The Deadliest Haunted Castle (27 page)

Their world had been so different and so
interesting, and when it examined their minds it started to realize
the truth, and that it should have built a civilization and its
existence there had been empty, and that it had achieved little,
and it had even condemned its race for destroying itself.

Its powers to travel in time had been left
virtually useless, even though there had been immense power sources
aboard that it could use, it needed proper equipment, and it had
been impossible to build without a great deal of time, and it could
not produce without being caught, and it had to use small leaps
though time.

While it had continued its explorations
other parts of it detected their attempts at capturing it, and it
successfully avoided being captured at close range, by the
scientists with their equipment, and energy bubble, and it had
avoided trying to capture the equipment, until it could be fully
sure that it could get away with it.

The scientists that had done it had
interested it a great deal, and it realized that their technology
was far better than the rest, but it also sensed there had been
dangers from them, and they had prepared for it to attack them, and
that they had a defense against it, and it only monitored them at a
distance, and made sure they never detected it when it did.

Sometimes when it had been near the life
forms and it had examined their minds, thoughts, communications,
and behavior, and took great interest in making replies to their
communications, but pretending to be other humans, but it always
remained an outsider, as it tried to find how well it could become
a human, and it realized the best forms to take to avoid
discovery.

On the barn world it had been on its own for
an implausible amount of time, and even trapped, wishing to leave
the world, and had wished many times to meet with others of its
race, but had avoided creating others of its race as it had
believed that it would not have been happy with them and their
presence.

They would not be have been what it wanted,
and it saw now that it could have altered them to be more like the
humans. Its race had killed itself off, and destroyed an empire,
and it believed that only certain types of them were what should
have existed, and it believed that it could produce a proper race
and civilization now, with all the information it had
collected.

While exploring groups of humans it had once
discovered another life form, which it never recognized, and had
just avoided being detected by it, with its probing, and realized
that it had been another alien of the entity that they had
encountered in the void.

Chapter 35

The Alien
Capture

The scientists eventually decided against
going too near the alien, and located at a place where other
scientists and the military could join them, where they could make
an exit if anything went wrong, and was still close enough to make
observations and use proper surveillance equipment to monitor
it.

The alien had become predictable in its
movements since it had successfully avoided all their attempts of
capture, and Kruger started to realize that if this attempt failed
that they many be stuck with it, and have a future problem.

It amazed him how far they actually were
able to go to stop it!

The paranormal scientists had consultations
with the other scientists and the military, and they now entirely
left their minds open to what was there.

Yet what the two paranormal scientists had
discovered was that the being was a time traveler, and was escaping
from them by making jumps through time, which virtually made it
indestructible, if they could not find a way of defeating it.

Yet they found that it only made small leaps
forward through time, and all that they needed to do was find a way
of handling this problem, and it was found that the scientists had
developed time travel since its existence had been proven with the
energy bubble, and they had found ways of mimicking it, but could
only send energy forward in small leaps, and they had found that it
reappeared about the same amount of time in the future after each
jump, and that it never bothered to alter and vary it.

Their next big surprise was their first view
of it through powerful optical equipment, used by advanced
astrologists, to give them a real view of the alien, and what they
were up against.

“
It is new!
”
Mitchel expressed, when he saw it
first, and he allowed Bryan to see it, and he watched it as if he
had been waiting all his life to see it, and gasped, and examined
what he was looking for, and was staggered.

“
What do you make of
it?
”
Major
Ripley asked, walking over to them.
“
We still have nothing put forward on
its identity!
”

The two scientists consulted quietly, and
seemed to avoid giving a firm answer or anything that they would
regret.

Mitchel answered,
“It is still in an energy form though, and
taking some solidness! And we can barely see its features! We think
it has altered itself to an earlier version of its species. Perhaps
to survive better here! It has many incredible hidden powers, which
we have not even heard of before!
It has a very
mysterious nature! And though we do not know fully what the hell
the thing is, we can still recapture it! We have not heard of
anything like it!
”

Kruger wondered again if they thought it was
of paranormal origins, and if they were avoiding ruining their
reputations on something that could turn out to be something else,
and he then heard them mutter it in a silent conversation with each
other.

What surprised him and a few others the most
about them was how they reacted and treated such things when there
was a suggestion of there being the supernatural there, and he
wondered again if they had something at last or were actually
covering up something else. He wondered if they would ever prove
anything, which they must have been waiting the majority of their
lives for.

He even wondered if they actually did find
anything if what they showed would be enough to prove its existence
and that they were dealing with something supernatural, as
explanations could appear to prove that it was not, which it
usually was, and the alien was a highly advanced alien that had
taken an ancient form.

They consulted with each other openly on
what it could be many times, clearly attempting to get the others
to give them their thoughts, while leaving things open to anyone to
add to, and for the other scientist to give their thoughts freely,
and what they mainly agreed to was that they thought it was new,
and of an entirely new status.

