The Antarctic Discovery (Novelette) by V Bertolaccini

They could not even scratch it!”
    “ We found
the place where the entrance opened and found some faint markings
near it, which we believe is sensitive to reactions from something,
and we believe that it could be another way to open it!”
    “ We could
try using different things on it!” Weaver replied, and the
scientists returned to working on finding a way to open
it.
    A scientist
suddenly moved over and whispered in a nearby Russian scientist’s
ear, and he suddenly looked aware of something and agreed with the
scientist and left to do something.
    The scientist
returned with other scientists and set up equipment at the region
of the entrance with the markings and they activated equipment, and
laser beams blasted at the region where the markings were near, and
started firing thousands of laser blast sequences at it.
    “ What’s
it doing?” Weaver asked, wondering if they had found something
somewhere, and wondered what would happen if they forced entrance to its
voyager!
     

Chapter 18
     
    The Helicopters
     
    The massive
helicopters lifted up and rushed off into the distance and Weaver
rested into a seat at the back of one, with the other soldiers,
preparing himself for what could be his last day alive!
    They were
Russian military helicopters and they had been hidden away in one
of the Russian base’s underground chambers.
    They had
discovered where the renegade Russian soldiers had gone! By using
recorded satellite information they had been able to trace their
path to a distant secret Russian ice station, where they were going
to hide out and wait for a plane to arrive to take them away.
    If they had a
plane there already or it had just arrived they would have escaped,
and he was sure that they would never see them again! They could
easily make it to some part of the world where they would not be
able to find them, or be able to do anything to stop them.
    He wondered if
they had not shot the people that they had if they could take what
they had taken from the voyager back off them? Who owned an alien
artifact?
    The scientists
that had been near them had claimed that they had called the
artifact that they had taken an alien sphere and that they had
claimed it was some form of ultimate weapon, and the Russian base
commander had given them the use of the helicopters and information
about the secret ice station and the arrival of the airplane
there.
    If the mission
was successful they would get it off the gunmen, and he wondered if
they could destroy it or what they would do with it! Would it cause
immense future problems?
    He had realized
that the scientists mainly wanted the voyager to leave as it was a
great danger to the world. There could be many future problems with
it being there!
    The voyager
seemed unwilling to let them aboard, but they were still working on
opening it and he wondered if it was the scientists themselves that
were the danger! It was them that invented atomic bombs and had
them introduced! Perhaps the scientists were secretively worried of
what other scientists might do if they got the technology!
     

Chapter 19
     
    The Russian Ice
Station
     
    The massive
helicopters rested behind them, below small hills, and they watched
the light from the sun vanishing as the early night engulfed the
region and the soldiers rushed on faster, to avoid being caught in
the dark.
    It was lucky
that it was not night and there were no signs of airplanes having
landed there, and Weaver wondered if they would land in the dark
and studied his surroundings repeatedly trying to explain why such
an occurrence could happen! The entire mission had been planned
down to the smallest detail!
    What was it
that they had taken from the voyager? How had they persuaded what
was there to give it to them?
    He had tried
questioning Willis about what he had come into contact with and he
had been unsure, and never saw anything of it, and it only replied
to some of his responses with things like mental images of things.
It had