He decided to ignore the great danger that they were in and to examine everything that was occurring to try to explain things, and fit things together and get a proper picture of what might happen and if they could do anything. In the past they had pulled themselves out of many dangerous and tricky situations, and he thought that they could do it again.
He examined the strange alterations, with erratic characterizations, in the equipment, and wondered how it was now affecting the plane and the pilots and wondered if he could help there, and at least know what would occur to it.
The island appeared at a window and he joined some scientists there examining it in detail. It was incredible and he had seen nothing like it! At a distance it had seemed normal, but now it was so unusual it left them confused! The scientists about him started taking photographs, and close ups, at different regions of it, and he saw they had also decided to ignore the dangers there.
The island was clearly not marked on any map, and uncharted, and he wondered where the hell it had come from! It looked volcanic, but it was definitely old and could not have just formed out of some immense volcanic eruption.
Two of the scientists discussed it loudly and gave evidence of such occurrences as immense structures forming from volcanic disturbances, and he thought of legendry islands of the Pacific.
“We should have someone contact the mapping companies responsible!” Merton joked. “When we get back!”
Parker nodded firmly in agreement, and they returned to where they were working in another compartment.
“This island is clearly new!” Mortimer continued. “Look at the way all of the surrounding water has been churned up, and is full of muck from the seabed!”
All the scientists stared at it and started to confirm that it was true more and more, and point out other disturbances that identified it as being true and that something had occurred there recently, and Bryson saw vast amounts of seaweed that had been forced up and into large lines around its circular shore.
One of the scientists pointed over at a large tidal wave shifting out away in the distance from it, where all the water was rushing away from it, and he considered if they should try and report it, as it could do damage, but they knew that they could not make any messages from the plane. Even their pocket phones had stopped working, and they could do little other than monitor the situation and look for answers to solve the problems.
“That island looks prehistoric?” a young scientist announced, looking out the window with binoculars.
One of the other older scientists beside him took the binoculars off him and searched where he was looking, and at an area inland, and replied, “Not only that it’s a tropical island too!”
“How the hell could a tropical island get there?” the younger scientist replied.
“It could be there from the early planet when this region was warm!” another scientist replied. “When dinosaurs once roamed the continents ...”
“There are palm trees still growing there though!” the scientist looking through the binoculars moaned.
Chapter 15
The Crash
Once the plane started reacting crazily and started descending Bryson realized like most of the crew that the worst outcome could become real, and he saw them reacting to their worst fears all around him and he realized that they could do little.
He copied the ones that positioned themselves into seats and prepared for what was ahead, covering themselves with objects such as pillows to cushion violent impacts, to avoid being badly injured or killed.
The plane hurtled down towards the island, in the bright sunshine, reflecting over the sea, and some scientists expeditiously rushed to positions, recalling emergency procedures, and others swiftly deactivated their equipment, to avoid damage.
Bryson went beside Merton and Mortimer, in their original seats, and made sure that he had a good view from the window of what happened outside. He was sure that the plane should have more doors to escape out of in such conditions. He imagined it going below the waves and them drowning while trying to get to the door. And he wondered if extra emergency doors would weaken the plane or made it harder and more expensive to build.
The shades of sunlight pulsated, in various motions, across his front, as he considered what would happen now! Had it ruined the trip? If it crashed and crashed badly! Yet they had found the island and what they were looking for! If they survived to see what was there! All they could do was wait for the outcome, and try to stay alive doing it.
He started realizing how professionally skilled and proficient the flight crew actually was, and that Parker had gone out of his way to choose them, realizing the dangers that could appear. He recalled hearing of him having a crash at the Pacific island discovery, and he knew that they had experience.
Everything on the plane appeared in order, and it was only being influenced by something clearly on the island. He was sure it was forcing them to land and was now avoiding destroying the plane, and it occasionally gave shudders through the plane, shaking everything about, and scientists tried to carry out tasks while it made them fall over and drop things.
“I don’t believe this!” he heard the captain moan loudly, through the cockpit door, clearly letting them hear. “Tell me if our speed increases any further!”
Bryson was surprised that they could not fully control the speed of the plane, and he tried to give a logical explanation for it if there was not anything affecting the plane. How could anything take control of a whole plane and at such a distance? What form of technology was behind it? Could it be used to kill? Was it a form of military technology? And could they have figured out a way to compensate and stop it? Surely there had to be a way to obstruct or weaken it?
“It’s uniform!” one of the crew called out. “It’s not increasing any faster!”
