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Though Major Ripley seemed to be the only
real one to get hit by the impact, and grasped his leg and held it
for a few minutes, from the pain of it being bashed against the
controls at his front.

“
What the hell was
that?
”
he
moaned, trying to see out the vehicle, while checking the
instruments confused, trying to get what was happening.
“
This place will
be the end of me ...
”

“
It seems to have happened over
again!
”
Larsen stated, still believing they were doomed to death, as
if they were only temporally avoiding death.

“
But why are we not unconscious this
time?
”
Major Ripley replied swiftly, trying to get what he had
missed.
“
We
’
ve barely made an hour of our journey from
the spacecraft, and have crashed again ...
”

“
Perhaps this world is different from
the other world in the void, and there is
something
else here that is causing it
...
”

“
What something else
...
”
he
moaned, lifting his knee, examining it, and placing it back
down.
“
I
don
’
t know
whether to be glad with that thought ... If this thing is the
original alien, then we have had it. But if it is something new,
are we better off ...?
”

“
The others were killed
...!
”

“
Great! So now it is down to how bad a
death we may receive!
”

“
Exactly!
”

“
So how quickly and painfully did that
thing in the other vehicle kill them then ...?
”

“
I would say they were about the same
...
”

“
Great! Absolutely
great!
”

Kruger tried checking the instruments from
where he was, and gave up, as they never showed anything.

“
What condition is the vehicle in
then?
”
he
finally asked.

“
It is not working, and it does not
have anything on what the cause of it ...
”

“
We
’
d better contact the others
then!
”

Major Ripley started using the
communications equipment to contact his old friend Major Douglas,
and told him,
“
Our vehicle is down! We have crashed into a
pool ...
”

Major Ripley tried seeing through areas of
the windows that had thinner mud over them.

“
Your vehicle has
crashed!
”
Major Douglas spluttered out, staggered at what he had told
him.
“
You
’
d better get out of there
now!
”

“
Why?
”

“
Just get the hell away from the
vehicle ...!
”

“
How will we get transport to move on
...?
”

“
There have been reports of other
crashes since all the vehicles crashed earlier, and the occupants
have been killed ...
”

“
What direction will we go in
...
”

“
We have your location! Go to your
right, and I
’
ll have a vehicle pick you up as soon as
possible! But get as far away from there as
possible!
”

Major Ripley shuddered, and switched off the
communications equipment, and yanked a switch and the vehicle doors
all opened up, and water and muck came pouring in, flooding the
vehicle, making it sink, and they looked around for an area to get
out to.

Kruger pointed at an area near him that was
the nearest to solid ground, and he rushed through the outside bog,
of thick black chemical stinking muck, going up to his knees, and
the others followed.

They were lucky they wore waterproof
spacesuits or they would have been soaked in it, and they reached
the land and rested their legs, and looked around them.

“
We have to go right of the
vehicle!
”
Major Ripley announced, and started leading them in that
direction, marching firmly.

Kruger marched after him, and watched Don
and Larsen walking together behind him, talking about the crashed
vehicle, and examining the damage to the front of the vehicle where
it had crashed, and they watched it until a strange vapor cloud
shifted about it, like it had some form of intelligence, and the
vehicle vanished out of sight.

Chapter 6

The Time Being

A miniature white explosion magically hovered
inertly in mid-air, frozen in time, in front of the time being as
it concluded its experiments on the newly acquired explosive.

It allowed the explosion to progress at a
slow rate, as it walked up to it and studied in every detail, which
it had planned to do.

The room was at the top of a high tower of a
structure that was not an advanced structure but a building that
resembled an ancient fairy-tale/horror film castle, made of square
stones barely stuck together, centuries old, which had crumbled
away in large regions, and rested high in the air, above any human
structure, on a massive rock pinnacle, towering over the
mind-bending world, surrounded by a sky that would have startled
any alien in the universe with its stars and phenomena, covering
almost every square inch, resting on the opposite side of the world
from where the GX1 was positioned.

The time being came from an ancient race
that had advanced science to incredible lengths, and had colonized
an entire galaxy at one time, and after many genetic alterations
had turned themselves into a master race, with abilities unheard of
before, but had eventually altered themselves into a more warlike
race, which had eventually killed itself off in wars, and which had
been remembered throughout galaxies for thousands of years.

The few survivors of the race were condemned
by other races all over space, as well as being condemned by their
own race, and they never attempted to rebuild their empire, which
had eventually turned into new types of entities/time beings, who
were immortal, and used time travel.

The time being had made a mistake when it
had been younger and had been captured and imprisoned on the world,
and had made itself the ruler of the world, with its powers, which
had grown progressively, over centuries.

Its powers were now colossal, especially in
the central galaxy, and it did incredible things, and worked away
in its mountain castle carrying out its experiments and
explorations, separated from the outside universe.

