What surprised Ripley the most was the computer never actually realized that they could use the DP3 artifact to detect where the DP2 extraterrestrial was located, which had been their main objective since its discovery on the starship, and he was sure it would allow them to capture or destroy it.
Ripley was also surprised that it had started allowing him to view confidential material, and he was sure it had to have checked him out and had given him the status to carry out his mission.
“So where shall we search on the starship …?” he asked, wondering what would happen now.
“I do not have that information to provide …”
Ripley wondered if it was avoiding giving him more or if it was designed to answer in that way.
He realized he would have to ask it more precise questions that could give him more information.
“Where are you monitoring the starship, in the same depth as that outer corridor?”
“I have limited coverage, as the starship is too large and it is not normally needed, and humans in such confines, and especially in deep space, have been found to react far differently in such an environment of being constantly closely watched, which has been thoroughly investigated in many investigations, and vast amounts of research on it has confirmed ...”
“So that is why you never spotted the DP2 extraterrestrial coming aboard when it did …” he moaned, realizing again that they needed a far better extraterrestrial defense.
“Has anyone else discovered anything recently?” he asked, realizing the military was increasing its searches of the starship, and he sat considering how to use his method of capturing it with the DP3 artifact.
“No. The last recorded encounter was by you. Which has been confirmed and given to Captain Corbett and Colonel Adams.”
Ripley looked up in surprise, realizing something else had occurred without him knowing it.
“Why did they get told it?” he asked, curiously.
“They wanted all the information and occurrences relating to the DP2 extraterrestrial to be given to them, and I provided a detailed account, and of your search and investigation on how it got aboard, and they became increasingly interested in what took place and your survival and escape from the DP2 extraterrestrial, which makes you the only person that’s escaped a direct attack!”
He realized why he had been allowed to see all the confidential material and knew they were putting together a plan and that they would want him to use the DP3 artifact, to search for and annihilate the DP2 extraterrestrial.
Chapter 29
World Discovered
Most of the Starship S1 scientists and investigators went through the vast amounts of information left for them by the DP1 humans, and the details and coordinates of where the DP1 starships went, which were found buried away in the DP1 starship and cities.
They repetitively re-examined everything, and the coordinates were studied in a greater degree than ever before, with all the information they now had!
Ripley’s next surprise was, from the confidential material he got from the Starship S1 computer, was the discovery that they had followed the coordinates to where they were, and that they had known of where they were going (but had been surprised at the dangers of the new dimension they had entered), and that it was a hidden dimension, and like the hyperspace dimension.
The last coordinates of the coordinates were of the location of the world they had gone to in the new universe they had entered.
Going by what Ripley read of a document given to him they believed that they had been at war with another highly advanced extraterrestrial, and from long before the devastation of their sun and world, and that they believed they would have eventually discovered them on a normal world in the normal universe, and that humans had disguised their presence on the Earth, after they arrived, and they never intended to entirely rebuild their civilization, and the DP1 humans that entered the new universe intended to build a far superior ultimate world and civilization.
After vast searches of the new universe by astronomers on the Starship S1 they started to discover planets around suns that were habitable, and though the vast strange universe was unknown to them they started examining everything they could and what was about them, and slowly started to grasp far more, and they studied all the habitable worlds searching for what worlds were inhabited by an advanced civilization.
In the end they found many that had probable civilizations and deciphered the remaining coordinates and found the world, which they confirmed, and prepared for their first voyage through the new universe, using their original starship propulsion.
Chapter 30
DP2 Monster Detection
Ripley rushed down to the bottom of the starship, close to where the deaths of the scientists had been, and stopped, staggered with his mouth open, glaring into the dimness, where the DP2 monster was standing, altering shape, and Ripley swiftly leapt sideways behind storage boxes, where the starship military were hidden away, with weapons.
If it had not been for his faith in the military and that they had a plan, and it was not going annihilate them, he would have left as swiftly as he arrived, and he sat wondering what they had, and why they were so confident in it working.
The situation was so terrible he visibly felt sorry for them, as he kept thinking it would attack and they would not be able to escape.
He felt tired and weary, and realized how late it was, and wondered why it had made its appearance, and wondered if it slept and had a night, and realized it must have ways of watching them.
Ripley spotted part of it shifting about, as it did something, lurking in the shadows, and he stopped and sensed something strange about it, and he recalled it had supernatural powers, and he felt a vibration through the corridor floor, and heard something through the air, clearly from somewhere ahead, and he tried to examine the dim corridor, but he saw little.
