The Alien Orb (25 page)

“
This is entirely
new!
”
Mortimer stated, considering it from various perspectives,
and he watched it as if he had been waiting all his life to see
what was there, and gasped slightly.

“
What do you make of
it?
”
Mitchell asked, walking over to them.
“
We so far have had nothing
properly put forward on what its identity is?
”

“
How about calling it a
vortex?
”
Bryson stated, realizing that Mitchell had entered the vortex
too.

“
You
’
re right! It can be called some form
of vortex!
”

“
Well, it
’
s a start!
”
Mortimer continued.
“
The visible part
of the vortex has been detected in another dimension! We should be
able search what else is there. For instance what is causing the
vortex to exist, and what it really is? Maybe even places it leads
to!
”

They were
there to investigate what other scientists had not and to do it to
a greater degree every time and Bryson was positive by their
reactions that they had never had their day yet and they now never
considered that they might never come upon anything, and achieve
their goal, and that it would not be left for the people who
followed them someday to find and get marked in the history books
for.

If only they
could find something there that had gone undetected by everyone
else, with their detection methods and equipment being
improved!

He gasped when
he considered what they could come up with if they had something
that really worked – as they had advanced far further than he had
even imagined, and the place was packed solid with ever form of
equipment possible and it went beyond his imagination what they
might do.

It was like an
experiment to Merton and Mortimer to see what would happen if they
pushed beyond the boundaries of natural science, and out into the
supernatural.

The dark sky
of the place through the room widow now showed him the abyss of
billions of light years of space, and the dangers of their
exploration, and he considered if they would find anything if they
used the equipment at night.

Chapter 24

The Interdimensional
Surveillance

Once they had
moved all the equipment that they needed over to a room at the
second tunnel the other scientists joined them, and Mitchell
arrived, and stood wondering, looking slightly annoyed and watching
the equipment.

The scientists
decided to check the second tunnel at the same time as the other
tunnel with their improved outer dimensional scan, to see if they
were connected to each as the majority of the scientists believed,
which Bryson also wanted to find out.

It was morning
and the scientists had increased the power of the dimensional scan
and had started exploring the other tunnel.

Bryson sensed
that there was something that they were not saying, but he knew he
would only needed to wait for them to tell what it was as they were
in danger and needed to give all the information that they could,
to survive there.

While he
considered what could happen next the scientists started examining
the information on their screens on the equipment, and he wondered
if the stuff worked anything like the stuff for detecting
neutrinos, and he considered what it did.

“
It’s
found something new!” Merton announced, updating Mitchell and the
other scientists on what they had found. “I’ve not seen anything
like it! It is unknown and looks like it has
intelligence!”

“
An
entity/life form that exists in there,” Mitchell announced,
examining the wall, where the tunnel was behind. “What’s it like?
Is it that thing that’s killing everyone here?”

“
We do
not know if it is a life form – or what it is – but it exists in
many other dimensions!”

Bryson was
fascinated and realized that it was what had tried to make contact
with him, and surely had made William appear.

All the
scientists were fascinated and confused at what they were going to
end up with – another incredible find or disaster!

“
Well,
what will we do now?” Mitchell enquired. “Do you make contact with
it?”

“
It
might have made some form of contact with us already!” Bryson
announced.

“
When
did that happen?”

“
William! His appearance occurred after I entered this
tunnel, where I was sure something was trying to make
contact!”

“
William
does not know what he is or is doing? But according the other
scientists document on him he had to have been put here to check us
out ...”

“
But he
would have to be doing it without knowing it ... As he would have
said or we would have noticed him checking things. He also ignored
many things – and sources of information put near him that would
have been of interest!”

“
Perhaps
it is both!” Merton replied. “It was put there to make contact and
check you! It might have underestimated and thought we were
something different and had not understood what William was and
capable of! There are suggestions in the all the accounts of it in
the past from its first appearance on this world that it never
fully knew what it was doing. It is surely far different and not
from this universe in other dimensions and is mentioned as arriving
here to check out the other the thing at the other castle, which
it’s mentioned in trying to make contact with. It could very well
be designed to make contact, but damaged itself!”

“
That’s
the best and most explained solution that I’ve heard since I heard
of this whole affair!” Mitchell replied, thanking him.

Bryson was
surprised and decided to keep it as what Merton suggested until
anything else appeared.

Like some phenomenon occurred 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 really exists and is in
other dimensions!
”
Mitchell announced, taking out his
communicator to call the military control center of it and all the
other findings.

Bryson noticed some form of powerful
magnetic influence from it being registered on some of the
equipment, and realized that it had confused them, and that he
would get answers on it later.

