“What are they intending to do?” a woman from the media asked Mortimer, recognizing him. “Could it be used to do something far more incredible – with it fascinating properties?”
Mortimer examined her in a glance and thought of the best reply, and replied, “All the scientists have been investigating it with everything they have, which is still not enough, and if they find anything I can assure they will inform you!”
“I’ve heard the artifact exists in other dimensions?” she asked, surprising Mortimer, and Bryson realized that she might have heard stuff about their investigations into other dimensions at the American castle, and he saw that they had the equipment that they had used to examine other dimensions.
“We’ve ways of detecting other things from it!” Professor Thomas calmly announced, watching Mortimer. “We’ve detected many energy sources from it, and have detected other stuff exists!”
While Thomas was talking Bryson saw how more powerful the energy in the energy bubble seemed to become, and he examined its lethal appearance and it even looked like it could explode in an immense energy discharge.
“We are going to carry out an experiment and try another laser sequence of interest that was recently discovered that has not been used!” Thomas announced, and the laser started blasting the sequence at the artifact.
A man near the center of the media in the audience loudly gasped and pointed at its altered appearance, and the audience went silent.
Bryson spotted the center of where the being was in the artifact in the denser energy bubble and that it was turning bright, and it became louder and brighter and it started shaking, and then started knocking everything furiously about, knocking all the scientists about, and they fell over, and a sudden shockwave blasted through the whole museum floor throwing everything and everyone about, and it died away.
The hall instantly turned silent and the audience started to recover, and repair the damage, and Bryson noticed the two paranormal scientists dramatically talking and he checked where they were looking and realized that the energy bubble had gone, and that the being had appeared from inside the artifact.
Chapter 7
The Encounter
The scientists decided against going near the thing and located at a place away from the stage where they could make a dramatic exit if anything went wrong, where it was close enough to make observations and proper surveillance to monitor it.
The thing had resemblances to a human but was made of energy, which was mainly fully invisible in places and other parts became invisible or turned visible in places, and Bryson realized it could be thought of as some form of ghost if they encountered it on a dark night in some ancient place, like a graveyard.
It was unpredictable in its movements and looked wounded or something, and staggered about, and nobody seemed to have a clue what it was! It made small leaps forward through space, surely teleportation, and on its reappearance seemed to be frozen in time.
The scientists about Bryson believed that it was unstable and attempting to form and adapt into its surroundings and become normal matter, and he realized many were keeping secretive about some of their thoughts and discoveries.
“It is new!” Mortimer finally declared, after observing its movements, and he watched it as if he had been waiting all his life to see it, and gasped a few times, and examined what he was looking for, and even looked staggered a few times.
“What do you make of it?” Mortimer eventually asked, as they sat in some seats. “We still have nothing given on its identity!”
He started consulting quietly with Merton and other scientists around them joined in, but they still seemed to avoid giving a firm answer or anything.
Mortimer eventually tried to talk them into doing something, and announced, “It seems to me to be still in an energy form and trying to become solid, and parts of it occasionally take some solidness! We can barely see any of its proper features though! I think it has been altered into something by something! Perhaps to survive here! It must have many incredible hidden powers, which we have not encountered before!”
“It has a very mysterious nature!” Merton replied first. “I think it may be using some form of technology to reform itself, and it may or may not be successful or it may take far longer to do. It is handling the situation! Its may be trying to adapt!”
“We don’t know what the hell that is?” one of the security guards behind them moaned. “Do you have a way to capture it? We have not heard of anything like it!”
Bryson wondered again if the two paranormal scientists thought it was of paranormal origins and were avoiding ruining their reputations, and a short time later he heard them mention it in a silent debate with each other.
What surprised him and a few others the most about them was how they reacted and treated such things when there was a suggestion of there being supernatural there, and he wondered again if they had something or were actually covering up something else?
He now wondered if they actually did find anything if they would show it, and if what they showed would it ever be enough to prove its existence and that they were dealing with something supernatural?
Explanations by people could easily prove that it was not, which usually was the case, and the thing in front of them was highly advanced and could easily be an ancient alien form.
They started consulting with each other openly on what it could be clearly attempting to get the others to give them their thoughts, while leaving things open to anyone to add to and the other scientist to add their thoughts to freely.
What they mainly agreed to was that they thought it was new and had an entirely new status!
