The Deadliest Alien Artifacts (Story Collection) (2 page)

What the hell was it? What was the thing?
Was it really a supernatural entity? Could something go wrong?

A swift flash of light appeared and exploded
at the edge of a region of the energy bubble, silencing all the
scientists.

From it they got a proper view of what
happened when the light entered its radius, and they were able to
analyze slowed down views of the occurrence.

Kruger listened to a scientist
explaining the occurrences to an audience on the GX1,
stating,
“
It manipulated space and time within its
outer radius! It can accelerate, decelerate, and suspend it ... The
clock is now suspending it
...”

The cable emerged outwards pulling the clock
backwards, with its numbers swiftly turning backwards until its
numbers once again became motionless, and Kruger considered if they
could use whatever it was to make some form of time machine.

He wondered if in reality time was something
far different from what they perceived. But would he ever know? And
he just accepted the philosophy! And he was still sure Don was an
older version of him!

“
What are they intending to do with
it?
”
he
asked Mitchel, curiously.
“
Are they going to construct something from
it?
”

Mitchel examined him, almost sensing
something, wondering why he had an interest, and looked annoyed
about something.

“
They, of course, have investigated
little so far, and if they do, you will be
informed!
”

“
If they
can reconstruct it, they can
use it for many things,
including uses in industry!
”
he continued.
“
Stopping time is an incredible tool
... With incredible uses ...!
”

“
They
have made other findings you know!
If you take an
observation of its shifting movements, for one thing
–
which they have
been studying closely
–
its constrained pattern of movements has
dramatically altered in some regions in space ...
”

Kruger examined its lethal appearance,
like a large bubble full of pure transparent energy
–
buzzing wildly
and dangerously
–
ready to discharge somewhere.

“
Do you think you have created and
have something
new
here?
”
he asked, firmly.
“Two unheard of inventions of great power combined ... The
incredible paranormal energy source, in the depths of a new and
different universe, with a different makeup, in a galaxy never seen
before, with hidden powers beyond our imagination from such a rare
being, combined with your energy bubble that has been discovered
for the first time from all the technology of worlds, over hundreds
of years!

“
The combinations of powerful energy
sources have created many great discoveries!
”

“
There may be! It could very well be a
one of a kind situation, and we have perhaps a long time to explore
it! Perhaps we could find some form of time travel
–
which may not be
found anywhere else
–
or something else!
”

“
We may not need to wait that
long!
”
Bryan stated, moving over.
“
Most inventions allow people to get
their best properties straight away. They will in a few days be
giving out all the details from all the findings, and from all the
experiments, which may be very interesting if I am not mistaken.
They have barely even scratched the surface of
it!
”

V

Its Capture

The time being
might have been thrown into the realms of hell, into another
reality, with its magical being shape altering and whirling within
hideous energy surges, threatening to obliterate it, but it
consistently had stopped it and it falling out of space and time
altogether, and it had consistently altered.

The center of it had glowed bright like a
sun from the energy that it had been trapped in, altering and
becoming more powerful and then dimming, with it whirling
increasing and decreasing, shaking everything furiously about from
the impact of powerful energy forces, from something strange from
outside, and though it had reappeared at the correct location, it
had been trapped there.

It had remained perplexed, and it had
stopped making attempts at escaping, and tried to establish what
had gone wrong.

On and on it
had kept going, and it had seen the humans emerge on the tower
stares, and confirm what it had started to suspect, and that they
had set a trap and had caught it. It had underestimated them
greatly! It would have been normally virtually impossible to do
what they had done, and it would be lucky to survive the ordeal! It
slowly had realized that they had methods of detection that it had
never heard of, but it also had slowly realized that they never had
time travel as it had originally known.

After the
shock of the encounter, and it had adapted its energy and structure
to handle the energy bubble that they had trapped it in, and it had
probed the humans and realized it had been lucky, and that they
could have killed it, and that they wanted it for something, and it
had realized that it had technology that it could use to bargain
with, if they ever allowed it to communicate.

Their
technology had been strange and some of it primitive to it, and it
had even learned how most of it worked, and had been surprised that
its race had missed it, and it had realized why.

It had
probed their computer records, and had found how powerful their
race was, and then had discovered the great revelation that they
had arrived there from another universe, after
hurtling through the outer limits of space and time, and it
had seen the great use that they could have been to its
race.

The
opportunity to do something had been great, and its determination
had turned almost inconceivable.

For a long time it had watched them at work,
and their experiments, while its energy surges intermittently had
played with it, in hideous attacks, and it had planned what it
should do.

VI

Back on the GX1

The spectacular energy explosions and
exhaustion of its energy had damaged far more than the alien had
thought, and it could barely think and use its powers.

When they had taken it in the energy bubble
to the immense GX1 it had gasped in horror, at what it was up
against, and that it might be the end.

Yet it had even felt enjoyment at such a
creation, and that it could exist, and that it had been seeing
powers that its mighty race had never witnessed, and it had
realized that it had a proper goal now, and that was to take
control of it, and it was about to achieve its goal of getting
aboard.

Once inside the GX1 it had been delighted,
and thought of nothing else than escaping and what it would do, and
this time it intended not to underestimate the humans, no matter
what.

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 2

The Deadliest
Treasure

(From the novel
The Alien Artifact 4)

The sounds had initially been astonishing!
Now they had gone beyond, and were mind-bending! They came
screaming up through the shaft with a dangerous fury that stunned
Pendleton, and no matter how he tried to shake it off and
contemplate identities his thoughts never altered or formed stable
recognitions.

Clouds of powdered dirt and stone swirled
about through beams of lights from the above lights as he released
some more rope, edging him downwards, seeking to get hold of the
treasure.

The Second World War was still going, but
just about over, and Pendleton realized that he had avoided being
killed after all, and wondered if he was going to be killed here
instead, and was unsure what was worse.

He groaned and dangled about on his rope,
and grabbed hold of part of a castle boulder, while glimpsing parts
of the shaft above, wondering if he could have wangled his way out
of it. But it was not really them and he really wanted to do it,
and he wanted to explore the castle shaft. He had always wanted to
explore and discover something new of value and greatness, and
perhaps even be remembered in history.

What interested and terrified them was why
the treasure was hidden in such a place with such occurrences!

What was it they were dealing with anyway?
Why was it there in such a far out place? Was the stuff protected
by something?

Something of unfathomable unidentifiable
supernatural nature sounded as though it were under the castle, in
some form of magnetic field or energy field, trapped or trying to
free itself from something, ultimately escaping to another location
of liberty, and he tried imagining some form of spirit trapped
there every night for hundreds of years, perhaps in an ancient
dungeon. Yet again even that could not explain it, or anything!

“
Have
you found if it’s
down there?
”
Henrik shouted down, in a
combination of extreme annoyance and confusion, with a way that
gave Pendleton the impression that the two archaeologists up above
might be on the edge of considering doing something extreme, and
beyond their normal. Though Norgrove, the other archaeologist, gave
him the impression that he had waited all his life to be
here!