The Alien Orb (27 page)

Even
though it was a great deal of energy to them it was little to the
entity – but enough to allow it to do what they had told it to do
–
and to open a gateway through time to itself before
it had entered this universe, just before it had made its
appearance on this world where it had failed to get enough
energy.

All the scientists there realized
immediately that it was working and that it had achieved its
mission
–
and that it could use the energy supply from itself in
past!

Bryson
realized that they had actually found out from their questioning of
it that it was partly programmed, but nothing like their computers,
or from this universe, and that it mainly functioned carrying out
what it had been created for and that it had been a form of time
probe – which they had not been properly able to deduce – as vast
amounts of information that it had could not be translated or
understood, and had no equivalent.

For a moment Bryson wondered if it could
change history and do something like stop itself from entering the
universe in 1620, when the fishermen at the fishing village had
witnessed its materialization and bright light exploding out of the
early morning mist over the sea, like a crazy shooting star.

Suddenly William and the alien
artifact vanished and
Bryson realized the hideous reality of the situation and
that they had let it loose on the universe and on the whole of
time!

In the
first place it had been virtual mad when it had been split in half!
It surely had been altered by William Randall and his men’s
experiments – and them altering it to believe in tales of
witchcraft, magic, demons, and hell – and the other
transcendent
haunting the other castle that it had
mimicked
–
and there was no proper proof that it was undamaged by its
entrance into the universe, and it crashing into the
world!

Though they all soon sensed that it had not
and felt its power and intelligence, and how sane it was, and that
it was far more than anything that he had ever thought existed!

Light from it exploded everywhere all
over the world showing them its new existence
–
and entities in the form of
large bright globes appeared around them and slowly
vanished
.

When it finished Bryson felt vaguely
confused but knew that it had left the universe and that they had
done everything that they could for it, and the world.

He then wondered if William had told
him the truth earlier that day when he had told him that William
Randall had got his treasure from the entity, which had collected
it from many sources, and that he had only removed part of the
treasure to the other castle
–
which had been what Bryson had found at the
other castle
–
and that the remains of the treasure had been buried away in
a secret chamber under floor of the second tunnel.

When Bryson investigated it he was staggered
to find Pendleton there already, digging up the ground under the
second tunnel and that he had just uncovered the secret chamber,
and both of them climbed into it and found an entire room full of
treasure.

Epilogue

The Transcendent
Voyager

For billions of years the transcendent
voyager had existed never wholly knowing what had created it or
where it had originated, carrying out its mission of searching
through time and space in its universe for abnormalities, unknown
civilizations and species, and transcendent entities with colossal
powers and capabilities and to destroy them if they were dangerous
to reality and what its programming considered dangerous.

It had been designed and given technology
beyond anything else that it had encountered and had the abilities
to search its universe in a degree and with abilities that would
not have been believed to exist by the most advanced transcendences
and civilizations, and would have been thought of as magical
powers, and it had the ability to search its universe throughout
time.

Its form had been an invisible complex mass
of energy, stored in many dimensions, that had been built to last
forever, and it directly entered stars to energize itself and store
its vast powers for extensive amounts of time.

Its stores of information had been vast and
it had the ability to collect as much information on what it had
been programmed for eternally and improve its defenses and other
abilities, and it had become the ultimate weapon of destruction
against the destruction of its universe.

It had stored the technology and abilities
of zillions of species and had the ability to recognize and handle
what it had been searching for within a range of its universe.

At one point it had unintentionally left the
universe and had entered an outer universe that it had not known
the existence of, where colossal amounts of universes had existed,
and on its entrance there its programming had accepted it as the
real universe and that it had to accept it as the universe that it
had to carry out its mission in.

At first it had been unable to enter the
universes and properly detect anything in them and it used all its
information and studied how it had entered the outer universe and
found a way to enter them and locate particular things in them, but
infinite amounts of things of unknown origins existed in them.

In supernatural universes it had learned to
open and use gateways that shifted it accurately to destinations.
It discovered far more than it had ever realized could exist and it
gave itself colossal magical abilities and energies and it had
analyzed everything in a greater degree.

On its first entrances to the universes it
had been left staggered when it had encountered something of
unknown origins that had drained its energy from it!

Something had virtually absorbed all
its power instantly on its entrance of the Earth
’
s atmosphere, only leaving
it with some of its energy in other dimensions, which it had not
considered possible as it had not been possible in its own
universe, and it could not get proper amounts of power in other
dimensions and had to fight to survive and had continuously tried
to alter and adapt to something that it could survive as, and it
had to create dormant states and ways of collecting energy from
small sources and storing it until it had enough to reactivate
itself, and work on finding a source powerful enough for it to use
to leave there.