After a great deal of discussions and surveillance, checking of new and old readings, and of observations through monitors from every form of surveillance, from all the equipment everyone brought in and set up around the phenomenon at every good conceivable angle, they all remained set on leaving everything on what could happen open, and they took in all the information, and only admitted to it was more advanced than anything that they had seen, and perhaps would see at many angles.
For some reason it never seemed to acknowledge them! Bryson was sure that it knew of their presence. If it was advanced as they claimed, he wondered why it never left there, as it could easily shift away and surely go through walls and get away.
They continuously considered what would happen next, as it was not clear anywhere. They would just have to wait for whatever the outcome would be!
He was sure it was attempting to transform into something and adapt to its surroundings, and wondered how dangerous it could be? Could it make itself invisible? Or teleport itself to somewhere else? Though it currently looked as though it had limited powers or damage that was stopping it doing something.
All the scientists conclusively had a meeting and agreed to begin the activation of a screen around it, where they would use anything that they could to confine it to where it was, to stop it escaping, and work on a way of removing it from the museum to a safe location, away from public regions.
Chapter 8
The Energy Bubble
Forms of the being consistently rematerialized and altered within the energy field they activated around it, with it floating over the center of the artifact, while all the scientists stood in a circle going right around it, examining it close up for the first time, and they stood staggered when they grasped how human it actually was, and tried to grasp what it was doing and if it was in pain.
Bryson was also staggered and even wondered if they were responsible for what was happening to it, and if they were underestimating its powers and what it would do if it freed itself?
It resembled a magical being, or magical human! Its normal state captured their imaginations, and they repeatedly tried to grasp what it was! What was it doing there? Why had it chosen where it had been? What had happened?
At times it expanded in size and took the appearance of a shocking giant demon shape, glowing with energy, a
s it altered and whirled with hideous energy surges, while something seemed to consistently stop it vanishing.
He wondered what the Exploration Association scientists intended to do with it? They surely would have to remove it from the museum? Or would they place it there as one of their exhibitions? It was famous and an interesting science exhibition! There was a rumor of going around of them doing a deal and that they would leave it there until it formed into what it was forming, or they no longer wanted it. Yet someone might eventually remove the energy field around, and something might happen?
It was an incredible discovery and advertisement for the Exploration Association and the public would love the exhibit!
The entire area at the back of the stage and scientists was now covered in equipment and scientists studying information about it, with many close examinations of the energy bubble examining all the new forms of energy discovered earlier.
The energy bubble still altered time and they checked its field and power and what it did at different points about it, and the scientists reacted immediately when they received new unknown findings.
It looked as though it were rupturing space and time and playing with it in its energy sphere. It had strange properties that were crazy to them! Perhaps due to it being damaged in some way was the main explanation! It was creating alterations in the fabric of space and time, but could it allow some form of gateway into the depths of it to exist?
While the media captured the global media, greater amounts of principal scientific groups became interested and countless principal global scientists arrived and carried out numerous fundamental and complicated research and experiments throughout it, using more advanced and unheard of equipment, while others monitored and stored as much as they could, in greater degrees.
Yet nobody could still determine its origins or if it came from this universe! It even seemed that they could be there the rest of their lives exploring it and not coming up with the proper explanations to its origins and use, never achieving their goal.
Bryson occasionally shuddered as he studied its shape hovering over the artifact!
The abnormal antics of some scientists at times also captivated him, mystifying him with the depth of their nervousness and fear! Some repetitively studied the readings and their equipment and with alarm, preparing themselves for something that he saw the two paranormal scientists gradually become aware of!
What the hell was it? What was the thing? Was it really a supernatural entity? Could something go wrong?
Something at one point seemed to be happening and there were great alterations in the being and energy bubble and the scientists began swiftly studying it everywhere.
Then one morning Bryson received a message to go immediately there as there was something occurring, and he knew straightaway that the conclusion to something was about to occur, and on the way there he realized that it had been doing something and taken all the time since its appearance to do it, and he was sure it would have normally have done it instantly and that it had trouble doing it!
Once he saw the being’s formation and its thick denseness and the artifact and energy field going crazy he turned silent and observed everything he could with Merton and Mortimer, and the other major scientists there, from behind a protection screen.
A sudden swift flash exploded out at the center of the artifact and temporally blinded them, having them all covering their eyes, and some made sure cameras were observing it in the brightness, and Bryson saw what was occurring by shading his eyes.
The energy in the artifact was colossal and the technology behind it fascinated everyone! It would be worth billions if they could recreate it!