After a great deal of discussions and
surveillance, checking of readings, and of observations through
monitors from every form of surveillance, from all the equipment
everyone had set up at every conceivable angle, they all remained
set on leaving everything on what could happen open, and they took
recordings of all the information, and only admitted to that it was
more advanced than anything that they had seen, and perhaps would
ever see, in many areas.

Kruger was sure that the alien would know of
their presence if it was advanced as they claimed, and wondered why
it never shifted away through time, or over to another region, as
it could easily shift through walls and get away. But he believed
the military was surrounding the region, at a distance.

And he wondered what would happen if they
just waited at the site for it to arrive, if they made it leap
forward in time, and realized that it could just leap again, and
they might not see it for a long time if it kept making jumps
forward. Though it could only jump so far, and clearly had limited
powers, which would not allow it to continue to keep making jumps
forward.

All the scientists finally agreed to begin
and activated their equipment to create the energy bubble about the
alien, and it instantaneously vanished, and they followed it
through time with their equipment and used it to capture it in
time, putting the energy bubble around it as it arrived at its
destination, and they kept it there with the more advanced and more
powerful energy bubble, which would not allow it to escape from the
destination in the future, and they waited until they reached that
point in time, and they had it again.

Chapter 36

The Time
Being
’
s Release

Kruger was staggered when he had first heard
the news, and that they were going to release the time being onto
the world, and allow it its freedom, and that the scientists had
made a deal with it, for the privilege, and had received vast
amounts of knowledge.

They were miles out on the strange world,
with the immense GX1 resting right across the horizon, going up
into the sky for miles, which was higher than any of the highest
mountains there, and they viewed their achievement proudly.

All the leading scientists and military were
there and seated in front of the alien in the energy bubble, which
was calm and not altering any longer, and it watched its audience
with bizarre interest, with thoughts that they could only
guess.

The thing did not look deadly, and pulsated
with energy fluctuations, and the two paranormal scientists had
their scientists reduce the energy acting on it and allowed it to
speak again to them, as they observed it.

“
We have made an agreement, and you
gave us all the scientific knowledge for your
freedom?
”
Bryan firmly stated, watching the thing, with a few surprised
looks, as though he had never believed he would be doing such a
thing.

“
Yes!
”
it replied, staring.

“
You
’
re better off here on this world,
going by all our information!
”
Bryan explained.
“
This could be a great world, if it
was exploited wisely ...
”

The being, still an energy form, moved
itself to show its understanding.

It was incredible they had found a way to
lower the energy bubble, and its influence on it, and had managed
to communicate with it, and had been amazed that it had actually
learned to speak in their language, just like a human.

Many leading people including the president
had met with it, and they had soon made agreements with it, as they
had done on many worlds with many aliens, and had the right to
carry out such agreements, and make many offerings to them.

They had many conversations with it, which
had concluded with their agreement with each other, and they had
made the being their acting head of the world, and its
president.

They were even surprised that they had
influenced the being so much with their civilization and GX1 that
it had intensions of now building its own similar civilization, and
they agreed to help it with what it needed.

All the explorations of the world had been
completed, and they were making a withdrawal from the region.

The scientists began carefully bringing in
its eggs that they had detected, all through the ship, and allowed
it to confirm that they were all there, and they turned the energy
bubble off and allowed it its freedom, which could have been
dangerous at one point, but they now had a way to stop it doing
anything if it decided to change its mind.

The time being slowly altered into its
normal solid state, to show them its true identity, and not its
energy states or its original ancient species state, which it had
acquired to survive, and they were surprised how human it looked,
even with its large size. But most of all how much it looked like a
medieval wizard
–
especially with its immense cloak, covered in ancient symbols
and stars, with only a suggestion of its power on its ancient
intelligent face, and Kruger wondered how deadly they looked to it,
even though their size was nothing like its.

By its reactions he could tell that it had
something that it could use against them, but it could not win, and
he glared at it trying to find a clue.

The time being waved its arms and all the
eggs vanished away, to somewhere else. Perhaps to its tower room,
now back at the top of the castle, where they had replaced it.

The alien was an astounding as a life form
as an entity, and was full of energy, and Kruger was sure it had
conquered all forms of sickness, as well as immortality, and he was
sure it was many thousands of years old, and wondered what marvels
it had encountered, and he wondered if humans would one day alter
into such beings, with such powers.

Chapter 37

The New Project

When Kruger
arrived at the paranormal scientists laboratory he realized
straight away that they had something, by the way they were working
away and making all the scientists work like crazy to finish their
project, which he never even attempted to recognize this time, as
the complexity and unfamiliarity of it was too great, and he could
only stare in bewilderment at what was there.

It was beyond
his imagination, and by looks he spotted it was the same for many
of the scientists, and he started thinking of the time being and
what had recently being happening. He was glad that it had gone on
their side, and they were now even working with it, and they had
learned a great deal about it, and far more than they could have.
Yet the thing could be dangerous beyond belief, and he wished it
never existed or they had never found it. At times it resembled one
of the most hideous things he had seen!