The Thing: from the Depths of Hell (10 page)

“
What do you make of
it?
”
Major
Ripley asked, walking over to them.
“
We so far have had nothing properly
put forward on what its identity is!
”

The two scientists consulted quietly, and
seemed to avoid giving a firm answer or anything that they would
regret giving.

“
We do think it could be something of
an mysterious nature!
”
Mitchel then answered.
“
But we do not know what the
hell the thing is! We have not heard of anything like
it!
”

Kruger knew that they did think it was of
paranormal origins, and that they were not going to ruin their
repetitions on something that could turn out to be something else,
and he then heard them mutter it in a silent conversation with each
other.

What surprised him and a few others was how
they reacted, and treated it, and that they had something at last,
and that they had been waiting the majority of their lives for.

The blood red devil astounded them enough to
believe that they were dealing with something supernatural that had
taken an ancient form, and they consulted with each other openly on
what it could be, while leaving it open to anyone to add to, and
for the other scientist to give their thoughts of, and that they
all agreed that they thought it was new, and of an entirely new
status.

After a great deal of discussions and
surveillance, and checking of readings, and of observing it through
monitors, from every form of surveillance, from all the equipment
everyone had set up, they all remained set on leaving it open, and
they took recordings of all the information, and only admitted to
that it was more advanced than anything that they had seen, and
perhaps ever see.

It was then that another discovery was found
by one of the other scientists at a location near the alien, and
they all moved over to where they were.

Major approached them first, searching
their faces, searching for anything
–
still wanting to find something to
give to the others at the military control center to destroy the
alien, and stop it.

The scientist had been checking sounds at
the region of the alien from different equipment around it when he
had discovered something strange.

He turned the volume up of his equipment to
allow them to listen to what he had found, and was listening to,
from the different places that the sounds were appearing.

“
They are appearing at the
locations
about the
alien, from other locations, from
somewhere else
!”

Chapter 24

The Deadliest
Weapons

The military soon started using every major
large weapon that they could get and their military scientists
could create for them, and still the alien monster kept coming at
them, going on its rampage through the spacecraft, coming straight
at them to obliterate them.

The situation was incredible, and it was
beyond belief that anything such as it could have occurred after
all the planning and work on the spacecraft and project, by
millions over such an immense time.

Even though they were reducing the amount of
deaths more and more, by persuading everyone to leave danger zones,
the next problem was that it would vanish and reappear at a new
location, with a new course, and shift so fast that they could
barely keep up with it, and clear people from its path, and if they
placed all the people in the one place, or places, to avoid it, it
could massacre them all, and they were best separated, and given
locations to avoid, but many never followed their instructions, and
even argued with them over it, not realizing the truth, even after
continues media coverage, and deaths.

So, as many soon predicted, it was not
long before they started using banned weapons, due to the
deadliness and destructive powers of them, and Kruger was brought
in to witness many military scientists start work and building
highly secretive G1 weapons that had been given names such
as
antimatter weapons to
cover their true powers and source of powers, which were the most
deadly weapons available, and the military then banned him from
seeing the rest of their construction, due to the secretiveness of
all the weapons involved in the operation, which he was sure had
been created from a plan that was to be used back home.

Instead
of using just one
G1
weapon at a time they decided to use the whole lot
simultaneously, with as much force, and different types of force,
as they could hurl against it, to wipe it out or at least seriously
damage it.

They intended
to use an energy field around it, to hold the explosion into the
region to give it more impact and contain the explosion and
anything deadly given off.

From the
scientists working on the project he soon gathered that they were
the most powerful weapons they could build there!

They had
an incredible
magnitude, and their destructive power
was immense, and beyond the imaginable, and if they never contained
them the spacecraft would probably be completely disintegrated,
into nothing, and they would all die there, out in the void,
without people back home ever realizing the truth.

If they sent out a miniature pod back to the
Earth they would not hear what had happened for centuries, because
of the slowness of normal space vehicles.

He helped the other scientists and military
choose the region that it was to be used in, which would do the
least amount of damage to the ship, and where they could close off
from the rest of the ship, and after the explosions had been
detonated.

Chapter 25

The New Detection
System

There was
something strange about the alien and the way the two paranormal
scientists insisted something of a paranormal nature existed,
especially after considering that he had not actually heard them
come out with anything that existed there, and their work showed
how accurate they were and always insisted in keeping to the facts
and only showing what truly was there.

He did have a
great passion for the new and fantastic, and the investigation of
paranormal activity was really interesting, when done correctly,
and there at least looked as though there could be something truly
there, and not the stuff that appeared on the media, which was just
a joke.

He believed
there were strange phenomena that had not be fully explained, and
he had come across small occurrences himself, but not hauntings and
such like.

