Waldorf was the first to ask,
“Why did the recording suddenly stop? There could have been proof positive of their story and another dimension right there.”
Santo understood why but was not able to express it in scientific terms. Instead, talking soldier to soldier, he said,
“Maybe two and two do not add up to four in that dimension.”
Maria nodded her agreement of the elementary clarification. She might have said something about conflicting physics and different quantum dynamics but two and two not adding up to four seemed appropriate enough for now.
When the visual recording started again, it showed them walking out of the cloud and back into the altar room. From there on it recorded everything leading up to Belle taking it off and handing it to dad. Although there was no visual proof of their experience in that world, there was another indicator of fact in the data. Santo pointed and said,
“Look at the timeline. The readout shows two days, three hours and twenty minutes are missing from the recording.”
Waldorf nodded and then accepted proof of the story.
Suddenly Maria remembered the GPS chip in their shoes and bent over her computer. Flying fingers brought up the chip tracker. Although there was no recording of the timeline, by a blue dot, it showed them entering the library and strangely venturing under the library and into the tunnels. Although the GPS signal could not differentiate between a hallway and a tunnel, there was no doubt that it showed them walking past the boundary of the castle to the edge of the nearby cliff. To the shock of all, the two blue dots showed them walking past the cliff and out into mid-air. Helga voiced what she knew was impossible.
“My god, they are walking in mid-air.”
When it was finished, the GPS showing them walking back to the mansion with their parents, Santo spoke.
“There is enough here to warrant further investigation.”
He enlightened Waldorf on why the instrument Belle bought back from that dimension was important and how it got there. He also explained why Belle was recording secret information for him regarding the real reason the Vatican invaded the kingdom and stole the treasury hundreds of years ago and why he thought it was suspicious. Waldorf agreed and said,
“Perhaps that’s why the Vatican didn’t resist returning the treasure to King Rhymen instead of taking the case to the World Court. Clearly the Vatican didn’t want Pandora’s box opened up.”
He then voiced what Santo was already thinking.
“Perhaps you should look into this a little further.”
Maria nodded and had the last word,
“It’s supper time.”
Back in their apartment, Waldorf and Helga are standing in the doorway watching their little monster wash his hands in preparation for supper. While watching Robert, a reflective moment produced a traumatizing flash for Waldorf. Here he was standing next to the woman he loved and looking at their child half-heartedly washing his hands. To many families, this might have been just another mundane moment of no emotional importance. However, to a father who just hours ago was drifting through outer space with no chance of a rescue, it was a heartfelt moment he never thought he would experience. Now that it had, he stood there filled with an unimaginable moment of pleasure for life and his family. He made a mental promise never risking all this again.
Finished, Robert rubbed his hands on the towel and quickly squeezed between the two admiring parents. As they turned and watched him race to the kitchen they heard him say,
“I’m hungry.”
Waldorf looked into Helga’s eyes, eyes that had always melted him and gently pulled her into an embracing hug. Surprised but not objecting to the sudden show of affection, she smiled and said,
“Well look at you, all affectionate and everything. What brought this on?”
Chapter 28
The Golden Rule of no shop talk over the dinner table prevented Maria and Santo from discussing the strange events inside the Black Knight. Maria dearly wanted to talk about the impossible odds of looking through a dimensional portal and seeing two bipeds walking through a field in not only another world but a different dimension. Coupled with Belle’s story that now had to be believed, she couldn’t get it out of her head that Belle was also wearing a red coat. Also, although the two monsters always try to sound brave and do daring things, Maria knew that when they are in trouble, they subconsciously always hold hands.
While Belle was busy telling her parents how she was smart enough to figure out how to get back from that strange world and how she had to push the fraidy-cat Robert into the cloud, Maria’s mind was filled with questions about the Black Knight and its DNA Depository. What happened to Belle was something Santo was going to look into.
A short while later Belle was in bed and Santo had just hugged and given her a good night kiss. As he walked out of the bedroom, he passed Maria at the door and said,
“Your turn.”
Mom came in and sat on the bed. Of all the strange things that had happened, she knew that her daughter was bothered by just one thing. Why didn’t they come looking for her? Maria knew that it was no use going into great and complicated explanations of dimensional loops and time differentials. Belle was wise beyond her years. In fact, she was a prodigy but Maria didn’t have a complete grasp on time dilations either. She struggled with Belle’s question of, ‘why’?
Taking her daughter’s hand she was now going to attempt at least a rudimentary explanation. Belles’s fawn eyes looked at her mother and said,
“It’s okay mom. I know something went wrong and if we were really gone that long, you would have come looking for us.”
