The Stargate Black Hole (19 page)

The sun was already rising towards them from
the other side of the world, and it looked animated with its swift
acceleration.

A gust of wind blew up snow dust along the
edge of the roof, and he watched the others checking the roof.

Some even stamped on the surface to check its
safety, and show what their thoughts were about it, and others used
their equipment to recheck it more properly, and the rest who were
keen scientists and archeologists ignored it, and eagerly explored
their new find.

Kruger joined in, and brushed away the
crusted snow to reveal thick stone slabs below him, and he watched
the two paranormal scientists helping brush away the crusted snow
to reveal an extra large slab over the center of the roof.

Hinges made of some unknown material held it
in place on every side, and there was no indication as how to open
it, and they stood examining all its edges for a noticeable way
in.

“
Would you just open the
entrance?
”
Major Ripley finally ordered one of the other members of the
military.

All of them stepped away, and he lift up his
weapon into the air, and a beam fired out from it at a hinge and at
the rest of them, and flashes of bright light came from them and
the stone crashed into the structure, throwing up a cloud of dust
into the air.

Kruger observed the peculiar shape of the
structure and noticed there were signs that someone a long time ago
had done the same as they had and used a weapon to remove the
entrance before, and that it had been repaired.

“
What shall we do if this structure is
inhabited?
”
Major Ripley asked the two scientists, who had resumed
command of the mission because of their experience, and they were
there because of them and their detection of the energy source
there.

“
Even
though this structure does not look as if
it has been lived in for a long time,
”
Mitchel replied,
“
the source that we are
investigating is active within it! So we better be prepared for an
encounter with something, as I do not think it could be created by
something that is not living or without intelligence
...
”

Kruger gasped, as he knew he did not play
around with such things, and that if they suggested something was
there, that there more than likely be far more.

Layers of dirt hung in the air as Kruger
followed the two scientists down into it, who were following Major
Ripley, who marched in first with his weapon ready.

Kruger considered what could possibly be
there and if he was going to get another surprise, and thought
about the scientific viewpoint of what they were claiming while he
observed its dark interior engulfing them.

Why were they so enthusiastic to discover
what was there anyway? They had avoided all questioning on it, and
showed more interested in it than anything else! Like it was the
ultimate treasure, and their form of treasure, which was buried
away there.

Even the insects there were unseen before,
and had characteristics that they had not seen anywhere. A yellow
piece of flying slime hung in the air, and had the characteristics
of flying, hanging in the air, and moving with notable form of
flying and moving that they had found, even after many
examinations, and must have a secret means of doing it that they
had never encountered, and it vastly interested a great deal of the
scientists, as if they could not pinpoint it and find a way of
reproducing it, it would be worth a great deal back home.

Yet it could be something that existed in
this universe that they were in that allowed it to exist, and it
may not be possible for them to bring it back to use if they
returned to their universe.

The inside of the structure was
incredible and looked like they were encountering something from
Earth
’
s
early past, and an ancient castle that resembled a haunted castle,
which was long gone from civilization and not even believed to have
existed by the majority of people.

The wind occasionally howled around through
the corridor in front of them, as air was caught by gusts of
wind.

He was not sure if it was an
alien
’
s
form of a castle or what it was for, as its location was strange,
and he could not even imagine what was behind it
anymore.

For a moment he felt a strange feeling that
something had detected them from over at the towers, and was amazed
that the two paranormal scientist reacted simultaneously with him,
and he saw the others had even detected something, including Major
Ripley, who went on the defense and seemed confused about what it
had been, and held his weapon ready for an encounter.

Chapter 19

The Interior

Kruger jerked backwards, as a loud thud came
through the floor, from the lower world, from a massive meteorite
impact, which sounded close, and again wondered why the inhabitants
of the world had never reacted when it had happened, and he
realized that they would have adapted genetically and learned to
ignore it.

They walked into its darkness almost in a
straight line, with all of them on their own with lights, observing
everything of interest.

Some had remained above to guard the vehicles
and keep watch there, and keep in touch with the GX1 and other
vehicles positioned in their hundreds across the world, exploring
everything of interest and possible interest.

The voyage would be an incredible success if
they managed to return, and many scientists aboard the GX1 were
working on the problem of getting them back, with a great deal of
breakthroughs, especially from the information the paranormal
scientists had given them, and the equipment that they had used to
enter the new universe.

Kruger watched the dust in their lights fly
about, and he followed them down a stone ramp going into it, and
further in the dampness of the stone walls gave a stale scent
through the air.

Kruger turned up his light, as the others
did, to give them enough brightness to see in front of them
correctly, and he continued walking deeper into the stone corridor,
searching the floor for any damage to it and for any holes that
they could fall through, and go crashing down below.

The tunnel was full of piles of dust and rock
crumbs all along its sides from the crumbling walls, and dry dust
covered the center of the floor, and they marched along leaving
firm footprints on it, and he started to wonder how they could even
consider the owners of such a structure as an advanced
intelligence.

Weird insects darted about and into cracks in
stones when they saw them for the first time, and they passed
them.

The top of the structure disappeared away
behind them as they went down the long corridors, and more water
and mud covered parts of the floor as they turned around a bend and
went down into lower levels.

