The Deadliest Alien Artifacts (Story Collection) by V Bertolaccini Page A

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    The Lost Time
Machine
     
    Bryson rested
motionlessly against the padded control seat, preparing himself for
what could be his last hour alive!
    The echoes of
the scientists and their last conversations haunted his mind. What
the hell had he done? Why had he done it? Surely a robotic device
could have been found to replace him, and give far more accurate
accounts?
    The ancient
alien artifact voyager time machine was billions of years old and
had not been properly checked anywhere, and they had only been able
to check a few of its basic functions, which nobody had shown any
proper awareness of the function of. Even though they had found a
way to activate it, and that was the only final way of finding out
what it was for.
    They had
fitted in the control seat with controls to activate it and give
him some protection, and control their monitoring equipment and to
give observations.
    When he
activated it he barely noticed anything. His mind wandered through
all the occurrences that had led up to its discovery, and them
digging it out and finally opening it up.
    The vast
unstable energy explosions blasted out across outer dimensions with
so much force that they threatened to make space and time either
unbalanced and warped or completely rip away and destroy the fabric
of space and time, and he wondered what damage the Earth could be
subjected to.
    An explosion of blinding radiance left
Bryson stunned and he firmly sat back calculating what problems he
could face! Not just from its intensity blinding him but from the
colossal powers surrounding him, and he sat firmly gripping the
straps keeping him against his seat, contemplating the dangers and
his chances of survival.
    This mission was unbelievable and he
wondered why he had even contemplated there not being real danger
at one point.
    The voyager was a perfect large black
sphere, clearly of alien origins, with a round entrance point,
which filled itself in to make a perfect sphere, for whatever it
had been designed for.
    An immense whirlpool of shifting outlines of
energy globes magically shifted about and Bryson studied it for a
long time, and suddenly realized that he had no body or proper
presence any longer and was some form of force formation! He was
swirling out into a vortex of reshaping energy patterns that
replaced reality, in a surreal splendor of transforming elements
and that the mind-bending display of displacements were altering to
something that he could not recognize.
    The voyager was still there about him but
only frequently turned visible from being translucent, and the
outside world that had been there had vanished, and he occasionally
heard the voyager functioning and perhaps doing what it was
supposed to.
    He occasionally spotted what looked like the
vast depths of the universe floating about his sides, with
occasional radiating beams!
    He realized that it could be telepathic
visual transmissions created by something for something and
wondered if it could create visions vivid and powerful enough to
trick his mind.
    A silent deep roar of colossal power blasted
out and reality became a blur of swirling light etched in deep
blackness.
    The strange sounds and lights sent
sensations through his body!
    Sickening lurches of the voyager thudded and
shuddered as it located itself at different points in space and
time, making vast leaps right across the cosmos, vanishing and
emerging in vast strange and mind-bending star regions, emerging
about him as though he were floating through them, with the voyager
being translucent and invisible, as it checked bright glowing star
constellations from its records, exploring the whole new
fascinating universe, checking all the altered variations
throughout, from over billions of years, and he sensed its vast
intelligence around him.
    Mind-boggling technology and powers, with an
accuracy and capacity inconceivable, it had explored the universe,
even though it was an ultimate time traveler, and he