The Stargate Black Hole (8 page)

The principal scientists were captivating,
mystifying them with the depth of their fears, and like with the
time warp he had not seen such scientists react about anything such
as it without there being something tremendously deadly!

Chapter 10

The Morning
After

The Moonbase X1 bar was full of soldiers and
Commander Craven gave some of them orders to carry out things in
the future, and glared over at Weaver enjoying his drinks next to
Reeves, and Weaver sensed he had now fully accepted what he had
told him about the other moonbase and that the moonbases were
attached together by a hidden tunnel.

It was incredible Commander Craven had
visited there and had used his influence with the American military
there to have the soldiers that had attacked them caught and
checked out and they had found them and the people with them and
they had imprisoned them at the other moonbase. People and cameras
had seen them leaving there!

What was incredible was they had been openly
making out that they had Russian origins, and that they were just
spies, but there were no proper explanations from them on what they
had been doing that fitted into all their actions! Nothing made any
sense and they were making out they did not properly speak their
language!

Yet again it surprised him how easily they
had been able to get there and into such a confidential site!

Now that they had captured them and they
could go outside in space vehicles and look about! What were they
hiding? He now wondered if they had actually done it to keep the
other moonbase secret? But why had they gone to such lengths
though? There were no good reasons and most of the scientists knew
of the other base!

Weaver enjoyed the low gravity effect and he
watched Reeves at the other side of the table drinking fast and
laughing hysterically, with another soldier beside him.

He realized again what one of the scientists,
who knew the soldiers who had fired the missiles, had told him and
that they had attacked the leading scientist called Lucas and that
he had suddenly vanished without a trace!

It had been the way that he insisted that he
knew Lucas and he should know about it that intrigued him, and
Weaver intended to follow his vehicle trail, which he had shown him
the position of on the lunar landscape.

He could not make anything else out and it
surely was worth investigating!

He had given him his word that he would not
deliberately give anything away he should not and that had been
good enough!

Even though he had cleaned up a few major
mysteries he had many left! He still could not work out what their
discoveries would end up like when they had finished advancing
them! What could a time gateway do? Yet if they created a time
machine what would happen? And what would a proper laboratory black
hole be used for? He had not even noticed that there could be a
difference between them!

He wondered if they were the worst
discoveries he had found and what damage they could do if they
achieved their goal?

Yet he was sure it was exaggerated and he
wondered if it was even possible to travel back in time! What
damage could they do if they traveled there? He wondered if they
would just be able visit there and not be able to influence
anything, and just view it as a recorded sequence of events! Yet
what about going into the future? It would be useless as far as he
was concerned!

He wondered again, would it be possible to
build forms of particle accelerators in space itself? Why did they
have to be so large? If they could just decrease the size!

He considered what damage and uses the
antigravity they had could be used for, especially if they managed
to make full antigravity.

They could build proper space stations of
immense sizes, and give them enough matter to give them some
gravity. Yet had they any form of artificial gravity available? And
he wished that they did and introduced it!

Weaver watched all the people at the moonbase
bar and some of the funny and different ways the lower gravity
affected them!

Things in this case were connected in a way
he could not grasp, and he did not know what to do! Surely
something existed that could complete the puzzle and he started to
become convinced he needed to discover it or the mission would be
unsuccessful! Even though they had caught who had committed the
crimes, which was why he was put there, there had to be people
behind them doing it!

Chapter 11

The Search for
Lucas

When Weaver arrived at the wreckage of
Lucas’s space vehicle he was sure that the explosion from the
missile had been so tremendous that the remains of Lucas’s body had
to be inside.

Yet the more he examined it the more he
noticed that he could very well have survived the impact, as a
large region where the driver would have been was hardly
damaged!

He quickly fitted his spacesuit helmet on,
checked his air supply was full, and he swiftly left the
vehicle.

When he walked around the wreckage he saw
that Lucas had crawled out from under the vehicle, and he studied
his footsteps going away from the vehicle and the way they were
paced and he knew that he had been in great danger and had ran for
his life!

He examined inside the vehicle where he had
been and saw the sky through a gap in the remains of the vehicle
that showed the stars at where he had been trapped below the
wreckage, and the strange darkness and emptiness, and he imagined
him staring out at the strange dark landscape, and he saw the
planet Earth there as he moved to get away from the vehicle.

Weaver carefully examined the vehicle from
where he had been outside and saw that there was not much else to
see there, and he started following his footsteps over to some
hills.

The shattering tumble surely could have
injured him, but he saw no proper signs of it!

They had definitely fired the missile and
smashed the vehicle to kill him and he had known it! They had to
have been crazy beyond anything Lucas had encountered and he had
run for his life!

Weaver realized that he was also there alone
on the moon himself, resting against some moon boulders, and he
examined the moondust, which surely had helped cushion the blow
when the vehicle had landed upside down!

The vehicle was beyond repair, which he would
definitely have known, and what left him staggered was there was no
way for him to communicate with the moonbase as all the
communication equipment was damaged!

The oxygen in his spacesuit would not have
been enough to get to the moonbase!

He had survived the impact! Yet was he better
off, and would he suffer a worse death later by suffocating an
agonizing death?

He quickly rushed across the strange dark
landscape as fast as he could and towards the moonbase! He had
hardly even set foot on the surface, especially by himself.

