The Deadliest Haunted Castle (25 page)

It had studied their minds and thoughts, and
ways that they worked together, and had been surprised at many
things. Their abilities could go far, and they continued doing
things further than anything it had encountered, even though they
made many mistakes, and usually went further with things that were
useless and unneeded, and it realized that its race would have used
them to investigate all the things that they had never bothered
with.

It had recalled that a long time ago that it
had encountered two of them, and had ignored them, but had been
amazed by their technology, and it had even sensed that they had
come from beyond the universe.

Its proper examination of their computers
and records had been the greatest advancement that it had received,
and it would have been far more if it had not been in the state
that it had been in.

It had explored information about the energy
field and its energy levels with astonishment, and had wondered why
its race had never gone to the lengths they had to build it, and
realized that they had ignored it as it had not been needed, and
that they had had better alternatives, but they had ignored how
powerful it could become, and could be used for things that their
alternatives could not be used for.

Its examination of the occupants had been
too swift and uncontrolled, and it had failed to realize many
things that it should have known.

Their worlds were different and so populated
that it had not been able to grasp how they worked, and how they
never had problems, and it had examined their minds, and had
started to realize the truth, and that they enjoyed it and thought
of it as a common state, and that they would have thought of their
worlds as being empty.

While it had continued its explorations
another part of it had started work on creating a plan to escape,
and it had examined their minds, thoughts, communications,
behavior, and it had started to realize a way, and a way to avoid
discovery and reveal itself.

It had formed a copy of a man and had
altered his features, in which it would use, if it ever wished to
copy one.

After examinations of it, it had learned
many more things, and it decided to leave the investigation until
its powers were returned.

It also found information on the entity in
the void with surprise, and all the trouble that they had gone to
destroy it, and it had been fascinated. At first it thought it had
been a white entity that it had made a mistake with when it had
been younger, and which had imprisoned it on the world, which it
believed its race could handle, and that it had surprised it, when
its powers had been weak. But after more searching it had believed
that it could have been one of its own race, and that it had
altered greatly, but after further examinations it found that it
had been something else, and it decided to investigate it further
when it escaped from the energy bubble, and had its powers.

Another problem that it had discovered had
been that the humans could recognize a stranger easily, and that if
it copied one of them it would have to be more careful than it had
thought.

Once when it had examined their minds
further it had found a way to alter their memories so that they
would recognize it as a normal human, and not as a stranger, and it
could alter their records about it, and it had seen where the other
alien had gone wrong, and had thought of ways to avoid its
mistakes, and it had realized that its powers would be weak and
limited against them, with there being so many of them.

Through all that had happened it had managed
to explore the strange life forms and their existence, and had been
delighted to make it aboard, and it had believed that it could hide
somewhere, away from them, if it could not beat them, and it only
needed to get on one of their worlds, where it could start to
reproduce other members of its species and take control of their
worlds, and build its new empire.

Chapter 30

Its Escape

The time being had felt itself
dying
–
it
had underestimated its loss of power
–
and it was on the brink of death,
and it had to escape, and get rid of the energy bubble, and had to
use its escape plan.

The audience about it had been overwhelming,
with their reactions to it and their showing it as a highly
advanced species, but their showing their awareness of its powers
had caused it to use up far more energy than it had been using.

It could barely think with so little power,
but it had felt horror at what it could be up against, and it had
even felt a feeling of enjoyment at death.

It had used all its stored energy at once,
and forced a small leap through time, with a new method that it had
planned, for to it jump back in time to escape the energy bubble
just enough to avoid being captured afterwards, and its center had
exploded brightly like a sun and it had become louder and brighter,
and it saw it shaking everything furiously about, knocking all the
scientists about, and before it had vanished it had seen the sudden
shockwave impact, and blast through the whole museum.

Everything instantly turned normal and
it collapsed on the stage, outside the energy bubble, a day before
its arrival at the GX1, and it managed to stay alive and locate an
energy center aboard, where that region
’
s power supplies were located, and
it quickly used it to return energy to it.

The hall was silent and dark when it stood
up, and it realized that it had not been detected, and that the
people in the region were asleep, and it recovered from what had
happened and turned itself into the human that it had designed, and
moved out of the region to an empty region where it would be
hidden, and where they would not look to find it in the future,
when it had escaped, and where it could carry out its work
unaffected by the energy bubble, and it realized that it was free
to do anything it wanted.

These beings had little knowledge of it and
time travel, and it was more advanced and powerful than it had ever
been, and it had more power available to it than it had ever
had.

Chapter 31

GX1 Alert

The GX1
president used all his powers to get the alien found, after it
vanishing. If the situation altered into the last alien scenario
they would be in deep trouble, so they took every measure they
could to investigate what had happened and have the voyager checked
for it.

Everyone
carried out his slightest notion to the letter, especially after
hearing about what had happened on the media. So the spacecraft was
on full alert once again!

