The Thing: from the Depths of Hell (19 page)

He sensed
something and knew there was more and that they were doing
something else that he could not figure out as he had to little to
go on.

Eventually he
started meeting with and talking to the Russian scientist that he
had followed to the underground chamber.

Outside his
room he met him one morning and told him that he had found
information on him spying on them, and that he could be in serious
trouble!

To his
satisfaction he started confessing that he was not responsible for
anything that had happened there!

“
I have
not given any confidential secrets!” he pleaded to him.

“
But you
work with people that have killed people here?” he replied,
recalling all the deaths there, and he watched the scientist’s
startled face.

“
We are
not responsible for the gunmen outside and the deaths that they
carry out!”

Weaver knew he
had finally made a breakthrough and he was connected to them and
knew what was happening, and he could not let it go!

“
The
deaths in the ice station must be?” Weaver replied.

“
They
are by soldiers put here with us who are working with them! They
are part of a Russian renegade group that has separated from our
group! They are illegal! We do not know what they are
after!”

Weaver knew
that he was telling the truth! Yet he could not determine what was
so valuable! Or if they would go to such lengths to get their hands
on knowledge of how the secret telescope worked! If they got all
the information from all the scientists and put it together surely
they could put it all together and fill in the rest, or just find
away of getting the information out of the people that had invented
it!

“
What
about the telescope technology?” he muttered out loud.

“
That is
not what they want!” he moaned, looking at him as if he was acting
crazy.

“
If you
give me something I’ll make sure you get away with it!”

The scientist
slowly nodded in agreement towards him and offered to show him what
it was, and Weaver suddenly noticed his appearance had changed and
that he was up to something!

The scientist
insisted in showing him, and he wondered what it was, and if it was
just a waste of his time checking, but he knew if it was not that
he would get him to tell what else he knew, and he decided also to
allow him to think things over for a while.

When they
arrived at the bottom of the elevator and entered the large cavity
with the telescope he noticed he started playing his role as a
scientist to the other scientists!

At a point at
the furthest away point where there was a concrete wall, at the
furthest point from the ice station above, where he thought there
was only outside ice, he pointed at a hidden large metal door and
they went to it and he started unlocking the door, which confused
him again as he could not visualize what could be there, and
wondered why the telescope was not the ultimate confidential
prize!

Once he had
opened the door he turned on lights and they entered a brightly
lighted corridor and he took him along it.

Weaver stayed silent and wandered along the
corridor after him.

He was confused when they reached a door at
the end of the corridor and he watched him open it and darkness
appear outside and they entered it trying to see about them and he
saw nothing, and as his eyes adjusted and he searched the abyss
above and round him, as they walked on.

A deep thud echoed down, from high above
somewhere, and he wondered why whatever he was in was so large, and
he could scarcely grasp the concept of there being another chamber
there, and he realized that they had more stuff buried away there
and he wondered what the hell it was this time!

Chapter 11

The Secret Military
Chamber

A swift explosion of light exploded down as
the Russian scientist turned on the lights, and it blasted into
their vision out of the blackness, silencing Weaver, and he saw the
most unbelievable and deadliest sight he was sure that he had
seen!

Everywhere he looked he saw colossal atomic
missiles going out, stretching away out until he could not see
passed them, and going away up to the Antarctic surface above, and
he gasped when the soldiers there started entering the chamber!

The expense of it had to reach many billions
and he wondered what the hell he had entered himself into! He could
not even believe that they had such military weapons at the
Antarctic, as it was highly illegal! Then he realized that the
Russians or someone might have something there!

The size and power of the missiles exceeded
his comprehension, and he could not justify their size and tried to
think of other uses for them! They looked like the rockets for the
moon landings or deep space travel!

He even considered if they were actually
starships, and what starships actually would be like, as they would
need tremendous power and supplies of fuel.

Yet what the hell would they need so many
for? Would they be going to explore vast amounts of stars? Or were
they to attack and destroy an alien world?

He was surprised that the soldiers there
removed his weapon and took him and the Russian scientist away to
be interrogated!

When he left the chamber he examined one in
detail and was staggered as they were the most advanced version
that he had seen! They had to be atomic missiles for a World War
3!

They took him away into a small room and
questioned him and they only got what they knew already, accept him
interrogating the Russian scientist, and they met Commander Craven
and Weaver was soon released.

Soon after it he went to the Russian
scientist
’
s
room and started questioning him about the base and he soon started
to talk, especially when he showed him that he had a handgun, and
he started off confirming that they were part of a massive defense
system, and the missiles were highly advanced and that the
telescope in first chamber was not only for detecting alien
civilizations and it and their satellite system had the ability to
detect objects in far greater detail and with smaller sizes, and
the ice station helped covered it up, and what surprised Weaver was
that he still was avoiding telling him things, and Weaver was now
determined to get what he had.

