The Stargate Black Hole (13 page)

“
What is the distance to the nearest
shuttle?
”
Major Ripley whispered, to confirm what he knew.

“
Well, there are hundred vehicles out,
and the nearest has to be miles away ...
”

“
We better contact the others! Check
what is happening!
”

Kruger watched the strange figure move in
close, and bang his large heavy glove hard against the vehicle
window near him, and thought he recognized him for a moment.

The problem of having such a vast spacecraft
and crew, which he had not gotten used to, was there were too many
strangers aboard, and that they were always coming into contact
with people that they never recognized, and he now knew hardly any
of the other people in the vehicles, and going by what he had seen
of Major Ripley and Don that they were the same.

There was nothing strange about the man, who
was wearing a spacesuit without a helmet, and only did two things
differently, which was his silent and strange look and him being
there in the first place, as nobody had wanted to leave the
protection of the vehicles, because of the place they were in and
the hidden dangers.

Kruger wondered if he would make it home
alive, which was incredible, after all the years of helping and
preparing for the great voyage to the final frontiers of the
universe. They must have done just about everything to check that
nothing went wrong, and had proven to them that if anything new was
actually found that there would not be any danger. They believed
that dangers in space had been virtually annihilated, and were now
just small accidents. The dangers of the past were thought to have
been left behind. Even in wars, humans were very rarely ever
killed, and were mainly fought with machines, and mainly robots,
and the people involved hardly ever actually encountered
dangers.

He could not place the stranger and put it
down to memory loss from the encounter with the alien, and the
strange environment of the new universe.

“
I cannot reach them!
”
Major Ripley
shouted.

“
There could be some damage to the
communications ...
”

“
You mean something is blocking
transmissions ...
”

Major Ripley stuck his face against the side
window and studied his face and figure outside, and the man ignored
him, waiting for him to open the door.

Kruger did think he looked familiar and acted
like one of the crew, but so had the alien when it had done a
perfect impersonation of him, as Dan.

“
You
will have to let him in or
something!
”
Don announced.
“
At least talk to him through an opened
window!
”

“
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.