Thursday, January 29, 2015

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.

 

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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!” 

 

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

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