The scientist tried to avoid all his
attempts of getting an answer until he shouted at him that he would
have to give it to him or he was not going to leave the room alive,
and he sat down on his bed with his head in his hands!

“
It is going to come out
eventually!
”
Weaver continued.

“
Why don
’
t you get it from someone else?
I
’
ve given
you what you need to know!
”

“
You
’
re the one!
”

“
I
’
ll only tell you if promise you will not tell
anyone, and if caught you blame it on someone
else?
”

“
I
’
ll not tell anyone of your identity!
You
’
re not
using your real identity, anyway! You can get away from here on the
next airplane and go home!
”

“
I will do that! But what you are
about to hear is highly confidential and I believe you may not
believe what I have to tell you! I never believed it until they
confirmed it!
”

Weaver
’
s face went pale and he wondered
what the hell he was talking about as he had not even described the
missile chamber as being that!

Chapter 12

The Visitation

The pale cold complexion of the Russian
scientist entirely altered! Sounds he gave took strange tones
everywhere as he started trying to explain, and Weaver strained his
eyes trying to see him now, while he considered it, and the
darkness in the room grew!

“
Normal astronomers and observatories
around the world never detected it, and would have studied it with
great curiosity if they had at a far lower velocity, and would have
been baffled, as it went at many times the speed of
light!
”

Weaver grasped at what it was and started to
comprehend what he had been missing! He wondered what could detect
such an object, and if they even had anything available!

“
Its origins were undetected by the
sources that had seen it and had been set up for high speed
objects!
”
The scientist continued, biting his lower lip hard.
“
The detection
sites were mainly created and functioned to discover and track any
high speed objects for military detection systems and unidentified
flying objects of any kind, and from all the accumulated sources
known only Russian intelligence agencies investigated it further
because of its tremendous velocity and the fact that the location
of its descent was accurately traced into this place and region of
the Antarctic!
”

“
My god!
”
Weaver gasped, realizing the
mistake he had made and what the outcome of what was occurring
could be!

“
Yes! The location was traced to this
top secret American military ice station base, where they
investigated!
”

“
It must have been
incredible!
”
Weaver answered firmly.
“
The impact must have been tremendous! Did
that telescope here with its new technology have anything to do
with it?
”

“
The scientists here, and in the
underground telescope chamber, did not even know of its arrival! If
it had been far slower they might have recorded it as an asteroid
of immense proportions! It was only recorded as an immense
explosion or earthquake of unknown origins, which had lasted
seconds, and which had occurred during the night!
”

Weaver was amazed that it actually landed
nearby, and he believed it had to be the telescope that had been
responsible, and he had detected that they had been up to something
with it when he had discovered it in the secret chamber below.

“
The magnitude recorded by their
equipment had shown them the tremendous power it
had!
”

“
Tremendous power!
”
Weaver panted, and
considered what weight it could have and at what distance away it
was.

“
Russian scientists used examinations
of satellite images to examine and trace the exact location where
it had landed, and where it had entered the ice!
”

“
Like a crazy shooting star exploding
out of the polar night sky!
”
Weaver continued.
“
At a velocity and force unheard
of!
”

“
After a great deal of observations,
research, and discussions by the leading scientists they agreed
that the thing that they had found had to have artificial origins
mainly by its appearance and its tremendous power! It also has to
have vast technology, which may give its origins! They had to
investigate it as far as they could! Even with this highly
confidential American base being here!
”

Weaver could not get what it could be or the
outcome of such a scenario, and thanked the scientist for warning
him of it!

“
Space may be full of
them?
”
the
scientist continued, giving his opinion.
“
We have to investigate! The future
of this world could be at stake?
”

“
So there could be more searching for
where it came from? Do you think it was damaged
landing?
”

“
We have to get anything that we can
on it! We have to get as much details of it and its origins no
matter what!
”

“
The technology could very well make
it worthwhile!
”
Weaver sighed, thinking of how much it could be
worth.

“
Have they been able to make contact
with it?
”
Weaver asked.

“
As far as I know they have
not!
”

“
Have they entered it
yet?
”

“
As far as I know they have not! What
it is made of is either indestructible or virtually indestructible!
They have been trying everything that they have to get into to
it!
”

“
Incredible!
”
He replied.
“
I never thought I would live
to see one! Never mind confront one! What information have you on
it?
”

“
There is little so far! It has a
vague flying saucer shape and is about quarter of a mile across all
around it, and about hundred and something feet high! They have
uncovered most of it, except a region still under the ice! They
have used everything available to check for places to enter
it!
”

“
Is there positive proof that nothing
emerged from it before they arrived?
”