Extraterrestrial DP1

by V Bertolaccini

He tried to recall something similar that could explain what was occurring, and he wondered if the life form he had found aboard had actually detected it and was reacting to it, as he was sure it had reacted differently than it should.

  Suddenly, for no reason, members of the crew about him started reacting to something and he looked about and saw a vague cloud formation going through the whole starship, which he watched alter, and become clear, and he realized the cloud formation was a form of space with types of star formations everywhere, and he suddenly realized something important was occurring and he tried to grasp what, and he realized their size was smaller than the smallest element of the universe.

  It was almost as if something was continuing with a pursuit of an unknown goal and he tried to grasp it, and wondered if they had entered another universe, and watched star formations expanding out, and miniature massive stars passing through him.

  Suddenly it accelerated in an explosion of activity until all the formations vanished, and he sat with his mouth open and Dan sat staring at him, and Ripley realized their entire fate and everything would soon become apparent and rushed out the room and over into the bridge to see what was happening outside, and saw one of the most glorious sights he had ever seen, out the front window, and that the surrounding blackness had been replaced by magnificent celestial lights everywhere.

  The scientists and crew were all excitedly studying it all everywhere trying to grasp what was there.

  From them and others that entered he confirmed they had stopped shrinking, and believed that they were now at their normal size in the region they entered.

  They were in a vast new universe and they were discovering new celestial objects and new phenomena everywhere, through the vast depths of the new universe, and he spotted a massive sphere of light floating through space he had never seen before, and one scientist found an energy sphere glowing around the starship.

  Ripley wondered if the starship actually worked there and could propel itself across space, as the hyperdrive surely would not, as hyperspace would not exist!

  Chapter 23

  Deadliest Menace

  Russian scientists shifted into the lower decks of the starship with their equipment, ready to check the region, for the extraterrestrial, and entered the darkness of a storage chamber, and they used the dim radiance of distant lights to locate where to go, buried away in the emptiest remotest region of the starship, and breathing heavily into the hideous cold environment attempted to discover what was there, and stopped and stood motionless, as long dark shadows viciously emerged across their front from behind metal crates.

  Their mission was insane and they expected almost anything to occur now and they stood where they were silently, not knowing what they were up against, wondering if they could escape alive and what they were up against, and if it was something of their worst nightmares.

  One started trying to move away realizing the horrors encountered on the DP2 world, and that it had to be something that had emerged from DP2, even though they insisted it had gone, and there was no longer any danger, and they barely believed anything could get through the starship’s surveillance and advanced technology and defenses, and that it was almost impenetrable in outer space.

  One removed a small laser weapon and shifted in front, and they silently crept back, while examining everything they could see, trying to recall what they had heard of the deadly extraterrestrial, and its hideous environment on the DP2 world, almost totally uninhabitable.

  Without warning a deafening hideous unearthly screech blared out and something frantically shot about behind the crates and leapt out, attacking and destroying them, as others behind them frantically struggled to escape.

  Only one survived, by hiding away in a crate, breathing silently and heavily, listening to the monster creeping around and shifting over the remains of the scientists, scattered in pieces over the floor, as it removed what it needed from them, and silently vanished into the darkness.

  Chapter 24

  Extraterrestrial Search

  Ripley examined the hideous remains the following day, when it was investigated by scientists investigating the massacre, and he left the region stunned by it and what the survivor told them.

  Later he realized that they had decided to tell the whole crew of what was occurring and that the DP2 extraterrestrial had reemerged and had started destroying the crew.

  Members of the military immediately started carrying out armed searches of the starship, ready to swiftly annihilate it with their best technology, and Ripley still wondered if it was the DP2 extraterrestrial, as what he had seen had not been what was on the DP2 world, even though he had not properly seen it, and it surely could alter itself, and he realized that they had underestimated how many types of deadly extraterrestrials there could be.

  Little was found, and the only survivor never properly seen it, but members of the military heard a distant scream from something of alien origins.

  Ripley wondered if it was living on the outside of the starship itself, even though the conditions there were deadlier than he could believe anything could survive in, but they accepted it had traveled through space to the starship, and could survive in the most deadliest conditions known, and had a dormant state where it was in the condition of being dead, which he had heard plants and insects do, and he eventually decided to discover where the screens monitoring the outside of the starship were, and found the starship computer monitored them.

  Ripley rushed over to the computer room, when he heard it, where he sat studying the computer surrounding him, and why it was so active, and he wondered what was going on, and gasped at how powerful and dangerous it was, and realized he should not activate or alter anything, but realized that it might only have the look of it being hazardous, to look natural, but he saw that dangers could exist with thinking computers.

