The Deadliest Alien Artifacts (Story Collection) (10 page)

“
We
still haven’t been able to create a first contact
situation!”

“
So
what’s happening?” Bryson replied, anxiously waiting for a reply to
what was occurring there.

“
We
haven’t found a way to communicate with it! It has not replied to
anything we have done! We have also gone by all the instructions
given in The Alien Source Code!”

“
So we
are still trying to find a way to talk to it!”

“
Correct!” Parker replied firmly, hoping for an
answer.

“
Thanks!” Mortimer answered. “I’ll add what I know and have
already said! I believe that what’s active is the equivalent to our
subconscious mind, while it is in a type of sleep or suspended
animation, which carries out various functions for it. I think it
brought the airplane down and for some reason wanted us here,
especially by showing the structure to you in your scan of the
island! And I think it has to be done by a physical
contact!”

Bryson was
left confused, and started to see the problem in more depth and
that they could be stuck on the island and in the castle, where
they would need to stay.

“
I think
we should try to enter it!” Mortimer announced, to their
amazement.

“
How
will we go about doing that?” Bryson asked. “The thing is
indestructible! They could not even scratch it!”

“
We
found a region on its side that has markings near it, which we
believe is sensitive to reactions from something, and we believe
that it’s to open it!”

“
We
could try using different things on it!” Parker replied, and
started getting his scientists to start work on opening
it.

One of the
scientists suddenly moved over and whispered in Parker’s ear, and
Parker suddenly looked aware of something and agreed with the
scientist and he left to do something.

The scientist
returned with other scientists and set up equipment at the region
of the alien sphere with the markings and they activated equipment,
and laser beams blasted at the region of the alien sphere where the
markings were near, and started firing thousands of coded laser
blast sequences at it.

“
What’s
it doing?” Bryson asked, wondering if they had found something
somewhere.

“
The
Alien Source Code was advanced far further than you think! It
analyzed the region near the markings and found that it was
activated by a laser sequence code!”

V

The Lost Time
Machine

Bryson rested
motionlessly against the padded control seat, preparing himself for
what could be his last hour alive!

The echoes of
the scientists and their last conversations haunted his mind. What
the hell had he done? Why had he done it? Surely a robotic device
could have been found to replace him, and give far more accurate
accounts?

The ancient
alien artifact voyager time machine was billions of years old and
had not been properly checked anywhere, and they had only been able
to check a few of its basic functions, which nobody had shown any
proper awareness of the function of. Even though they had found a
way to activate it, and that was the only final way of finding out
what it was for.

They had
fitted in the control seat with controls to activate it and give
him some protection, and control their monitoring equipment and to
give observations.

When he
activated it he barely noticed anything. His mind wandered through
all the occurrences that had led up to its discovery, and them
digging it out and finally opening it up.

The vast
unstable energy explosions blasted out across outer dimensions with
so much force that they threatened to make space and time either
unbalanced and warped or completely rip away and destroy the fabric
of space and time, and he wondered what damage the Earth could be
subjected to.

An explosion of blinding radiance left
Bryson stunned and he firmly sat back calculating what problems he
could face! Not just from its intensity blinding him but from the
colossal powers surrounding him, and he sat firmly gripping the
straps keeping him against his seat, contemplating the dangers and
his chances of survival.

This mission was unbelievable and he
wondered why he had even contemplated there not being real danger
at one point.

The voyager was a perfect large black
sphere, clearly of alien origins, with a round entrance point,
which filled itself in to make a perfect sphere, for whatever it
had been designed for.

An immense whirlpool of shifting outlines of
energy globes magically shifted about and Bryson studied it for a
long time, and suddenly realized that he had no body or proper
presence any longer and was some form of force formation! He was
swirling out into a vortex of reshaping energy patterns that
replaced reality, in a surreal splendor of transforming elements
and that the mind-bending display of displacements were altering to
something that he could not recognize.

The voyager was still there about him but
only frequently turned visible from being translucent, and the
outside world that had been there had vanished, and he occasionally
heard the voyager functioning and perhaps doing what it was
supposed to.

He occasionally spotted what looked like the
vast depths of the universe floating about his sides, with
occasional radiating beams!

He realized that it could be telepathic
visual transmissions created by something for something and
wondered if it could create visions vivid and powerful enough to
trick his mind.

A silent deep roar of colossal power blasted
out and reality became a blur of swirling light etched in deep
blackness.

The strange sounds and lights sent
sensations through his body!

Sickening lurches of the voyager thudded and
shuddered as it located itself at different points in space and
time, making vast leaps right across the cosmos, vanishing and
emerging in vast strange and mind-bending star regions, emerging
about him as though he were floating through them, with the voyager
being translucent and invisible, as it checked bright glowing star
constellations from its records, exploring the whole new
fascinating universe, checking all the altered variations
throughout, from over billions of years, and he sensed its vast
intelligence around him.

