The Time Tunnel: Chapter 2 – “Where no Aliens Dare!” - Part 8

Switching back to Captain Stillwell’s team where a saber tooth tiger is about to jump on the group…a man comes out of nowhere wearing brown animal hides and a thick hat throws a spear at the tiger piercing it’s side killing it.  The team is very surprised …the man removes his hat and it’s Tony Newman now old and grey with long hair braided on one side with colored beads in it.  “Are you from the Tunnel?” asked Tony.  “Yes we are,” replied Captain Stillwell.  “Follow me, I have shelter nearby” says Tony. 

 

                             

 

Arriving at the cave shelter the team finds an old white haired sick man sitting at a fire.  “Are you Doug Phillips?” asked Captain Stillwell.  The old man slowly raised his head and with sad eyes and in a low voice said, “Yes, I am what’s left of Doug Phillips.”  Tony says, “Doug is very sick and won’t survive much longer.  We’ve got to get him back to the Tunnel.”

 

At that moment a bear came into the cave and the team jumped in surprise.  “Don’t worry, said Tony.  This is Ben our pet grizzly bear.”  The bear makes a loud growl at the team then lays down near the fire next to Doug.

 

    

The Time Tunnel: Chapter 2 – “Where no Aliens Dare!” - Part 7

In the tunnel, “Do we have a lock on the Major’s team?” asked General Brooks.  Bring them home barked the General. 

 

Back on the UFO spacecraft the marines vanish from the spacecraft and the tactical nukes explode reflecting into the walls of the ship and into the wormhole right back to the alien’s world causing destruction of their launch base.

 

 

Major Pol’s team, minus the 2 dead marines, arrive back to the tunnel 5 min after they left.  Mission accomplished, the beam interfering with the tunnel is gone and the UFO spacecraft has been destroyed.  The team tired, shook up and disturbed but is ok.  Major Pol said, “We have two casualties, privates Cole and Turner. May God bless them.” 

The Time Tunnel: Chapter 2 – “Where no Aliens Dare!” - Part 6

Back on Earth of the past, Captain Stillwell and his team make for the caves they saw far off.  The large beast is right on their heals at about 200 yards behind them and now shrieking more loudly with multiples of sounds.   “I think it’s hungry” one of the team members said.  Another team member said back “yeah, ya think?”  The team makes it to the cave entrance but the cave opening is too big…the beast will follow them in.   There is a foul odor in the cave with animal skeletons scattered everywhere.  Captain  Stillwell said, “This is a den.”  Deep in the cave the team hears a deep low growl and they see two large eyes. 

 

It’s a saber tooth tiger moving low and slowly toward the team!  The fangs are the size of two large bananas and the animal is drooling.

 

  

 

At that moment in comes the beast that’s been chasing them…with no hesitation enters the cave entrance and slides to a stop.  The team is caught between both animals.  “Quickly, against the wall of the cave, quickly” captain Stillwell said.  The Tiger’s focus changes from the team to the beast and in an instant the tiger is on the back of the beast and a huge fight begins.  The team makes their way out of the cave and just below them they encounter another saber tooth tiger getting ready to pounce on them. 

The Time Tunnel: Chapter 2 – “Where no Aliens Dare!” - Part 5

Whatever it was it didn’t touch the floor and it seemed like it was part of the craft in some way and parts of it were moving.   To describe it, it was short about 4 feet tall.  It had three main parts but it seemed only to have two dimensions.  The three parts were round like disks that were a foot or so across and the disks were aligned vertically one on top of the other.  Each disk would take a turn to spin 1 quarter turn then stop.  Then the disk above it would spin a quarter turn and stop.  And so on.  When the disks turn sideways the disk would fully disappear as it had no side dimensions.  

 

Each disk looked like a window with something looking at us with multiple eyes in rows on each side of a body or head or something.  It was truly something out of this world.   

