Dan Sherman Space Guardian All Worlds Book Six Read online

  Chapter 52-Dark-Space

  Debra was running at peak efficiency, it would only take us a short time to get to the worm-hole at Eta 63457. The Retraction-beam had been disengaged, all we had to do was get there, and we knew there were no more traps as we had extra info from the Meeting-of-the-Masters. I now felt confident, although I was not going to be over confident; I had paid dear for that feeling many times in many lives and it takes a long time to learn my student friends. I went into the storage area where we keep certain important things and one very important thing was my Tourgen friend Cloft. Looking at the enormous body lying in the isolation-tube I knew this man made clone was a terrible thing to behold when it was angry, and that anger came from me! The responsibility of keeping such a terrible thing at bay was immense. I also knew that when used in certain circumstances it could be invaluable. The clone also had on a light suit, although we couldn’t be certain it would work properly in Dark-Space. Looking back down at it, I truly felt like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Coming up on the edge of Dark-Space the alarm sensor went off. Debra said, ‘Dan, we are approaching something that I am not sensing properly.’

  ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘It is Dark-Space, don’t be alarmed Debra.’ Reeas’s voice was now coming through the speaker. She said, ‘Dan, don’t come in here, it is a trap.’

  I was shocked at first, and then I was conscious that Reeas wouldn’t be able to send a message out of the Dark-Space, don’t ask me how I know, I just know. My invaluable little friend Deria2 also agreed with me. Whoever sent the message was getting worried. In my previous escapades I encountered a race of powerful beings known as the Llantrea. They are tree like creatures that can use telepathy to contact millions of their friends and so threaten planetary systems. Maybe whoever sent the message has the ability to do the same thing? Obviously it was a first attempt to trap us by Kallo’s helpers, or to trap me in particular. Kallo is a prisoner, and probably they know that, but maybe they don’t, maybe Kallo was supposed to report in at a certain time, but when that didn’t happen they started to panic! All I know is we are going in! I felt no danger as we entered the Dark-Space, but as we got accustomed to the darkness I felt a terrible depression. Deria 2 became more visible, and I became less so. She at once adjusted herself, and became darker.

  ‘Dan,’ she said, ‘I feel scared, I haven’t felt like this for a long time!’

  ‘Don’t worry,’ I said, ‘if I read this right it won’t be dark for long.’ I could see the space in front of the ship was dense.

  Debra was glowing like a star! I also knew from Debra that the outside of the craft was under extreme pressure! Pressure that would crush any craft yet known apart from our craft!

  Now, you say, how is it that with the Dark-Space being made up of numerous black holes that everything outside the Dark-Space isn’t being sucked in and destroyed? That is a good question my student friends. The answer is Kallo and his little band of helpers. Kallo himself is locked up, but his apprentices are still there, they have some sort of device which has great power to freeze the entrance to the Dark-Space but we got through, right? Yes, but all I can say is our ship has superior abilities for which I am eternally grateful. Debra said, ‘Dan, there is a presence that I am not familiar with taking control of the ship!’ I at once was on my guard. But as soon as I saw the face of Mannus on the screen I was at ease. He didn’t need to say anything; I just knew we had to let him take control.

  Debra said, ‘I feel totally at ease!’ That is something that you wouldn’t expect a computer to say, eh? We were at once at speed. A Speed that was up to then unknown in the physical realm; far beyond anything even thought of, In fact, the instruments didn’t even register. We were now shining with the light of a million suns, also, we were, as I now realized, looping around the entire Dark-Space! Yes, my student friends. Don’t ask me how it happened, I can’t tell you, even the Guardians didn’t know, all I know is after about one hour we were in light space! That’s right. The darkness was gone also the black holes had been moved! Where? I don’t know! The only thing that existed where the Dark-Space had been was a very large asteroid which had a protective force field around it. It had been transformed into a space base.

  Mannus was now gone from the screen, and Debra was again in full-control. She knew exactly where to go. I could already see that the base was now just a basic mining station with 25 buildings of all types. The force field would be no problem to access. We simply landed facing the front entrance that in itself was enough to make many of the inhabitants give up, but not all. OK, my fanatical friends, if you want to play it rough. I transferred my consciousness into Cloft and had Debra push through the force field. I simply walk through the walls of the ship while the airtight seal of the force field was still intact. The people on the base were in disbelief as a Tourgen beast man came walking through the ships wall.

  ‘Where are the hostages?’ I said, in my most aggressive voice. ‘They are in isolation,’ said one of the more confident human type beings.

  I noticed that there were several Tourgens standing around.

  Maybe they thought they could take me on. All I knew was I had to get to Reeas and Deria. I ordered the ship to stun everyone.

  I felt there were traps here. Deria2 was now flying around trying to locate her Sister and Reeas.

  ‘Here, Dan,’ she said it in a way that made me tingle with apprehension. ‘They are in this building, but it has a time fuse on it, and Reeas and my sister haven’t got their light suits on.’

  ‘OK, I said. ‘How much time do we have?’

  ‘We have less than two minutes.’

  The building was made of a material that was very strong, with a door that was too small for me to access as Cloft.

  ‘OK.’ I said, ‘Time for meditation.’

  I came out of the body, and then in the building within seconds.

  I could see Reeas and Deria were secured in an isolation tube with detonation fuses inside the thick glass.

  Reeas shouted. ‘There is nothing you can do, Dan! There is no time!’

  I had never seen Reeas like this before. She obviously didn’t know that they were back in light space, and thought that we were about to be separated for eons maybe. At that moment I felt a love for her that transcended time itself. I said, I love you, and then I moved back in the physical body of Cloft. I ordered the ship to shut down everything but life support. Debra said she had located the fuses but was unable to defuse them as they were old fashioned simple clockwork devices! I couldn’t believe that something like that was going to beat us!

  ‘Quick,’ I said to Debra, ‘push your way into the isolation room.’ Debra said that the seal would be broken on the force field. I said I didn’t care I must get to Reeas. I guess I was clutching at straws because just then the whole place exploded in a strangely calm but intensely bright way. I knew they were dead, but I also knew they would be OK. Deria 2 and I were in our light suits, so we were protected. To describe the explosion, I would have to say that it was like flying through a star. The light was so bright that even with the light suit on I was blinded for several seconds. I couldn’t wait to see Reeas back at the astral base at Theren1. Hold on. You say! You said that they weren’t in this Universe! Didn’t you? Yes, my student friends, I did, and they weren’t. They had been sent through the Dark-Space into the next Universe some billions of light years away as calculated by Debra. But when we did our little light show ride we reversed it bringing back my wonderful Reeas and Deria. I trusted Mannus as if he was God, and I guess he is!

  We started back to base. I slept and dreamed of my Reeas, although she didn’t know she was back in light space, Deria did, as she is a higher being.

  We danced all through the journey. You can pick any song you like my student friends, whatever you think is relevant.

  I’m sure it will be appropriate.