The Alien Star Chamber (Part One) (9 page)

“
Willis?” Weaver replied.

The Russian
commander called over one of his men and had him go and get him,
and Willis soon arrived.

“
Tell
them what happened!”

“
I
explored the cavity and spacecraft!” Willis replied. “I fell asleep
near what I believe was the front, and an entrance was opened when
I awoke! I entered it and I transported into a region inside, where
I became part of it and saw visions from its voyage!”

“
Where
did it come from?” Commander Craven gasped.

“
I do
not know! I was unable to realize much!”

“
What
happened then?”

“
When I
climbed out I was captured by some of the Russian soldiers! Who
started questioning me! They believe it opened in response to my
dream, where I mentally opened an entrance in it!”

“
What
happened then?”

“
The
soldiers were part of the same soldiers that were behind the
shootings!” the Russian commander declared. “As you have been told,
we were only to dig it up and investigate it, which we fully have
not done! We are trapped here! We cannot leave such a dangerous
object here!”

“
So the
deaths and shootings were done by a Russian renegade group that you
told us of? Where are they?”

“
They
were after technology from it, which they were unable to get until
Willis managed to enter it! They were stopping anyone for getting
anything before they could get it! They managed to get something
from it and have left! They left some of the soldiers working for
them behind!”

“
So they
copied Willis and entered it again?”

“
Yes!
They copied what Willis did and sent a man into it!”

“
What
did they get?” Weaver gasped, wondering why they were all gasping
at the incident so much.

“
We are
not fully sure what they got! They sent a man into it and we
believe it tried to make contact again, but it seems to have not
been able to do what it wanted! Which we do not fully know what! We
believe it rewarded the man for the attempt by giving him
something! We believe it could be a danger to mankind!”

Chapter 17

The
Investigation

What the hell
had they done? Had they contacted the voyager with the telescope
beneath the ice station?

Now that
Weaver knew the situation he realized that it was worse! The
technology, power, and size of the voyager was far greater than
anything he thought mankind could ever create, and he could not
even explain its existence!

All the
scientists from the ice station were there and staggered, and some
looked as though they were making plans to abandon the Antarctic!
The thing was a danger and indestructible, and had not been
properly checked, and they had only been able to check a few of its
basic functions from the two people who had entered it, and nobody
had really shown any proper awareness of the function of it as far
as he was concerned!

They had not
found a way to activate its entrance into opening again and making
contact with it, and that was the only final way of finding out
what it was for. Yet they had Willis who was confident in doing it
again, but totally refused to contact it unless there was a good
reason!

He stayed with
Willis and kept him near, and he knew if something was going to
happen that he would be there, as he was sure it had chosen him for
something and that they would need to use him for anything!

“
We
haven’t found a way to communicate with it!” a scientist with the
scientists from the ice station underground telescope announced, as
he walked over to him and Willis, as they stood next to where the
entrance had opened on the voyager.

“
What
have you been trying?” Weaver asked curiously, amazed at all of the
scientists crammed around the voyager, and into the massive
cavity.

It was
incredible the way the scientists from the ice station had all
burst into life when they all had seen it, and he and most of them
were astonished at the experience and knowledge the Russians had on
the things to do with the voyager!

It was as
though the scientists had been waiting all their lives for the
opportunity, and that they never knew the deadliness of it!

“
It has
not replied to anything we have done!” the scientist continued,
showing all the equipment that they had brought over from the ice
station. “We used the telescope and the telescope equipment over
there to communicate with it! We have finally got a chance to test
out stuff and it is not replying!”

“
Incredible!” Weaver gasped.

“
We have
also gone by all the instructions given in the Alien Source Code –
which is a combination of old and updated procedure put together
for basic first contact situations!”

“
So we
are still trying to find a way to talk to it!”

“
Correct!” he replied firmly, hoping for an answer from
Willis.

“
Well!”
Willis answered. “I’ll add what I think! I believe that what’s
active is equivalent to our subconscious mind, while it is in a
type of sleep or suspended animation, which carries out various
functions for it. I think it is either part of the voyager or
attached to it! And for some reason it wanted us here, especially
by crashing into this world and at this exact site! And I think it
was unable to do something when it made physical contact with
me!”

Weaver was
left confused, as he started to see the problem in more depth and
that they could be stuck with it.

“
I think
we should find another way to enter it!” a scientist from another
nearby group announced, to their amazement.

“
How
will we go about doing that?” Weaver asked. “The thing is
indestructible! They could not even scratch it!”

“
We
found the place where the entrance opened and found some faint
markings near it, which we believe is sensitive to reactions from
something, and we believe that it could be another way to open
it!”

“
We
could try using different things on it!” Weaver replied, and the
scientists returned to working on finding a way to open
it.

A scientist
suddenly moved over and whispered in a nearby Russian scientist’s
ear, and he suddenly looked aware of something and agreed with the
scientist and left to do something.

The scientist
returned with other scientists and set up equipment at the region
of the entrance with the markings and they activated equipment, and
laser beams blasted at the region where the markings were near, and
started firing thousands of laser blast sequences at it.

