After a while of watching eager scientists getting samples, and using specially designed goggles to see what was below, he put on a pair, given to him by a scientist, and he stood examining an intense glow far below, creating the intense light, which was many miles below, and he checked the surrounding temperature in his helmet, and it was normal, and he checked if his surroundings had a normal atmosphere again, and he examined the blinding light beaming up at him.
The original DP1 world was the darkest world they had ever seen, and sun minute, and he was sure that many of them had wanted to move to the DP4 world from it as they had started to detest the dark empty desolate place, with no real sun, and them living deep underground, for so many years, or perhaps they had just chosen the opposite, instinctively trying to avoid what had occurred again.
The place was like someone’s form of heaven and he occasionally heard the others give gasps at it as they carried out their work.
A times he could not see or feel anything below and everywhere below was white, and he searched through it seeing nothing anywhere, and stopped occasionally frustrated at their lack of progress in discovering what was beneath them, and he wondered what an entire world like it would be like, and if anything grew there, and tried to recall seeing anything growing on the areas.
Occasionally he thought his size had decreased, and realized it was the lower gravity, and immense size of the world stretching out away into the vast distance, and larger objects about and in the region, and he measured himself to see if his height had somehow been reduced, wondering if the gateway had shrunk him when they had entered the universe, with them shrinking.
Away in the distance below his feet he spotted something shift out of the blinding light there and he tried to grasp the immense size of it and what it was, and listened to strange distant sounds.
Chapter 34
DP4 Life Form
As the crew of Ripley’s shuttle entered a dark cave from a tunnel a hideous slithering blood red devilish shape emerged from the blackness, and they all shifted back.
As it crept out Ripley examined it even wondering if it was what the DP4 humans had transformed into, and what they had come to make contact with, and wondered why it was so different and tremendous, and of extraterrestrial origins, and if it was a cross formation, of the DP4 humans and an extraterrestrial, which might be used for their purposes – with its dark blood red demon features, and giant glowing hideous shape – and he felt energy from it and stood trying to grasp what it was doing – and he realized it was made of some form of energy, and he considered if it was actually keeping itself alive, and in existence.
Ripley still could not believe the world was so totally empty, after them scanning and mapping the entire world, and searching every major structure, and it seemed the repulsive ending of their worse dreams, and that the human race could achieve so much and destroy itself.
After months the whole crew had realized it at some point and he was sure it could be the end of humans on the Earth as well!
The incredible thing was there were no real life forms found on the massive world, and they found little, and the information they found barely gave them anything about anything, and they might have forgotten their past and the outer universe, and there was nothing of what had happened, and many of the crew thought something of a diabolical nature had wiped them out.
The signal had finally properly returned, and was powerful enough for them to trace to the cavity, deep below a mountain, made of proper matter, located at the Antarctica.
Ripley recalled the life form they found in the chamber on the DP1 world and spotted a similar chamber in the darkness behind it, and realized why it was there, and that the DP1 one was to stop any extraterrestrials discovering what was below, and he realized that it was created to carry out a mission.
He watched what it did and wondered if it would vanish into nothing before giving them what they wanted, and he wondered if they could communicate with it, and if it even used language.
Suddenly they saw visions of star formations, and he suddenly realized it was making contact with them and showing regions of space, and he wondered if any of the crew could identify them.
It continued with the pursuit of an unknown goal and he tried to grasp what, and wondered if it was giving them the location of another world.
It showed them an exploration through the vast depths of the new universe, and he spotted a massive sphere of light glowing around the life form and he wondered what the hell it had been, as it was like an extraterrestrial ghost, and suddenly the visions vanished and the life form altered and vanished, and they started their investigations of its chamber.
Epilogue
First Contact
The whole chamber and outer cavity vanished and unfathomable impenetrable darkness emerged, and they stood silently.
Their eyes adjusted and Ripley thought he could see the shape of something and moved his hand towards his spacesuit light controls and turned on a small dim light, but only saw blackness, and before he did anything something lifted him and the other members of the crew up and shifted them away, with nothing visibly holding them, and Ripley felt a force moving them away into blackness, and he realized that it could kill him easily.
He tried to theorize what it could be there from what they had witnessed on the world and above cavity but there was nothing to actual grasp, and he studied strange dark shapes ahead, as they accelerated towards them.
When they appeared around him he felt himself stop and the ground below him appear and he shifted his light about, as the scientists silently discussed what was there, and Ripley focused his dazzled eyes on the dirt covering the ground, vaguely only seeing a dark cavity about him.
They examined everything and they only saw a large artificial black object in the rock of the mountain, and at a closer observation Ripley realized the object went deep into the mountain rock, and he wondered what the hell he was looking at, and why they had not detected it below the mountain when they scanned it.
Ripley was sure it could have been built when they first arrived on the world, and for the sole purpose of them discovering it, and he thought of all the occurrences and things it could have recorded over the history of the world, and their incredible civilization spreading over the whole of the massive world.
The roof seemed solid and the rock was capable of stay up and not collapsing down, and he spotted things on it that he was sure kept it up, when the rest of the mountain had crumbled down, leaving the cavity to the black object.
Again he realized they might find answers to all their queries, which they had longed to discover since the first discovery of the DP1 world, and he started exploring it with the others, and gradually explored more of the black object, and saw how undamaged it was, and he traced its sides into the rock, and with his spacesuit glove held out he started to feel its smooth surface, and wondered if the opening to the object was buried away in the rock, and if they could safely remove it.
As he wandered about he spotted something appear and turned his light on it, and watched the scientists spot it, and discover it was the entrance to the black object.
Inside the interior with his bright light on it was colossal and went away out into the distance, but what really staggered him was how advanced its technology was.
He was sure it was like the DP1 starship they found in the cavity of the DP1 world but he was sure it was far more highly advanced, and going by the original DP1 version, he estimated it went out for miles, and he stood with his mouth open for a few seconds, glaring out his spacesuit.
He looked for signs of any ancient activity everywhere, and tried to imagine who had created it, and how altered they had become, and what they had been really like, and he shuddered and knew he would have to investigate everything he could.
As they marched in everything changed, and their lights went out and thick endless blackness filled their vision and Ripley felt sensations of floating through space, and something e
merged and opened like an energy curtain and he felt himself entering somewhere strange.
Ripley stood in a line with the other astronauts waiting and they saw a distant white radiance dimly glow, but they could not properly see it or its source, and Ripley saw nothing existed around them anywhere, and the floor beneath them was gone, and an eerie sensation gripped him, and he tried to grasp where they were, and he sensed a weird presence, and realized it came from the strange white radiance, and he studied it and saw it was light formations, perfectly symmetrically arranged in a circle, and he watched them surrounding them and realized he had seen them before, and he recalled them, and when the starship had left the universe before it had entered the new dimension, and had started shrinking, and the whole starship had vanished and they had been floating outside the universe and he had awoken and had been surrounded by the lights, and he realized they had saved their lives, as they had not properly entered the new dimension.
Ripley realized he and the other astronauts were forming into white lights, and he realized he had the DP1 extraterrestrial existence, hidden in his body, and that it had intended to alter into a human on the Earth, and that the early DP1 humans had created it, and he realized the white lights were what the DP4 humans had turned into, and he watched himself vanish from the blackness and reappear in whiteness, where he saw colossal lights everywhere, in a colossal mind-boggling universe, where worlds never existed, and he realized what had occurred, and of their transformation into transcendents, and they existed in eternal happiness.
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