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When they arrived at the first structure he
felt the hot temperature at the area, and felt it coming from the
ground, and the energy shell below, and he realized that they had
to have deliberately built it there for it.

They strolled through the sand in the streets
and buildings, and found the remains of furniture and other
objects, and wondered where the race had gone as they had clearly
left all their objects and possessions.

Gently breezes blew sand and bushes over the
sand covered streets and between buildings, and he saw the sand
everywhere, and bits of metal from old vehicles that had rusted
away, and the remains of other objects.

Types of rats, they scared away, scavenged
there, and ran about when they arrived, and some followed them
about, and some leapt into the air and glided on early forms of
wings, and sometimes glided about them and the buildings they were
in.

At the center of the civilization they
spotted a large circular structure, and largest there, and they
observed it from the top of many buildings, and they slowly worked
their way over to it, where they looked around, and they found the
building remains about it were different, from the rest of the
civilization.

Massive vegetation similar to trees grew in
the lanes, and some in structures, and had broken through the
roofs, and plants and other types of vegetation densely covered the
whole area, and layers of mud and sand covered everything, and
forms of insects pestered them, and flying animals dived from
buildings and dived at them, and altered their course when they saw
them up close.

Inside the central structure they found a
large round central area and explored it for signs of what its
inhabitants had been like, and found most it had caved in and was
buried under bricks and sand and was grown over with forms of moss,
shrubs, and weeds, and thick layers of dirt covered the stone
walls, and they were surprised at how close it was to human
structures, and that it was like a different form, which seemed to
have had something different influencing its construction, and they
were surprised at different things being virtually identical and
some with strange characteristics, which they attempted identify,
and some were more advanced, and with unknown technology!

Cronenberg had no idea how long the
civilization had remained buried away there, in the vegetation, but
it proved that the world was stable enough to allow life forms and
civilizations to survive.

Clouds of dust blew about inside it, as they
entered the massive building further, and they marched through
giant stone corridors, and it became dark, and they turned on their
spacesuit lights.

In places they heard incredibly loud sounds
of small creatures that had entered regions of the structure.

They went through corridor after corridor
into its mysterious maze, which was sealed and untouched by the
outside, and animals, and they searched everything.

The greatest mystery they wished to solve,
which kept them searching to discover, was what sort of beings
would have built the building and civilization, and what had
happened to them, as they could not find any trace of anything
showing what they had looked like or anything! There had to be
something there but they just could not find it, and they kept
trying to find it.

Most of the time it was like exploring the
remains of a ghost race, and them wondering what had happened to
them, and they felt happy that they had not found their skeletons
or signs of anything having happened and an immense war taking
place.

He could not accept that they just died away,
and he kept trying to accept the idea, but he could not accept that
the place would look like it did, and he kept believing from
everything he found that they had just left there, leaving their
vehicles and other possessions behind, and because they were not
human.

He kept attempting to find the central part
of the central structure and eventually he found it, and it was a
giant dome hall, with small windows high up on its roof that dimly
lit it, and they all silently explored the structure, like it was
the remains of the Earth in the future, and he realized by its
appearance it was a type of governing place for the
civilization.

In the darkness of a small room, at its
front, they found a trapdoor, and he pulled it up, and they marched
down a stone ramp going below, and he used his spacesuit light to
illuminate a large room full of large stone squares, and they
tiredly shifted about them, and their shapes intrigued him, and he
lifted up the stone cover of one and placed it down at its side,
and vaguely perceived, in the light in it, a skeleton of one of the
beings.

Its size and shape was virtually identical to
a small human, and they watched it glowing with a purple radiance,
and he sensed the existence of the energy sphere, and he knew they
were leaving there, and he saw a gateway forming, and he wondered
where the world had been, and he realized that it had not been a
world and that it had been the energy shell of the outer universe,
which had been exploding out since the big bang, where matter and
highly advanced civilizations had explored and settled.

The place furiously vanished and the
astronauts exploded out and into a new gateway, blasting across the
vast reaches of space.

Chapter 25

The Mind-Bending
Gateways

A brilliant radiance of blue blasted through
what looked like a crack in the universe, which he knew normally
never existed, and if he had not been through what he had he surely
would not have recognized it, and have mistaken it for something
else, and in his alert state he positively recognized it and
entered it knowing it was a gateway of great significance.

For some reason, which he could not grasp, he
thought the universe had altered in some way, and that things had
somehow changed, and that it was the dawn of a new era in its
evolution!

His emotions ran amok as they leapt through,
seeing the spectacular view of space about him, and in the darkness
he saw the circle of mirrors, and the world it was on emerged
around him, and he no longer had eerie sensations of the mirror
gateways and knew that they would return home. He sensed a
presence, of the existence from the alien energy sphere on Mars was
nearby, and he realized that the other existence had been
destroyed, and the astronauts stood in a circle facing the mirror
gateways, waiting for some form of indication of what one to
enter.

How was this existence associated with what
was trying to kill them? Why had it done what it had? He just had
to know!

There were no signs of Mars in the depths of
the gateways in the mirror gateway he studied, and he was sure that
it existed.