  “We were unable to capture the extraterrestrial responsible for the deaths! What are your assumptions …?” Ripley asked, trying to get it to give him something.

  “According to what’s accumulated,” the computer confirmed, “I have not received enough evidence …”

  “Is there any way we can trace where it went?” he moaned, watching the computer for reactions.

  “There is information gathered since the occurrence, and from some other sources.”

  “So where shall we search on the starship …”

  “The areas have been explored …”

  “Going by the original information we received it is capable of surviving in space and outside the starship. What do you think?”

  “I acknowledge that!”

  Ripley wondered if it was avoiding giving him more or it was designed to just answer things in that way.

  He realized he would have to ask it more precise questions.

  “I was told you monitor all the outer cameras watching the starship, and its outer shell? Is this correct?”

  “You are correct! But I have limited coverage, and many are covering large regions that are not fully visible …”

  “But you would have spotted the DP2 extraterrestrial coming aboard when it did …”

  “I never detected its arrival!”

  “But do you have recordings from the cameras?”

  “Yes. I do.”

  “Has anyone else checked them since we entered the orbit of the DP2 world …”

  “No. The last recorded check was on Earth.”

  “Would you show me the views from the cameras, and then the recordings from around when it must have arrived!”

  He gasped realizing it was reacting to his command, and for a moment spotted something that looked like someone else had also given it a command.

  When he was instructed to go into a small room behind the computer he wondered why nobody had checked it, and realized that it might not have actually been monitoring anything of alien origins entering the starship, and he realized it could because it was new and with new technology, and it was basically being still che
cked out.

  Chapter 25

  S1 Surveillance

  Out of nowhere Ripley heard a distant creature scream coming from somewhere below, perhaps in the lower decks, and sat staggered at its ultra eeriness, and checked how late it was, and that just about all the crew were asleep, accept the military guarding the inhabited regions.

  Its presence made him alert and continue his work vigorously, searching the cameras and recordings of outside the starship, from the back of the starship computer room, and he occasionally checked the incredible outside new universe, and the strange celestial occurrences, all about space about them, and he watched what looked like a massive nova exploding out, and he was sure the new universe was an early form of the universe.

  It was incredible to him that they had so few cameras and coverage of the outer starship and convinced the computer to install more, and he knew it would be done soon by miniature robots, and he wondered why the floors of the starship never had them, and had been surprised by its insistence that there should be none there, and had wasted his time questioning it trying to get an answer, but he was sure there was not enough and that outside warranted it, and they had enough on the top decks monitoring everything that needed to be monitored.

  The lower decks were too massive to find it and discover where it went, and he knew it would be seen lurking in the darkness, without being properly seen.

  Even though they had few cameras outside, the starship’s other outer defenses astonished him and he had not known such technology existed, and its detection and destruction of anything approaching it was fast and instantaneous, and it had a force field that could stop virtually anything (which the DP2 extraterrestrial could easily have entered a dozen times, especially when the shuttles left), and it could also destroy immense asteroids, and swiftly alter its course to avoid large objects, and he searched to discover if the life form could enter the outer shell of the starship, and repair the damage, as his searches found nothing.

  He was sure there had to be somewhere it entered and he continued on into the starship’s night searching everywhere, and in the end asked the computer how it could do such a thing, and from the detailed accounts it gave him he realized it was capable of going through the outer shell without creating a hole, and he realized it could have made itself invisible.

  Chapter 26

  DP2 Monster Confrontation

  While Ripley rushed out the computer room and returning to his quarters something at the end of the corridor stopped him, and he stood watching something shifting about, doing something.

  Something was lurking in the black shadows there, where he sensed there was something strange, and he felt a vibration through the corridor floor, and heard something whirling through the air, clearly from somewhere nearby, and shifted into the edge of the entrance to a room confused, trying to examine the dim almost fully dark corridor.

  For a while he just stared into the deep dimness unable to recognize anything, and gasped when he watched something shift along the edge of the darkness at the side of the corridor, and realized he would have to rush away, and reveal himself, as it would arrive there soon, yet in the central region of the corridor he felt and heard deep swift sounds, and for some reason knew it was not connected to what was coming along the corridor, and he tried to recall if there was some form of technology on the starship there creating it.

  He watched the thing further along still not recognizing anything of its appearance, and what he could see, and determinedly tried to get a mental picture of it and gain an insight into what was there, and realized he was not even sure it was the DP2 life form, and tried to prove features of it matched the life form he had discovered at the bottom of the starship, and realized he could not identify anything, and was sure he could not give a proper description and he actually saw parts of it altering, and features altering to what it was doing, and he even wondered how it moved along, and could remain so dark.