Mind-boggling technology and powers, with an
accuracy and capacity inconceivable, it had explored the universe,
even though it was an ultimate time traveler, and he sensed that it
had been searching for something!

Everything around him altered into
mind-bending visions and sounds of space and time displacements as
the voyager completed its mission, and he lost consciousness as
everything transformed into something.

VI

The Earth

When Bryson came to he was watching the
blazing sun in a bright blue sky directly overhead through the
airplane window, and he wondered how the hell he ended up
there!

At first he thought he had been sent back in
time to the airplane as it flew over the sea and the island had
appeared.

Yet he spotted the island vanish behind the
airplane, and he checked the airplane and found everyone there
confused at where they were, with them starting to realize it was
heading home.

The situation was astonishing! With all the
people there simultaneously appearing there and suddenly realizing
that they were on the airplane going home, and they all started
checking things and confirming that they had all their possessions
and findings on the island.

“
Where has everything
gone?
”
Merton moaned, scratching his head, searching about him,
examining the airplane about him, unable to comprehend what had
just happened, and Bryson realized that he had been asleep before
he had arrived there.

“
It seems to have returned us back to
the Earth!
”

“
But what was it?
”

“
The ultimate time
traveler!
”

“
Where
’
s the colossal treasures and
ultimate technology?
”

All about them the others gasped and started
picking up objects and examining them, and Bryson laughed as he saw
piles of colossal treasures and highly advanced technology appear
about them, with large rare and valuable jewels and ultimate
technology.

“
So you made contact with
it?
”
Parker
asked, amazed that his airplane was in new condition again, and
that they were returning home alive.

“
Yes! I did!
”

“
Where the hell has it gone now that
it has been activated again?
”

Bryson considered it, and
replied,
“
To the far future where it belongs and was
built to function! Our future god has repaired itself after
billions of years!
”

“
What will it do?
”

“
Look after space and time, and the
future inhabitants of this planet, including all those people on
the starship, who will be returned alive there, and it will be able
to carry out its mission as the ultimate time traveler, which it
was created to do!
”

VII

The Ultimate Time
Traveler

The ultimate time traveler had
originated as the world
’
s first time probe, a perfectly symmetrical
black sphere voyager probe, and its creators had redesigned it
throughout centuries with technology beyond normal technology and
it had gained the ability to advance itself and work and think like
a highly advanced entity, which it later became.

It had gained abilities to move and search
outside space and time to a degree that had not been developed
before, even by the most advanced civilizations, and it had gained
the capabilities of programming and advancing itself and
functioning beyond anything created in the universe, and gained
incredible abilities to search the universe through space and
through time.

Its main original program was a defense
against the destruction of the universe, and the world where it had
originated, carrying out its mission of searching through time and
space for abnormalities, and transcendent entities with colossal
powers and capabilities of destroying reality or its world.

Its form was an invisible complex mass of
energy stored and hidden throughout an infinity of dimensions,
undefined regions, and time zones, which had been created to last
forever, and it kept its original perfectly symmetrical black
sphere voyager probe nucleus, which became virtually indestructible
as the rest of it.

Its stores of information were immeasurable
and it had the ability to collect information and improve its
capabilities eternally, and it had become an ultimate weapon of
destruction against the destruction of the universe.

It had stored the technology and abilities
of zillions of species, and on time and time travel, and it gained
the ability to recognize and handle what it encountered.

At one point in the past it had
unintentionally traveled far further than it had ever gone into the
future and had been left staggered when it had encountered
something of unknown origins that had damaged it!

It never had mind-boggling technology but it
had powers beyond anything that it had encountered, and had a
destructive nature that had been inconceivable, it had been
exploring the universe in its own time zone destroying worlds and
vast regions of galaxies, and it had been damaged by its
magnitude!

It had not experienced any form of
attack like it! The black force had seemed
capable of destroying it and it had
damaged regions of its consciousness, but it had escaped by using a
time field that froze time and space and it, but it had been unable
to use many of its functions in with the consequences of
it almost colliding with a colossal star, but it had escaped
through time to the prehistoric island on the distant early Earth,
where it later had left
itself buried away for billions of years!

It had still been able to function in many
ways and had found that the black entity had nearly destroyed
mankind and the Earth!

It had created technology from technology in
its memories and it had given it the ability to create trillions of
scenarios, with slight alterations, to check the outcome of
scenarios.

By creating events occurring and vanishing
from existence in trillionths of a second it had checked for a way
to repair itself and finally destroy the black entity, and after
many years it had come up with a plan that worked!

The plan had originally been unrealistic and
it had continually checked it over, and it had programmed its
subconscious mind to take it back through time to the beginning of
the scenario if anything went wrong, and it had started by
capturing the starship and putting itself below it, where it had
finally allowed itself to go into unconsciousness with its
subconscious mind carry out what it had programmed it to do, and it
had later been surprised that the occurrences had given it more
than what it had wanted.