He tenderly approached one, seeing one of the
astronauts had discovered something there, and he entered it with
them, hoping they never entered another supernatural gateway in it,
and they rushed through and shot through blueness and vast amounts
of gateways, appearing everywhere in trillions, in a region outside
the normal cosmos, which had the size of a small galaxy, and he
wondered how anything could create such a place, and in wonder he
realized he was being taken somewhere, and soon spotted a gateway
away in the distance, and them going there.

He could not fully imagine what it could be
as he could not imagine them getting away from there after all
their attempts, and he started realizing things were now different,
and he waited to find the outcome.

Even with so much there the place seemed
empty, without life and a desolate place, buried away in the depths
of space, endlessly trapped in infinity, where life never
existed.

The entrance became more visible, and its
shape, he started to get ready to leave there, and he suddenly saw
surreal blue shades wavering about, in patterns of whiteness.

By the amount of worlds that he had seen, and
had been on, he knew that the universe must be far more organized
and vaster than he had ever imagined, and he had never even
fantasized alien worlds and civilizations were all connected, and
being controlled, and he could never have realized it was possible,
unless he had witnessed what he had, and an existence put there by
the creators of the universe, at the dawn of time, controlled it
all.

He was beginning to believe that mankind had
a powerful presence in it, which few civilizations had ever had,
and he realized mankind had existed in vast highly advanced
civilizations since the beginning of the universe, and that the
Earth was buried away in an empty region of space.

At his approach to the gateway he saw
something strange and thought he saw a sphere rotating, and its
familiar pattern of movements fascinated him, and he felt as if his
appearance was timed to coincide with something, and he rested, and
left it, and when they entered the gateway he was blinded by light,
and it and everything about him vibrated furiously, and saw
something in a blur of images.

Though it was bright it was not daylight, and
he spotted artificial lights beaming down, as they entered further,
and to his delight he saw the laboratory on Mars, and all the
scientists stood staring, as they marched out.

Chapter 26

The Laboratory

At the
edge of the black hole
, altering wildly and
stabilizing, gleams of light blasted out like miniature bright
stars, being held motionlessly, and were being filmed and studied
by the scientists, as they continued their series of black hole
experiments.

The entire laboratory was now covered in
equipment, scientists, the media doing news coverage, for back on
the Earth, and were studying the black bubble of the black hole, in
its chamber, and a leading scientist there gave incredible evidence
of their findings, recent discovery, and discovery made earlier in
close examinations of the black hole.

A special reinforced camera was placed and
entered into its field, and the scientist reacted immediately when
they received results, and concluded that it was moving out the
universe and entering a gateway, where they had fully entered the
probes, and that they were working on a probe that could be entered
further into the gateway, exit into another place, and be
returned.

They occasionally gave detailed scientific
explanations of what was there, and believed was occurring, and
they had a probe released more further into it than before, edging
it into the confines of the gateway, creating spectacular optical
effects on their screens, of the inside of the vortex, making light
distort in twisted forms, like shaping beams of light with
matter.

The entire story had been released to the
media after the loss of the astronauts, and for the science world
to know that they had created and had a laboratory black hole.

Only parts of what had occurred had been
appearing all over the media for weeks, and the media, science
world, and public wanted more information about it, and they had
received little, and they had all been invited to Mars to see the
black hole phenomenon, and they were there in the laboratory seeing
it for the first time.

It looked like a rupture in space, and the
scientists were playing with it, gathering as much as they could on
it, and the media continued over and over to question them on the
astronauts that had been involved in an accident there, and what
had occurred and where they were, and the scientists could give
them little information on what had happened.

They were answering what they could about the
incident, and many other leading scientists, visiting there from
the Earth, were being allowed to carry out numerous basic and
complex experiments all around it, using their own equipment and
theirs, and others were recording various things about it, and
great amounts of detailed information were finally being given to
the media, to analyze, in a far greater degree than ever
before.

Most of the media never seemed to grasp what
they meant by gateway, and there was much confusion, and some kept
trying to get answers and asked questions in different forms on the
information received from the probes and they finished by telling
them they were still advancing them and carrying out examinations
of the highly complex information they got.

Many gasped as they studied its shape
hovering about, and its deadly appearance, and they consider it
dangerous.

The abnormal antics of many of the scientists
at times captivated them, mystifying them with the depth of their
nervousness and fear of something! Some still repetitively studied
the readings from their equipment, and with alarm, preparing
themselves for something, and eventually the media and other
scientists started using information about the dangers of it and
the deadly occurrences that had happened!

It was then Commander Cronenberg escaped from
the black hole, and rushed out of the black bubble in his
spacesuit, and stood dazzled, at the laboratory, mass of scientists
and media, vast amounts of equipment, and noise, and the
extraordinary scene that developed about him, and the other
astronauts rushed out.

A mass of shuffling, activities, and
flickering lights erupted everywhere about them, and they ignored
their shouts and activity, as they asked them questions.

They swiftly shifted out the radius of the
black hole’s confines, and tried to grasp what was happening there,
all around them, drawing their attention away from the leading
scientists, and they removed their faceplates and the scientists
all gasped, and many stood dazzled by them, and many thought of
questions they wanted answered, about where they had been, and what
existed outside the universe.