The Deadliest Alien Artifacts (Story Collection) (6 page)

A Russian
scientist announced to Willis and Weaver, “We have the technology
to communicate with it!”

“
I will
still have to create a first contact situation mentally with it!”
Willis answered firmly. “It is not going to easy!”

“
So
what’s happening?” Weaver asked, anxiously waiting for a reply to
what was occurring, after days of watching them at work, and Willis
preparing himself.

“
I’ll
tell you what I know!” Willis stated, wishing Weaver to know what
was happening. “It was damaged and the controller/entity crashed it
into this world and next to the ice station, mainly due to the
transmissions from the equipment and telescope that they have below
the station that has been repeatedly transmitting first contact
messages throughout the stars for many years! I believe it intended
to repair itself or have us do it for it! Even in its dormant state
it attempted to revive its voyager! Its energy was also exhausted,
and it crashed deliberately, where it believed if it was not helped
either that it would be revived someday if it remained on a world
like this! They would find a way to revive it or
something!

“
It
chose me and in its dormant state had shown me what had happened to
it, but it had been unsuccessful in what it had intended to
do.

“
It
chose to allow one of the Russians to make another contact attempt
to check if it had missed something in its dormant state and it was
unsuccessful again, and it had rewarded him with what he had wanted
and an ultimate weapon that could win world wars.

“
It
could not use him or me in the state we are in! It could not alter
us without killing us! It is far too weak to think properly and
control the voyager and needs an altered human that will be able to
do what it wants, and I believe that it has enough energy to get to
a powerful energy source to revive its energy supplies and its own
energy and repair itself.”

“
Did you
get that from it?”

“
I got
most of it through communications and from experiences with it! I
am ready and I am going to persuade it to take me aboard
again!”

Willis rested
and concentrated on thoughts that he had accumulated and moved near
the voyager, and where the entrance was located, and they all
watched the entrance hole appear and they fitted a ramp under it
and he climbed up into it.

Weaver gasped
and felt something from somewhere like something incredible was
about to take place.

“
I
believe that what’s active now is the equivalent to our
subconscious mind!” a scientist announced from Weaver’s side,
sitting at some equipment monitoring what was happening. “While it
is in a type of sleep or suspended animation, which carries out
various functions for it.”

Weaver was
left confused in what Willis intended to do and started to see the
problem in more depth, and it might not work.

“
I am
picking up communication thoughts from it!” the scientist
announced. “I believe that he is persuading it to make a copy of
him for some reason! No! He wants it to make an altered version of
him that can carry out what it wants! It has accepted it and is
creating the copy!”

Weaver watched
all the scientists stop work all around the voyager, waiting for
something to happen!

II

Colossal
explosions of energy blasted out with so much force that they
threatened to start doing damage to the physical universe, and he
imagined space and time becoming unbalanced and warped, and he
wondered what damage the world could be subjected to!

Echoes of
conversations haunted his mind as he considered why they had not
moved away when they had activated it!

The vast powers surrounding them were
staggering and Weaver wondered why he had not considered the entity
as being dangerous and he felt sorry for Willis and wondered if he
could escape alive, and he contemplated the dangers and his chances
of survival!

The voyager had formed a perfect energy form
of itself, clearly of transcendent origins, and pulsated in the
center of the cavity, as all the scientists sheltered around the
rim of the cavity, and he wondered why nobody attempted to try to
make it to the doorway into the Russian base, and looked there and
saw people near there were rushing there.

An immense whirlpool of energy lines
magically began shifting around it like the rings around Saturn,
and he studied it for a long time and realized that it had no
proper presence there any longer and was some form of force
formation, while the rest remained in other dimensions! There were
signs of the vortex reshaping by its energy patterns!

The voyager frequently turned visible in a
translucent energy state, and he heard it functioning, and he had
sensations and visualizations of the depths of the universe.

Everything around him seemed to alter into a
mind-bending dream of altering displacements as the voyager
completed its mission, and he felt dizzy as everything transformed
and the voyager vanished, leaving emptiness and a massive empty
cavity.

For a moment
he had a weird sensation about something happening, and he saw
Willis walking calmly up towards them, along the cavity edge.

He watched
some scientists nearby calibrating their equipment and anxiously
checking what their equipment had recorded!

All the scientists there seemed to realize
that it had worked and that it had achieved its mission!

“
What
happened?” he immediately asked Willis as he arrived at where they
were. “Did it fully work?”

Willis smiled
brightly, and replied, “Yes! It has returned to where it came
from!”

“
Wherever that is?” Weaver gasped, and felt deep
excitement!

He realized he had survived it, and the most
dangerous mission he had undertaken so far, and at the bottom of
his pocket he felt the two parts of the alien sphere, where the
microfilm had been, and he wondered if they noticed! The material
was the material the voyager had been made of and the
indestructible material, and he considered what value it would have
if they recreated it!

Chapter 5

The Particle Accelerator
Gateway

(From the novel
The Alien Artifact 6)

Weaver had hunted through complex computer
data on the origins of the voyager for what must have been hours
until they had detected his presence, and he was sure they had only
allowed him to live to explain how he had got there!