Mom squeezed a little hand hard and said,
“Honey, if you were missing for even an hour, I would come looking for you. But that is not what happened. Although it is not as simple as this, I want you to imagine the universe as a giant house with hundreds of different rooms. You and I live in one room with a giant clock on the wall and that is the time we live by. If you leave our room and walk down the hall, for you, our clock stops. When you enter another room there is also a clock there but telling a different time. If you stay in that room even for a few hours, you experience that time. When coming back into our room, the clock starts again. So even if you thought you were gone for a few hours, we in our room didn’t even know you were gone.”
Surprisingly, Belle slept well that night but mom did not. If not knowing how to manipulate them, dimensions and time distortions can be deadly. While Santo slept, she was in bed wide eyed and looking straight up into a dark ceiling. However, it was not the trauma of what almost happened to them in outer space, dying in the voids that kept her awake. Maria’s mind was locked onto what almost happened to her daughter. Her heart was pounding and determination was trying to prevent tears from escaping. She was traumatized by a harsh fact that no parent should endure. The cold hard fact was that except for luck, the cloud coming down for them, she came close to losing her daughter and never knowing what happened to her.
Chapter 29
The next morning and after only an hour or two of restless sleep, Maria had managed to push trauma to the side, at least slightly. All by herself, she sat at the breakfast table savoring a few cups of coffee and toast. Santo was already at a security meeting and Belle was allowed to sleep in as long as she wanted. After what constituted breakfast, she wandered downstairs to her office. There was much to do. An hour later she had finished communicating with the specialist of the House of the Nazarene that she referred to as the ‘brain trust’. They were all told to drop everything and come for a meeting in the afternoon. When the boss snaps her fingers and demands a meeting, all know that it must be important and best to attend.
That afternoon was a beehive of activity for Henrik. D-wings were coming in from all around the world dropping off people and quickly leaving before he had a chance to log them in or check them out. Dr. Riccardo Cavetto, from their laboratory in Milan and expert on the Anunnaki space craft was the first to
arrive. Because this was his first time to the Nazarene headquarters Pia was asked to escort him to the manor. After a friendly greeting, she walked him through the garden where Romero, the gardener was furtively watching them.
The next to arrive was Mario Amato, the House of the Nazarene’s expert on alien archeology. When jumping out of the D-wing, sand from the Sahara desert trickled onto Henrik’s nice clean floor. Because he had been here many times, there was no need for an escort to the manor. Cliff Becker, a handsome young man and Project Leader specializing in the mystery of the Earth tunnels specifically the ones her and Santo were trapped in and with a matter of only a few steps ended up in various places of the world, including a secret chamber of a pyramid buried under sand in Egypt.
This was also the first time Presha Bhat had been invited to the estate. She had been zipped around to different laboratories throughout the world in a D-wing before so she was not overwhelmed by that technology. What swelled her head was actually being invited to a brain trust meeting. Pia again was asked to perform escort duty. This time, when she showed up with Presha, Maria asked Pia to stay and contribute her expertize to the meeting.
The rest of the brain trust was already on the estate. Waldorf and Helga were to attend. Although Helga was a trusted member of the House of the Nazarene, she held no position and had no expertise. It was out of respect to Waldorf, his years of sacrifice and service to the House that she was asked to come along. Although only asked to please attend but understood if it was not possible because of family obligations were the newest parents to the House, Jessika and Kirk. Apparently both new parents were only too glad to hand over parental duties to the nanny if only for the afternoon.
Everybody was gathered in the big conference room on the main floor of the manor. Maria was at the refreshment table gulping coffee and socially chatting with whoever approached. Because many of the Department Heads and experts don’t always have the time to get together, she purposefully allowed time for them all to chat and socialize.
The last to arrive was Kirk and Jessika. They received numerous congratulations on their third child, handshakes and smiles from everybody. Both parents were glad to see the old gang, except Kirk who was not too happy to see Cliff Becker at the meeting. Even though it was clear that she was married, he never missed a chance to flirt with Jessika. Worse, Jessika never missed a chance to flirt back. Although secure in loyalty and love, the green monster inside Kirk always seemed to bare its fangs when seeing them talking.
The signal for the meeting to begin was when Maria sat at the large round table. Within minutes, everybody got the hint and joined her. As always, the seating was random, even for her. There was no Head of the Table here, nobody more important than the other. However, as in all meetings like this, nobody dared sit on her right side. For more reasons than just being Head of Security, that was Santo’s place in meetings as well as in life.
She stood and gave a short history of events leading up to this meeting. Thanks to Presha Bhat and her team in India, the elusive satellite had been located and the orbit established. Doctor Riccardo Cavetto’s team in Milan had converted a recovered Anunnaki craft enabling us to get a team up there and inside. She told them that Doctor Marls adapted the computers to correspond with House of the Nazarene D-wing controls. She then added,
“He would have been at this meeting but as he has so often claimed, he is a busy man.”
The few who knew Dr. Marls chuckled. She also detailed and named the other laboratories that had greatly contributed to the success of that mission.