  He tried to grasp what it could be if it was not the DP2 life form, and he just saw something large over to his side shifting up the side of the corridor, and made sure he was not visible to it as it got closer, and he tried to grasp what form of vision it could have.

  Its deadliness soon became clear, and he realized there surely was no way to make contact and communicate with it, and he realized what it had been like on the DP2 world and all the deaths there from it, to the extraterrestrials in the flying saucer, and he was staggered.

  Eventually he saw it form proper shapes and gain some characteristics and its formation pass through objects in its path.

  It approached from the side of the corridor, and he was sure it had to know he was there, but he could not fully grasp how, and why it had not rushed at him, and he considered if it had just been bad luck, and he froze and recalled the power and speed it had killed the scientists and he knew they would have to find technology to detect and destroy it.

  He remained silently, breathing firmly, using the incredible piece of luck, and opportunity to identify it, and something aspect about it that could be detected.

  To his surprise he watched something else emerge and brighten near him, and watched it float over the floor, and he suddenly recognized it to his surprise, and that it was in an energy bubble, rotating swiftly over the floor of the corridor, which he had seen in the tower on DP3 world, and he felt its power, and he tried to find the source and how it could be there.

  In the energy sphere he spotted a formation, which he was sure was not there before, or had not been visible, and he studied it, and where he had seen the small extraterrestrial DP3 being, and he started thinking of how it had got there, and felt vibrations coming from his pocket, and found the DP3 artifact he had found under the floor, and he watched it glowing with energy, and watched lights on it, and realized it had created the energy sphere all along, and recalled putting it in his pocket that morning as he intended to see if the computer could identify it.

  Suddenly he spotted the DP2 creature shifting along the corridor, ready to attack, and he waited for it to obliterate him, and he stood staggered, and watched the energy sphere stop it, and hold it firmly, stopping it escaping from its confines, and in it he watched what looked like the small DP3 being.

  Ripley eventually shifted away, and saw light and energy blast out, and the energy sphere vanish, and he watched the DP2 life form shift swiftly away, in the opposite direction, and watched its shape alter to a new formation, and he put the DP3 artifact deep into his pocket, wondering what the hell it was and why it had such powers.

  Chapter 27

  Supernatural Artifact

  Ripley examined the starship computer room and its technology with astonishment, wondering what else he had been missing, and he sat down, watching its reactions.

  It was so active, and doing things, he sat wondering what would happen if the thing broke down, and realized the starship had many computers like it, which he was sure might be able to replace it.

  Ripley felt the DP3 artifact in his pocket and recalled what he intended to do, and removed it and showed it to the computer and asked it what it was, and followed its instructions and put it in one of its compartments, and was surprised that it reacted to it, and he watched areas of it react and start investigating it.

  He gasped, especially after the alien encounter in the corridor, and he began to realize it could be the only weapon or defense they had against the DP2 alien, which he was sure would lose its lurking around in the shadows soon, and start attacking them, and again wondered if it was something else.

  How powerful and dangerous was the DP3 artifact? He did not know if he even wanted to activate or alter it, as he sensed it could do things against them that could be dangerous, and he wondered why, and he was not sure what was activating it, and if they could use it, and realized that he would have to find a way to use it, as something was going to happen, and they would have to handle the dangers that could exist.

  When the computer indicated it had finished examinin
g it he walked over and got it, and checked it was the same, and put it back in his pocket.

  “Explain what caused the appearance of the energy sphere in the corridor?” Ripley asked, thinking of a way to get the computer to give him something, and a proper explanation.

  “According to the information accumulated and what I found from analyzing the DP3 artifact,” it replied, “it was activated by the DP3 artifact you provided, and I have received enough evidence to confirm it.”

  “Do you know how it was activated?” he moaned, watching the computer for reactions.

  “The occurrence was activated by supernatural forces ...”

  Ripley sat upright, and realized that the computer had not got anything wrong yet.

  The reply startled him and he wondered what the hell in meant!

  “Where did the supernatural powers come from?” he moaned.

  “The DP2 extraterrestrial in the corridor …”

  Ripley was dumbfounded, and asked, “So you confirm it was the DP2 extraterrestrial?”

  “Yes! Which has been confirmed! Its use of supernatural powers has been confirmed from its first detection, and it uses them for many of its functions …”

  “Why was this information not told to me before …?” Ripley asked, staring at a screen, where information about it was being displayed, and he sat back astonished by how many accounts of its confirmation had taken place.

  “I never told you before as you never had any clearance to be told, and it was irrelevant.”

  Chapter 28

  Confidential Material