The Deadliest Haunted Castle (28 page)

Their number
one problem now was that they had not found a way to return to the
universe, and no matter how much they worked on the project it
still never resolved anything. The problem that confronted them was
that they could not locate the universe, and there was no proper
way available, and signs kept indicating that they would be stuck
there.

It was not the
fact that the universe that they were in had anything wrong with
it, it was the fact that they had people to return to and things to
complete by returning and the mission would also be a disaster, and
the biggest, most expensive, highly advanced spacecraft would be
even classed as a flop, and he doubted if they would ever build
another, and it would be a disaster that would ruin all their work,
and incredible discoveries, if mankind never received it, and all
the future would be altered by the technology and GX1 not being
there, and them not warning them of what they had encountered.

They had to
return, and they would not stop working on the problem until they
had achieved it.

He decided to
introduce himself to Bryan, as he stopped his work, of analyzing a
device.

“
Well,
what have you come up with now?” he asked, looking bewildered,
realizing it was getting worse, and he now could not identify
anything there.

The place was
packed with newly manufactured equipment, which he had known they
were working on and creating all over the place at different
locations, and he had been too involved with his work to bother
about investigating it.

“
You
know we got a great deal of scientific breakthroughs from the time
being! Well, the major one was time travel!”

“
Time
travel!” he gasped, and recalled the presence of Don, and the
events that might have made him appear there.

“
Yes! It
is incredibly complex, and we have everyone that we have working on
this project!”

“
What
will you use time travel for?”

“
A time
probe! We are going to send a probe back in time, and it will
follow the spacecraft back into the black hole and locate the
universe, and we will also use it to examine the outer universe,
and the other universes there, and find ways to locate
them!”

Chapter 38

The Time Probe

The time probe
was launched and vanished into the past, to chase the spacecraft
back in time, to follow the spacecraft back into the black hole,
and voyage beyond the universe, and approximately one minute later
it reappeared, after the completion of its mission, with it having
traveled back into the future to a minute afterwards.

Kruger gasped
at the technology behind it, and realized there could a whole
hidden universe about him of multidimensional things and objects
traveling in time.

The probe
resembled some form of highly advanced missile, and he examined it
looking for any damage, and for any signs of powerful forces acting
upon it, and hardly saw anything and it looked like it had been
when it had left.

He wondered
what uses such an object could have. Space probes were still being
used all over the place, and were cheaper and far better than
sending out spacecrafts, and he thought of all the missions that it
could carry out.

They had to be
able to find and identify the outer universes, and once the
scientists had checked all its information, they all started
rejoicing, and started announcing all the information to the media,
and that they could go home.

The incredible
thing was there were no signs in the recorded voyage of the white
entity globes that he had seen there when he had entered the outer
universe, and he had questioned others about it and found that
nobody but him and the two paranormal scientists had seen them, and
they had only given terrifying accounts of them thinking that they
had been dieing there.

The problem
with the actual voyage, and them traveling as energy forms in such
a mind-bending way, was it was not acceptable, and it could only be
used if their lives depended upon it, and after some investigations
he found out that they intended to use an energy beam that would
put everyone aboard to sleep as they entered the black hole, and
that they would be immediately awakened on their return to the
universe, and they would not even realize what had happened.

The launch
from the world was tremendous, and everyone celebrated going home,
and what it would be like returning home, with all their stories
and discoveries, and Kruger thought of the alien in its castle.

They had given
it everything that they could to start its civilization, and its
eggs had hatched, and it started using all the equipment and
supplies that they had provided.

Kruger watched the voyage into the black
hole on a large screen with all the scientists, as they all rested
in a large hall in seats, where they would be put to sleep when
they left the universe, like being thrown into suspended
animation.

The voyager darted straight towards the
black hurricane shape, of particles of space matter, asteroids,
moons, planets, and suns.

Its black region stretched across the screen
like a black monster, and some form of new galaxy, with formations
of swirls of matter going around it.

Some
people reacted nervously as the
deep black radius
swiftly grew, and some gritted their teeth as its blackness
engulfed them, and darkness covered the screen, and he saw objects
darting into it in lines of light, and the screen lit up with
diagram lines, marking the blackness with lines showing different
regions of it with symbols marking various points of it, and the
voyager went straight to a region marked in its depths.

The tremendous speed seemed to increase as
it gripped and pulled it towards it, and the voyager shook, and
they fell asleep as it turned like to an earthquake tremor.

Chapter 39

The Universe

The universe
was strange, and he wondered if they were the first to experience
the sensation. It was like some element there was not in the other
universe, and he also felt that there was something else in the
other universe that was not there.

The mission
was a complete success, and everyone aboard was rejoicing, and all
the scientists were excitedly working through all the information
that they collected in the outer universe, and they were just
starting their mission of putting it all together, before they
returned to the Earth.

