Extraterrestrial DP1

by V Bertolaccini

  As they moved away from it he became startled as more explosions blasted out, and sounded so powerful he was sure someone was using a form of powerful explosive in the bullets.

  What was shocking was he was sure there were high-powered rifles aboard the starship!

  As they shifted speedily on he wondered if aliens used rifles, as he had never thought of it before, and realized that they were an ultimate weapon and they could easily have ended up with them while trying to create ultimate weapons, and he realized that they could be about to confront a race the same as humans, with the same and more advanced technology.

  The idea of the walk they took there was crazy and he could not grasp if there was anything there out for the kill and he realized it was absolutely absurd entering such a blizzard and fury of snow.

  He could not realize what was there and on such a world. There was nothing on the world and found below either, and nothing could properly live or grow there, and he wondered if the explosions were a phenomena of such an environment.

  A loud explosion blasted somewhere nearby and they rushed away in the opposite direction through the thick snow and swirling currents of snow blasting about them.

  Something large could be heard over to their side and he realized that it could have something that could detect them and he leapt through the snow in front of him, and even thought of burying himself and Dan in deep areas of the snow, but he was unsure if they could be detected, and their trail through the snow behind them led to them.

  As they continued on and on it became clear what was there was not there anymore and he started to realize that they were lost and started to try to use his equipment to detect where they were and realized it was not working and in the end realized how lost they had become and they had to trace their trail back to where they were, hoping what was there was gone, and as he considered what was there, and if they were now free from being attacked, he realized again that it could have been anything, on such a world, and he tried to grasp how anything could survive there and realized that he could be establishing things on their terrestrial knowledge.

  Their equipment had not shown what was buried beneath the DP1 world or anything!

  His mind raced through what had occurred and he realized all they had was the DP2 signal, and he removed his device to detect it, which they were going to use to trace it, and he examined it and switched it on and it started beeping, detecting the signal, and more powerfully than it had been, and they continued to go to it.

  At one point he heard the explosion like they had heard it earlier but away in the distance, and he was sure it was at where they had been.

  Many of the scientists aboard the starship had seemed to believe the signal was a distress call, and he wondered if something there now had them trapped there, and intended to attack them. Was the location that they had strolled into a danger zone, or was it something else?

  He wondered if it was extraterrestrial scientists in some form of ice station. But he could not grasp what could be there!

  Suddenly they heard what was there nearby moving towards them, and they swiftly rushed on.

  After a while he realized it was gone, and he wondered if their equipment had given away their presence, and as he wondered what the hell could possibly be there, and buried away in such a desolate place, he spotted a distant black shape emerge.

  Chapter 3

  DP2 Discovery

  Ripley was staggered at the source of the signal, and that he traced it miles under the ice, and he strolled around over it, where they had found something buried beneath a region of the snow, and he wiped the snow and ice away from it and revealed an artificial cover, which clearly had been recently covered over by snow.

  Below the cover he found a deep tunnel going straight down into the ice, with a metal device at its side, and he saw it had clearly been hollowed out with some large powerful beam.

  The snowstorm was still blowing about snow everywhere, and he searched for any forms of footsteps and was surprised not to find anything, and checked the signal again, and that it was coming from something below, and he realized extraterrestrials could have discovered it and made the hole going straight down into it. Yet why was the signal still there?

  He felt like leaving it but Dan wanted to check it, and he knew they would have to check it anyway, and he ignored thoughts of wanting to start back to the shuttle and sent a message out to the shuttle and starship where he was and the coordinates and what he was doing, hoping they received it, and entered the tunnel.

  He carefully fitted himself into a device at the tunnel’s side and waited to go down, and watched Dan near him in his spacesuit, with the snow blasting about him, and as he considered if it was a mistake he watched him vanish as he shot down the tunnel, and realized it could the other way around and that Dan could be in danger there, but he had to investigate it.

  He was sure it was there for a reason and that something important was below!

  He vision altered to the darkness and he finally turned his spacesuit light on and watched the mind-bending tunnel shooting by and sounds and echoes from the air shooting by and the blizzard hollowing down through the ice shaft and it left him stunned at the dangers of what he would encounter below, and he checked the device accelerating him downwards and tried to see if he could grasp the technology of it, as he had not seen the technology before, and the incredible speed it accelerated at, and it could be worth something back on the Earth and he tried to contemplate what had created it, as he was sure human technology would show signs of being built by humans, but he could not form any stable recognitions of what had created, and what technology it was, and the materials it had were unknown to him, and he never saw a way to open it or how it was fitted together, and he wondered if it was designed and built by a form of robot.

  How the ice tunnel was made fascinated him as the power behind what had created must have been immense.