To his surprise he had been put in a cell at
the moonbase with Lucas, and he realized that he had completed the
mission of locating Lucas on the moon!

Lucas looked ragged and had been trapped in
the cell on his own for a long time! Grunts and sounds Lucas gave
took strange tones about the strange underground low gravity cell,
and Weaver could scarcely believe that he was the leading
scientist!

Weaver had to strain his eyes to see him in
the dimness, while he considered what he had, and he decided to try
to solve his accumulated queries and he started by giving him
information on himself, and he finally asked what he had on the
voyager!

“
Its origins are not an alien
source!
”
Lucas announced, biting his lower lip hard.

Weaver wondered if he was giving facts
or theorizing, and swiftly replied,
“
How did you find
out?
”

“
They questioned me and I gave them my
identity! They checked up on me! They trust me now and reveal
confidential information! But they are not letting me go as I know
too much!
”

He clearly was not positive if they would
allow him to survive, and they were clearly waiting for something
to happen!

“
From what origins is the
voyager?
”
he asked firmly.

“
Its origins are
you!
”

Weaver gasped and immediately laughed out
loud, seeing he was being comical!

“
Truly!
”

“
It originates from
you!
”

Weaver thought he had either gone mad or he
had after being hit on the head.

“
The material that object you call a
voyager is in fact the material that you discovered at Ice Station
X1. You gave them the alien sphere of the indestructible material,
which the alien voyager there was made of, which had a microfilm
in, and they managed to find out how to make it!
”

Weaver gasped and recalled the alien sphere,
and him handing it over to his military intelligence agency, and
that it had been the only object that they had left from the alien
voyager!

“
They discovered how to make it then!
But how did they manage to build a replica of the
voyager?
”

“
They never! They used it for
something else!
”

Weaver could not understand, and recalled
wondering if they could in fact use it and of what use it would
be!

“
That object you call a voyager was an
earlier experimental version!
”

“
Of what?
”

“
You have been in Moonbase X1 and
Moonbase X2?
”

“
Yes! They told you!
”

“
Well, this is Moonbase
X3!
”

Weaver realized that they had actually built
three, and wondered what the hell they were playing at!

“
What was it built
for?
”
he
moaned.

“
All three were originally built for
research, for scientists and laboratories, many years ago! Each was
to research the moon and things in low gravity in different ways.
Moonbase X1 has the lowest confidential clearance, and X2 the next,
and Moonbase X3 is the most classified! Only the most secretive
experiments and technologies are used here! Usually for the
military! Most of its research is to this day still highly
classified!
”

Lucas rested against a wall and put his feet
up on a chair in front of him.

“
They were given the particle
accelerator projects years back, and they have been brought back to
life with all the discoveries that they have been
producing!
”

“
What has that voyager object to do
with particle accelerators?
”

“
The first created a time warp, which
they managed to trap in a magnetic field, in a spherical chamber.
The second moonbase created forms of black holes, and built up a
form of black hole in a magnetic field, in a spherical chamber. But
they were unable to make the time warp or black hole do anything
for them!
”

“
Correct!
”

“
Well, they have been carrying out
experiments here with that voyager shaped object, with its
indestructible material, and have been detonating their most
advanced and classified mass destruction explosions in its sealed
interior! To test and discover the outcome! Their past experiments
of confining such explosions have not been altogether successful
until now, and they have been blasting holes out of space and time
with it!
”

“
What did they find?
”

“
Their research was incredible! But it
was useless because when they used the process of opening the
object the gateways kept closing! But they managed to get the
information that they wanted!
”

“
Which was?
”

“
They used it to create a smaller
spherical chamber, made from the indestructible material, and they
entered the time warp they created, trapped in its magnetic field
spherical chamber, and the black hole, trapped in its magnetic
field spherical chamber, and their best bomb, and they sealed it
shut, and they have blasted one of their explosions inside
it!
”

“
What the hell would that
do?
”
Weaver
gasped, wondering if they could blow the whole moon up.

“
I am not entirely sure as they have
just completed it! But they definitely have something! They are all
at work there now, monitoring everything, and checking
what
’
s
inside!
”

“
What do
you
think they have?
”

“
We
’
ll soon know as they are about to open the
sphere!
”

II

Particle Accelerator
X3

The guards allowed Weaver to enter the
colossal Particle Accelerator X3 chamber on his own, and again he
wondered why the scientists wanted them to bring him there, and he
staggered in with his mouth wide open.

The black sphere was colossal and rested
behind the central region, where it had been built, and was
surrounded by so much equipment he could not recognize
anything!

The black sphere was clearly the advanced
spherical chamber, made out of the indestructible material, and he
was positive that they had not opened it yet, and gasped as he saw
all the thousands of scientists, in laboratories going around the
edge of the cavity, all monitoring and working with equipment,
clearly gagging over it, and the opening of it, and he sensed it
would be soon and that he was brought there to watch it being
opened, for some reason he could not comprehend!