Most of the dampness finally started
clearing, but the passages grew narrow and the air grew stale, and
they stepped through thicker layers of dirt that occasionally blew
up in clouds of dust over them, and they coughed it out when it
entered deep into their lungs and noses.

Major Ripley came to a gap in a wall, and he
shined his light over it showing them it, and he illuminated a dull
and empty room, packed with scattered with dirt, dust, and rot.

As they explored the corridor further along,
after finding nothing else in the room, they found something made
of metal embedded within layers of mud in the wall of the corridor,
and Major Ripley gripped a metal bar attached to it and gave it a
sharp pull, but it remained jammed or locked, so he yanked it hard,
and a metal sheet came loose out of the wall, where it had been
stuck on with two rotted hinges, and he lifted it up and over, and
placed it against the side of the corridor.

Starlight from a giant single star
brightly beamed through a window hole into the dark confined space,
and
when
they had finished their examination they left the empty
room.

The next obstacle that they came to was a
pile of stones that had collapsed inwards from the top of the
corridor and blocked it, which seemed to confuse them as they had
not accepted that there was not a way in. Yet once they were up
close, for a close look, they found that it had a gap through, and
they squeezed through, and went around a bend and came to a solid
metal door, in front of the corridor, which was firmly shut, and
looked as though it would end their journey.

But Major Ripley was too determined to stop
and made them back away from it and stood and fired his weapon beam
at it, temporary blinding them with its intense light in the dark
corridor, and its hinges shone brightly and molten metal glowed and
poured away, and he pushed the door away.

Once through the entrance Kruger watched its
cloud of smoke moving up to the top of a large hall, and pass a
high balcony at the middle of hall.

On their examination of it they saw a type of
staircase going around the hall, winding up from the bottom to the
top of the hall.

Kruger examined everything and listened to
the others give their opinions with interest, and realized that
they were missing out one point and the hall was virtually an
ancient human construction, but never said a thing as there had
been many discoveries of alien constructions that were similar to
human constructions, including the remains of the civilization that
they had found on the journey there. The constructions were the
best that they could produce and it was very likely if any life
form tried to create the best construction available that they
would come up with a similar or more advanced construction.

There were animal remains scattered
throughout the dirt beneath their feet all over the floor, and he
listened for any signs of them in his surroundings.

One of the military men helped one of the
scientists out by using his weapon to remove a large slab similar
to the stone slab that had been on the roof, and he blasted away
the hinges and the stone slab flew away down the immense cliff of
the pinnacle and smashed to pieces below.

Kruger remembered the way that the part of
the structure that they were on stuck out over the side of the
cliff and moved to an area over the pinnacle, where there was a
massive rolled up rope, which the occupants had used to do
down.

The brightness of all the turned up lights
showed the hall properly, and further along they saw lines of stone
structures, which resembled seats with a walkway going down the
middle, with a block of stone at the front, where some form of
spiritual ritual had been practiced, which interested the
paranormal scientists greatly, and they examined everything while
consulting with each other silently, while everyone listened.

They found nothing else so they climbed the
large stone steps to the balcony above, and crept along the narrow
balcony checking its safety as they went along, with their lights
mainly on the edge of it, and slowly made their way up the
stairs.

At the top, they entered an area that had two
passageways, and they followed the two paranormal scientists along
one of them, and Major Ripley took them up the spiral stairs of one
of the towers, as the two paranormal scientists discussed whether
they should check the other tower at the end of the other
passageway, and decided to leave it.

Kruger followed them up, and they suddenly
stopped, startled by something, and he felt a vibration through the
stone of the tower, and as he moved close to it heard something
whirling around, somewhere above.

Chapter 20

The Wizard

A colossal energy shape floated in an energy
bubble, rotating gradually, suspended over the floor of the room at
the top of the tower, as the energy bubble vibrated the tower with
its power.

Kruger stood in line with the two paranormal
scientists and Major Ripley, all standing staring, examining it, as
the others remained on the stairs examining it at a distance.

Could it be possible? Its shape looked like a
being, and human, for a few seconds!

Kruger studied its energy formation and saw
large shapes and colors form within it, and its shape and formation
altered, and glowed with white light. It was over eight feet high,
and flashes of some form of skeleton flashed visible within it.

A repeated whisper came from it, and he
studied where he believed its mouth would be, and never saw
anything and wondered what it was, and saw its eyes appear as red
glowing lights and vanish.

Kruger, Major
Ripley, and the others on the stairs stayed silent, waiting for
anything to explain what the hell they were standing in front of,
while the two paranormal scientists conferred silently in single
words that never explained anything, not saying anything of its
identity, until Major Ripley finally asked them to explain what the
hell it was.

“
We’re
not fully sure yet?” Bryan explained, slightly shrugging his
shoulders, stalling for time.

“
But this
is the energy source that we followed here?”

“
Yes! It
is that!”

“
Is it
dangerous ...?”

“
Not in
this state!”

“
Why?
What state is it in?”

Major Ripley
tried to identify the altering energy formations and shapes of it,
and shrugged his shoulders back.