  When clouds of powdered ice swirled by and through his beam from his light he gasped and looked straight down into the depths below, into the darkness below the light, and expected to see something edging up towards him.

  He realized that he had avoided being killed so far and wondered if he was going to be killed later, or even when he returned to the surface.

  He groaned realizing the mistake he was making and even the trouble he could have getting back up to the surface, and getting to the shuttle, and he wondered if he could make it stop and examined the device but saw nothing, and there clearly was no controls, or there was a device that sent signals to it that had controls on it, and he realized the device just carried out simple acts to what was in it did, as it had done when he put it on, and while glimpsing parts of the shaft above he wondered if it would stop if he started trying to remove it, and was surprised at how powerful it looked.

  He realized he had always wanted to investigate some great mysterious unexplored place as well as explore the stars, at such far out desolate locations, and he wanted to explore more. He wanted to explore and discover new things of value and greatness, and even be remembered.

  When the bottom appeared he stared down in wonder and considered the depth it was, and what was in the blackness there.

  He repeatedly searched with the light straining his eyes to see the bottom and thought he saw something move, but saw no features of anything.

  Suddenly the tunnel about him vanished into darkness, and he swiftly turned off his light, and waited to be confronted by something, and he landed on the ice below and stood silently in the darkness and tried to hear what was there, and he thought he saw what he was sure was an immense ice cavity.

  When got out the device he heard it shoot straight up to the surface and thought he saw a large artificial object resting near the central region of the cavity, which went out and vanished in the distance, and he stood wondering what hell was going to happen!

  Chapter 4

  DP2 Flying Saucer

  He tried to theorize what would be the
re out in the blackness, from everything he had seen, and searched the darkness, like the deepest depths of space, with no stars visible, but there was nothing he could grasp, but he thought he saw strange dark shapes, which he was sure were life forms, and he refused to do anything, and turn his light on and give himself away.

  When he felt the ground below him with his spacesuit gloves he felt how solid the ice was, and as solid as stone, and he stopped and recalled a miniature device light in his spacesuit that he could use without being seen and got the device out and turned it on and used it to see the nearby cavity wall, and confirmed it was built the same as the shaft, and he used the light to see the ground about him, which was too dim to see further out, and he shifted in and focused his dazzled eyes on anything about the ground, but only saw dirt covering the ground, and vaguely only seeing a colossal dark cavity about him in the distance.

  Slowly a dim object in the central region became vaguely visible and as he approached it a large artificial white object emerged and he stopped and checked there was proper air in the cavity, and pulled down his faceplate and stood staggered at the drop in temperature, and dangers from it, and felt it damage his face, and his eyes becoming damaged, and shoved his faceplate back up, and checked it was sealed.

  His spacesuit used the atmosphere of the world and heated it before circulating it through his spacesuit, and he felt its warmness and relaxed.

  He was sure there were no life forms nearby, in the cavity, and decided to assume it was so.

  He stood firmly checking everything, listening intensely, and heard the transporter device in the distance and realized it was Dan coming down from the surface, and realized the dangers again, and what had been up above, and wondered if what was there could stop the device going back up to the surface.

  Eventually he turned his spacesuit light on at full power and stood staggered as the whole cavity exploded in light, and the reflected off the ice everywhere, and where he was imagining a black object was he saw an immense white flying saucer resting in center of the cavity, cut around it, and instead of the cavity being a long cavity it was circular, and he examined it wondering how it never collapsed, even though he knew they would have the technology to do so, and he saw how dense and thick the ice was.

  It was incredible, and he realized the value of the saucer back on the Earth, and that he had found it!

  It was staggering, and he realized the thing might have even visited the Earth, and he considered if it had its saucer shape for a reason, and was staggered by the thought of it arriving back on the Earth, and what the media would think of the thing.

  His original thoughts of it altered as he realized what it was worth and that there was not anything in the cavity.

  Away in the distance he thought he saw something move and ignored it when he saw it was part of the saucer and him moving his head, and as he approached it he grasped the technology it had and that it looked far more advanced than the transport device used to come down from the surface and he was sure the object had been discovered by the race that had built the transporter device and that the cavity might have been built by them.

  Suddenly he gasped and wondered why it was still there though, and why they had not removed it, and he wondered if they could, as the depth it was beneath the ice was immense, and he wondered if they could melt it or something, or fire some explosion through the ice, and if the flying saucer still worked, as they would not be able to get it off the world if it never as the weight of it was immense.

  After feeling its surface and that he could not even scratch its surface, and was made of an unknown material, he realized they might not even be able to enter it, and he wondered what would happen if they never, and if starships from the Earth would be arriving and leaving there trying to enter it for years, and he considered if they would someday take it back to the Earth.

