The Thing: from the Depths of Hell (11 page)

Kruger sensed
that there was something else that they were not saying, but he
would only need to wait for a while for them to tell him what.

While Mitchel
considered what to say next they examined the information screens
on the equipment, and he wondered if the stuff worked anything like
the stuff for detecting neutrinos, and he considered what it
was.

“
We
found something new out in the void!” Bryan continued, updating
Major Ripley and the other scientists on what they had found. “And
we have not seen anything like it before! It is totally unknown,
and has intelligence!”

“
A life
form that exists in space, and that void?”

“
We do
not know if it is a life form, or what it is, but it exists
multidimensionally!”

All the
scientist looked over, fascinated, and Major Ripley also became
fascinated too.

“
You
mean there are definitely outer dimensions? And you have equipment
that can detect outer dimensions? I never knew all that stuff
actually existed! I have not seen it proven to exist!”

“
Exactly! This is the first of its kind! And it is
confidential, of course.”

“
Of
course! It is new then, and it needs to be checked out in the
field, and we may also come up with other finds before anyone else
does!”

“
Correct! You get it now!”

“
Could
this alien monster, running around the ship, be connected to
it?”

“
That
could explain where it came from!”

“
It had
to have come from somewhere!”

“
Exactly! And that is why we wish you to know of our
classified equipment! We have barely done full research on
it!”

Chapter 27

Multidimensional
Presence

By some phenomenon the instruments scanning
the alien showed it in outer dimensions with incredible levels of
energy, and all the scientists studied the recordings that they
gave them fascinated.

“
So this thing exists in other
dimensions then!
”
Major Ripley asked, and got his confirmation, taking out his
communicator to call the military control center of it and all the
other findings.

Kruger noticed some form of powerful
magnetic influence from it, and realized that it had confused him,
and that he would have to get answers from the two scientists about
it.

“
What could create such
power?
”
he
asked Mitchel, observing him understanding the information
more.

“
This thing is tremendous! I can now
see why you had a hard time destroying it. The majority of it is in
the other dimensions, and it is not made of normal matter. It is
mainly energy to us, but it is far more in its own
dimensions.
”

“
What do think it
wants?
”
Kruger asked.

“
That I am not sure
of!
”

“
Could it just be
evil?
”
Kruger asked, trying to see if they thought of it as the
paranormal devil that it looked like.

“
I cannot answer that! But it could
also be defending itself by getting rid of us. It surely has not
seen anything like us! That can be proven by its original behavior,
and it slowly adapting itself to this dimension, spacecraft, and
us. It is learning more and more!
”

“
It has to be after the spacecraft
too!
”
Major
Ripley answered firmly.
“
Everything it has done has been more or less
to get the spacecraft!
”

“
And we
will be probably here for a long time,” Kruger
continued.

Major Ripley
began talking to someone on his communicator, and asked Mitchel,
“What form does this multidimensional alien take in its own
dimension, or dimensions, which it is adapting itself from? And
what do you call it, if you had to give it some form of
identification?”

“
I am
not sure I can answer all that, as it is through dimensions, and
not just one, and has different energy states in them all. It is
more an entity! We have not fully realized what it is! It is in the
depths of space, at the most different region from out environment,
as it can get. So I doubt if we will ever be able to compare it! We
have so little, and know so little about its identity that it could
even be embarrassing if we gave anymore.”

“
And
they may not fully believe you?” Major Ripley moaned, as he
listened to the response from the military control center. “And
they want to know if we can properly back up the
claims?”

“
Exactly! They will need to know everything that they can
about it, as they will need to destroy it!”

“
We need
as much as possible in detecting it too, or capturing it – if we
cannot destroy it! And they can throw it back out there, where it
belongs.”

Chapter 28

The G1 Explosion

The
G1
explosion,
made of
all the deadliest G1 weapons,
blasted out
with the
most hideous lurch Kruger had ever felt, going straight threw him
and everyone around him, in the military control center, throwing
everything outwards, with such a force that for the seconds that it
lasted virtually everyone there must have visualized it was the end
of everything,
and
Kruger saw
a
blinding ghostly
whiteness, as he banged his
head against a wall.

The president
and General Chisholm started arguing with Colonel Pratt over what
had happened, over the explosion having such an impact, throwing
them into objects, and people being injured all over the place.

They had
guaranteed nothing more than a small wave of force reaching there,
with all the precautions and energy fields and other things used to
stop any shockwave.

For a few
seconds Kruger had actually thought that they had been going to
kill them by blowing them up, and perhaps cover the defeat the
military would have, while stopping it getting the spacecraft to
get to the Earth.

He wondered
what the consequences of it getting to the Earth would be. There
biggest achievement ever would be turned to the worst disaster
ever.

He
imagined what the G1 explosion would have been like if the energy
screen had not been used around the explosion, and he imagined
a
powerful
flare,
blasting into
his
surroundings,
instantly
disintegrating everyone and everything
.

