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Authors: V Bertolaccini

Tags: #horror tales, #horror short stories, #science fiction short stories, #ancient lost artifacts, #classic bestsellers, #science fiction classics, #ultimate technology, #classic sf horror, #fantastic voyagers, #ultimate sf


He was
paid for helping them and that was that, but he was so curious and
hungry for more action and wealth that he started having people
search for information about the cellar to see if he had missed
anything and he discovered that there had been another cellar,
below the cellar, which had been covered over when the building had
been altered, and one night he started looking for the opening and
soon found it and started digging the entrance up and eventually
had to smash his way through it, and replaced it afterwards, and he
searched everywhere in the cellar and found the safe there and
finally drilled his way into it, where he found Hess’s treasure
map.


It was
found out that the Germans had first heard rumors of the treasure
from soldiers from the war, and of it belonging to Rudolf Hess.
Some others heard of the map and had flown over to search for the
treasure without it! The map was actually officially recorded as
being taken from Hess by the army, and that it had not been
recognized by them, and it was kept with other stuff that they had
taken from him. The map was only recognized as being of value by
people who questioned Hess but they had been unable to decipher
anything and it had been kept in the safe, and it had been left in
the cellar when it was buried away below Downing Street.


The
Prime Minister David Cameron vanished and nobody anywhere had seen
him leave in the night, and it was believed that the Germans had
kidnapped him, and they were looking everywhere for him, but it was
kept a secret, and they even used a bank robbery to find him and
gave the police and media a photo of someone with identical looks
to find him, and had the police search everywhere for him, and
other agencies all joined in.


The
story of the unidentified flying object crashing at where Hess
landed emerged and they actually realized where Hess landed could
be connected with the map, and they found out about the soldier,
which was you, who was there, that looked like him, who was
described as having lost his memory.”


So the
army were watching me because they thought I had something to do
with it?” Cameron replied.


Yes!”
she replied, smiling. “And they found out you were his twin
brother! They have a lot of information missing on what happened
and how you lost your memory. They sent you to the London
psychiatrist, to get information, who has been trying to cure your
memory problem. They are still trying to find out what happened
there, how you managed to get the map, and get in the army well
before the Prime Minister and then the army arrived at that
site!”


What
were the bug creatures that attacked my house though?”


We do
not know! They were witnessed by all your neighbors! They could be
connected with the alien crash they believe occurred, which NASA
and the US military are investigating! The army was put there to
look for any aliens that might have survived the crash, and they
originally used the story of there being a dangerous lion there to
search for it!


They
now believe the message the IEs, Interdimensional
Extraterrestrials, picked up and located this point in the
universe, came from Britain and not as thought from the
US!”


Which
was why it arrived over this country, and perhaps accurately over
where the signal came from!” Cameron replied.


It was
sent by a group of scientists carrying out experiments at a place
near Edinburgh with a new form of technology!”


Was it
a confidential experiment project?”


All the
information about it is on the internet!”


How do
you know so much about the alien – if it existed?”


I was
given the information and heard some from other scientific
sources.”


What
did it intend to do?”


On its
arrival here it sent out a message, all over the world, which was
only fully deciphered a long time after its arrival.”


What
did it say?”


I
haven’t heard anything of it except that it was a reply first
contact message!”


Now
besides a lot of unanswered questions we now have the unsolved
question of the atomic bomb under Downing Street!”


Exactly! I have not officially reported it yet, as anything,
as it has not been proven to be anything. I’ve been given
specialist equipment to check it out! If you’ll help
me!”

 

 

 

 

III

 

The Black Sphere

 

Cameron hit the ground a lot faster and
harder than he intended and he almost collapsed! His mind was
elsewhere and on the treasure map, and he was gasping at the
discovery he had made!

He watched Dory watching him from the above
cellar and realized at how concerned she was, and of if the black
object near him was an atomic bomb, and he wondered what the hell
she was talking about and why he had even suggested it was, and
realized that she might not even come down, as she seemed terrified
by it, and he wondered why someone would put an atomic bomb beneath
Downing Street, and wondered what the hell the thing was anyway and
looked over at its mysterious black shape.

His mind soon went back on the treasure map
and what he had accidentally realized and that when heated there
was writing on it, as after he had been examining it near the safe
Dory accidentally put one of her cigarettes on it and writing
started showing up on it and he had been able to read all the
writing on it by heating it with her lighter, and though German it
translated as mentioning the treasure was expensive jewel sets with
historical value.

He was sure Hess had intended to give the
jewels to someone in exchange for favors, and he knew that Hess
intended to visit the Duke of Hamilton, and he wondered if it had
been for Britain to surrender in the war with Germany, and if so it
could have been of great value!

His mind went straight on the metal box they
had found down the well and he recalled the pieces of glass that
they had found inside it. Surely if all the metal around the jewels
had corroded and the jewels had been in mud long enough they might
have turned out looking like glass.

Why had glass been in it? Why was there a
metal box there? He had proven that the metal box could have been
of German origins and from that era.

It was amazing that they never actually
properly checked them in the light of day and it was thrown
away!

He pulled himself upright with the
help of the rope and released the rope

s tightened grip around his body,
and he shivered at the coldness and from his thoughts.