“
What’s
it doing?” Weaver asked, wondering if they had found something
somewhere, and wondered what would happen if they
forced
entrance to its
voyager!

Chapter 18

The Helicopters

The massive
helicopters lifted up and rushed off into the distance and Weaver
rested into a seat at the back of one, with the other soldiers,
preparing himself for what could be his last day alive!

They were
Russian military helicopters and they had been hidden away in one
of the Russian base’s underground chambers.

They had
discovered where the renegade Russian soldiers had gone! By using
recorded satellite information they had been able to trace their
path to a distant secret Russian ice station, where they were going
to hide out and wait for a plane to arrive to take them away.

If they had a
plane there already or it had just arrived they would have escaped,
and he was sure that they would never see them again! They could
easily make it to some part of the world where they would not be
able to find them, or be able to do anything to stop them.

He wondered if
they had not shot the people that they had if they could take what
they had taken from the voyager back off them? Who owned an alien
artifact?

The scientists
that had been near them had claimed that they had called the
artifact that they had taken an alien sphere and that they had
claimed it was some form of ultimate weapon, and the Russian base
commander had given them the use of the helicopters and information
about the secret ice station and the arrival of the airplane
there.

If the mission
was successful they would get it off the gunmen, and he wondered if
they could destroy it or what they would do with it! Would it cause
immense future problems?

He had
realized that the scientists mainly wanted the voyager to leave as
it was a great danger to the world. There could be many future
problems with it being there!

The voyager
seemed unwilling to let them aboard, but they were still working on
opening it and he wondered if it was the scientists themselves that
were the danger! It was them that invented atomic bombs and had
them introduced! Perhaps the scientists were secretively worried of
what other scientists might do if they got the technology!

Chapter 19

The Russian Ice
Station

The massive
helicopters rested behind them, below small hills, and they watched
the light from the sun vanishing as the early night engulfed the
region and the soldiers rushed on faster, to avoid being caught in
the dark.

It was lucky
that it was not night and there were no signs of airplanes having
landed there, and Weaver wondered if they would land in the dark
and studied his surroundings repeatedly trying to explain why such
an occurrence could happen! The entire mission had been planned
down to the smallest detail!

What was it
that they had taken from the voyager? How had they persuaded what
was there to give it to them?

He had tried
questioning Willis about what he had come into contact with and he
had been unsure, and never saw anything of it, and it only replied
to some of his responses with things like mental images of things.
It had originally been activated and opened by his dreams and
thoughts!

The Russian
ice station was further ahead and small and looked ancient and from
a century ago, and he imagined figures like Captain Scott arriving
there.

When they
finally got near enough to see it properly they started to see
buildings had been burnt down, and some smoke and steam still
coming off them, and being blown around in gusts of cold polar
winds, while gusts of snow blew around them.

Some form of
battle had clearly taken place there! There were bodies lying
around everywhere! The snow around Weaver was too deep and the
terrain virtually impossible to get quickly across!

It was
incredible that they had actually not landed later than when the
sun was going down.

What had
happened? It looked like the seen of a small battle!

They
approached slowly and they saw that many of the Russian renegade
gunmen had been killed there! It proved that they were more maniacs
than he had predicted! They could easily have met and held up the
inhabitants of the ice station with guns. Instead they had a battle
with them!

He was also
sure that they had not been able to do what they had intended! He
was sure that someone had warned them about their arrival!

He believed
the pilot and airplane that was to land was with them, and would
see them if it appeared and landed.

They swiftly
shifted about the small ancient building structures, searching for
signs of them, and found that they had all gone into one building,
which was the largest there, and they searched all the other
structures and about the base and surrounded the building.

He thought of
the incredible operation the Russians must have carried out getting
the voyager at the other ice station and wished that he had been
part of it, and the digging up of the black object beneath the ice,
and them digging out the cavity.

The amount of
equipment and men they must have used must have been tremendous,
and they must have gone to incredible lengths to get people into
the ice station, and to monitor it and prevent them discovering
what they had been doing.

He wondered
how long they had been there trying to enter or make contact with
it, and then a stray scientist from the ice station entered the
cavity and simultaneously made it into the voyager.

He recalled
when one of the Russian scientists had told him and that Willis had
entered it and it had shown him its flight in space!

He was sure
that it had wanted something, and perhaps it wanted someone to
pilot it, and he was sure he never gave it what it had wanted.

He went over
and over it through his mind trying to grasp some clue that would
show him what it wanted.

He examined
the soldiers ahead of him moving in closer, preparing themselves
for action and were ready.

A loud blast
of a gun exploded out and he saw one of the front soldiers beside
Commander Craven was hit and Weaver swiftly moved behind a wall,
preparing for the gunmen to attack.

The bullet had
instantly killed the man and he was heaped over the snow and he
realized that someone had blown their cover and they had given away
their element of surprise, and he realized it was one of the
Russian soldiers from the Russian base that had given them away! He
then realized that they could very well be in it with them! The
Russian soldiers with them had not been checked out and had even
been with them!