“
What could create such
power?
”
Mitchell asked, observing them understanding the information
more.

“
This thing is
tremendous!
”
Merton stated.
“
I can now see why they could not destroy it.
The majority of it is in the other dimensions
–
and it is not made of
normal matter. It is made of energy to us
–
but it is far more in its own
dimensions.
”

“
What do think it
wants?
”
Mitchell asked.

“
That I am not sure
of!
”

“
Could it just be
evil?
”
Mitchell asked, trying to see if they thought of it as the
paranormal entity that it looked like.
“
And if it
’
s not what is killing everyone here
for?
”

“
I cannot fully answer that! But I
think at one point when it arrived at the castle it had to defend
itself and created things to defend it
–
and it did not fully know what it
was creating or was up against
–
as with William, and it does not fully know
what it or William is doing here
–
if it even knows about it at
all
–
as I
believe it is not fully conscious! There are mention of it and
other things altering and going dormant. It must have been damaged
or its energy source grows weak, or both? It surely has not seen
anything like us! That can be proven by its original behavior and
it trying to adapt itself to here. I think it still tries to learn
and collect information though!
”

“
That’s
very interesting”
Mitchell answered firmly.

Mitchell began
talking to someone on his communicator, and asked Merton, “What
form does this multidimensional take in this dimension, and as a
whole through dimensions? 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 yet – as it is through dimensions –
and our equipment has not been adapted for that yet – and has
different energy states in them all. It is more an entity! We have
not fully realized what it is! It is in what is like the depths of
space, at the most different region from our environment as it can
get. So I doubt I can properly compare it at the moment! We have so
little, and know so little about its identity ...”

“
And
they may not fully believe you?” Mitchell 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 you made
already?”

“
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 and capturing it – if we cannot
destroy it! And they can throw it back out there in space or
something, where it belongs!”

Chapter 25

The Treasure
Expedition

Bryson and Pendleton arrived at a room at the
virtually unexplored ground floor, without anyone seeing them going
there. It was where the bottom of the second tunnel was, and came
to an end, which Pendleton occasionally gasped at.

Bryson still could not believe that they
were still coming across highly potential unexplored spots, where
the treasure could be buried away.

After a great deal of thought and
information from the scans of the tunnel Bryson started realizing
that William Randall could have buried it at the bottom of the
tunnel, with the thing in it to scare away anyone going there.
Pendleton
’
s
memory had returned and he insisted that the other two treasure
hunters with him had insisted that it was there and that it was
buried away at the bottom.

The room was an ordinary castle room, which
had clearly not been entered by anyone for a long time by the webs
covering it everywhere, and he also noticed that no footprints were
on the dust on the carpet.

Bryson could not get why the others never
thought the treasure had been there on the ground floor, and
neither could Pendleton.

The tunnel had been there at the exact
location they had traced it to, and Pendleton was sure that they
would have found the treasure there and he was sure that they had
only entered the tunnel at the top floor as it had looked the best
place!

The wall grabbed their attention as its
thickness was the same as the other rooms the tunnels were in.

The archaeologists had given up scanning
walls and had found nothing with it. Their scans were not good and
their scans of the other tunnel had shown little! Their equipment
needed to be improved!

Bryson repeatedly thumped his hand hard
against the wall, intensely listening for anything, while he slowly
moved across it.

Bryson easily located the tunnel behind the
wall but instead of finding the boulders at the spot he discovered
something larger, and peeled away the wallpaper with Pendleton
until they revealed what looked like a solid block of stone, the
size of a doorway, surrounded by castle boulders.

Bryson stood amazed at how he and so many
others could have missed such a thing! How could they have found
the tunnel in the library and not even bothered going to the bottom
of it? It even made him gasp as he wondered if they had avoided
going there for a reason? The thing up there was hideous, even if
they were now thinking of it as a normal life form trying to escape
from its confines, and having advanced intelligence.

He was sure the ancient historical castle
had many hidden secrets and treasures buried away and wondered if
they might find anything else there.

At first he thought that he would have to
force the slab in or destroy it completely but when he pushed it he
saw it was a door, made of stone, and he carefully shifted the
awkward mass of stone in, in stages, into the wall, as Pendleton
stayed ready to help.

They were both obsessed and Bryson had to
push it further with all his weight and strength, as it became
stuck with dirt and stone around its edges, and his clambering
resumed until he had it out of the way and they could enter the
tunnel.

His eyes occasionally fell on the mess under
him with little interest! The thick layer of stone and dust
fragments were scattered across the ground and he started brushing
it away with his shoe to see what was below, and found more castle
stones!

He turned on his light and looked further,
and he wondered if the scientists working above would detect their
presence there, with amusement.