It was explained how Presha Bhat had coordinated the orbits enabling them to reach and get inside the craft. What was discovered inside was also revealed, including the discovery of a dimension portal operated and coded by the DNA of each species. The only thing she left out was looking through one of the portals and seeing two bipedal children dressed in red walking through a field. There was no need to complicate that issue or bring up their near death experience.
She also thought it best for everybody to be on the same page regarding what the late Zak Zander had referred to as alien history on earth before man. Because there was still much to discover about that era, the members only got a cursory history of the Great Earth War and who the antagonists were. She reported that it was thought the war started in the ancient land of India between the Rama tribe and the Anunnaki to the north, in the land of Mesopotamia. Like most wars, allies formed and soon it escalated into what has been referred to as the Great Earth War.
All ears were intent on Maria but she saw that Mario Amato, her alien archeologist was trying hard not to interrupt her. It was clear that he had a question and so she let him speak.
“You have a question Mario, go ahead?”
“Yes, thank you. A war like that would explain various sites throughout the world destroyed by some sort of nuclear explosion and creating vitrified rocks. Even the site you have me excavating in the Sahara Desert has evidence of rock somehow turned to glass.”
Waldorf cut in adding,
“Well, we don’t know the type of weapons used but most certainly it was some sort of fissionable explosion causing massive destruction all around the world pointing to, as Zak Zander had speculated, a world war among the various alien species that had settled on this planet. We also suspect that the end result of the war was the total destruction of alien habitation on this planet.”
This was all astoundingly new to Dr. Cavetto. He had no doubt of an alien occupation of Earth. There was ample proof of it in his laboratory. What shocked him was the extent of the occupation. He asked,
“What started the war, do we know?”
“No,” said Maria, “but we have thoughts on it. Zak thought that it was possibly for one of two reasons. After what he had gathered from ancient records, he thought that there was a single governing alien species here, a ruler of the world if you wish. As the different aliens arrived, it was them who decided what land they could occupy such as where and on what continent. As an example, the Ant tribe was given land in the Americas, the Wandjinas settled in Australia, the Dropas settled in Tibet and so on with the Rama tribe in India and Anunnaki tribes just to the north. He thought each tribe marked their territory by a geo-glyph, a totem or even a pyramid. He speculated that the controlling Governor of the world, at least at that time, was a race referred to as the Altians. There might even have been population restrictions and land boundaries. Perhaps one group got greedy and wanted more resources. Why does any country start a war with another?”
Jessika, as head of the computer rooms had worked closely with Zak when categorizing and digitizing his research. Because of that, she felt compelled to contribute. She said,
“Zak thought the best reason for the war might have been because it was discovered what the Anunnaki had intended to do to the genetics of the human race, converting human DNA to eventually become Anunnaki. There was some evidence that they had intended not to stop only with the humans but planned to convert all the other alien tribes on the planet as well.”
What Jessika just said suddenly jolted Maria’s memory. A few years ago, after discovering an Anunnaki military base in a cave in Turkey, they found capsules of nineteen cryogenically preserved different alien bodies. Was that why they were there? Were the Anunnaki really planning to alter everybody’s DNA as well? She shuddered at the likelihood and the enormous and nefarious intent to populate this planet with their kind. It must have been clear to the Altians that with such massive conceit for their species, they would not stop with only this planet but everybody in the universe as well. Perhaps as guardians of the planet, the Altians saw fit to stop the horrific genetic takeover and that was might have started the war. Without more research and discovery, for now the cause would only be speculation.
Clearly, although unintentionally Maria had opened up the meeting for questions and Presha Bhat took advantage of it, asking,
“Why did the aliens come here in the first place?”
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bsp; Succumbing to questions that had to be cleared up anyway, Maria replied,
“Through whatever means, Santo and I have experience with other planets and I can safely tell you that many had been destroyed or the species there had depleted their resources. From what we had seen of others, destruction of their planet was the main cause for coming here. Perhaps even overcrowding and simply looking for a better place. Why did the Europeans come to the Americas?”
Kirk added a dire fact.
“And look what happened to the indigenous population soon after the Europeans showed up.”
She had no intention of going into detail about their experiences with time deviation and dimensional warps but did give examples of their knowledge of some other planets.
“For instance, we know for a fact that the whole solar system of a species known to us as the Sky People was destroyed by antimatter intrusion. In order to escape and save their creation, they searched the limits of their technology for comparable inhabitable planets and migrated to them. This planet was just one of the many they came to. We have also had visual contact with the Anunnaki home world not only in another dimension but also in a different time quadrant. We know that there are thousands of years between Earth time and that of the Anunnaki world. When they understood that their DNA was at its time and faltering, they had the technology to skip dimensions and plot to save their creation. Before the inevitable destruction of their code, they hatched a plan to migrate to planets with habitation compatible to theirs. Our visual of their planet showed that their abandoned cities had practically turned green with foliage and overrun with strange wild animals and birds.”
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