The Deadliest Alien Artifacts (Story Collection)

by V Bertolaccini

  Sparks of energy rotated it, edging into its fringes, creating spectacular effects and making it distort in twisted forms.

  The entity/transcendent concentrated its mind and consequently the object exploded out across its entire area front revealing its interior of zillions of miniature clouds of gas floating partially spaced apart, in an energy bubble of blackness, and it stopped its progression.

  It had clearly invented and created a miniature universe – with a miniature copy of the big bang that created this universe.

  It created a time field around it and its time rate swiftly accelerated at a rate of millions and then billions of years per second with its clouds of gases altering to zillions of zillions of lights floating partially spaced apart. A miniature universe identical to this one, with the same age and state.

  Its progression was stopped at a calculated point, and the entity/transcendent carried out a series of basic experiments and it decreased its own size and form into a new form of entity and partially entered it.

  Its reality magically spun around it in patterns of light.

  It floated in the depths of its own universe, and it continued decreasing its size and entering it!

  Space shrank all about it and the stars appeared from clusters.

  Spectacular white beams exploded out and stars shot about it.

  In its depths it saw a region situated within the center of space, and it surrounded it with diagrams and symbols and put a line stretching through the galaxies from it – which reached away out to the Milky Way – and a course that the other first entity/transcendent had taken!

  It had used telepathic recordings that it was able recreate.

  It studied it and the galaxies everywhere altered, shrank, and deformed into nothing – with the whole universe being disposed of – and many zillions of galaxies destroyed – a glittering immense jewel embedded in a black velvet background vanishing into a zero point.

  For weeks afterwards, while it voyaged to the Milky Way, it planned its encounter with the other entity/transcendent.

  Infrequently it would react and decelerate and orbit worlds or come to a standstill in space at unknown objects.

  Its entry of this galaxy was the second entry of it – with its unique acceleration letting it swiftly leap across the immense depths of galactic and intergalactic space.

  Its glowing monster shape would hold out objects while strange ghostly shapes of life forms from extraordinary worlds flashed about it.

  Its voyager would plunge down through their atmospheres and its immense dark shape would hover over mind-bending landscapes, with such phenomena as swirling currents of unidentified living clouds of gas engulfing it.

  On many desolate worlds, with silence and motionlessness, it would lunge over extraordinary entities and life forms and collect them, and hurtle upwards towards the stars.

  With its mind-boggling technology and powers and an accuracy and capacity inconceivable it explored this galaxy, voyaging across star quadrants exploring vast billions of unexplored stars throughout its expanse of space.

  Then while leaving the galaxy it avoided colliding with a star exactly as the other entity/transcendent had done, and it also crashed into the surface of the Earth, leaving it buried away for millions of years.

  II

  Voyage into Space and Time

  After debating what to do, they decided that only one person – Davidson, who had a greater knowledge on telepathy, should contact it, and give them its replies.

  Worthington got advice from above on what to do.

  The speed that it occurred in surprised them, and they realized that it had been listening to them.

  Davidson at first never knew what he was dealing with, but as he communicated telepathically, as they stood staring at the empty front region, in front of the screen, and he grew more and more confident.

  “Why did this voyager end up here?” Davidson asked it, while telephonically communicating with it, and they watched as the front region across their front started to show results.

  “I believe it is now going show us!” he announced.

  Parker jumped, as his entire sight vanished, and he saw nothing but deep space, and he saw a sphere of light floating through the darkness, and he realized it was telepathically transmitting it – covering his entire sight with vivid visions.

  There was no sign of the others, or even his own body, but he heard a silent roar, and a blur of light swirled in the blackness.

  The strange sounds and lights sent sensations through his body.

  From somewhere he started picking up knowledge of what was occurring, but he was unable realize some things – it, the voyager, had voyaged into the Milky Way, and he watched infinitely streaking stars, of solar systems, flickering by.

  What he saw vanished, and he saw it orbit a world, and come to a standstill in space.

  It plunged down through its atmosphere, and its immense dark shape went over a mind-bending landscape, and he realized it was on another habitable world, and he watched swirling currents of an unidentified living gas cloud engulfing it, and realized that it was studying it.

  It lunged over the extraordinary life form and collected it, and hurtled upwards towards the stars.

  He watched it, with its mind-boggling technology and powers, and an accuracy and capacity inconceivable, explore this galaxy – while voyaging across all the different star quadrants, and through the central stars – exploring vast billions of unexplored stars throughout its expanse of space.

  Then, even with its abilities, while it was exiting the galaxy, a black sphere appeared in front of it, and he realized it was called a black force, and was unknown in space and time, and was only able to exist there due to being so powerful, which allowed it not to fall out of space and time, and was the only thing capable of destroying the voyager, but it only severely damaged it, but after almost colliding with a star, it crashed into the Earth.