 

“Plant the charges and set the timers….NOW!” shouted the Major.  One of the marines started to fire her pulse rifle at the disks.  The energy was reflected back into the mussel of the rifle and the gun blew up and injured the marine.  “No one take any action!” barked the Major.  “Let’s see if the thing can reflect this” one of the marines said.   The team brought two small tactical nukes with them.  All of a sudden the team at once all started feeling sick and they started to loose vision hearing or feeling a thought coming into their heads and minds.  “SA SA SA SA” It’s like they were paralyzed and in a trance.  Hearing in their minds “KLEE KLEE SA SA SA”  It was looking like the team was not going to prevail.  They were not going to destroy the alien craft and they all were going to die right there or be taken captive.   Everything turned into a dreamlike state for the marines.  The marines started to become part of the walls and floor of the alien ship and they could not stop it. 

The Time Tunnel: Chapter 2 – “Where no Aliens Dare!” - Part 4

Meanwhile, the marines transfer onto the alien ship and arrive in complete chaos.   Of the team of 8, one missed the ship completely tumbling off into space.  Another marine tumbles for less than a second and materializes half in the wall of the space craft and dies instantly.  His helmet pops off as he stops within the wall and his face goes grey and his head shrinks to the size of a baseball all in about 2 skull crushing seconds with a green steam or green visible gas oozing out of his mouth, nose and ears.  It’s a hideous sight!  The interior of the spacecraft is like nothing ever seen on Earth.   The walls, floor and ceiling are like one large semitransparent convex silver mirror.  It’s like they are inside a silver glass sphere.  The team can slightly see through the wall of the craft.  They see their other fellow marine tumbling away in space.  Unfortunately, they have no way to help him.  The lighting inside the craft is dim and there is no breathable atmosphere, no instruments, no control panels, no chairs …nothing.  Just then a wobbling low sound is heard that vibrates the mirror walls making them shimmer like a speaker but slower more like a sheet hanging outside in the wind.   

Nothing is familiar and all electronic communications don’t work.  The team have to look at each other through their visors and hand signal and lip read to communicate.   Major Pol pushes his team together where everyone’s helmet is touching.  “Can you hear me?” asks Pol.  He can be heard faintly like he has a tin can over his mouth.  “Here’s what we are going to do.  We are going to set the explosives and fix the timers for 10 minutes.  That should shut this sonofabitch down! “   The tunnel is set to retrieve the team in 5 minutes after transfer. 

 

 

 

In front of them just then the wall started coming toward them like the point of a cone.   The team came apart and all of them looked at the mirror cone.  And from the wall, kind of out of the wall, appeared a thing.  The team didn’t know if it was alive or machine…it appeared to be both and neither.

The Time Tunnel: Chapter 2 – “Where no Aliens Dare!” - Part 3

The aliens, sensing the time transfer, began to set up a feedback loop by shooting a negative energy beam into the tunnel along it’s path around the Earth.  The insertion team traveling back to 1968 and Doug and Tony’s old standing wave probe from the 1968 attempted time transfer merge together causing the time displacement and positioning to shift from 1968 to 6.25 million years ago.  The insertion team tumbles into a snow bank during a blizzard in near white out conditions.  “It must be 40 blow….we have to find shelter,” Captain Stillwell says.

 

Meanwhile, the tunnel complex has detected the alien beam interfering with the time transfer.  “Can you get a lock on the craft?” General Brooks asks.  “I think we can” answers a scientist.   “Yes, we have a time lock.  “Team 2 prepare for departure!”

 

Team 2 prepares for a transfer not just in time but in space as well.  They plan on ‘landing’ on the alien ship before the beam started.  The Time Tunnel roars to life swelling as it did before with a countdown 14, 13, 12, 11, 10...  The marines enter the tunnel and a moment later in a flash they are also gone.

 

Meanwhile, Captain Stillwell and Team 1 are walking slowing bent over trying to keep the hard snow pellets from hitting their faces.  They head for the side of a mountain.   As they proceed to the mountain, Dr. Julia Swain falls through the snow and into a crevasse hitting a small ledge which breaks her fall.   Captain Stillwell struggles to reach her hand but he does and pulls her to safety.  The storm passes and the weather begins to clear.  They move on toward the mountain.

 

 

 

Far behind them at about a mile distance they hear a thumping sound.  It looks like a large rodent with large teeth and long hair.  It’s the size of a minivan.  “It looks prehistoric…a carnivore.” Julia says.  “Run!” 

 

       

 

The team heads for a cliff face in what looks like a cave.  The beast begins to make a shrill like sound of excitement.