The Deadliest Haunted Castle (24 page)

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.

Chapter 28

The Museum

Kruger was staggered when he entered
the museum, which was the biggest museum aboard the GX1, as the
alien
’
s
appearance in the energy bubble had entirely altered.

The thing looked entirely deadly and
pulsating, with alien inside with less alterations and looking more
powerful, which looked as deadly as he had seen it. By its
reactions he could tell that it had something that it could use
against them, but he could recognize what, and glared at it trying
to get a clue.

The alien had been swiftly brought to the
GX1, and most of the scientists had followed it.

The A1 museum show was the first and biggest
showing of it, and every major person and personality aboard was
there, in the massive hall, with the media covering it
everywhere.

The alien and energy bubble was astounding,
in the center of the stage, in bright colored beams of light,
fascinating everyone there, and especially those arriving
there.

Kruger had not visited the museum before and
was amazed at the amount of alien artifacts, detailed filmed
accounts of alien findings, and ancient alien civilizations
uncovered, with detailed accounts of their location, worlds, and
environments, and he even saw some of the work that he was involved
with, and decided to visit the place more.

The expeditions were some of the best, with
best findings, and they were set up like they were on other worlds,
and he knew he was going to be part of the greatest of them all,
which had been one of his dreams.

On the stage a few scientists stood around
the alien, and the two paranormal scientists arrived, and reacted
when they saw the alien in its new state, and ignored it and rushed
over to the microphone, and Bryan started giving detailed
descriptions of their detection of the alien, and their detection
of the energy source.

It was incredible that they were not known
as paranormal scientists, and only small descriptions of them
investigating that sort of work was revealed.

“
Details of the tower room that was
brought aboard will soon be revealed,
”
Bryan revealed.
“
And it should give us an
insight into what it is! We have many scientific findings, but
little on the alien itself, which surely has derived from an
exceedingly advanced race, which may not have come from this world,
as all the information indicates. There only seems to be one on the
whole world! Its present state shows us little about it!

“
The particular habits of the being
may become known some day if we find a way to remove the energy
bubble and replace it with something that only confines it, which
will allow us to study it as it normally is.

“
A variety of clues of its highly
advanced technology were found in its tower, which we still have
found little on, even with our technology. We just do not know
precisely where it came from or what it is.
”

A group of
scientists arrived and brought in equipment and arranged it around
the energy bubble of the alien, and Kruger for a moment thought he
saw the alien recognize it.

A highly advanced clock was placed at the
end of a cable and was entered into its field, and the scientist
reacted immediately when they received results, and concluded that
its precision digital numbers had being frozen, and it went into
multidimensional forms as the cable moved inwards, and they studied
the suspended cluster of partially transparent layers, and the
audience all watched the phenomenon with amazement.

Many people had seen a short sequence of it
on the media, but were still surprised.

The two paranormal scientists controlled the
experiments of the other scientists.

Both occasionally gave detailed explanations
of what they were doing and believed was occurring, and they had
the cable released further, edging it into the confines of the
energy bubble, creating more spectacular optical effects with the
clock, making it distort in twisted forms, deliberately designed
for the stage performance, shaping beams of light with matter like
a form of light show.

All the numbers on clock shifted fast
forward to the surprise of the audience, and some
new
leading scientists, who had not
seen it, were allowed to investigate it, and they crowded around
it, loudly discussing it, and they applauded it, and announced it
was the first discover of time travel that anyone had found, and
the audience all applauded the discovery.

Many of the audience around Kruger were
startled, as they had not believed that it existed, and it had just
been proven to exist, and they watched it wondering what the hell
it was, as it was far more different than he had thought, and
Kruger realized that he had not heard anything that could properly
explain how it worked, and he watched the two paranormal scientists
and main scientists in hope of picking something up.

It looked as though it were rupturing space
in a way that played with time, with properties of altering and
suspending time! It was creating alterations in it and the fabric
of space.

Many of the leading scientists had been
carrying out numerous basic and complex experiments on it with all
the equipment aboard, now available to them, and great amounts of
detailed information had been accumulated, but most was not
available.

Nobody had been able to determine its
origins or if it even came from the galaxy. Yet they were in
another universe, which they had not checked in any proper degree,
and there were many occurrences there and in the black hole that
were still unexplained, and their voyage through the galaxy had
shown that many mysterious things existed there.

