The Stargate Black Hole (6 page)

A solider started questioning Weaver about
where he had been, when Weaver had been down investigating the
lower moonbase, and he just laughed and ignored it.

Reeves leaned over the table, with his face
bright red, and told him that they were to go out and investigate
outside the moonbase, which was dangerous, and he did not know what
he wanted to do!

Could they handle the gunmen out there? Yet
they had to do their job, and they had space vehicles and proper
air supplies, and he was sure that they might be able to trace the
gunmen’s footsteps to where they came from!

Chapter 8

Moonbase X2

Terrific explosions from missiles shattered
all three space vehicles into wreckage in seconds and sent Weaver
flying across the floor of a space vehicle!

The whole vehicle was instantly thrown into
complete darkness and through a window Weaver saw moondust and
rocks, and he heard air being sucked out the vehicle and he
realized that his spacesuit helmet was not on and he fitted it on
at the same time as the other soldiers. Everyone had survived but
the impact had destroyed the vehicle and they were unable to move
away from their position on the lunar landscape, and he was sure
that people had been hurt in at least one of the vehicles, and he
heard through his helmet communicator one of them was on the brink
of death!

Suddenly he felt a missile being launched
nearby and hitting a distant location.

The openness and predictability of the attack
was staggering to him and that they were powerful with such weapons
there surely connected them to some powerful military group.

The shattering thud had surely bruised his
body somewhere!

Whoever fired the missile and smashed the
vehicle would surely be ready for them and would give another
attack and they had to get outside and get into cover before they
were killed!

They quickly agreed what to do and rushed out
the door to a position where the others were gathering, behind a
hill of large boulders nearby.

Once there he immediately followed their eyes
through their spacesuits to a distant position behind two small
hills where there was part of a vehicle visible.

Who the hell could be there? None of them
could get onto the moon without having a major country behind them!
Unless they were part of some secret group at the moonbase! Yet
what the hell were they doing? Did they intend to kill them all?
Yet they had not been able solve what their identity was when they
had first attacked them when they had arrived there!

Whoever was there had to be crazy beyond
anyone he had met or crazy to do something no matter what the
outcome was?

He was sure of it! Someone was determined to
stop them doing something no matter what!

Yet their mission was to have a look around
outside and to trace where their footsteps led to from where they
had attacked them, and he realized someone did have something
there! He could also recall one of the scientists telling him that
the scientist called Lucas had been there when he had vanished!

What a stupid place for a battle or war! They
could barely move properly and made numerous mistakes!

He was confused at who could do it and he
kept going through his mind, over and over, as if he was missing
some vital clue! It never even looked like the moon at that
position and looked like a large asteroid in orbit, with the sun
blasting out at their side.

Someone had just destroyed expensive American
space vehicles at a confidential hidden American military
moonbase!

The lifeless sky showed him what the stars
were really like and how insignificant the suns and worlds were
They were nothing in the depths of space and the strange darkness
was peculiar and so empty that he was sure that matter was the
peculiarity and that nothingness was what should only exist, and he
imagined himself at the outer edge of the universe viewing the suns
and what really existed in the depths of space!

A battle soon broke out between the two
groups and they blasted missiles towards each other, and he started
to see the advantages that they had over them, as they insisted in
staying in their vehicles and he was sure that they had blind
spots!

He stared out into a strange dark region of
the landscape at the lifelessness and saw the light from the planet
Earth going across it like moonlight on the Earth, and was amazed
that it was actually there, as though there as a reminder that he
should be there instead of being on the moon!

He felt objects about him and how weightless
they felt and like light Earth rock, and he examined a dead soldier
nearby at an overturned vehicle! Then he started feeling his body
at the places where he had hit things! The spacesuit had not been
damaged, and there were repair kits aboard the space vehicles,
anyway!

It was strange they had the whole moon to
themselves, and they were the only ones outside on the surface and
he started to like its peculiarities!

He imagined thousands of years passing by and
the Earth shifting through time and people starting to colonize the
moon and massive structures being created, and he wondered what
reasons they would stay there for.

Was it one vast leap for mankind into space
or for technology?

Suddenly he saw the amount of air left in his
spacesuit and gasped, and realized that they had put their foot in
it again and that they would have to take drastic action!

He heard one of the soldiers mention through
his communicator of them contacting the moonbase and he realized
that far more soldiers and vehicles were on their way! Yet he was
sure that their enemy would escape at some point and he desperately
wanted to get something on their identities or where they were
staying!

After a swift conversation with Commander
Cavern they made an agreement for Weaver to go over and check out
the enemy without being seen, on his own, and he used a route that
was over to the side that was covered over by small hills, and he
shifted there fast, and far faster than he thought he could move
there.

He spotted one of the vehicles almost
identical to theirs and wondered why it so closely resembled it.
Was it people at the moonbase?

He realized the advantages of them having the
same vehicles as he knew their technology and capabilities and he
knew where to sneak up on it without being seen!

He could have brought a missile and destroyed
it and was surprised that they had not even some proper defense!
And he kept looking everywhere for anything.

They could have at least put some hidden
vehicle hidden in the background that was capable of seeing
anything and destroying it!

Yet they had technology to detect vehicles
and things everywhere! And he considered the dangers of modern
warfare!

