The Alien Artifact 9 (Novelette) (9 page)

It was incredible the horse was trying
to kill other horses and I watched it accelerate away into the
audience and
burst into
life, with
its
colossal inner strength, and it ran furiously into people
and crazily knocked them down!

The audience
ran when it attacked furiously like a wild beast, and they
stampeded away in the opposite direction as it smashed everything
in its path, and it charged out the racecourse and into a busy high
street, charged into cars and trams, and chased people everywhere,
leaping on roofs, and it jumped into a car windscreen, and through
a supermarket window, and ran through it biting and smashing
everything in its path, and chased people everywhere, and it leapt
on shelves of food sending them crashing down over the floor, and
kept going until the police arrived and shot it dead.

Chapter 19

The Bottom of the
Shaft

At the bottom
of the hospital shaft, after I had climbed down a rope ladder to
the bottom, I was surprised that they had dug down below the
hospital foundations and dug out a large circular cavity, where
there were many scientists, examining and setting up equipment, and
archeologists digging out regions, and I climbed down and examined
all their equipment for clues to what was happening, and recalled
reading about some of their work in a scientific magazine, and I
watched Oswald and Higgins at work, and sensed they had recently
made a major discovery.

The
determination of the two paranormal scientists was now unbelievable
and they had proven the occurrences in the hospital were all
centered around the bottom of the shaft, and they had brought in
all the scientists, and members of the exploration association, and
I realized it was their biggest discovery, and that it was perhaps
their only real and proven one.

Although what
disappointed me was they never received the reaction I received
from what was there, and they only detected reactions and not major
disturbances, and as far as I knew nobody else had collapsed and
had gained the powers I had, and I had a hard time covering the
power I had from the scientists, as I foreseen something might
occur, and I found it was starting to weaken and I wished it to
just go away, and it never really did what I wanted and was a
danger.

Even though
the stuff they said they had done was now surprising, and even
alarming in places, which kept drawing my attention, I just
dismissed it later as them advertising their work! At times I had
even thought they were deliberately putting the psychic research
there to cover their real work and discoveries!

I was not really bothered anyway, whatever
it was, and I was happy now.

Even though newspapers had stories of horse
story and it even on some front pages, to my surprise, and some
believed something else had been involved, and that the horse story
was a cover up, and I was also surprised that it was even put in
front of stories of the war and the serial killer.

I had also received a letter that morning
directly from the Home Guard and another from Godfrey throwing me
out the army, and I was ecstatic, and I vowed never to go near it
again, and it was incredible, and Godfrey’s horse was disqualified
and he lost the bet to all the soldiers, and I discovered later he
had bet more on it than he had told.

I realized the Loch Ness monster find and
other occurrences could have been created or influenced by the
powers I had!

I realized straightaway that the whole world
could end up knowing of them if I was not carefully as the
scientists there were determined to get action and doing something,
and getting some form of conclusion.

They were all packed together around
equipment and some were filming everywhere, and I realized that
they expected some major occurrence to occur soon, and I listened
to them intensely, and even questioned them, but found little! They
either did not want me or outsiders to know or they wanted to show
it occurring.

The two paranormal scientists
informed me that they were
checking for virtually all known forms of energy and matter
disturbances that they could find in and about the area.

By some of the
reactions of some of the scientist I got they might have something
that could detect some form of alien, and I wondered what they were
talking about, as the paranormal scientist had not even accepted
anything could occur there.

I was unsure
of what was there, and Marple refused accept anything supernatural
or alien could exist, and insisted in explaining things as much as
he could, and left it until he could find something, and I had not
seen him being proven wrong so far, and I was at a loss, for
explanations and finding evidence, and I was surprised by one of
the scientists accounts that Marple had paid a visit there, and had
questioned them and had become satisfied and had left.

I was at a
loss at what he had found out, and I became possessed with finding
what was there, and what the conclusion to it was, and yet what
would he explain the powers I had as.

After a few
hours passed I realized that they were losing confidence in finding
something again, and surely put it down to not being low enough
below the ground, and I realized that they would have move their
equipment again and allow the archaeologists to dig far deeper
below.

A leading
member of the exploration association arrived at the top of the
shaft and Higgins climbed up the rope ladder to meet him, and I
realized they had a new plan, and started to work it out.

An hour later
scientists of the exploration association left and climbed up to
the top, and I listened to them, only vaguely able to hear
anything, and just found out they were bringing in something of
great value, which I could not grasp, and I could not work out what
else they had, which they never had there, and I never realized
what.

The equipment
about me could presumably detect the presence and the effects of
anything and indicate what was there!

The equipment
was there to check everything in a degree that had not been done
before, and was being tested for the first time, and they were
finally getting a chance to properly investigate something of
sophisticated potential.

I finally
asked Oswald, when he arrived down from above, “Would this
equipment detect anything at a distance?”

I wondered if
the occurrence was directly there, and if not if they could detect
it at a distance away, or far below, and I wondered why they were
not checking it at night as that was when all the occurrence had
taken place, and the paranormal occurrences occurred, and
occurrences at the house, and when I first climbed down the
shaft.