For a long time he just stared into the deep dimness unable to recognize anything, and gasped when he saw it shift along the edge of the deep darkness at the side of the corridor, and saw part of it turn translucent and almost vanish, and realized they would have to rush away, and he recalled how swift and deadly it was, and he realized it was now too close and that they could not escape, and they could soon be obliterated, and he watched the military with revulsion, at them getting him out his bed to be slaughtered in the middle of the night by it, and wondered why the hell they were sitting waiting for something to occur.
Ripley in the end followed the eyes of the soldiers to the central region of the corridor ahead and heard deep heavy vibrations from there, and knew it was the DP3 artifact being activated and he swiftly felt his pocket and felt that it had been activated, and he wondered why the hell they were so confident in it saving them, and he recalled the computer’s new confidential files of the DP3 artifact and that they gave accurate descriptions of its functions, and he wondered why they had not taken it off him or had checked it out, and he realized that they were taking all their information of it from the corridor camera footage.
Chapter 31
DP2 Monster Annihilation
Ripley discovered from the confidential files that they had also a way of detecting the supernatural, and he realized that they had been waiting for the DP2 life form to use it, and for it to activate their detection system.
What was surprising was he had nearly removed the DP3 artifact out his pocket earlier that day, and he realized how lucky he had been, and he checked it and was surprised at how activate it actually was now, and throbbing with power, and he sensed something would occur, and knew that it was time the life form was captured, and he wondered what they intended to do with it, or what the DP3 artifact would do with it, and shuddered again, and realized that they could throw it out the starship as it was accelerating away, getting ready to making its voyage to the DP4 world, and he was sure it could not travel at that speed.
He watched the life form further along and that it looked damaged and trying to alt
er itself into what it normally was, and wondered what kind of original inhabitation it had come from on the DP2 world.
He again tried to see if its features matched the life form he had discovered at the bottom of the starship, and realized he could not identify it, and he wondered what large groups of them would be like, and he wondered if they had destroyed all the remaining life forms on the on the DP2 world.
He tried to grasp what it could be like if they had discovered it on the Earth as he watched its large black shape over to his side shifting along the corridor towards him.
Eventually the soldiers started to react while he sat wondering what the hell they were up to, and even considered if they had not even seen the thing, and he sat back and watched it start to form a proper shape and gain some characteristics and its formation turn into a massive black panther creature with forms of powerful legs.
The thing approached slowly and he wondered why it never just attacked, and realized it must know of their advanced intelligence and technology, and wondered if it intended to escape if they pulled out any deadly weapons.
He recalled the power and speed that it had killed the scientists at and wondered if it was because they were a danger, and wondered if the soldiers had some new form of technology and weapon, which it had partly detected from them.
They remained silent, breathing firmly, and he watched an energy formation across its front emerge and brighten with beams of light, and he watched the DP3 artifact energy bubble appear, rotating furiously over the floor of the corridor, which he tried to identify with the energy sphere he had seen on the DP3 world, in the tower, and he saw its true power, and it had vastly increased and its enormous power, and watched the energy sphere engulf the creature, and hold it firmly, trapping it in its confines.
They all sat watching it being destroyed, and energy blast out as the energy sphere vanished, and he felt the DP3 artifact deep in his pocket change and then stop, and he wondered what the hell it was and why it had such powers!
Chapter 32
DP4 World
The white sky and DP4 world outside the shuttle was so bright and heavenly that Ripley still had his mouth wide open and sat unable to contemplate what was there.
The planetary cartographer shuttles automatically carried out their programming floating high over the surface of the world at hundreds of miles an hour, mapping and analyzing everything they could detect, while searching for anything of interest, and any abnormalities, mapping the most interesting region of the world.
Ripley’s senses heightened but he was unable to grasp the dangers of the mission, and what was there, and the muddled information from the starship, since it entered orbit around the massive world, almost the size of Saturn, and they understood little of what was there.
The matter in the new universe had far less gravity, and the world with its immense size had close to the same gravity of the Earth, and he kept wondering why the DP1 humans had chosen it, other than not allowing the aliens they were at war with finding them, and that there were few suns and asteroids roaming space.
The views of the civilization from space, and their flying over the world, were incredible, and astonished them with their sizes and complexity, and little was found of what was there, and they had a hard time proving it was a human civilization, and he gasped considering the technology they had in the underground cities in the DP1 world, and what they would have achieved there, and they could very well be about to find what the ultimate human civilization of the future could be.
He had never before, before joining the starship voyages, realized just how dangerous it was searching for advanced extraterrestrials in the stars and he was sure something dangerous could occur, and he considered if a war could even occur, or them being attacked, and he wondered why they were so sure they could handle them, and prevent anything occurring.