Though he had
never properly proven the existence of anything of a supernatural
nature he had still investigated everything of that nature that he
had come across in the media. Could this thing that they consider
is an alien be from beyond this realm of the universe, and be some
form supernatural being?

It was
incredible that nobody really investigated anything of that nature,
and that all the scientists aboard avoided it and only considered
it when it was brought up. Yet he did see their point of view, and
that there was barely any real evidence of anything. Take the two
paranormal scientists! They could barely even establish anything,
and jumped at the chance of finding something that actually was
there.

They were
there to investigate anything in that region that could be missed,
and might be missed out by other scientists who avoided checking or
wasting their funds on.

The two
scientists were accurate in their investigations, and checked
everything, and had built up the most advanced research paranormal
establishment that there was, containing the most highly advanced
equipment that there was available, which they had aboard.

On arriving at
their laboratory, after they had left a message asking him to come
over, as they had something, he saw that they had put together
something.

A vast
assembly of equipment was all fitted together on a table, and the
surrounding room was in a mess, with equipment and tools left
everywhere, and it was clear that they had been at work building it
for a great deal of time.

All their
assistants were still running about altering and adjusting things,
and reading information on various things.

The thing was
beyond him! He could barely guess what parts of it were for! Yet it
interested him greatly, especially with their interest in it, and
their reactions to it, and as though they had been waiting all
their lives to create it, and had not because of some unknown
reason, and the fact that they never had all their technology
available to use. And it clearly could damage the equipment that
they were using with it, as well as part of it, and the fact that
it was expensive stuff, and perhaps the only stuff available on the
ship.

They were
there to investigate what other scientists could not, and do it to
a greater degree than ever before, and he was positive by their
reactions that they had never had their day, and encounter with
anything for them to them use their stuff properly on, and they had
even considered that they might never come upon anything, and
achieve their goal, and that it would be left for the people who
followed them someday to find and get marked in the history books
for, even though they would be remembered for creating the stuff,
and setting up their group.

If only they
could just find something that had gone undetected by everyone
else, with their detection methods and equipment!

He staggered
when he considered what they could come up with, as they had
advanced far further than he had even imagined, and the place was
packed solid with ever form of equipment possible, and it went
beyond his imagination what they might do.

It was like an
experiment to them to see what would happen if they pushed beyond
the boundaries of natural science, and out it to the
supernatural.

The dark sky
of the void through the porthole now showed him the abyss of
billions of light years of blackness that there was between there
and the Earth, and the dangers of their exploration, and he
considered if he would ever arrive home.

“
Well,
we have finished!” Mitchel announced, dragging himself away from
his work on the equipment.

It was
incredible! He realized that he had been there for an hour and they
still had not notified him what they were doing, and what it was
for.

Bryan marched
over, with a smile, and patted his arm.

“
We are
here to help you!” he announced. “We do not want all our work being
ruined, and all our valuable stuff available everywhere before we
have properly used it!”

Kruger did see
their point of view!

“
You’re
correct, of course,” he replied. “And you should be paid for the
invention and sale of the equipment, and make all the major
findings ...”

Both
scientists thanked him, and were surprised that he had even
realized what they had done.

“
As one
of the leading scientists on aliens here, your work interests me
greatly!” he informed them, even though they knew what he was about
anyway.

“
You’ll
love this then ...” Bryan replied, looking at their invention,
completed and ready for action.

Kruger
examined their scientists and the equipment carefully, and tried
again at estimating what they were doing, and left it until they
either told him or showed him its use, and he was sure that it was
the latter, as it might be better just to show it.

They silently
considered what to tell him!

“
When we
finished checking outside,” Bryan stated, “we realized that we
could come up with something to use in the spacecraft to check the
alien ...

“
Well,
after we saw the alien, and heard those sounds, which appeared all
around it, at specific regions, we realized we should!”

“
So you
can properly check the alien further?” Kruger replied.

“
We can
check it within other dimensions ... And those sounds that appeared
all around it ...”

Chapter 26

The Multidimensional
Equipment

Once they had
safely moved all the equipment over to a region near the alien,
other scientist joined them, and Major Ripley arrived, and stood
wondering, looking worried, and occasionally examined the
equipment, confused.

Major Ripley
was still worried about the weapons that they were going to use
there, as well as just about the entire military, especially those
dealing with it, and the magnitude of weapons, and they had clearly
started thinking of the alien as being a less of a danger now.

The whole ship
knew of the affair, and people were relocating to the opposite side
of the ship, for safety.

Finally Major
Ripley moved up close to the equipment, and asked, “Well, are you
going to give us something about what this is about?”

“
It is
basically to check the alien further than before,” Mitchel replied.
“It is also a more accurate way of detecting where it is, and what
is with it!”

“
So you
should
theoretically
be
able to detect anything around here as well?”

“
Yes!
And all over the spacecraft! It can properly check the whole
spacecraft for it, and anything like it!”