The Deadliest Alien Artifacts (Story Collection) (8 page)

In the surrounding blackness he thought he
saw something shift, which he examined, and as his eyes adjusted he
saw a faint blue radiance, which he considered as a star, but he
made a closer examination of his surroundings by feeling around him
and felt he was in something artificial, in some form of structure,
and he felt a hard floor and he stood up, in his weakened state,
and felt slightly sick, and dizziness, and held himself firmly
upwards.

When he felt better he felt a faint
vibration from something running through a wall and touched it and
tried to realize what it was, and what material it was, but he was
unable to, and knew he had to have light to realize anything!

He returned to staring at where the faint
blue radiance was and finally realized that he was actually in some
form of room and looking at a crack in the structure.

He considered if he had been mistaken and if
it was some form of reflection, but now in a more alert state he
positively recognized it was what he had attained it to be.

He gently approached the crack, which went
into something, and watched it create a vague beam of blueness
along a black wall. He could not imagine what it could be! What
could be there?

For a second his emotions ran amok thinking
of the incredible experience and voyage through the universe he had
taken, virtually on the brink of existence, seeing the spectacular
view of the universe and what it really was!

In the darkness he felt an eerie sensation
that the place was stranger! He sensed a presence, as though
something was nearby, and he wondered if it was at the blueness
through the crack!

He slowly moved up to the crack and was
dreamily observing it when he started to realize that it was an
entrance to somewhere, and he realized that it was a door and he
gripped it and pushed its black shape, and it opened out, and
strange lights blasted out at him everywhere, giving flashes and
beams of radiance!

He staggered in, feeling how sore and tired
his legs were, trying to see the interior and it became more
perceptible and he saw a room full of beaming colored lights and
controls.

To his side he spotted speckles in the
darkness there, and he moved further over, and realized that he was
glaring out at the stars of deep space!

He actually was on a moon station in the
depths of the stars!

He realized that the gateway had locked onto
the nearest object and best place to situate him and that he was
out on some moon!

He searched through the blur of controls in
the dim room, only lighted by controls, looking for anything
familiar, daring not to touch anything.

He realized it was actually out in the
deepest depths of the stars! Galaxies away from where any human had
gone before!

It seemed to be desolate, left out in the
depths of space, endlessly trapped in time and space.

His thirst for knowledge was increasing and
he insisted in checking everything that he could and he suddenly
spotted the room that he had appeared there in and he realized that
it was strange and he attempted to examine it in the lights from
the controls, now that he could see it, and he realized that it had
to be some form of gateway, which used the wormhole, and that he
had appeared there as it had been open, and he knew there might be
a way to return through it!

Other locations were surely there! How could
he travel back to the moon? Then he spotted something at the side
of the doorway, and that there were forms of controls on the
wall!

On his approach he spotted a form of screen
and a line of dots going down its side and he pressed the first and
was amazed when the screen lit up and showed a view of a dark
place.

He remained there, moving his head at
different angles trying to see what was there, and moved back to
see it better and he saw the room, which he had appeared there in,
had vanished and there was a gateway, and region of blackness
identical to the blackness at the center of the gateway at the
moonbase

He put his hand into it and realized there
was no pull and it was far more advanced than the Moonbase X3
gateway!

He leapt in it and rushed through a wormhole
and yellow globes became visible, and his vision adjusted and he
saw the place that had been on the screen further out and he
entered there and saw that it was a dimly lit narrow corridor, and
he turned around and saw that he had been in an identical room to
the one at the other place and that it had a screen and controls at
its side.

At a distant region of the corridor it
abruptly darkened, where the lights did not go any further, and he
saw that it was the corridor of something, and he moved away from
the gateway to it.

Corridors went out endlessly all along it,
and he examined everything, and he sensed the size of the structure
was colossal!

He walked into the darkness at the end of it
until an entrance finally appeared in front of him, and he opened
it, not seeing where he was going, and his side hit something!

In amazement he saw that he was no longer
just in darkness and that a large translucent dome surrounded him,
and he turned, and his entire sight filled with the stars of deep
space!

It was an observation point of a starship,
and it was designed so it gave the observer a view that was
identical to being in space and being surrounded by stars. The
black floor and starship was barely visible behind him.

A distant sound startled him and he could
not realize what could create it, and it sounded like it was caused
by a living thing, and he realized how alone he was there. Perhaps
more alone than any human in history! He was in the deepest deep
space itself! Endless light years away from the solar system!

He was positive that it had been the noise
of something though, and he gently shifted himself away, making
faint moving sounds. And he moved towards where he heard it.

In the dim starlight he shifted into the
corridor and spotted a closed entrance on the wall, where he was
sure the sound came from, and he silently opened it revealing a
dark interior, with some lighted controls.

He examined them wondering how fast the
starship was traveling, and realized that it must travel at many
times the speed of light or the starship would be useless!

He returned to the wormhole gateway, and on
approaching it he spotted the form of screen and line of dots going
down its side, and he pressed the first that he saw and was amazed
when the screen lit up and showed a view of a bright place, and he
entered the wormhole, and the darkness swiftly turned to blinding
light and he could not see at first, until his eyes started
adjusting, and he saw he was in a type of tunnel about his size,
about him, made of translucent material, and below he suddenly saw
an incredible world covered in bright blue water, glowing in
intense brightness!