Bryson gasped when he saw the reactions of Mortimer and other scientists when the brightness and activity began vanishing and he wondered why, and saw they were waiting for something, and the outcome of everything there to come to a conclusion!
Then the figure of a man walked out of the bright light, and he suddenly staggered about, and walked up to the protection screen and knocked on it as hard as he could!
The scientists removed the entrance gate and helped him out as though wondering how he had been left inside the confined region without them noticing.
Nobody knew him or had seen him before, and Bryson wondered if it had copied the human looks from someone? But he could not recognize anything and the man looked altered somehow. He looked like a more advanced version of a human! Like a genetically altered human! He wondered if he was now a new form of species of human?
The man spoke strangely and with some trouble, and showed that he had some bad disability.
“Who are you?” Merton asked him, first.
“What year is this?” he replied, holding himself upright in pain.
When Merton told him he was stunned and collapsed across the floor, and sounded as though he was dieing, and the scientists started helping him and phoning for medical support.
Many studied his body and found what they believe was improvements to it, and he had been altered into a more advanced human, but even with his improvements they knew he was about to die, and they saw the artifact and that it had been destroyed.
After seeing everything, and knowing the outcome, Mortimer swiftly began questioning him, trying to get as much as he could from him. All their work could be meaningless if they never got answers to what had occurred and where he had come from!
Chapter 9
The Time Traveler
The time traveler launched and vanished into the past leaving all the people at the launch site gasping from the pure magnitude of the forces and explosive exit, and it became clear to everyone that the colossal expense, time and trouble, and vast dangers to the time traveler would end time travel.
The world’s first time machines were time probes and were original used to probe the near future, where they were recovered within days, and had their accuracy and recordings checked. Most vanished completely, and the ones that were recovered showed why they were only random lucky arrivals, and many that appeared were detected at sites all over the world, with the majority damaged in collisions.
The time traveler and time machine mission had taken many years of work, and a great deal of information also had to be accumulated as they had been trying to discover a time disturbance that had been detected in the past, where the use of a time machine had been proven to have been used.
The other time machine and its accuracy and power had clearly not been created by any human! The technology behind it surpassed anything that they had encountered!
They believed it even surpassed anything in this universe and had been created by something they could barely imagine, and the time traveler had his mission carefully planned and been given technology that they believed could capture the other time traveler, and what it used to travel through time.
The time traveler traveled further into the past than any other human before had traveled, and his time machine swiftly blasted out of his century into what resembled a constant explosion, which would have destroyed his time machine if it had not been designed to withstand virtually anything thrown at it.
The time traveler considered following it to where it had come from, where he believed it had vanished to after its mission, and after his mission he intended to reappear approximately one minute after he had vanished into the past, at the launch site.
The time machine resembled some form of highly advanced missile, and he constantly examined it and his mental controls searching for damage and for signs of powerful forces acting upon it, and it was undamaged and working properly, but when it entered a time zone, and stopped traveling through time, the forces at its entrance damaged the time machine, damaging many of its functions, and he discovered the incredible speed he was traveling at through the atmosphere, and at a far faster speed than he should have been, and before he crashed into the ground something hit the time machine.
Chapter 10
The Time Traveler’s Last Words
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bsp; The whole affair slowly died away, and the remains of the artifact ended up as the museum’s best exhibition, and Bryson still thanked Mortimer for his swift thinking and accurate questioning of the time traveler before his death, as they would never have realized what had happened!
The entire conversation had been recorded by one source, and Bryson had taken a recording of it before they had deleted it, not fully knowing what they had been doing!
Many people there had even claimed it was false and that it had been something else, which they gave explanations for afterwards, and even Merton and Mortimer had ignored most of it believing it as his attempt to do something and had doubted what it had told!
Bryson knew it was true and that he had been an authentic human time traveler from the far future, and he had studied the recording over and over, examining the information it contained in great detail, and knew that he had thought of what he had said for a great deal of time, while he had been trapped in the energy bubble of his damaged time machine.
When he had learned the full truth and date that he had awoken at he had known everything was over, and had accepted his fate, and being such an advanced human he had deliberately accepted his fate and allowed himself to die. He had clearly not wanted to be examined too far and give too much information, as it could alter the future and do immense damage.
He had told why he had become a time traveler and had wished to explore the past and see what really had existed there, and he had chosen it as his mission in life, but at a cost, as time travel was dangerous and most died doing it.
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