The Deadliest Haunted Castle (15 page)

“
He could get in here
anyway,
”
Kruger stated, after thirty seconds of silence.
“
The vehicles have
no real defense against direct attacks
–
or from that
alien.
”

“
That
’
s a good one! But we did drive back
with that alien aboard the last time, and we could be blamed for
helping it get aboard!
”

He pressed a switch, and a window
partly opened up, and he called out,
“
Someone must be in trouble for you
to have come all the way out here! Across this
place!
”

“
Correct!
”
the stranger replied.
“
Our vehicle
crashed, and something killed all the crew ... I just escaped, with
my life ...
”

Major Ripley gasped, and asked,
“
What
’
s your name, and vehicle
number?
”

“
I am Larsen of vehicle
sixty!
”

Kruger remembered the name, and had a vague
recollection of him, and showed his recognition of him.

“
I vaguely remember you too! Did you
wake up unconscious? And was your communicator
working?
”

“
Yes, we all woke up unconscious, and
the communicator was not working ... I used a device to detect your
vehicle, which I knew was here, from our equipment earlier on
...
”

He showed them a hand device that was in his
suit.

Major Ripley moved away from the door where
the stranger was, and allowed Kruger to unlock the door, and they
watched the air slightly react to the outer atmosphere of the
desolate world.

They watched the man enter and speedily
close the door behind him, as though he had been waiting to get in
for a long time, and to get away from something, and they remained
silent as warm air warmed the vehicle again.

“
Now what will we
do?
”
Kruger
muttered, looking about outside.
“
You said that there is something
deadly over there that killed your entire crew?
”

“
Our vehicle was surrounded by
that
hideous
mist that floats
about this place, and something smashed it to pieces, killing them,
and escaped, as I was near the back ...
”

Kruger studied the man, and saw his fear of
the place, and that he had been running to escape from it at one
point.

“
So we better get out of here
...
”
Larsen
warned, after they sat doing nothing for a minute.
“
If that thing
gets over here ...
”

Major Ripley immediately jumped over to an
area with controls and activated controls, and the vehicle lifted
into the air, and floated forwards.

“
But where are we going
to?
”
Don
asked.
“
There is more of a chance of it being in
front than behind us, if we travel on. As it could spot us at a lot
of locations moving on, but if remained here, it will only be able
to find us at this spot ...
“

“
Correct!
”
Larsen replied first.
“
But this vehicle
can swiftly fly upwards, at any speed, and can even travel in
space, and that thing cannot leave the ground as far as I
saw!
”

Major Ripley continued on the course they
had been on before the crash, ready to lift into the air when
needed, and they all seemed more relaxed by it.

When they finally heard a noise from the
communication device, Major Ripley jumped to attention and stopped
the vehicle, and moved in beside it, and had Don take control of
the vehicle, because he was the most alert and ready to handle
anything coming at them

“
Vehicle four here!
”
Major Ripley
announced.
“
Any information on why the communications
were down?
”

“
Ripley!
This is Major Douglas in vehicle two.
It seems to have happened again!
All
the communications were down! They only
returned to normal a few minutes ago! We seem to have a different
problem this time! All the vehicles crashed, but the vast majority
are running again! They
’
re working on the problem back at the GX1.
This time, all the vehicles have been ordered to continue with what
they were doing!
”

“
What
’
s the distance to vehicle sixty from
us?
”

“
It
’
s just over three miles from you!
Why?
”

“
Do me a favor! Was Larsen
there?
”

“
Yes! But we have not had any reply to
our communications to it!
”

“
That
’
s because something has attacked and
killed all the crew, except Larsen! Who is in here
...
”

“
My God!
So there is something out here!
I will check for
anything from the vehicle! We
’
ll have to warn everyone about it! I
don
’
t think
they will cancel this mission, especially if that alien is here,
and impersonating someone, and is trying get aboard again. In fact,
I think I would rather stay out here than be stuck aboard with that
thing!
”

Chapter 4

The New
Alien/Entity

From nowhere, with an inconceivable speed, a
concentrated sphere of energy had appeared, vaguely even being
detected by its senses due its formation. Except its acceleration
left it staggered!

The new alien had remained dormant and
as the rest of the GX1 spacecraft as altered energy shifting
through what was beyond space and time, taking a few scans and
recordings of its surroundings by its automatic senses, but when it
had entered the new universe its senses had detected what was
there, and it had partially come to life to investigate what was
there, while keeping itself as an energy coating around the
spacecraft
’
s energy shield.

It had sensed that the humans inside the
spacecraft had also been staggered by the outer universe, and
analyzed its surrounds with amazement, and even thanked the humans
for giving it a chance to study such phenomena.

Everything about it had been beyond its
knowledge and incredible, and it considered if it was another like
itself that had created it all, with inconceivable dimensions and
powers, far beyond it, and its knowledge and powers, like it
compared itself to its original self billions of years ago.