He
cleaned dust away from his clothes and
casually gave looks around him for anything he might have missed
and in the debris, and wondered what the outcome of it would be,
and he realized that Dory was now staring down intensely from
above, and he had the feeling she would avoid coming down, and
wondered how ridicules it was as if it was an atomic bomb she would
end up disintegrated and up in the clouds with him, and he wondered
if she thought of it as a normal bomb, like one of the bombs that
had landed on London during the war, and if it exploded he would be
the only one to get it in the chamber, and he waved directly at her
and she waved back and smiled.

There was only one object there and the
black sphere and an attachment surrounding it, and he was surprised
at the actual size of thing and the expense it might have cost, and
wondered why he had not noticed, and he walked around it examining
it, considering what it could be and what they would have used it
for.

Its black material still staggered him with
its extraordinary energy pulsating through it, with its pure
magnitude, more than anything he had encountered before, and he
wondered what the hell it was doing, and who it had to belong to,
and he wondered if they had discovered it like the alien object
that had crashed in the wood, and it belonged to the government and
military, and he shined his torch over it and studied bits of it in
detail about it, and slowly examined its perfectly symmetrical
black sphere central region for anything.

He analyzed a
region with markings and was sure that it activated it in someway
and he touched it and it activated it and he wondered why!

The whole
sphere opened up and he stood staring at its inside in wonder,
wondering what the hell it was! The whole thing and interior was
like some fantastic deep sea craft that was so advanced he could
not recognize anything. Most of it was black and there were
flickering illuminations given off things he could not see, and for
some reason he climbed into a type of seat at its center and sat
examining what could be controls of some sort and something
monitoring its function.

It surely was
not a bomb and he considered its function as a flying or space
vehicle but could not recognize anything.

He rested
motionlessly, staggered at it, sensing something was going to
happen, and considered getting out and he heard Dory and its
opening shut, enclosing him away from the outside world, and he
prepared himself for what could happen!

Echoes of her
voice and their last conversations haunted his mind. What the hell
had he done? Why had he done it? Surely he could have avoided
it!

The thing
seemed to turn hyperactive about him and power blasted through it
and he prepared himself for something, but he never knew why, and
he tried to check its basic function, which he tried over and over
to gain proper awareness of. Why was it there and why was it
sitting there waiting for someone to get into it and do
something?

It had to be a
control seat he was in, but where were the controls to alter and
deactivate it?

He tried
resting and ignoring it and felt sleepy, and casually wondered if
he could be trapped there.

When it
activated for real he barely noticed anything. His mind was
wandering through all the occurrences that had led up to its
discovery, and him digging up the floor above, and him finally
entering the mysterious chamber.

Energy
explosions blasted out across everywhere with so much force that it
made his hair stand up and it even seemed to threaten to make space
and time unbalanced or destroy it, and he wondered what damage
Downing Street above would be subjected to!

An explosion of blinding radiance left him
stunned and he firmly shut his eyes but still saw it and he sat
back calculating what problems he could face! From its intensity
and colossal powers he sat firmly gripping the seat, keeping
himself firmly against it, contemplating the dangers and his
chances of survival.

It was unbelievable and he wondered why he
had even contemplated there not being real danger at one point, and
it was his thought of it being an atomic bomb.

He seemed to see glimpses through the
object

s
shell and saw that it was a perfect black sphere, clearly of highly
advanced origins, for whatever it had been designed for, and that
the sections that were at the side of the sphere had clearly been
left behind somewhere, and he wondered where he was and if the
building had entirely vanished.

An immense whirlpool of shifting lines of
energy formed and shifted strangely about its exterior and he
studied it for a long time, and realized for a moment he never had
any body or proper presence, and was something else, and some form
of force formation! It was swirling through an outer vortex that
replaced his reality with a mind-bending display of something that
he could not recognize!

The strange thing was he felt something else
was there with him! Something else about him! Something controlling
it and what it did! Though it was part of its existence seemed to
be somewhere else!

He frequently watched the sphere become
entirely invisible and as though he was floating through something,
with him invisible, and outside of energy formations, and he
occasionally heard the sphere functioning and perhaps doing what it
was supposed to.

He realized things that could exist and that
it could be controlled by telepathic transmissions and he wondered
if it could create visions powerful enough to trick his mind, and
he wondered why Dory wanted him to visit it so much!

Silent roars of colossal power blasted out
in the back of his thoughts and reality was a blur of swirling
lights.

Sickening lurches of the sphere shuddered
through him as it located itself at different points in time,
making vast leaps right across time, as it vanished and emerged in
vast strange and mind-bending regions, emerging about him as though
he were floating through places in the past as a ghost, as it
checked and searched.

With an accuracy and capacity inconceivable
it explored time, and he sensed what it was searching for!

Then startling views of normal space and
time appeared everywhere, as the sphere completed its mission, and
he lost consciousness as everything appeared and he emerged at a
location in the past.

 

Chapter 4

 

The Final
Solution

(From the novel
The Alien Artifact 6)

 

The voyager was
tremendous and they had surrounded it with all their equipment,
even embedded through the ice below, as they attempted to study it
as far as they could. Its powers were immense and it was found to
have many other powers existing beyond the universe, in outer
dimensions and time zones.

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