The Stargate Black Hole (4 page)

They were
shrouded in moondust, and he realized again that they would have to
go forward. And he considered if they would find his remains there
one day, frozen and in an unaltered condition, and end up in a
museum.

The gray
landscape was untouched by water or life everywhere, and empty and
hollow with no sound, and had a deep haunting silence in its
environment that went further than any desolate snow landscapes. He
was on another world! An empty lost world lost in the depths of
space, absent of life, and a dieing world.

What was
shocking was how easily they had trapped them?

Could they
avoid a large amount of deaths? There was nothing to recognize
anywhere, and he watched some of the men attempt to use
communication devices to the moonbase to get a vehicle there fast,
but they failed and just tried to see if there was anything to pick
up on it anywhere!

Another problem
was that they had experienced a long sleepy flight and had got
easily exhausted wading through the deep dust with the large
spacesuits!

It was no
surprise that Commander Craven eventually grew angry and made them
blast them with as many well aimed rounds to force some form of
reaction, but they seemed to ignore it, and he knew that they would
have to hit them with something!

“
What are we going to do
...?
”
one
of men finally spluttered through his spacesuit communicator,
fighting for air, furious that they had been put in such a
situation!

“
We better agree to something
...
”
Commander Craven
shouted
back, giving glances about, realizing the mess of his expedition so
far, and decided not to continue.

“
We’ve put our foot in it
again!
”
Reeves continued, who was near Weaver, who had become the
closest and most trusted person to Weaver.

“
We’ll have to do something!” Weaver
forced himself to reply, and watched Commander Craven
gasp.

“
Are you thinking of attacking them
directly!” Commander Craven answered finally.

“
None of
them have shown themselves! So I reckon we could surprise some of
them!”

“
Dangerous! Good idea! Can you do it
without being seen?”

“
We can’t stay here all day!” Reeves
replied first. “Our air supply is getting low!”

“
We’ll go together!” he replied
firmly.

Weaver was surprised that they all agreed
with it and that they would prefer to die there than die of
suffocation!

Deep down Weaver really wanted to know who
was there, and capture one and question him.

They all agreed on a plan of action and
started fixing themselves up and preparing themselves, and he
watched their blank faces examining everything in the distance and
at the point where the gunmen were.

They all rushed out and sneaked along covered
regions that they would be unseen in, with their guns ready for
heavy action!

Weaver wondered why they had stopped firing
anyway in amazement! Then when they moved swiftly close to them he
realized they had seen them coming and had decided to retreat fast
in a sideways direction, and he thought of chasing one but it was
useless and the spacesuits and low gravity were too hard to use
without training.

They were also well armed and capable of
killing them and he was sure that they had heavier weapons
available! How could they attack and win with them being so heavily
armed without making major losses? Then as they properly examined
the area around where they had been he realized that they had been
capable of attacking them easier from there!

He just knew something would have stopped him
getting any information from the gunmen if they had captured any of
them!

He thought of the death of the soldier near
him and how ruthlessly they had attacked! He had never fully
realized how desolate, deadly, and beyond civilization the moon
was, and how far from help it was! If anything serous happened they
could not get help no matter what! He wondered if a war took place
there if they could handle it!

Now all they needed to do was to get to the
moonbase fast before their air ran out, and as they reached the
moonbase he began wondering why none of their footsteps led to or
came from the moonbase!

Chapter 4

The Secret
Moonbase

The moonbase was concealed deep underground
and they found the tunnel with the entrance, and a soldier used a
communicator at the side of the entrance to announce their
arrival.

Weaver was bewildered and wondered how they
managed to survive there! Surely the air alone would be tremendous
and take vast space vehicles to bring in!

It was incredibly camouflaged and looked like
part of the landscape, and he realized there must be other
entrances to bring in vehicles and far larger objects, and perhaps
at where vehicles might be kept.

Commander Craven identified himself and they
sent out some soldiers to get them. Weaver realized that they were
very precautious, and wondered why they had not described the
mysterious deaths there as being the gunmen! And he wondered if
they were actually at war with each other for some reason that they
had not mentioned and that they had made it confidential!

Weaver recalled and realized one main point
and that might prove that some of the gunmen had to have been in
the base or have someone in it working for them, as deaths were
reported as occurring in it, and he thought that it could be a
major clue to finding them!

The entrance was slowly opened by soldiers in
spacesuits who identified them and took them in and into a large
air chamber where they stayed until air filled it, and they finally
removed their spacesuits and marched in through a long corridor
going downwards, wondering what it would be like.

As Weaver moved in at the front he saw that
there was far more powerful lighting further in and he felt
delighted that he would soon be able to rest and be inside and away
from the severe conditions, and actually be doing his job that he
was there for!

He wondered what they did there and were like
in such conditions, and what peculiarities they must have with
being in such a place, as he had seen elsewhere, and he wondered
what effects the very low gravity had. Was it the same as being in
space, and on space stations, and did they normally have to return
to the Earth and proper gravity after six month, or was it
longer?

He enjoyed exploring hidden places, and
basically the unknown and unexplored, and he examined long
corridors, untouched rooms, looking for evidence of anything.

