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The hatchway loomed ahead of them. Yie had stopped them. Looking KJ. “Vanish.. when we open the hatch YOU must NOT be here.” IT complied vanishing into the ether. What the might have crossed Nodu’s thoughts but interrupted. “WE will be lying flat against the bulkhead and YOU will be holding my hand!”
No questioning her words, they did that as the hatch flung open and in through it stepped a ‘Rang’ a beast of some proportion size wise that was not to be argued with.
It stopped, sniffed the air, moved a little to stop again; sniff the air before the clatter of its feet hit the ground, to move at some speed towards the next hatchway.
The hatch closing behind the sound of plasma cannons activating turning it into dust? Particulates sucked up and blown out into space. “HOW did we survive?”
Yie lifted her arm, letting go of his hand. Pointing at the unit attached to it. THIS, shifts the colour spectrum, from what that creature can recognise. A gamble, but the majority of other races cannot see that part of the light spectrum.
“Why the sniffing?” “Out of sight does not mean we do not smell. BUT it’s control systems can’t reason enough to distinguish or accept that the smell can be, but the actual presence of something with it?
Does not COMPUTE, and therein lies the answer. A conflict within its reasoning circuits. It’s SIGHT will always take priority over a SMELL.. Can’t see it, nothing there; move on.
I sensed it before we approached that hatch. IF KJ had not vanished IT would have seen KJ and attacked. Disturbance of light waves would have revealed us, even using shifting. “
KJ appeared, totally unaware of what had just taken place. “That thing came through and should NOT have.
I understand WHY, whoever it was sent us here. The system clock, needs the updates. “
The hatch raised, they were now in wide open area. In front of them what to this race were Portei Semperu.
The clock itself, set back to rest within a stream of shielded; energy washing across it.
To attempt to do anything to it, without the correct way of doing it.would have been stupid beyond belief. Radioactive, but just one stream mis directed, would have vaporised anything within the chamber.
The ‘gateway’, was shut down. Nodu was watched by Yie and she held the tools of the trade for him as he turned off the energy stream the clock still active but no longer connected to its subsidiary components.
Attaching the inversion unit, Nodu was soon connected to their celestial clock. Parameters set so that ONLY the ones they had decided would be updated, now being amended.
Once completed they could now turn on the Portei. Diagnostics and other tests done Nodu stood back and initialised the energy stream. Perfect! HOW do the others get updated? Arcan techs, operate across the networks but NOT re time travel. The majority are FORBIDDEN !”
Yie was about to ask HOW they were doing something ‘FORBIDDEN’ but decided that could be saved for another TIME.. and PLACE.. NOT, that Nodu, was ignoring thoughts re that. His belief, that THEY, him and Yie were at the commands, the behest of an ancient God.. was suffice to not question the ‘Will of the Gods’.
Time to head back, to their craft and rest? Well take some recreation which they were both feeling after their trek across the space station? Yie had been a bonus. Her calculations, for the updates, were accurate, easy to implement and now task completed, taking some TIME out for the trip to the planet below?
ELSEWHERE..
The flare of light and the new configuration for that networks of Porteii Semperu had not gone unnoticed.
There were ancients and their ‘controlelrs’ who were aware of anything re TIMEand of couse SPACE re any changes, updates; modifications?
“The Celestial Clock that should have been returned? “ Zedraz was the one appointed to investigate and recover it.
NOT the easiest task. Where it had gone and WHO had taken it? The known fact was that Nodu, highly respected and trusted had informed them of having retrieved it. HE had no idea of using it for ‘Time travel, time shifting and more advanced features the device was capable of. ..
To be continued
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