“
It may
detect things!” he replied, confused. “I am now unsure what is
here! But we do have stuff here that we use to check a whole range
of things to show us exactly what is occurring and what we may be
missing. Information such as it is vital! We may be able to acquire
some type of insight into what is happening – with the right
information?”

I considered
asking him if they should work there at night, and I suddenly
realized the dangers and what had happened to me in the above
shaft, and I realized that they had worked there at night and that
they had not got the same occurrences, and I then wondered if
anything would happen if I was there.

I wondered if
they had deactivated it by doing something. They could have caused
something to happen with their presence!

I realized
once again that Oswald was avoiding telling things, as I clearly
heard them mention things that he had avoided telling!

I was
surprised when they eventually mentioned bringing something in and
I wondered what! I knew they were avoiding saying things, and I
watched Higgins final come back down the shaft carrying a large
piece of equipment, which was part of something, and I examined it
as he careful placed it in the cavity, and watched other scientist
come down with more of it.

“
What
will that do?” I finally got the chance to ask him.

“
Forms of radar detection can be used
to examine things below the ground, but also with inaccurate
results …”

“
What about a powerful
sonar?”

He looked up at the idea and continued
working, and I realized scientists scanned the center of the Earth
with forms of sonar, using high explosives.

As I watched him setting up the
equipment, he replied,
“
The new surveying equipment on the airplane
we used in Loch Ness to detect the monster! I managed to persuade
them to remove it from the airplane and bring it down! As it’s the
most powerful we have available …”

“
They might be able to dig it out
eventually if it doesn’t work!”

“
You’re right! But we want to check
out what’s there first! This can scan more accurately, deeper and
faster, and more powerfully than anything we have, and has been
vastly improved since its use at Loch Ness! The detection
components are highly confidential again, and is used by the
military …”

“
It’s
top secret!”

“
It produces the most detailed mapping
of beneath the ground ever seen, to a far greater depth, making it
possible to observe small and large objects
–
of the dimensions we are
interested in, and further out! As we are not sure if it is
directly below! We have detected occurrences at other locations
…”

I realized it could detect underground
military bases and such far below the ground, perhaps hidden away
in mountains, normally undetectable, and I realized why they were
avoiding telling anything, and the majority of people there never
knew what it was or was happening, and that they might not be
allowed to use it, and that some of the scientists there were
military scientists, and I wondered what they were doing there.

Chapter 20

The Discovery

The equipment
system was functioning and ready to monitor everything around the
surrounding cavity in a far greater degree, and after all their
rigorous setting up of it, and taking down large powerful electric
cables, and all their preparations of everything, and their highly
advanced use of it I was fascinated at what it could do, and at
such a close range, as the other version on the airplane was not as
advanced and as powerful, and I considered if they had deliberately
given a reduced and incorrect estimate of the distance of the scan
to hide its true incredible powers, and it being confidential
equipment!

I grasped the
dangers of it as when I had only activated the metal detector at
the woman’s house it had made me collapse and made me unconscious,
and had a tremendous reaction, and I wondered if it could hit us
all with it, and kill us!

The whole
exploration seemed useless as I and most of the others surely would
not profit from it, and would only get the chance to solve
mysteries, and I wondered if we could get marked in history, and
have future explorers recalling our achievements.

What surprised
me was their firm belief that there was something there! The others
barely believed anything! They had had not found anything though!
Yet why were they so confident with so little? Were they keeping
something secret? Had they detected something? Had they known of
something before the occurrence there, and were investigating it
for the first time? They had hardly come up with anything and they
all were going crazy to do something, and I started to wonder what
was happening, and if I would survive to see the end of the
war!

The two paranormal scientists sat along from
the others at a large table, in the now large cavity, sitting
opposite each other, with an accurate map of the surrounding region
stretched out across it, searching the area and discussing it,
fascinated at the battle that had taken place, which before the
event I thought had events missing from it. It was strange as there
never looked as though there was anything there, especially in such
a public place, and going by recent information they got from
questioning locals and the woman at the house, there were no
occurrences up until the woman had activated her metal detector in
her house, and I felt I was missing something about the incident
that we should know, but I could not grasp it.

When something did occur with the equipment,
as they started activating it in stages, the reactions they gave
were unbelievable, and I suddenly realized how late in the evening
it had become, and discovered it was dark outside, and it was late
at night!

T
he equipment started showing strange reactions that they
could not comprehend as they never had all their equipment
functioning, and they could not grasp what was there, and it was
too vague, and insignificant vague reactions, which could be
anything being detected, especially from the surrounding city, and
hospital itself, and something nearby creating disturbances or
being detected for something.

From what I
heard they had a problem having not fully checked the equipment’s
reactions to everything, even though the original version had been
tested out for years, and they were sure that other things could
create some reactions. The equipment was far more sensitive at
detection than ever before, and had even been modified just before
its arrival, especially for working at close range, and at
distances that they had not worked at.

Suddenly one
scientist jumped up startled at a reaction on the screen of his
equipment and the scientists all went around him, where definite
reactions were being detected, and they all started excitedly
discussing what they thought of it, and what could cause such a
disturbance, and I saw that some were disappointed, but thought
there was definitely something there, and I waited to find out what
they had and if it would be a disappointment!