The pilots tested and did what they could perceive, and Bryson realized that they could be in for a more interesting trip than he imagined! Though there seemed to be going to be some deaths! And he considered what they were up against this time, but nothing anywhere indicated enough to put anything together!
There had to be something irregular and visible somewhere, and he was sure that he could find it if he had long enough and the right means!
“We’ve still lost all contact with the outside world,” Merton confirmed again, as he examined his phone.
“Remarkable!”
Many of the scientists started avoiding looking at each other, with occasional horrified glares, as they saw that they were going to land soon. They were no longer in control of their fate!
“We’ve a regular speed and look like we’ll descend correctly,” Merton resumed. “But where can they land this thing, without destroying it and us?”
“I don’t get this!” one of the scientists uttered, as he entered there from the cockpit. “It were as though the plane had a computer that kicked in and started landing it for them, and they cannot discover why it is taking us down and to a different destination than we were set to land!”
“Has this plane got something to land it then?” Merton asked curiously.
“It does not! And it seems to be carrying out some form of alternative plan – to land us!”
Faint lights illuminated everything from nearby as if some supernatural disorder burst into its confines!
The plane flew in low, at a regulated pace, almost as though it were being overwhelmed by something. The scientists started monitoring what was happening about them as it happened, and Bryson realized that they liked to handle things rather than to ignore them, and for some reason they were more confident of surviving! He did not wish the flight crew had too much comfort and hoped they just got control of the plane and could avoid an uncomfortable situation.
“We have gear to survive in the sea?” Merton announced, arriving back at his seat, after checking what was happening. “There are some inflatable life rafts!”
Bryson gasped, and realized that there could be a problem t
here now, but he recalled that it was going to a destination on land!
He did not know what to want! How could the plane land without the pilots, with whatever landing it, and land on a proper landing site. Even the professional pilots aboard would have had a hard time finding a landing site there, and he was sure that there was not anything even there that was properly safe.
The shudders from turbulent energy surges from something made them jerk forwards and backwards, making them all go silent, and stop conversations.
At times he was sure that something was playing with them or checking them out in the only way that it could!
For a moment Bryson gasped, while recalling seeing the plane wings and how thin they were, and realized why crashes were so dangerous and leaved such destruction.
“It seems to be taking us somewhere!” Merton finally whispered jokingly, and trying see what he would say.
He nodded sharply, and copied the others by glaring blankly out of the windows, and replied, “We could survive in the sea!”
It was greatly overestimated! If they did survive in the rafts in the waves below he was sure that they might not even make it ashore. The shore of the island was strange and rugged and had very large waves lashing about.
From the window, he saw the expanse of lashing waves shifting around with tremendous velocity and energy at one region for no apparent reason.
He expected to see some form of landmark there and maybe even a distant fishing boat. Yet they were too far from anywhere and beyond civilization!
At times he felt as if he were drifting down to a hideous death!
His eyes glared as he barely believed the destructive forces lashing out at the plane as it started to reach the island, and he realized that they had avoided going into sea. Something sounded and felt like it were trying to grasp the plane and take a more powerful control of it. It was hard to grasp how the tremendous forces could be generated!
It descended rapidly, and a roar from the sea vanished in the distance, while strange sounds emerged below, and mystifying winds went around the plane, which were nowhere else.
Just as he caught sight of something in the obscurity in the distance, where there was a haze, he heard one of the wings lash across the top of a tree, and something was thrown up against one of the windows behind him.
He considered getting up, and out of his seat, to take a look further down, but he remained in his seat with his seatbelt fixed tightly around him.
It plummeted, administrating a perfect landing, sweeping across the ground, without damaging the plane, in a manner that would have been incredible for even the best pilots to carry out, and an eerie silence emerged from outside.
He could only wonder why it had landed with such precision, and he was amazed that some of the scientists started clapping their hands and congratulated the pilots, and he and the others just joined in and laughed over it. At the cockpit he heard the pilots ignoring it and discussing the landing and that it would be impossible to take off again, and that the plane must have somehow acquired structural damage as all the fuel was leaking out of the plane everywhere.
Chapter 16
The Lost Island
When Parker stepped onto the island for the first time he had a strange sensation and thought that he was stepping out onto something far more than an uncharted desolate island! It was as though they were stepping onto Mars or something, and making the first step for mankind onto another world!
He did not know what their next biggest problem would be! Was it finding a food source, and not dieing of starvation? Or was there something there, which had brought them there, getting ready to kill them all or what?
They never had any communications with the outside world and the plane was damaged and never had enough fuel left, and they never knew if what had taken them there would allow them to leave, perhaps after it had finished with them.