It was then that Weaver spotted tread marks
of a vehicle where it had fired at him and he traced where it had
moved to.

He found where a high-powered rifle shell had
blasted and the impact on a rock, and realized how dangerous it
was, as it smashed it to pieces! The surprise would have been that
it made no noise and had more velocity and impact, and he wondered
how far it could actually travel on the moon.

He wondered what warfare in space would end
up like! Would they use lasers? He was sure bullets were far
better? For one thing lasers would only travel so far and a bullet
in space could keep going as there was nothing really to stop
it!

He studied Lucas’s large spacesuit shoeprints
dive across the mounds of moondust as he had tried to accelerate
away, with the low gravity muddling his perspective of movement,
and spacesuit getting in the way. The thickness of the materials
was great! Whoever was there had to be determined to kill him!

Once again he hid behind more hills and used
different ways to use the low gravity and vast leaps to move fast
away!

The moonbase had to be located in one of the
most desolate places mankind had been!

He realized the deadly environment
surrounding him again as he studied it. The deadly cold was far
lower than anything on the Earth! It made Weaver cringe, and
blindly rush on through the mind-bending landscape, still tracking
his movements, which went behind hills to avoid being seen.

He knew that once they had found his
footprints leading there from the smashed vehicle that they would
have traced his movements in the moondust, and he saw that he had
deliberately made it harder for them to trace by rushing over rock
areas and changing his direction, and he spotted where the space
vehicle had arrived and chased after him.

He knew he had hit an ultimate deadly
scenario and being chased by deadly assassins across a barn world
lost in space and time, with his home world in the sky lighting him
like the moon had lighted him!

Weaver wondered why he thought he had not
been shot, and he recalled the information that they had found out
from the assassins and he was sure they had not shot him, and he
wanted to know what had happened to him! Surely he never had enough
air to make it back, and Weaver checked his own supply and knew he
could not have made it back!

The case intrigued him and he had to find the
answer! He never had enough air and was using up more and more air,
and it was making it take longer to arrive at the moonbase by
moving in different directions. Surely they had known where he was
heading!

Yet why could he not have hidden and died
there? Something strange had happened to him and he sensed it by
their reactions!

He could not even imagine him having found a
way out of such a predicament! If he had remained in the vehicle he
would have ran out of air and he had put his foot in it from the
start!

What did he think these people wanted by
killing him? It would have been a vast mistake for him to hand
himself over to them! They surely would not have kept him as a
prisoner!

In the distance he saw where a missile had
blown up and he saw how his movements had changed and where he had
accelerated himself forward, as it was all he could do to save his
life!

Suddenly Weaver stopped and saw his direction
strangely change and he stood trying to see why as there was
nothing there and he would have been losing time, energy, and
air!

He had rushed away over to his side and he
followed and he watched his prints head back and to where the other
side of a hill he had passed was, and he realized that he had
actually came up with an idea, and he grew more intrigued at what
the outcome had been of it.

His prints vanished as he had gone over rocks
and he followed where he had to have gone and he entered a canyon
between the hill, where he must have rushed through, going over
rocks to cover his prints, and he realized that he could have found
somewhere to hide, and he wondered where he had gone as there had
been no prints there when he had been at the other side!

Occasionally he spotted marks he had
accidentally left while rushing through the canyon, over small
rocks on the ground, and he started to examine the rocks and way
they had been cut and that they looked artificially cut and he
wondered who would want to do anything there, and what had they
been doing!

He started to wonder what was there! Was
there something hidden away there? What could be there in such a
desolate place?

Suddenly he found something buried away in
rocks that had clearly been disturbed, in an area at his side!

Weaver increased the brightness of his
spacesuit light to see what was there better, and saw something
artificial beneath the rocks and dirt!

He removed it and revealed a metal grid
cover, where he saw dust being blown out from, and he grabbed a
handful of dust and threw it over it and was surprised at the power
of the flow and the dust blowing up.

He was sure it was air and that something
below was blasting vast amounts of it out and he lifted the metal
cover and found a vast tunnel going straight down deep into the
moon below, which had clearly been hollowed out with some large
powerful drill.

He realized that he had escaped after all,
and he wondered what was below, and he knew it was too far away
from the moonbases to be part of them.

It amazed him and intrigued him and he
wondered what had happened to him. He imagined how fast he must
entered the tunnel, escaping for his life, and he decided that he
had to check what had happened and what was there and he rushed
into it and put the metal cover over the top of it, after making
sure it was covered over.

He climbed down a metal ladder going down
into the metal pipe tunnel and he rushed into it.

He was sure that there was a reason for it
being there and that something was below! Surely there was
surveillance equipment somewhere below, and he realized that he was
on the moon and he doubted if they would bother. What was the use
in it?

He swiftly aimed his light downwards and
started examine everything that he could see and when he saw
nothing but the pipe and ladder he began climbing downwards again,
as he considered what would be below there.

Mind-bending sounds and echoes mingled
through the hollow metal tunnel going through the air, from his
movements and heavy breathing, which grew denser the lower he
climbed, and he realized how he missed sounds that were
outside.

The air blowing by gave haunting whistles
occasionally, and he eventually realized that there was enough air
around to remove his spacesuit helmet and he removed it slowly
testing the air and seeing if the air was alright and dense enough
for him to breathe, with him ready to put the helmet back on, and
he finally with satisfaction turned off the air in his
spacesuit.