It created bright flashes of light with its
mind, and a loud whirling sounds appeared, similar to a whirlwind,
growing from a whisper to a loud mechanical whirl, and it became
mingled with a crackling, like a crackling fire, from within
it.

The room vibrated around the being as it
exploded with power that shuddered through the whole tower!

The room looked like a medieval
laboratory, but was full of highly advanced scientific objects,
with the being
’
s other things, which included pieces of
strange creatures.

A diagram was sketched across the center of
the floor, with symbols around it, and above it the being turned
into a bright white light floating and spinning through the
air.

It whirled fast, and sparks of colored light
went around its fringes, and thousands emerged and spread out
across the whole of the room, while the sparks of energy created
flashes of light over the damp stone walls, and sounds from it
became deafening.

The center of where the time being was
turned bright like a sun, and
i
t continued to become brighter, and the
whirling increased louder, shaking everything furiously, including
the whole stone tower, until it looked as though it would go
crashing down and over the cliff, to the fantastic world
below.

An explosion
of light and sounds blasted out and it suddenly vanished, and the
time being traveled away into the past.

Within seconds
it made a reappearance, and reformed into what it had been before
it had left, reforming into its original self.

The air from it blew everything light
around, and a whispering came from somewhere, and its long shape
formed, and sounds vanished and altered to a voice from it,
chanting strange sounds.

The being screamed as it formed back into a
being, and the tower blocks stopped shaking under it, and the
energy turned to a whirling light buzzing around its shape!

Shapes and colors formed within it, and an
upright almost human-like form appeared, and glowed within the
light. The being was over eight feet tall and at least four feet
wide at the top, and flickers of its unusual skeleton became
visible inside it.

A blast of brightness exploded out with
beams of colored light, and vanished away into a cloud of smoke,
and the noises stopped, and its massive shape stepped out of the
white smoke.

It wore a large black medieval-type cloak,
covered in stars and strange symbols, sketched over it, and where
its eyes once must have been there were glowing red lights.

The time
being had traveled back in time and had carried out its mission,
and had reappeared seconds after it had left, and it continued with
its experiments on
the miniature white explosion, and
made it magically hover inertly in mid-air.

Chapter 7

The Lost World

A deep intensely cold haze edged its way over
the wonderland world that surrounded them, as Kruger stood
examining some vegetation near where they had stopped to rest. It
was nothing like anything that he had seen on any of the other
worlds that he had visited or seen elsewhere.

He could not get if it was the strange
environment about him or all the strange stars blanketing the sky,
or something strange existing there, or the universe that they were
in, or a combination of them that created different reactions.

Strange vapor clouds shifted about
their sides, always following, shadowing them, at a distance
–
probing them,
and analyzing them for some purpose.

He had stopped wondering if they had
intelligence a few miles back, when he had proved they had, he had
seen Major Ripley realize it too, and he vaguely watched it linger
over deep meteorite craters in the mind-bending landscape.

He watched it now to find out what form of
life it was. What did it use to exist? What was it doing?

He felt like getting some samples from it,
but decided to wait until he was with the others, and they could
check if it was dangerous.

A peculiar whisper of something came from an
unknown place far away, and he considered if it was from the clouds
or something else, and what else it could be.

Major Ripley moved in close to him, with
interest.

“
How the hell did that happen? The sun
rose just before we left the GX1!
”

The sun was sinking deeper into the
skyline, and areas of fog illuminated
like
the luminary rays of bright
alien moonshine
–
from the rays beaming from powerful stars.

Gusts of air blew and withdrew in the
opposite direction, blowing and sucking, giving Kruger the feeling
that something invisible nearby was breathing over him, or
something was there and the environment was reacting to its
presence and its paranormal powers.

The two paranormal scientists would love it,
he was sure. They were out there in another vehicle.

It had been them that had first found the
world, and come out with the idea of the GX1 going to the
world.

They had become great and famous celebrities
aboard the GX1 since saving everyone from the alien, when it had
been found out by all the media there, and were now adored by the
military and the president, who had been at deaths door when they
had saved them, and took them away out of the universe to where the
alien could not go.

The media on the GX1 had given the story
full coverage for weeks, and the president and military had given
the two paranormal scientists full military protection around their
laboratory and scientists and all the equipment to investigate
everything that they could about what had been experienced by
everyone when they had left the universe.

What everyone had experienced there and had
said had been a mass of confusion, and many people thought that
something else had happened!

Hundreds of scientists all over the ship
were now working on finding a way to get them back to the normal
universe.

Even though many did not want to
leave, and wished to investigate everything there for the totality
of the voyage
–
as they were sure they would not experience anything like it
throughout the rest of the voyage, and perhaps their
lives.