The Alien Orb (15 page)

When he
entered he was surprised at not only how advanced their equipment
had become but at the capabilities of other stuff they had there.
Their visit to the last castle had clearly given them far more of
an insight and knowledge than he had realized. He was positive that
they had found far more than they had indicated, and were keeping
secrets from him.

What confused
him the most was how they had managed to get him back to the
castle! He had not thought of anything himself, and continuously
tried to think of a good way to get them to tell him as they had
avoided answering his and everyone else’s queries on it and were
clearly hiding things. What sort of equipment could have taken him
back into the castle almost instantaneously with Pendleton?

He recalled
seeing Pendleton wandering around dazed exploring the inhabited
region of the castle, getting use to his new body and life on the
Earth. He mainly remained on his own the most of the time, as he
had become use to, but was still excited to meet the others in the
lounge. The police there had examined him wondering what he was
doing there as they had been given strange vague replies and
detailed explanations by the scientists, which had left them
baffled.

Mitchell’s
return had confused everyone as he had given them the strangest
replies that he had heard from any of them, and he was particularly
interested in where he had ended up as he had not arrived at the
same place or even universe that he had, and he clearly was
covering things up on what was there, which they had not been able
to get why. It was in his nature not to say much and be secretive,
and it was not apparent if there was anything they should know
there and that he was really keeping something that they had not
even imagined.

The other man,
Mitchell’s man who had been behind Bryson in the tunnel, had seen
and acknowledged everything that had happened in the tunnel and had
returned to the top, which explained why nobody else had entered
it, looking for them, and it had been him that had told the
scientists what had happened and what he had seen happen, and they
had immediately started work on getting him returned.

It surprised
them and Bryson that only the three of them had returned, and he
and them believed that the rest had all died a long time ago at
where they had been located, and Bryson realized that it proved
that there was no immortality in the places that they had gone and
that the other places were vastly different, which could also be
proven from what they had seen of the other events that they had
heard of, and what they had seen existed.

Bryson
believed from what he had overheard from some of the other
scientists in the room that they had temporally deactivated, for a
brief amount of time, what was in the tunnel with their own energy
field in the room and had allowed them to return, and he was sure
that it had been dangerous, which he believed was because it might
cause whatever was in the castle to become more activated again as
it had done at many times in the past.

Chapter 5

Reverse Sequence of the
Spectral Maelstrom

Bryson was
growing in determination to find out what they all knew that he
should know, so he was glad to see Mitchell and his man who had
been in the tunnel turn up at the room seeking answers to what was
going on there.

Bryson
examined all their equipment for clues, and recalled reading about
some of the work that Merton and Mortimer had done recently, after
they had given out documents of some of their investigations on the
paranormal investigations at the other castle.

Their stuff
had been surprising, and even alarming in places, which had drawn
his attention at the time, and he had just dismissed it later as
them using it to advertise their work! At times he had thought they
were deliberately putting the psychic research there to cover their
real work and discoveries! They never mentioned anything on the
other stuff that they did, which he had found existed at many
occasions, and he had hardly even seen anyone even check what they
did or had created. They ignored them as being fake ghost and alien
hunters!

Merton and
Mortimer informed him that they were checking for virtually all
known forms of energy and matter disturbances in and around the
void and gateway in the tunnel and he was sure that they could have
reversed what was in the tunnel instead of what he had heard
earlier from some of the other scientists who thought that they had
just deactivated it. They could have caused a reverse sequence of
the spectral maelstrom!

By the way
that they reacted he believed that they might have something that
could detect aliens, so they would know if there were any about.
But he was unsure and he was sure that they were unsure if it
worked, and at what distance from them would it work, and he
wondered if they had anything that could be used to catch them, and
even catch and kill the things in the wood!

Presumable
their presence could produce effects to indicate them being there –
such as altering air currents, gravity, magnetic fields,
radioactivity, scent, sound waves, static, and the light spectrum
...

Most of the
equipment in the surrounding laboratory was there to check
everything in a degree that had not been done before!

Bryson finally
made a proper move to find out more and moved over to some
equipment that he had heard them talking of, with suggestions that
they might being able to detect aliens with, and he asked Mortimer,
“Would this detect an alien at a distance?”

“
It may
detect temperature changes at really far distances! I am unsure
what temperature readings aliens create though – or if they, in
fact, have any temperature here! But we do have stuff here that we
use to check a whole range of things to show us exactly what is
occurring and what we may be missing. Information such as it is
vital! We may be able to acquire some type of insight into what is
happening – with the right information?”

Bryson
realized once again that he was avoiding telling about things, as
he had clearly heard them mention things that he had avoided
telling!

“
So are
you using any of the equipment in the wood?” he quickly
replied.

Mortimer
strangely glared at him, and asked, “What take the stuff over
there? Why should you want to do that? It’s too expensive! Besides
we believe that we may get the opportunity to use it in the
castle!”

“
To find
out if we are missing something out there! Those things could kill,
and they have not come up with anything to destroy them with yet!
And if things go the way that they are I am sure it will! Those
police could enter there later at night ... If you have anything,
even if it just helps locate their position, then it will be of
great use ...”