He wondered what it would have been like to
be one of the first there, and humans to visit other worlds! What
would it actually be like? What would be the big surprises? Could
they grow food and create and find all their needs?

He wondered if they had a water source at the
moonbase, as it could mean the survival of the moonbase in the end,
as the cost of it could accumulate!

What magnificent wonders would exist there?
Would people eventually start building more and more structures
instead?

A main corridor went out to at least a fifth
of a mile with corridors and rooms going along it, and at the end
of it stairs going downwards to other floors.

They clearly had found a way to build it with
the least amount of materials!

Weaver realized how hard it would be to solve
what was occurring and that there was far more people there than
they had estimated, and he realized that the plans that he had seen
of it had been wrong for some reason, and he wondered how they
managed to get so many people there and have enough supplies!

He sensed hidden dangers and mysteries
existed there and confirmed it from what some of the scientists
they met said! The moonbase soldiers were far different from them,
and had been clearly chosen for many different reasons! They were
glad to see them and have help arrive, and he did believe that they
believed that they could be killed there!

They were finally taken along a corridor to
their sleeping accommodations and Weaver took a room next to
Commander Craven and Reeves took one next to him, where they
unpacked their stuff, and Weaver was happy to see that it had
electricity and heating and other needs, and he visualized he was
on a strange version of the Earth.

The low gravity was extraordinary and he
wondered how much damage constant low gravity would have!

Later when he had something to eat in the
dinner room some of the scientists started arguing with each other
about things he could not grasp, and they only just stopped
themselves mentioning things that were confidential!

Many things continued to confuse him and he
could not get what they were all actually working on there! What
were they doing out there in such a desolate region and in so many
numbers? Surely the location had been explored by now? The cost was
tremendous for keeping it there! There were no indications of
anything! Yet he kept getting suggests of a tremendous confidential
project of incredible value that most of them were working on!

Yet were they just funding vast amounts of
useless and expensive science research, stopping the place from
being closed?

Though they could be supplying valuable
information on vast amounts of things for many sources, as well as
looking after the military moonbase, and the tremendous top secret
project they kept suggesting could be a highly confidential
military project!

Chapter 5

The
Investigation

After they had discussions with the military
commander of the moonbase Weaver realized that they were going to
give them little information on anything, and for his
investigations for his intelligence mission, and it had him all
over the place meeting different people, and he continuously
grasped suggestions of things, which never added up, and he was
sure he was being denied access to something dangerous!

Something was being hidden away and they were
all united and avoiding them, and some even showed deep fear of
something, which he never actually grasped! Were people being
killed for saying too much? If so he may be able to find one of
them!

He entered many laboratories and drank with
many of the scientists and tried to work out what they were working
on, but they normally avoided telling him what they were doing.

He started to believe that there were
scientists there that knew something that would tell him and he
decided to find a way to find them and get them to tell him what he
wanted!

He eventually started to realize many things
that the scientists never mentioned, and he realized one and that
the lower floors were never mentioned, and they avoided taking him
there, and he decided he had to go there and see what was there for
himself.

When he arrived at the bottom floor he found
two security guards outside the entrance door and they stopped him
entering, and told him that he needed special security
clearance.

Weaver sensed that they never guarded the
door all the time and believed that they would stop for a lunch
break as they all stopped work above at the same time, so he waited
until he believed they were away having lunch and checked from a
hidden region on the stairs and saw that they were away and rushed
down the stairs and entered the door and found a long empty
corridor, realizing that they had not even attempted to lock
it.

He entered further into it and looked into
empty rooms, wondering what they were up to, and all he saw was
empty laboratories, and he examined one in detail, looking for
clues of anything, and found documents mentioning particles and
particle research and photographed them with a miniature
camera.

The bottom floor was differently designed for
some reason and mysterious things there kept him intrigued!

Perhaps it had hidden military secrets and he
wondered what kind of secret weapons they could have discovered,
which might not have been revealed to the world, and he wondered
what the whole structure might have originally been like when
built, and he realized the implications of them going out there on
the moon and that it could be some of their most highly
confidential stuff, and he even considered leaving it as he might
do damage. If they were not doing any damage!

While approaching a corridor at his front
side a white shape appeared and he saw a scientist in a white
laboratory jacket marching out, and he muttered something and
ignored him, and marched off towards where Weaver had come from,
and to the stairs going up to the top floors, and he wondered if he
would tell on him and shrugged and watched the scientist leave, and
he wondered what he had been up to as he saw that he clearly had
been actively working on something.

The incident and scientist’s appearance stuck
in his thoughts and he tried to grasp some clue and something that
he had missed that he could not realize!

In the end he just went to where he came from
and rushed along the corridor.

What the hell were they up to? This case was
really fascinating him! There were things that did not add up and
make sense everywhere, and he could not think of any equivalence!
He had never even heard of anything taking place in space, and the
normal cases were nothing compared to this one!

He swiftly moved through the corridor
wondering where it went and what the use was of having so many
laboratory rooms, and he wished that he had informed someone where
he had gone, and he made sure his handgun was ready.