It was
mind-boggling!
It
was
irrevocably raving
mad
ness
?

Some fragile
items were shattered and scattered all over the place.

Many people
lay on the floor, while medical people came in and attended to
them.

After the
president and General Chisholm had left, he left as well, and found
injured people and damage everywhere he traveled in the
vehicle.

The
worst was the nearest to the
targeted area, and there were seriously injured people being taken
out of the regions, and being reported all over the
media.

The president
even gave an interview apologizing to everyone, and the people in
the zones near the explosion, and condemned Colonel Pratt for not
foreseeing it, and clearing all the zones, and warning people more,
and allowing to get injured when they could have been safely
protected by various things in safer regions.

Chapter 29

The Explosions

The explosions were startling and destroyed
everything in seconds, and the alien had to fight to stop itself
being entirely destroyed, and would have failed if the life forms
had fully known of its existence in other dimensions and had fully
attacked it there.

The magnitude of it was beyond its
comprehension, and it even admired them for creating it, and even
showing its existence to it.

It also could not comprehend how they had
managed to survive it. The entire spacecraft should have been
destroyed in seconds, and it kept using its senses to detect it,
and found it fully functioning, and with the life forms still
aboard.

After a long time it began probing the zone
it had been in, and found total emptiness, an immense hollow zone
in the spacecraft, and it managed replace itself there, after a few
failed attempts at trying to move into the occupied spacecraft, and
it kept itself in the destroyed zone seeking to escape, and
searching what had happened there.

It did everything to increase its powers and
structure, as it drifted about, and had a deadly encounter with the
energy shield that they had put around it, and like the outer
energy screen of the spacecraft it was unable to go through it, and
it examined it.

The explosion had blasted into the energy
shield bubble, and nothing in it had survived, and it remained
there by controlling its forces, and drawing together and restoring
its elements.

It had become far more conscious since the
explosions, while it had changed itself to help survive any further
reoccurrences, and it had improved its powers, and had moved around
the energy sphere examining it for weaknesses, and learned to
control its formation and powers.

If only it could harness such powers that
the explosion had, it could move on to a new form, far greater and
powerful enough to do what it had never even visualized doing.

It floated endlessly through the
nothingness, on a quest, trying to reach its ultimate goal, which
it was never sure what it would find with, drifting and weaving,
occasionally astounded, wondering what the life forms would do with
it, and if it would slowly drain away with the loss of energy, with
its size shrinking down to an implausible size, and it realized
that the life forms would surely scan and check it, which it was
sure they had not done, and it realized that it should find a way
to conceal itself from all their detection systems, as they may
want to check or repair the explosion zone, and it could escape,
and would find a new way of destroying them, and stop anything
further happening again, and make sure that it the last threat of
destruction.

Chapter 30

The Explosion
Investigation

The energy bubble around the explosion zone
was examined in great detail in intense examinations, and it was
found and reported to have no breaches and to have not allowed
anything to escape.

No traces of the alien were found anywhere
aboard or detected inside energy bubble, and it was found to be a
vacuum inside, instead of what normal explosion remains would
leave, and have powerfully compressed gasses, and even the
paranormal scientists survey of it, in other dimensions, showed the
same results.

It was concluded by all that the alien no
longer existed, and would no longer threaten to destroy them all,
and the military were congratulated for the work that they had
done, and actually beating such a scenario, and everyone in the end
saw that the explosion damage to the rest of the spacecraft should
be ignored, and warnings and other actions would be used if the
explosions were to be used again, and they continued to repair all
the damage that they could to either continue with the voyage or
return home.

As all the damage was being repaired and
people recovered Kruger started to realize something, and that they
had missed something, and that the alien had to sneak aboard as it
could not enter the energy shield, and though they had tried small
energy shields on it, it would not have been able to escape the
energy screen used around the explosions, as it would have
escaped.

He was
positive of the fact, and thought that they had missed it, and he
also realized why the alien had not just attacked the control
center and taken control of the spacecraft, as there was an energy
screen there, which had been activated a few times through the
events, which had been powerful enough to stop it.

Another
investigation into Don came about when it was realized that nobody
knew anything about him or who he was – unlike Kruger and the
others, as people knew him, and though they had forgotten many
things, they still remembered him.

Don was
someone who should not be there, and the fact that the alien had
been another copy of him confused things further, and many people
aboard believed that nobody should leave the spacecraft at all,
unless there was an emergency.

A full
investigation into Don would never come up with anything
worthwhile, and he might have been caused by some form of accident
by the alien when it had copied him. Yet when they did more tests
on him, on him being older, they discovered that he was far older
than they had originally estimated, and Kruger now thought that he
was him from the future, and that somehow he had been thrown back
in time, and he thought that at some point in the future something
would happen that would throw him back in time, and that he would
have to go through it all over again, and he started to realize
that Don could be keeping more secrets than he had thought, and
that he had not just lost his memory, and was avoiding doing things
because he was avoiding altering history, and his own history, and
creating fatal problems.