Bryson glared
and wondered how much he had exaggerated the situation – or if it
was really far more.

“
That
may be a good idea,” Mortimer replied after some time, still
considering it. “But are you fully sure they just want to
kill?”

His reply
surprised Bryson and he was sure that he had forgotten all the
accounts of occurrences there, and he wondered what he thought
those things in the wood had been up to. Did he think that they
were just animals protecting their territory or something?

“
I’ve a
few good ideas about that you should know ...!” Bryson warned. “So
when was the last time you read up on all the deaths that have been
occurring around here?”

“
They
may have been done by something else!” Mortimer firmly
responded.

Chapter 6

The Psychic
Research

Bryson removed
a container from his bag and poured the drink from it down his
throat.

“
Perfect!” he announced to Merton. “What type of surveillance
stuff have you for detecting it then?”

“
We have
a great deal of stuff as we’ve already shown you! We specialize and
experiment in detecting things! This is the best there is, and we
love investigating anything extraordinary! Even if it is an
assassin that could try to wipe us out ... And we would love to
help stop it ...”

Bryson was
surprised and wondered what he was talking about now! He knew they
were hiding things, and were hiding what their equipment was and
was for. Even the most craziest things that they had come out with
had something!

There was
something strange about the way that they insisted something of a
paranormal nature existed and that it was entirely new, and had not
existed in the last castle, especially after considering that he
had not actually heard them come out with anything that existed
there and that their work showed how accurate they were and always
kept to the facts, only showing what truly was there and what they
believed was there.

Bryson had a
great passion for the new and fantastic and the investigation of
the paranormal activity was really interesting even after him
actually being in what he considered was a supernatural universe,
even though he now had thoughts that it could be something else,
and he was surprised that they never questioned him much, but he
had realized that they had been affected by meeting Mitchell first
and him avoiding saying virtual nothing about what had happened,
which made Bryson very curious, and he noticed that they all had an
interest in Pendleton for some reason, which he was convinced was
to do with his free way of saying things, when he did talk to them.
He had a hard time explaining what was there though!

The dreams of
the supernatural vortex that Bryson had enlightened them about only
confused them and he was sure that they thought he had imagined it
and was exaggerating anything that might have existed.

The problem,
he was sure, was that they never properly knew what they were up
against, as it was a different castle with something else, and that
they were not entirely sure what had been at the last one, and that
it had not fitted into everything that they had known and had been
trained to deal with, which was very vague, unexplored and
unproven, and he was sure the vast amount of it had been created to
fill the void of nothing occurring.

He believed
there were strange phenomena that had not be fully explained
everywhere and that the scientists there mainly knew it!

Could this
thing they were considering as being from beyond the realms of the
universe, and some form of supernatural being, actually be some
form of alien? He had not fully proven that the supernatural
universe that he had been in had been! Why could such things not
exist with hidden science that they never knew of?

What was
classed as supernatural? Anything could exist with the right
science existing and he wondered if he could actually believe it if
he fully encountered it!

It was
incredible that nobody had fully proven and investigated anything
of that nature, and that all the scientists only considered it when
it was brought up, and the other castle seemed to be the only
proper case of anything of that nature existing!

He and Merton
and Mortimer always saw their point of view and that there was
barely any real evidence! They could barely even establish anything
and jumped at the chance of finding the slightest suggestion of
something that actually was there, and finding new ways of
detection! They were fanatics and crazy to achieve what kept
proving itself as being fantasy!

They were
there to investigate anything in that region that could have been
missed, and missed out by other scientists who avoided checking or
wasting their funds on it!

The two
scientists were accurate in their investigations and checked
everything that they could and had built up the most advanced
paranormal research establishment that there was, containing the
most highly advanced equipment that there was available, which they
mainly had there.

On arriving
there he had realized that they had something and that they had put
together something, and they continued building a vast assembly of
equipment fitted together on tables, covering the surrounding room
with it, mainly surrounding and aimed at the tunnel behind the
wall, with equipment and tools left everywhere, and it was clear
that they had been at work building it for a great deal of time
already.

The more he
examined everything the more he saw and realized more, and that
they might achieve far more!

All their
assistants and scientists were still running about altering and
adjusting things, collecting new information on things, getting old
information from their records, and studying it.

Yet he could
barely guess what parts of it were for, and it interested him
greatly, especially with the interest of the scientists in it and
their reactions to it, as though they had been waiting all their
lives to create it and that they never had all their technology
available before and had something with such incredible
potential!

He wondered if
what was in tunnel could damage the equipment that they were using
and if they could fix or replace it in the near future? It was
clearly expensive stuff and perhaps the only stuff available!

Other
scientists were there to investigate what the scientists could not
and do it to a greater degree than ever before, and he was positive
by their reactions that they had never had their day and proper
encounter with anything like it and achieved their goal, and that
nothing surely would be left for the people who might follow their
work someday, to find and be remembered in history.