The void was nothing compared with it! It
had all the relevant information that the entity had, and it had
been built to handle what it possibly could, and was a compressed
version of it, which it had created with the help of the knowledge
that it had taken from the spacecraft, and its compressed size.

The black hole was incredible, and its
voyage through it, and it had allowed it to travel a great
distance, and it wondered if it could get information on how the
spacecraft had entered it.

It had observed that the spacecraft had
clearly come from such a place, and that its technology was surely
greater in many ways to what existed in the new universe. Yet its
size was so small that it had still confused it! Could it itself
recreate such a thing in a larger size? Should it capture it if
possible, or get enough information to recreate it?

Its mission was clearly defined, and it was
only able to alter it to achieve its goal. But if it could not
return it would have to remove its programming, and mission, and
continue as a replacement of the entity.

Thus it soon set itself the task of
exploring everything that it could, to gain all the knowledge that
it could.

A surge of energy forces that it had never
conceived existed had hit its probing forces from the stars,
shocking it and fascinating it at the same time. It had been
unbelievable and glorious, and it admired it greatly, but had
sensed some danger from it, as with its encounter with destruction
on its creation.

Through its thoughts a blur of radiation had
swirled out of the blackness. Strange energies without any meanings
had sent sensations through its structure.

Amidst its awesome powers it had detected
the core of the GX1 spacecraft, and it supplying its propulsion
forces and energy protection shield, and considered if there was a
way to stop its powers reaching the propulsion forces and energy
protection shield. At the speed that it was traveling at it should
it how powerful it was, and that it could not affect it.

It had sensed that the humans could
not use the spacecraft
’
s higher speeds, at hundreds of times the
speed of light, because of the short distances between the stars
there, with the immense amount of worlds, moons, asteroids
–
and that they
had a problem.

The entity had always thought of things in
size, and small had always been powerless and about useless, and it
had realized that far greater powers could exist in it and it being
concentrated.

It had visualized the appearance of the
stars at a close range, and considered how it could use such
forces, and it imagined using such forces, and using the technology
of the spacecraft with them, and it hurtling through the universe
to anywhere.

The entire energy surrounding it and
exploding from stars blanketing out any darkness had overwhelmed
it, and even worried it, and what could exist in its depths, and it
had detected incredible things there, and considered if it could
leave there if it had to, and if it could get back to the void to
the entity, which surely could do something with the knowledge it
would give it, and if it could get back there.

Its body had absorbed the power with
enchantment, as it could not recall having taken in such forces
since its creation.

After many
probes, and unsuccessful probing of the spacecraft, including
through multidimensional sensors, it had accumulated everything
that it could and had started to examine what it had
accumulated.

The unique energy shield of the spacecraft
had stayed a great interest to it, and it had consistently
considered if it could recreate it, as a defense.

All its knowledge of the spacecraft
had been little, and from what it had gained would take it a long
time to find what it wanted, if it actually had enough to find what
it wanted
–
unless it got aboard, and it had realized again why its main
mission was to get aboard, and study it, with the possible chance
of capture.

If it let it go it would be a mistake, as it
had realized that it could be the only time it would come across
such a phenomenon.

The vastness and powers of what it had
become so vivid, and it had realized that it would have transform
into something new, and it had thought of its original thoughts of
the object
’
s discovery, and of the finding of the things
in it, and at the same time it had detected with amazement it was
decelerating, and it had detected its surveillance of a world
ahead, and it had been sure that it intended to make contact with
it.

When it had gone into orbit around it, it
had probed the world with fascination, and even lost interest in
what was happening to study what it found. It had never seen
anything like it before, and it had been fascinated at what could
exist there, without it knowing that it could exist, even with it
being outside its normal reaches. It marveled at what it had been
missing while drifting and constructing itself in the void.

What strange things existed there? It was
always interested in new discoveries, science, and inventions, and
had it marveled at the years ahead of it! What other wonders would
it find? Where would it end up?

It had left the voyager to carry out its
mission, and explored the world the best that it could in its
present state, as it had been still evolving itself into the
entity/life form that it had been programmed to alter into.

It had been surrounded with mind-bending
wonders and visions as it had explored what it could, seeking
answers, and it had returned to surveying the GX1 when it had
landed, and later on it had detected some of the humans leaving it,
and going outside the energy screen again, and it had examined
their free thinking states and realized that it could reproduce one
of them easily, as it had been programmed to do, and it had made
them all unconscious and had replaced one of them with an identical
copy, which it could control and exist in, to enter the energy
shield of the GX1.

Chapter 5

The Second Crash

The vehicle was racing along when there was a
firm shudder, making them jerk up and down, and it when crashing
down into a pool of water below, thumping into the edge of an area
of mud, splashing mud and water everywhere, over the windows,
blinding their view, and Kruger turned and hit the side of the
vehicle, hurting his elbow.