  When the surroundings of the voyager emerged, Parker stood gazed, and looking at the startled faces of Brydon, and he heard Worthington excitedly describing it on his phone to the others above.

  “This thing replying is more like a computer?” Worthington asked Davidson. “I mean it basically responds to you. Correct?”

  “Correct!” Davidson answered. “But do not underestimate it – it has artificial intelligence, and can reply and figure out solutions, and we know so little about it ...”

  Worthington continued his report, and thanked him.

  “Do you think this is a probe – collecting specimens and exploring space and time?”

  “I do not know! I will have to question it further. But if it is not, it must be similar.”

  “Question it further!”

  “Why did this voyager end up here?” he asked, while telephonically communicating it.

  “Here we go …!”

  Parker jumped again, even though he had got used to it the last time, and he saw nothing but a vision of blackness.

  It then hurtled through the outer limits of space and time – racing into this universe, and Parker watched, staggered, realizing that it had come from beyond the universe!

  He saw the voyager forming itself, into a voyager, from energy.

  The dim voyager interior appeared about him, but far stranger, and unlike anything he had seen before, and he watched a dark blue light dully shining, and dark and dim radiances from energy surges intermittently illuminating and playing with a hideous slithering blood red devilish shape.

  As it progressed, he examined it wondering if it was it, in an earlier form, when it had emerged from beyond reality – with blood red devil features, and a giant demon shape, glowing, altering, whirling, within hideous energy surges – while it consistently stopped itself vanishing – out of space and time – and back into its original energy states.

  Then he realized from the voyager, and perhaps Davidson’s questioning, that it was not the voyager – it was the entity/transcendent – and it had create
d the voyager.

  On and on it hurtled into space and time – chasing another entity/transcendent – with a determination and vengeance almost inconceivable.

  Unlike the first entity/transcendent it had taken the form of an enormous monstrous devil-like creature, with its giant demon shape glowing in flickers against its circular wall, while it shifted like a distorted grotesque wild killer lion, ready for the kill.

  Parts of its composition frequently altered into its original entity/transcendent state, and it also altered to other things, and its appearance almost altered into things it had killed.

  Its claws pounded controls, and it mentally activated them when it occasionally transformed back to an entity form.

  Its voyager, unlike the first entity/transcendent’s voyager, was enormous, and powered by vast unstable energy explosions, across space and time, which were so powerful that they ripped at the fabric of space and time, and made it unbalanced, temporary warped, and almost crack – across light years of space – with only its protective energy shield and voyager stability holding it from the effects, which many nearby worlds orbiting stars were subjected to in its field – in the form of time jumps, warps, decelerations, accelerations, and leaps through space – and whole worlds being thrown out of space and time entirely.

  Star formations flashed by, as it continued its pursuit, and expedition of exploration, through the vast depths of the universe, with the massive sphere of light from its propulsion system floating across the blackness like a ghost.

  Through mind-boggling accuracy and use of its vast powers it explored the unexplored stars of the universe – searching for the other entity/transcendent – voyaging through the central galaxies – exploring vast billions of galaxies throughout the expanse of space and time – while transforming its voyager and existence further from their original pure energy states, to normal space and time states that it encountered.

  Nevertheless, its perception of the other entity/transcendent diminished, and it was unable to locate it or where it was going.

  Space and time turned relatively unknown and mysterious to it, and it had no full understanding of it, and it needed a solution – to establish where the other entity/transcendent was – even if it meant it or anything else would be destroyed.

  Parker watched it create a miniature white hole and it magically floating, inertly in mid-air, in front of it, at the front of the voyager, within a field of energy, in its own reality, while energy beams dragged its radius apart.

  It had worked and experimented on it for a long time, altering and reinventing it for its purpose.

  It resembled a star in space, as it fired energy discharges at regions of it to spin it wildly about itself, and it simultaneously increased the light behind it to whiteness. The speed of its rotation increased and increased, and the power of it could be felt in vibrations and whirling sounds.

  With a vociferous explosion, and gleams of light exploding out, it imploded, until it almost vanished, and turned black, and the entity/transcendent stretched it apart until it resembled a miniature black hole, with fuzzy multidimensional forms rotating around it, clearly from time shifts – clustering in clustered layers.

  At times it took the form of a black bubble of pure energy – buzzing wildly and dangerously about – ready to discharge.

  Sparks of energy rotated it, edging into its fringes, creating spectacular effects, making it distort in twisted forms.

  The entity/transcendent concentrated its mind more and more, and consequently the object exploded out across the entire area in front of it, revealing its interior of zillions of miniature clouds of gas floating partially spaced apart, in an energy bubble of blackness, and it stopped its progression.

  It had clearly just created and invented a miniature universe – with a miniature copy of the big bang that created this universe.

  The entity/transcendent, after almost applauded its creation, created a time field around it, and its time rate swiftly accelerated at a rate of millions and then billions of years per second, with its clouds of gases altering to zillions of zillions of lights floating partially spaced apart.

