the atmosphere
there was unbelievable, and as though they were waiting for
something else of unbelievable magnitude and danger to occur!

He sensed that most accepted him as being
part of them, and he felt a shiver run through him as he sensed
again something was going to occur and he sensed that he was there
for a reason! The thing looked entirely deadly and pulsating with
energy, and looked and sounded on the brink of something, and he
even considered if it was some form of life!

One outsider scientist he noticed sat
confused and in a seat behind him examining things, considering
what had happened and was occurring, and perhaps why they had not
told them much.

Weaver at times studied the shape of the
black central region of the black hole form as it altered to
something, and after along time of carefully examinations he
thought he saw it do something to itself, in some form.

It was powerful and deadly, and looked
like some form of freak of nature, and he
watched many of the scientists start to enter the
chamber through the door, trusting in the powerful magnetic field
surrounding it to hold it and its forces confided, and he watched
them start taking in equipment and arranging it around it, and he
gasped and wondered what they were dealing with, and for a moment
thought he saw it shift in its reactions!

Yet they knew
what they were doing and had worked on the project and similar
objects, and were top scientists in their fields!

Some scientists went to the edge of
where its proper reactions were occurring, and where the magnetic
field
’
s
influence reached, and moved equipment there, and he watched one
leave a highly advanced atomic clock and shifted it into the
object
’
s
field using a robotic device, and the scientists reacted
immediately when they noticed results and concluded that its
precision digital numbers were being influenced, with it altering
time, and they studied the clock
’
s altering shape, as its matter was altered,
and other alterations in space and time occurred, while its many
forces played around, and he watched all the phenomena that
occurred with amazement, as one influence after another occurred,
and many played at the one time.

It was as if the universe there had gone
crazy and into chaos, and it was trying to alter itself back to
reality and stability!

Famous scientists filmed it and what might
be an incredible unique historic occurrence and discovery! Proving
their theories of many things!

The scientists occasionally gave detailed
explanations of what they were doing and believed was occurring,
and one finally explained its formation and Weaver listened
intensely trying to grasp what he could, as he explained, and
realized that they might not fully know what they were confronting!
He finally saw their point and that what they knew could easily be
wrong, as they had experimented little and had few precise facts so
far! It was a mistake saying anything until they had seen the
outcome of what they collected!

Weaver gasped at the findings they gave, and
accepted that they were in the same situation on needing more
findings!

New leading scientists arrived about it and
were allowed to investigate it and they crowded around it loudly
discussing it, and they applauded it and announced it was the first
discover of its kind, and gateway to the stars, and Weaver stood
staggered, as they explained their project of building it and
building a wormhole, and they intended to use it to explore the
universe.

The audience wildly applauded them, and he
knew they had invented a stargate, and they intended to use it to
go to the unexplored stars.

Many of them talked about working with it
and carrying out numerous basic and complex experiments and that
they intended then to send in a probe, and they showed detailed
information had been accumulated!

As Weaver stood next to where its forces
reached, considering how a probe could possibly return or send
information, he realized that he felt a draft or air being sucked
away and he felt something emerging from its confines and grasp
him, as though crawling out, and he felt himself vanish into its
confines!

III

The Gateway

The black sphere in the Particle Accelerator
X3 chamber vanished behind Weaver as he hurtled out the
universe!

Startled cries
and last conversations of scientists swirled through his thoughts,
and taunted! Surely they had not used him deliberately! He could
not give a proper scientific account, if he survived, and a new
probe should be found!

Explosions of radiance of powerful stars
exploded through the wormhole stunning him, and he started
spinning, and a colossal whirlpool of lines of light magically
formed, and he studied it for a long time and realized that he had
no proper bodily presence, and he slowly lost consciousness.

He came to startled and realizing that he
was accelerating through the wormhole at hyper speed, and realized
that streaks of light shooting passed him were powerful outer
suns!

It was a gateway but there was no exit point
and he could not guess what hideous place he could be thrown out!
Would he be smashed into particles or disintegrated into nothing by
being thrown out of something like a black hole?

How worse could the situation get? He could
be trapped there for eternity wishing he had died!

A black blur emerged ahead in a
central region of stars and drew his attention, and he started to
recognize detail in it, as it grew and he shifted into it, and when
near it he saw magnificent distant stars brightly shining in its
depths
.

More powerful stars appeared near him and
spectacular white beams exploded out and he realized the tremendous
speed that he was traveling at!

The outer universe was appearing and
expanding all across his front, and he was shooting into it!

The stars were dazzling, which he could not
recognize! They filled space everywhere, and he was staggered that
they could even exist in their states!

A form like a black hole stretched out
across space all around his front and he wondered where he was
being thrown out, and something suddenly altered!

He
sensed something! Something of ancient origins existed there! Its
existence was all about him but he had no proper awareness of what!
He perceived that he was being transported to another destination,
and that
something was happening before he fully
entered the universe, where he would have taken human form and
would have suffocated in space, and he believed that he had entered
another gateway and that he was being transported away to another
destination.

The gateway had been advanced into something
else and he studied it shifting him around locations of space, and
an explosion of movement left him stunned but still firmly
believing in its safety, and he felt as though he was in something
this time, and that before he had been hurtling uncontrollably
through an uncontrolled gateway.

Again he felt something alter and that he
had reached another far more advanced gateway, which was not as
ancient and was far more advanced, and in vast leaps across the
universe he was instantaneously emerged and relocated, appearing in
vast strange and mind-bending star regions, emerging about him as
though he were floating through them, and he studied bright glowing
star constellations, and with mind-boggling powers, with an
accuracy and capacity inconceivable, it located a point in the
universe, and he sensed something strange, and it completed its
voyage!

IV

The Stars

For a moment he
had a weird sensation of something happening, as he came to, and he
opened his eyes and examined his body!

He had emerged
somewhere out of the gateway but he was in complete darkness! He
realized how little he remembered of anything! He could not recall
anything from some point in the gateway where he had lost
consciousness, and had no recall of anything after! It felt like an
incredible amount of time had passed, and he could not recall why,
and he realized that it could have been the time effects of the
gateway!

He realized that he had actually survived,
and what must be the most dangerous mission and anything that he
had ever undertaken, and he realized that he could have actually
avoided the whole lot and the discovery of the gateway if he had
not given them the indestructible material, and he considered his
earlier thoughts of it at the ice station and what value it would
have if they recreated it!