The DP4 signal was fascinating, when it had been detected in orbit, but had then surprised them by vanishing completely, and they had not been able to detect where it had come from, even after its second appearance, which dramatically increased in strength, but had vanished, and they were still trying to decipher it, and they had started to realize that they could have an entirely different form of communication now, and might not be able to even translate it.
He occasionally listened to its pulsations, from when they had recorded it, searching for anything, and was fascinated that they insisted something of great size and power was creating it, and that the signal was not being sent to someone else.
So far they had not detected anything on the DP4 world, and nobody had sent a proper message, and the world looked desolate, which confused him as he could not grasp where they would go or what had happened to them.
“What have they found?” Dan finally asked, looking over at him, searching his face.
“They have not found anything new here or about the signal!”
“Incredible!” Dan moaned, looking down at massive civilization covering the world everywhere, with long building structures stretching up to the sky, floating by their sides, and they regularly tried to examine formations with high powered magnification on screens, and tried to grasp if the scientists at the back of the shuttle had found life, but it kept becoming clear that they had not, and that the other shuttles had not detected any life.
It was pretty staggering, and they now had too much to study and still had established little of its properties and significances ...
“They have detected little!” Ripley muttered. “The most common assumption assumed – since the DP4 signal’s discovery – is that it’s a greeting signal/message to other races – and even directly to us from the Earth – as the original was on the DP1 world, and left for humans someday to discover and trace the origins of.”
“So have they worked out where the signal could be coming from?”
“They have found nothing!”
“Someone surely must be watching us right now from somewhere …”
“Perhaps, but we do not know what is here, and surely would be hidden, from potential attacks and dangerous encounters, and they could be allowing us to approach them, and some of the scientists are sure they could have a way of hiding and protecting themselves if confronted with dangerous situations – perhaps more common in this universe, and region of space – and they perhaps will make contact with us in their own way, avoiding a confrontation.”
Ripley shuddered though when he thought of the DP2 monster, which they had only beat with someone else’s technology.
What was also inconceivable was that they had later used the DP3 artifact and had discovered and destroyed the egg formations of the DP2 extraterrestrial!
In a chamber between the starship’s outer shell and an inner one Ripley had used the DP3 artifact to detect the eggs, and had entered the hidden away chamber, and had stood transfixed by the silver spheres covering a whole region, and many in heaps (and after examinations they found that they were almost identical to the silver sphere pods/eggs found on the flying saucer on the DP2 world, which could have transformed into an army of DP2 creatures, which they were sure it intended to activate at some world, and to colonize it, and perhaps use humans as food).
Chapter 33
DP4 Landing
The whole sky was staggering and Ripley stood on the DP4 world staring at a vast world like Saturn with its massive rings stretching out into the atmosphere of the DP4 world.
The massive stars of the universe filled his entire vision everywhere as magnificent bright white and golden lights.
Stars were dazzling, and he could not recognize what forms of stars they were, and had not seen anything like them before, and he wondered how the universe could possible exist. Space was so condensed everywhere and he could not believe the density of the stars in regions, and he was staggered that they could exist in such states, and not pulled into a colossal explosion.
At his side he spotted the scientists getting out the shuttle with heavy equipment, and he co
ntinuously shaded his eyes from the brightness below him, until he could see below him.
He spotted something near the horizon and saw the most colossal looking anything he had seen. A colossal form of black hole was stretching out everywhere there, going straight across a large section of space, and he actually thought he saw it entering other dimensions and wondered if it entered their universe.
They still could not grasp why the universe and worlds were so strange and everything so different and he wondered if they could miss many of the dangers there and be killed, and he examined what he could in the blinding light about him, and most of his vision was full of celestial whiteness.
He altered his spacesuit and the faceplate automatically shaded the light, and he lifted the faceplate and breathed the air, and reassured himself it was breathable, and put the faceplate up.
They landed at the region, the only region there where there were no constructions, and just the bare world, where instead of there being dirt and stone, vegetation, the matter was translucence and an immense brightness blasted up, from either the world’s lava interior or from the matter below itself, or both, and the scientists needed to investigate it and take samples.
At times his eyes adjusted and he saw his legs dangling over nothing, but he felt its firmness, and bent over and felt what was there with his fingers, and it felt like a form mud, but hard stuff below, and stood upright considering what it was, and how they could have survived there.
Yet there was normal matter on the world as well and the majority of the constructions, virtually covering the entire world were not translucent, or glowing, and made of the substance.
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