Kruger knew a
great deal about him, especially after the last alien encounter, so
he was not surprised to meet him again, but with the two paranormal
scientists, and the president questioned them about what had
occurred in the museum and tactically queried them on what was
happening, and what it was that they were now up against.

The entire
ship’s media kept pushing stories on it because they wanted
answers, and it was the only real occurrence that had happened
since they had brought the alien aboard. The stories told by people
were incredible, and he kept wondering what they were up to. There
were mentions of deaths and attacks, and the thing actually
attacking people all over the museum, and it rampaging through the
spacecraft.

He finally
came to the conclusion it was the media itself that was behind it,
and that it was encouraged by the military into taking action, and
into talking the public into realizing the dangers of it, and to
report anything to do with it that occurred.

Most people
aboard thought there were more of them, and that they should
withdraw from the world.

The president
could scarcely grasp what was there now, or happening, and because
they had not even seen the alien properly in the energy bubble, or
where it had vanished to. The descriptions from the officials that
he knew had been at the museum had given only vague and confused
descriptions, and had no real detail, as they had not fully seen
anything other than it vanish and destroy a region of the museum,
and had held back their ideas, especially after hearing all the
people on the media giving their fantasy descriptions of it.

People just
did not realize what it was or if it was even a life form, or what
shape, or characteristics, or identity it truly had. It had
altered, and had given nothing but a confused mess of details, and
the two paranormal scientists, and all the major scientists there
had little to tell, even after such close examinations of it, with
so many scientists and advanced equipment.

What sort of
powers did it fully have? Should they be happy to get rid of it?
Should they just leave the world? What kind of science and
creations did it have, if it was the highly advanced being that
they believed it to be? Could the voyage and GSO even profit
greatly from it, if they captured it?

Yet its
technology alone would have been priceless to them!

Kruger also,
when he never thought of the danger, wondered what it could be, and
what it could teach him.

He was a
scientist, and he had not just entered the voyage to expand his
career and fame. He was interested in science, space, alien life
forms, and anything else that existed there.

He was one of
the most experienced people on alien life forms there, and he
continually thought of the glory of the discovery!

He knew that
it was a new superior life form, and wondered if they could capture
and study it!

He even
thought that they had actually killed it, especially by the
reactions of the two paranormal scientists. At times they reacted
as though they might have actually killed the thing! The energy
bubble was incredibly powerful, and its energy might have become
too powerful for it, and the explosion could have been the thing
dieing, and its energy blasting out, and they could have very well
witnessed the death of one of the most mighty beings that existed,
and it would have been all their fault as they had searched it out
and had captured it in the hideous way that they had, and there as
no suggestion that it had been a danger to them, even with all the
things that they had seen.

Yet the power
of it was tremendous and it could have killed them all easily if
the energy bubble had not been there, even with some of the
military being nearby.

Kruger gave
descriptions of what had happened and what it had been like in the
castle to the president on the media – shown to just about everyone
aboard – seeking the truth about what had taken place, and seeking
adventure, which they had mostly joined the voyage for.

The two
paranormal scientists helped him out with vivid details and their
thoughts on it.

It was
incredible that they gave their thoughts on what they had suspected
about it, and had avoided giving anything on it having any
supernatural powers, and he even wondered if they believed it to
any further extent.

He expressed
his confused thoughts at what it could do, and about what it had
been up to and what it was capable of, and he wished that they
could have found a way to release it from the energy bubble before
they had brought aboard, and they would at least now know what it
actually was they were dealing with.

The president
had clearly even gone to the museum to see the damage that it had
created, and to question the people there about the incident and
what it had looked like, in its true form.

The
president questioned him intensely about it, to find out what he
wanted.
He had
to take the responsibility
for such
an incident and
occurrence, and
he
reassured everyone aboard that he and they would do everything that
they could to find it, and perhaps study it, and at that moment
they were building a special task force to seek it out, and it was
to be led by Colonel Pratt of the Military and Space Forces, and it
would be based at the Military and Space Forces control center, and
that he was the second highest military authority there, under
General Chisholm, the head of the Military and Space Forces, and of
the security of the entire spacecraft.

General
Chisholm made an appearance and warned everyone aboard of the
dangers of the alien intruder, and of what had happened the last
time, and gave the location of the museum, and told everyone to
remain out of its path and to stay in groups and to kill it if they
had to, and he then introduced Colonel Pratt, who was at the
Military and Space Forces control center.

Colonel Pratt
gave all the information that he could, and showed everyone his
task force, and that they were all busy at work organizing things,
and taking information people were giving them.

It was then
that Kruger started to realize that it could actually be a great
danger, and that they might have found something that they wished
to conceal!

Yet he was not
sure, and left it until they produced something, as he knew what
they could be like, from past occurrences.

People had
been clearly startled by its exit, and he could not decide if it
was also its extraordinary form that it had had.

They just did
not fully know what it was or its motives might be. They had caught
it and forced it to escape, and had threatened it with powerful
weapons, and perhaps destruction.