Surely they would need it at the moonbase,
and he recalled trying to something, as they might have had
recordings of the gunmen attacking them when they had landed on the
moon, and he could have used it to trace them to where they
went.

If there was anything there he was not being
allowed to know about it, and he considered having someone force
them to give them the vital information!

Once next to the vehicle he knew they could
not kill him with its missiles and would have to climb out with
guns!

Yet though he was there he could not do
anything, and did not want to do anything anyway, as he wanted to
follow them to where they went! Yet the problem was that he only
had so much air and he would have to return if they stayed there
too long!

A high-powered rifle blast on a nearby rock
astonished him by making no sound, and being so close, and being
from his group of soldiers, and he examined the impact on a rock in
front of him, and realized how dangerous it was, as it smashed it
to pieces, and he saw someone over at his vehicle with a rifle. The
surprise was that it made no noise and had so much velocity and
impact at that distance, and he wondered how far it could actually
travel.

Suddenly he saw the vehicle leaving, and
realized that it only had one missile left, and he rushed up behind
it without them being able to see him and climbed onto the back and
fixed himself in place there, and knew that they would keep the
last missile in case they needed to use it against a direct
attack.

It surprised him at how calm they seemed and
how they reacted like they thought they could not really do
anything against them! They attacked American military space
vehicles, and a major military group, on the moon, and hardly
showed any significant reactions to being in great danger! If they
had been fully aware surely they would have not missed destroying
them all at the start, and left immediately if they failed their
mission.

They could have done the job far more
effectively there at a close range, at a place where there were no
hills, where they could not have left from, and could have had
people with guns outside!

What next surprised him was that they were
moving in the direction of Moonbase X1, but at a strange angle, and
he watched on confused. Surely they could not be from there, as
they would surely be caught eventually!

At a large hill near the moonbase he watched
it stop and was amazed when an area of a cliff region shifted and
an entrance opened and the vehicle swiftly moved in, and he
realized how little air he had left and gasped at the dangers of
going into it, but he decided to go in as he might not have enough
air to make it to the moonbase.

Once inside they went into a chamber where
air blasted in and he searched everywhere for observers and cameras
but never found any, and once the vehicle entered into the base he
removed his helmet and searched everywhere for a place to hide and
when it went around a corner he rushed off remaining hidden, and
moved back to a corridor.

The moonbase amazed him as it was far larger
than he had expected and he started wondering what the hell they
were up to, as he could not realize how they could build such a
place! How did they manage to get supplies there without being
seen? The cost and men behind it would surely have been
inconceivable!

Only a major country could be responsible for
it, and he had to discover who and what was behind it being
there.

Everything was virtually identical and he was
staggered, and he moved around checking everywhere. He was
determined to survive and leave there with what he discovered, and
to find out what they were up to at the same time.

He realized that they had to have been trying
to scare them away from there, and going there, and he realized
that the space vehicles were manned by the same type of soldiers as
was at the other moonbase!

He searched around corners of corridors and
dived out and rushed along them searching everywhere, and started
finding empty laboratories, and searched through drawers and files,
and checked information in their computers.

One room looked more important and
significant than the others and he swiftly checked a computer there
and discovered something that had to do with a confidential program
and experiments and he copied files and he left.

His speed and accuracy increased and he
investigated everything that he could and went down a staircase,
which he was sure was to the bottom floor, where he was sure there
was something, as was in the other moonbase and there were
suggestions of it on files! It grabbed his curiosity more than
ever, as what the hell were they doing there?

The incredible things he considered due to
recent past surprises were incredible, but he could not prove or
grasp any real solid evidence!

What the hell were they up to? This case was
really fascinating! There were things that did not add up and make
sense everywhere, and once again he could not think of any
equivalence! He had never even heard anything occurring in space,
and the normal ones were nothing compared to this one! What would
real wars in space be like? Were there many surprises?

From a hiding place, at the corner of a
corridor, he watched a scientist walk away along a corridor and he
studied him with some astonishment as he was not the slightest bit
different from any normal scientist and had no suggestion of ever
confronting anything dangerous as far as he could see, and he
wondered what the soldiers in the vehicle, which had fired the
missiles at them, were really like and wished that he had seen
them.

He rushed around the corner when the
scientist moved into another corridor, glancing at everywhere along
the corridor until he got to the corner, and from there he watched
him in the next corridor and the way he smoked and got ready to
throw away his cigarette onto the ground, and Weaver got ready.

When he looked again he had gone away around
another bend into another corridor and Weaver rushed down the
corridor, not wishing to miss anything, and he spotted the amount
of footprints there that were visible on the dirty floor!

He never knew what to do, and if he did get
caught nobody knew where the hell he was! Would he have to defend
himself against soldiers there with guns?

The area he moved into had to be the most
desolate and darkest place of there but it still looked a modern
building! Should he try to go and get help or at least tell
Commander Craven? At least he would not die in vain! He would only
need to find a new air supply, which had to be where they kept
their spacesuits!

There was a strange haunting dark look there,
which looked exaggerated by it being an underground moonbase, but
it had long shadows and glows that held secrets and dangers from
peculiar lighting, which surely had been designed to avoid the use
of too much electricity!