The Thing: from the Depths of Hell
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“I am picking up communication thoughts from it!” the scientist announced. “I believe that he is persuading it to make a copy of him for some reason! No! He wants it to make an altered version of him that can carry out what it wants! It has accepted it and is creating the copy!”
Weaver watched all the scientists stop work all around the voyager, waiting for something to happen!
Chapter 25
The Voyager from Beyond Reality
Colossal explosions of energy blasted out with so much force that they threatened to start doing damage to the physical universe, and he imagined space and time becoming unbalanced and warped, and he wondered what damage the world could be subjected to!
Echoes of conversations haunted his mind as he considered why they had not moved away when they had activated it!
The vast powers surrounding them were staggering and Weaver wondered why he had not considered the entity as being dangerous and he felt sorry for Willis and wondered if he could escape alive, and he contemplated the dangers and his chances of survival!
The voyager had formed a perfect energy form of itself, clearly of transcendent origins, and pulsated in the center of the cavity, as all the scientists sheltered around the rim of the cavity, and he wondered why nobody attempted to try to make it to the doorway into the Russian base, and looked there and saw people near there were rushing there.
An immense whirlpool of energy lines magically began shifting around it like the rings around Saturn, and he studied it for a long time and realized that it had no proper presence there any longer and was some form of force formation, while the rest remained in other dimensions! There were signs of the vortex reshaping by its energy patterns!
The voyager frequently turned visible in a translucent energy state, and he heard it functioning, and he had sensations and visualizations of the depths of the universe.
Everything around him seemed to alter into a mind-bending dream of altering displacements as the voyager completed its mission, and he felt dizzy as everything transformed and the voyager vanished, leaving emptiness and a massive empty cavity.
For a moment he had a weird sensation about something happening, and he saw Willis walking calmly up towards them, along the cavity edge.
He watched some scientists nearby calibrating their equipment and anxiously checking what their equipment had recorded!
All the scientists there seemed to realize that it had worked and that it had achieved its mission!
“What happened?” he immediately asked Willis as he arrived at where they were. “Did it fully work?”
Willis smiled brightly, and replied, “Yes! It has returned to where it came from!”
“Wherever that is?” Weaver gasped, and felt deep excitement!
He realized he had survived it, and the most dangerous mission he had undertaken so far, and at the bottom of his pocket he felt the two parts of the alien sphere, where the microfilm had been, and he wondered if they noticed! The material was the material the voyager had been made of and the indestructible material, and he considered what value it would have if they recreated it!