  The cavity roof was perfectly domed shaped and he studied the ice it was made of and its surface and knew it definitely belonged to the race who had made the tunnel up to the surface but he never found anything on the saucer that showed they were the builders of it or even a later group of them trying to get it back.

  He wondered how they managed to get the equipment down to build such a colossal underground cavity, and wondered how many years the saucer had been down there, as if the snow was close to being the same on the Earth it could have even been there for millions of years, and he realized the amount of races that could have detected the DP2 signal and arrived there, and even have checked out the cavity, which was also ancient.

  The roof was solid ice and more solid than he had seen ice and he spotted things in it that he was sure were devices that were helping keeping it up, and he suddenly realized he might find answers to all their queries, and he started exploring about the flying saucer further out, and realized the true immense size of it, and closer to it he realized how new looking it actually was, and wondered if it being in such coldness had preserved it or if it preserved itself, or both, and he traced its sides into the distance with his spacesuit glove held out, startled.

  As he gradually approached a black region, where he thought he saw something, he watched Dan appear in the transporter device from the surface with a scientist beside him, and them having discussions, and them discovering the massive white flying saucer structure in the surrounding ice cavity, and them trying to imagine what form of extraterrestrial created it.

  Chapter 5

  Entrance Chamber

  It staggered him as he silently crept on, thinking of it and the nature of world it had come from and their technology. It could be anything! What the hell were they letting themselves in for, with their explorations?

  He realized how dangerous the extraterrestrials could be and it made him shudder, but he had to explore it as he had to confirm there was something there and what was there.

  The power source of the flying saucer had to be colossal and he gasped when he considered it on other worlds.

  From the scientist with Dan, slowly making their way towards him, he heard they were moving the shuttle over to it, and that the snowstorm had shifted away from the region.

  Eventually Ripley got to the black region on the flying saucer and gasped and saw that it was an entrance point, and that it had been left open, and he stood at it looking into its darkness and its dim interior, and saw a form of corridor going into it, and shuddered from the cold and thought of entering it, as he had to investigate what was there.

  He rushed up into it as he watched Dan and the scientist discussing it, and realized he still had not found a single clue to what he was dealing with and he rushed into its darkness and used his light to investigate the floor and roof.

  He was keen to investigate everything of the slightest interest!

  While shifting in the entrance tunnel he sensed dangers there, and could not grasp why, and if it was just the look and what it was, as he was sure killer aliens and animals had a deadly look to them or their technology, and at least should they were carnivores.

  Yet he was certain extraterrestrials would be carnivores!

  At the end of the tunnel a large empty region emerged across his front and he stood with his light searching it, and slowly moved into it, with darkness further out, surrounding him, and he finally saw dim black shapes becoming visible, and he slowly stopped and stood examining the distant dark shapes, and studied the weird shapes, which he could not grasp, and grasp the use of, while he listened about him he heard the scientist slowly entering the saucer and using his communicator, giving excited replies to someone at the shuttle.

  Ripley just could not recognize what it was as there was nothing visible, and he considered if it was empty to store things in, and if it was even a cargo starship, and he strolled out searching and giving glances at the dark shapes, straight in front of him, and got ready to act if confronted and stayed observing the black shapes and if any detail became clear, and his eyes adapted to the dimness and strange light effects.

 
Chapter 6

  Life Forms

  Ripley stood staring through his faceplate through green vapor clouds, of strange gases, where he saw strange rock formations, and strolled through them and attempted to identify the rock, and wondered why he had not seen it before.

  The piles of rock formations confused him, as he had expected the dark shapes in the highly advanced craft to be technology, and he discovered gaps in the piles of rock where things had been, and had either been removed or something had been.

  After meticulous examinations he reassured himself the place was a storage region of the saucer and that the strange rock piles had been discovered somewhere, and he considered if it had been DP2, and the early DP2 world where there could have been surface rock visible.

  At one rock pile he found a cavity in part of it with shape of something and the form of something that had been in it and tried to identify it and he wondered if it was some rare element, but he had not seen anything like it, and he used a small drill in his spacesuit and removed part of the rock where it had been, as he was sure there would be traces on it, where it had been attached.

  He examined it at different angles in his bright light and used a microscope device in his spacesuit to examine it up close and was surprised to find marks of what looked like where some plant or life form had been.

  As he saw Dan and the scientist enter the chamber, and their brighter lights illuminate the area he saw something over to his side and rushed over towards it, at the side of the rock piles, and saw it was the remains of a form of skeleton of a large humanoid extraterrestrial and he rushed straight up to it and knelt beside it, leaning over it, and found the remains of what might have been a spacesuit, and some form of material.