Even though it had not done much in its
damaged condition, with its vast abilities virtually unusable, it
had been able to explore things through supernatural gateways into
universes, going out into the strangest places, and it had even
considered if there had been others such as it in the endless
universes and if they had created it, and if it could contact them
to help it, and it had gained abilities to explore inconceivable
dimensions and powers in the universes, far beyond its original
knowledge and powers.

The humans had helped it and it had used its
powers to help them and it had created things for them, including
defenses and entities to protect them, and it had created things to
hide itself away, even though it had almost damaged itself by
splitting itself into two halves.

The humans had become far more advanced and
it had been surprised that they had actually found a way for it to
restore itself!

On entering the outer universes it had
repaired itself and immediately made sure nothing could drain it of
energy again and gave itself abilities to create energy in new ways
anywhere, and it altered most of its programming to adapt.

It created colossal supernatural powers,
going beyond anything known, and used its magical powers to
transform it into something beyond anything that it had ever
encountered and it gained powers to build universes, and others,
and found far more than it had ever realized could exist and
another universe beyond there.

Part II

The Alien Sphere

Prologue

The Alien Sphere

Chief Science Officer James Dexter struggled
to focus on a distorted form of the sun, seemingly magnified,
shimmering around, as his spacesuit adjusted its polarized
faceplate to compensate for the extra light.

He expected to see the Martian Space
Station in the faint sky
–
in a vague form of a satellite with networks
of translucent tunnels, with large round and square non-transparent
bulges.

Members of the crew analyzed soil samples
nearby, while others inspected the shuttle, mainly for structural
damage.

“
Well, Mars may be good for mining
...!
”
Burrell conclusively muttered, through his communicator,
gazing about him.

“
The moon may even be better
...!
”
Dexter replied.

“
Yet why are there no proper meteor
craters ...?
”

“
The atmosphere is indicated at
ninety-five percent carbon dioxide, three percent nitrogen, and the
rest in traces ...
”
he replied, pointing to a monitor on his
spacesuit.
“
Well, for one thing
–
though it
’
s surely thin air
–
winds here are thought to
reach the forces of hurricanes ...!
”

Suddenly, everyone began following
Commander Strachan as he led the crew away, in a
specific
direction.

They half-heartedly followed
–
observing the
soil and rocks
–
while looking out for traces of fossils and life forms within
the layers of ground.

Then Dr Selina Jackson, a
zoologist/biochemist, yelled, making Dexter think that they had
found the large specimens of the white worms found there.

He left some puzzling smashed rocks, and
with wonder followed her eyes to a shape shining brightly at a
mound.

Deputy Commander Basinger, who was mainly an
astrophysicist/planetary geologist, like Dexter, went to it
first.

“
They must
’
ve visited here?
”
Basinger asked,
curiously.

Selina suspiciously examined Commander
Strachan, as he was desperately trying not to respond, and was
hiding something.

“
Impossible!
”
Commander Strachan announced
firmly.
“
We
’
d know of it! This entire section is the
least checked region on Mars. We
’
re here to put up a flag and open the region
to future explorations. It
’
s considered to have rare minerals
–
desperately
needed ...
”

“
We must have found one of their first
space probes that they sent here, in the late twentieth
century
–”

“
Or even the remains of one of their
rockets ...
”

“
Yet why is it a metal sphere? And how
did it become embedded like that?
”

“
It could have fallen down
–
from up in
orbit!
”

“
It seems to be
intact!
”

All the astronauts formed a circle around
it, and studied it.

“
Even if there were a proper
atmosphere, and it crashed at high speed, it
shouldn
’
t
be implanted in
this
rock
like
this
!
”
Burrell stated
firmly.

Dexter shifted in close, and Basinger
touched its surface.

“
This rock encrusting its surface must
be at least thousands of years old!
”
Basinger declared,
gasping.

Dexter copied him and brushed his glove over
the rock encrusting its surface and felt a pulsating vibration from
something deep in its interior, as if it were alive.

Chapter 1

The Black Hole
Experiments

In the outer fringes of the black hole,
shifting wildly about itself, within the opened up alien sphere, a
metallic gleam of light was magically suspended, motionlessly in
mid-air, from the surface of an electronic clock, by the
scientists.

The clock held at the end of an almost
invisible cable, of translucent material, had its precision digital
numbers frozen in fuzzy multidimensional forms (in a suspended
cluster of partially transparent layers).

Professor Bergman, the leading scientist,
had it released further, edging it into the black hole, creating
more spectacular optical effects from the clock, making it distort
in twisted forms (shaping beams of light with matter like a form of
glass sculpture).

Its numbers shifted fast forward, until they
froze again, and the clock almost vanished, and they stopped its
progression.

A loud cheer erupted from all of the
scientists and technicians crowded into the laboratory,
applauding.