  It was a miniature universe identical to this one, and it now was the same age, and state.

  The entity/transcendent stopped its progression at a calculated point, and carried out a series of basic experiments, and it decreased its own size and form, into a new form of entity, and partially entered it.

  Its reality magically spun around it, in patterns of light.

  It floated in the depths of its own universe, and it continued decreasing its size, and entering it!

  Space shrank, all about it, and the stars appeared from clusters.

  Spectacular white beams exploded out, and stars shot about it.

  In its depths, it saw a region, situated within the center of space, and it surrounded it with diagrams and symbols, and it put a line stretching through the galaxies from it – which reached away out to the Milky Way.

  It was the course that the other entity/transcendent had taken!

  It had used telepathic recordings that it was now able recreate.

  It studied the entire surroundings, and grasped how feeble it was.

  Galaxies, everywhere, altered, shrank, and deformed into nothing – the whole universe was disposed of – and many zillions of galaxies destroyed – a glittering immense jewel, embedded in a black velvet background, vanishing into a zero point.

  It shuddered at its findings, and fully realized what it wanted.

  For weeks, while it voyaged to the Milky Way, it planned its encounter with the other entity/transcendent.

  Infinitely streaking stars, of solar systems, flickered by, on a screen, at the front of the circular chamber wall.

  Infrequently it would react to sounds and reaccelerate, and orbit worlds, or come to a standstill in space at unknown objects.

  Its entry of this galaxy might have been the second entry of it, millions years ago – with its unique acceleration letting it travel across the immense depths of galactic and intergalactic space.

  The entity/transcendent’s glowing shape would hold out objects, while strange ghostly shapes of life forms from extraordinary worlds flashed about it.

  Its voyager would plunge down through their atmospheres, and its immense dark shape would hover over mind-bending landscapes – with such phenomena as swirling currents of unidentified living gas clouds engulfing it.

  On many desolate worlds, with silence and motionlessness, it would lunge over extraordinary entities and life forms and collect them, and hurtle upwards towards the stars.

  With its mind-boggling technology and powers, and an accuracy and capacity inconceivable, it explored this galaxy – while voyaging across all the different star quadrants, and through the central stars – exploring vast billions of unexplored stars throughout its expanse of space.

  The voyager’s present state had been formed by it from encounters and the findings from spacecrafts, technology, entire civilizations from throughout the universe, and the specimens it had were from all over the universe.

  After the collision with the black force, exactly as the other entity/transcendent had done, the entity/transcendent and voyager and were damaged, and were almost destroyed, and, exactly as the other entity/transcendent had done, used protection shields to avoid destruction – but at a cost, due to the protection shield being a time field, which froze time and space – which the voyager was unable to fully use its functions in, with the consequences of almost colliding with a star, exactly as the other entity/transcendent had done, and it also crashed into the surface of the Earth – leaving it buried away for millions of years, as the voyager was unable to release it, as it had damaged itself too much, and it would need to leave the universe to stop the entity/transcendent dieing – which it was unable to do, as it needed a controller like entity/transcendent to help it perform it – and the entity/transcendent inside was left in its protection field – in suspended animation – wai
ting to be revived.

  III

  Voyage Beyond Reality

  The entity/transcendent’s monstrous devilish figure shape lit up in blood red shades, from lights around its compartment, as it was opened out, by the voyager, from a nearby wall, to show them.

  “Well we cannot allow that thing to be revived on this world!” Worthington stated. “We can only handle so much …”

  “You are perfectly correct!” Davidson continued. “It is far too deadly – powerful – to awaken!”

  Parker felt excitement exploding across his mind, which he had even enjoyed when a hole had formed in the structure of a wall, and the voyager had moved it out.

  The darkness about them grew apparent, and horror gripped them.

  “Where do you think the other entity/transcendent is?” Worthington asked.

  “It was in the Cornwall discovery!” Davidson confessed. “I heard something about it from Professor Farrell, but he hardly told me anything of its nature, and, of course, made me give my word not to reveal that such a discovery had been found.”

  “Incredible! Another one of these was found over there, and it was not revealed!”

  “It was not awakened – and is no longer in this universe. It left space and time! And that can be the only answer to what to do with this one.”

  “We can make a deal with it!” Worthington replied. “We want rid of it, but we want as much of its technology as we can get!”

  “Good idea!” Davidson replied, and started to telepathically communicate with it.

  After five minutes, he stopped and looked startled, preparing himself.

  “This is not going to be easy – and that may be an understatement!”

  Parker, knowing Davidson, knew they could be in big trouble, especially if anything went wrong.

  “I have to help it, and command it. The voyager is programmed to only carry out major things with the commands of a controller, and it could not do anything, and it is going to give me the commands, to complete its mission.”