Its altered shape wildly hovering about
itself made him shudder, and occasional looks of the alien were
like it was a lion eyeing up its prey.

The abnormal antics of some of the
scientists and technicians at times were captivating, mystifying
him with the depth of their nervousness and deep fear of something,
and the fact that he had not seen them actually react about
anything without there being something there! The last alien in the
void was still unbelievable, and many people thought it was not
entirely dead! Some still repetitively studied the readings from
equipment that they had set up to detect it.

Were
they
preparing themselves for something, which he saw
the two paranormal scientists occasionally become aware
of?

Why did they not do anything, if they really
did believe it?

Yet he actually did know why, and that they
could not, and it was better to check it and see what happened, if
it did.

What the hell was it? What was this thing?
Was it really a supernatural thing?

A swift flash of light appeared from a laser
and exploded into the edge of a region of the energy bubble,
silencing the entire audience, who vibrantly reacted to it and
them.

From it they gave and showed the audience a
more detailed account of what was happening when he light hit its
radius, and they showed them slowed down views of the occurrence on
a large screen behind them.

Bryan calmly gave other information that
they had found back at the tower.

“
It manipulates space and
time!
”
he
told them, watching it at the side of his eye.
“
It suspends, accelerates,
and suspends time ... And if you
’
ll look at the clock
–
suspended within its outer
radius
– it is now
decelerating it ...”

The cable was emerged outwards, pulling the
clock backwards, with its numbers swiftly turning backwards, until
its numbers once again became motionless.

Many people around Kruger talked about it as
time travel, and that they were witnessing a form of time
machine.

Kruger was now wondering what the hell it
really was they were playing with, and why it looked so
dangerous.

“
What are they intending to do
with?
”
someone from the media asked Bryan.
“
Could it be used to create something
even more incredible
–
with it fascinating
properties?
”

Bryan examined him in a glance, and thought
of the best reply.

“
We and all the scientists aboard have
been investigating it with everything we have, which still not
enough, and I guess in a year from now it will be very minute, and
if they find anything, which I have not heard of, I assure you we
will inform you of it!

“
They
have made other findings!” Mitchel announced, at his side.
“
If you take an observation of its shifting
–
which they have
been studying closely
–
its constrained pattern of movements has
dramatically altered in regions in space ...

“
We have checked its movements in
other dimensions ... It is a new discovery, and we have been
monitoring it ...

“
We also have ways of detecting other
things ... We detected the energy source by using our equipment
...
”

While they were talking Kruger saw how more
powerful the energy in the energy bubble seemed to become, and he
examined its lethal appearance!

The thing was a bubble of energy,
looking like it could explode
–
with an immense energy discharge.

“
Do you think this is
entirely
new
concept?
”
a
man in the audience asked, slightly gasping at its altered
appearance.
“I read one
of the recent reports on it, explaining it as the combination of
two unheard of inventions of vast power. An incredible energy
source, in the depths of a different universe, with a different
makeup, with hidden powers beyond our imaginations, and its strange
source, from a highly advanced species, combined with your energy
and powerful energy bubble, discovered for the first time, and not
fully checked, from all the best technology of our worlds, from
hundreds of years of scientific breakthroughs ...
And
that the combinations of such powerful energy sources have created
numerous great discoveries ...
”

Suddenly Kruger spotted the center of where
the being in the energy bubble was, and that it was turning bright
like a sun, and become louder and brighter, with its whirling was
increasing, and it started shaking everything furiously about,
knocking all the scientists about, and they fell over, and a sudden
shockwave impacted it and blasted through the whole museum, and
reoccurring blasts followed, knocking everyone and everything over
or about, and was followed by one last colossal explosion, before
it died away.

The hall turned silent, and all the people
got up from the floor, and out of wreckage, and started to recover
from what had happened, and Kruger watched the two paranormal
scientists dramatically talking with each other, and watched where
they looked, towards the energy bubble, and realized that they were
not reacting to the explosion, but to the energy bubble itself, as
it had changed, and he saw that the being had vanished from inside
it, and he gasped, thinking of the trouble that they could be in if
the being had escaped.

Chapter 29

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.