They had
traveled through the entire outer universe without knowing it, and
had awoken to the site of the universe, when their equipment had
put them back into space and time, at the same location, in the
void, and they were leaving the void and the entity behind, and he
wondered what it had been and if they had picked it up wrongly, and
if they could have made a deal with it in the same way as they had
done with the time being back on the world.

It was
unbelievable the amount of advances that they had achieved, and he
wondered if it was a mistake or if they would be remembered in the
future for transforming their empire into something incredible.

They could now
travel space and time and locate themselves in other universes,
dimensions, times, and use leaving space and time to relocate
themselves just about anywhere in the universe, and he wondered if
the they made the GX1 outdated already, which they would never have
believed could happen.

In fact the
only real damage he now had was the death of his girlfriend, Marsha
Pendleton, who died hideously from being attacked by the alien
monster in the void, and he regretted it immensely, and having to
go back and tell everyone about her death, and he started to
realize that they had time travel, and he might be able to go back
and save her.

The whole trip
could very well be ruined by it, and he would know that he could
have prevented it, and he decided to try to persuade the two
paranormal scientists into allowing him to go back and save her,
and went over to their research center.

When he
arrived he was startled to see Don there, and wondered what was
going on, and examined them trying to see what they were up to, and
he felt that they had predicted his arrival by some means, and they
seemed startled that Don was there too.

“
We have
some good news!” Bryan eventually announced, after he had finished
examining his reactions, seeing he was not going to say anything.
“Don wants to go back in time to save Marsha Pendleton, as he
thinks it was his faulty that she was killed ...”

“
Can you
actually send
him
back?” he
asked, begging for it to be true.

“
We can,
and we can return him to the void in vehicle four!”

Kruger could
not believe his luck, and realized how lucky he was now! He
realized that Don was probably more determined to save her, after
all the things that he had been through, and he had more experience
than him of time travel.

“
I
believe that I can save her by relocating her to the right location
before the alien attacked the spacecraft, as I have located areas
that were not attacked ...”

“
Why do
you not just stop the alien getting aboard?”

“
For one
thing I am not sure that I could do it, and changing that could do
a great deal more damage ...”

“
He
cannot go that far!” Mitchel replied, firmly. “He could alter
everything – and we could end up in a worse scenario! We never knew
the alien was there, and if is possible for him to kill it or even
stop it, the entity may do something else, and may succeed in doing
it ...”

Kruger was
amazed and thanked them greatly, especially for not having to go
back there and go through it all again.

Many things
about time travel confused him, and he had a hard time working
things out, and wondered if they were as positive of the outcome as
they made out, as he thought he would be the one to go back in
time, and he would be Don.

“
What I
don’t get is what will happen to Don if he goes back? Will another
version of him appear here after he has gone back, and will there
be four versions of me back there?”

“
It’s a
problem, and you will have to accept the consequences for altering
it! It is not the same as in the movies though!”

Once they had
all agreed to everything they left and went to vehicle four, where
the scientists had sent up their equipment to send it back in time
and back to the void.

After a while
Kruger began to realize that the real problem was the sending of
Don back, as they had not had that much experience of doing it so
accurately, and had to check everything.

It was clear
that the scientists had to lower the energy shield, and replace it
quickly, as they were sure that it could not travel through it, as
well as other dimensions, and he realized why they were doing it
now, and not earlier at a close range to the world, and that they
had probably detected that the entity there was out of range to do
anything, with the energy shield down.

Don got into
the vehicle firmly, and Kruger wondered again why he was so
confident and always knew what he was doing. He had tried to
question him many times, but had failed to get anything, and he
just put it down to him having done everything before, which was
staggering thinking back on it all, from his perspective, as Don
could have told them, but had not, and he never realized what would
happen.

All the
scientists stood back as the equipment burst into life, using
massive amounts of energy, through attached cables, with the shear
energy making the spacecraft about them vibrate, and lurch
backwards and forwards.

Kruger for a
moment hesitated and wished he had forced them into giving him more
information on what they were doing.

White translucent lights appeared magically
around the vehicle, as it floated inertly in mid-air, in front of
their eyes, like stars in space, and the scientists continued
activating controls and monitoring it, and energy discharges fired
out at regions of it, and the translucent lights around the
vehicles simultaneously increased to bright whiteness, and the
power being used could be felt in vibrations and heavy thuds.

A ferocious blast of light exploded out from
the center of the vehicle, and it turned transparent and shifted,
creating fuzzy transparent dimensional forms beside it, from time
shifts, and some formed clustered layers.

It resembled an altered projection of
reality magically hovering there, in patterns of energy, and after
a sudden explosion of movement it vanished.

Epilogue

The Alien/Entity
Returns

The new alien entity had remained almost
dormant within the human that it had created, with its automatic
senses taking scans of its surroundings.

The human was perfect, and had been the
perfect place to dwell undetected by the humans, who believed the
human had been something else, and had failed to realize the
truth.

It had collected all forms of information
about everything, and had collected far more than it needed and had
visualized, and it had analyzed everything in a greater degree than
it had as the entity in the void.