He was sure if the light had been more
powerful it could blind him, and he watched reflections of strange
objects in the water of the world below, and he watched distorted
shapes and a distorted sun, which seemed magnified.

He was on some form of colossal space
station, surrounded by other forms of space stations with
tremendous sizes, stretching out for miles all about him, with
networks of translucent tunnels, with large round and square
bulges.

The sun there was of an incredible size and
he realized that the place might have been built an incredibly long
time ago and that the sun had increased in size for some
reason.

He entered a spherical bulge of transparent
material, connected to another translucent tunnel, which went on
into the distance.

Stars shone at his side intensely, as he
clumsily rested.

Another large world
’
s sphere was shining in
space, at his side. It was completely different, and he could
barely believe that it was a normal world.

Further along, he spotted a region, and he
stood staggered, where he spotted a region of the space station
with an even more colossal size, stretching out for hundreds of
miles all about it, in networks of translucent tunnels, with large
round and square bulges that had sizes that were in miles.

After a long time, of observing everything,
he returned to the wormhole gateway and made his way back to the
starship.

In the darkness of the starship he stood
shocked at what he had seen and he realized that he did not know
how to properly handle an alien encounter with a highly advanced
race! How could he communicate with them? Other locations surely
had them! The dangers were immense and he considered what would
happen if they found the gateway at Moonbase X3, and he was sure
they could not deal with such an advanced civilization! If they
were deadly it would be the end of everything!

On his approach to the screen and line of
dots going down its side he gasped, and gasped more every time he
pressed a button and saw a new location on the screen, and stood
amazed when he saw one with a view of a bright place, as he
recognized something, and amidst a blur he saw it was a view
through a rotating sphere form at the center of a chamber, and he
spotted the scientists at the moonbase faintly visible about its
sides!

The starship
’
s technology was incredible and he
somehow sensed there had to be something there on how it worked and
he returned to where all the controls in the room had been and
looked around until he found a hidden away screen.

He looked through information on it, which
he could not decipher, and searched for anything to do with the
starship and started photographing diagrams and drawings of it and
information with it, and photographed everything he could, using a
device he had, and for hours he continued on going, until he was
sure he had everything, and what he wanted, and returned to the
wormhole gateway, and decided to return!

He realized their knowledge was colossal and
he could barely understand it! They used the gateways to keep their
civilization connected, over the immense expanses of space!

The familiar pattern of movements of the
Moonbase X3 wormhole was amazing and he never thought he would be
watching them from inside it, from galaxies away!

While he was thinking of all the other
worlds there were on the screen, and undoubtedly on other entrance
points, an unusual view appeared on the screen and he watched
Commander Craven entering the Moonbase X3 chamber, and stand
talking to Lucas, and Weaver rushed through the gateway!

V

The Transcendents

All the
scientists stood staggered when Weaver rushed out of the wormhole
without warning and rushed over and shut down the colossal magnetic
field holding the gateway open!

It was
incredible that it worked and that the whole gateway collapsed and
vanished, and he spotted the relieved faces of many of the
scientists!

The extraordinary scene that developed there
afterwards was incredible, and he warned all the scientists there
what was there and that mankind was not ready for an alien
encounter of its kind! It would be far more dangerous than the Ice
Station X1 voyager!

Some leading scientists started trying to
reopen the wormhole, but they could not, and he believed when he
reported everything he had that they would avoid doing so, and the
immense cost of constructing another was too high!

He was also sure that they had carried out
all their experiments on it as an entire month had passed since he
had entered it, and he realized he had been going through the
wormhole for an entire month, before he had arrived at the room,
and he started to recall some strange encounters that had taken
place, and he had met the last of the transcendents that had built
the more advanced version!

He realized that it would have resulted in
disaster for mankind and that it would have met with many
civilizations and things far more advanced and that it would have
been destroyed!

He realized many civilizations must have
encountered the wormhole while trying to build their own and had
been stopped with different methods!

The entire chamber was full of scientists
and he saw that many were angry and he wondered what they would
do!

Eventually a famous leading scientist took a
microphone and started calming them, and Weaver was handed the
microphone to explain what had happened and he wondered if they
would accept what had taken place!

He suddenly recalled more of what had
occurred in the stargate, and his encounter with the highly
advanced transcendents, from another universe, and for some reason
he started to explain what the dangers of using wormholes were, and
his encounter with the transcendents and that in the starship, to
explore the stars the correct way, they had given him plans to
build a starship!

Chapter 6

The Alien Source
Code

(From the novel
The Alien Artifact 5)

Bryson sensed
that there was something that they were not saying, but he knew he
would only needed to wait for them to tell what it was, and he kept
wondered if they were in danger and tried to get Parker to give him
what needed to know.

While Bryson
considered what could happen next Parker and his scientists started
consulting with each and made an agreement!

“
The
stuff is highly classified!” Parker announced to Bryson and
Mortimer. “We’re still just playing safe and assuming that we
return home at the end of this ...”

“
But if
it is used we are going to see it anyway!” Mortimer stated, seeing
Bryson’s viewpoint.