The next peculiarly that they saw was the strangely colored sky, with no clouds, and nobody could recall seeing anything like it and that it had not been there when they had landed.
It was very warm and dry and Parker and his scientists removed some of their equipment outside the plane and Bryson watched them at work, and their reactions when all the instruments began reacting furiously, and the scientists started checking everything.
“What are you up to?” Bryson asked one of the scientists, near him, looking baffled.
“There’s a form of powerful energy influence, and it’s still stopping us scanning what’s out there!”
“Just as it was on the airplane?”
“Well, we seem to have found another encounter – and it’s far more tremendous! I believe that on the airplane we were not able to properly check anything as there was too much disturbance from something else! Now that we have landed we are detecting it and it is also more powerful this close ...”
“Is it near us?”
“It’s somewhere away out inland, and we are trying to get some more information on it!”
He handed him some readouts, and Bryson stared at them with amazement, gasping, and asked, “What could create such power? It must be colossal!”
“It’s like someone is playing around with something out here! Have any countries got any military or anything out here?”
“Nobody has ever heard of this island, or of anything out here! But why would it be built out here? Why would they be using anything or experimenting on something though?”
“Perhaps they are using or creating something too dangerous to be activated in an inhabited zone!” the scientists replied firmly.
“That would explain it being so secretive and an uncharted island!” Bryson answered, curious in what the scientist would make of things. “How did they manage to hide an entire island of this size though? Nothing seems to add up!”
“They surely would have to have technology beyond anything we’ve heard of!”
“What could create such a powerful disturbance and create such occurrences?”
“It could be someone using a natural phenomenon though? Like someone harnessing and manipulating energy from the Earth’s core or something!”
Bryson could not realize what it was and realized that the real solution to what it was would be far more unbelievable and crazy than what they would come out with, and he wondered if he would not get what it was from them as it would be far too ridicules for them even to assume.
Yet there clearly was no evidence of anything and only someone making a ridicules mistake would add anything to what had been said, and going by what all the scientists about him, including Merton and Mortimer, indicated and came out with as a crazy solution they never really had anything.
“Whatever it is, we will need more reasonable and solid clues!” Parker finally announced, especially to Bryson.
Bryson left them, and started to go further out from the airplane, where the other scientists had moved out to and he started to notice their different appearance.
The adrenalin of the scientists was visibly rushing through their veins, overwhelming them, as they checked their new surroundings, and most realized that they had found their ultimate dream location. All around them they examined new strange phenomena, and he wondered what they were discovering.
“Look at all this!” one explained, picking up a tropical plant that he could not recall ever seeing before.
“What do you think it’s doing here?” he asked, curiously.
“This island has been trapped in something ... How else could it be the way it is? Nothing like it can grow up here at this region!”
He pointed at bright strange tropical trees, with dense regions of vegetation, and golden sand patches, formed far differently than anything and at anywhere he had seen. He was sure the warm temperature there clearly increased, going by the landscape and vegetation. Yet there was no explanation for where it came from!
“I can see this stuff growing in the Pacific!” the scientist announced, trying to explain it. “It’s as thou
gh it has formed differently, by some means, by something else ...”
Bryson heard Parker and his scientists giving reactions of finding another occurrence, and he started giving startled calls, and Bryson and the other scientists about him all looked over and watched their startled faces and reactions to something.
Many of the scientists there had started getting strange findings, and Parker stood back and watched their reactions, with curiosity.
Suddenly all of their equipment and the plane’s electronic equipment started reacting and giving out sparks, on the verge of breaking down, and they all started deactivating it.
The scanning equipment started to blank out, as if fluctuations of energy were overpowering it!
“Shut down everything before it’s all damaged!” Parker called out to the scientists using the equipment. “We’ll have plenty of time to check everything later when the disturbances have gone.”
The scan equipment was important and of great value, and still confidential, and they tried to save it from being damaged as much as they could.
Bryson was sure that they had done something that had caused it, by their reactions and replies, and while he followed Merton and Mortimer back over to them, he heard the scientist that he had been talking to there say that when the occurrence had happened that he had been trying out a different way to scan a region of the island over at the center of the island.
Chapter 17
The Other World
Deep snow shrouded the colossal jungle everywhere, situated in the interior of the island, and Bryson marched on with the group from the airplane and realized that they would have to sleep there!
The white glowing winter landscape was untouched by humans or inhabited by any animals that they so far had seen, and at times empty of sound with had a deep hollow silence that he had only heard in intense winter snow landscapes.
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