The Thing: from the Depths of Hell by V Bertolaccini Read Free Book Online Page A

towels on, and was willing answer all
their questions, and asked Colonel Pratt if he would put him on his
task team to locate the alien, as they needed him, and he had
information about it, and he assured them that he knew more about
it than anyone, and Colonel Pratt assured him that he and Kruger
would be on the team, as consultants, and they would help identify
it, with descriptions – and that they would be needed as all the
descriptions so far were confused, and that all the different
people there had given different accounts.
    The president
asked him to use them, and asked to talk to Don, and asked him
where the sixth vehicle had actually come from, and Don answered
that he had woke up after his vehicle had crashed like the others,
with memory loss, and that he had lost his memory of his
identity.
    The president
was left confused, and never proceeded further, and Colonel Pratt
continued by asking him why he had been so sure the alien had been
an alien and not just Dan, suffering from memory loss like everyone
else, and why he had confronted the alien with the powerful weapon,
which he had to have been unauthorized to take, as they would not
have authorized it, and if they had authorized it that it would
have been the military that would have handled the problem in the
proper way, and he asked what he had intended to do, and if he had
realized what its reactions to the weapon would be, and if he had
been surprised by its true identity when it had been revealed in
the bar.
    Dan answered
swiftly without thinking, explaining it was an alien and it had
acted like one, and he had known that it had to be dangerous, and
for starters it would have revealed its identity to them and would
not have gone to such lengths to get aboard the spacecraft, and
enter through their only defense the energy shield, and that he had
known that it was powerful and a danger to them by the way that it
had made them crash, wipe away their memories and records, and that
had been capable of changing its appearance to what it wanted,
including altering its speech and thoughts.
    It had
ruthlessly done everything it could to get aboard the spacecraft
undetected, and he had known he could not have proven it enough –
for them to have captured and kept it imprisoned or to have thrown
it out of the spacecraft – and with his experience of where the
weapons were, and how they kept them secure, he had managed to find
a way to get the weapon, and had used it to force the alien into
revealing its identity, and that he had done it in the bar in front
of as many witnesses as possible, but had underestimated its
capabilities.
     

Chapter 13
     
    The Monster
     
    The monster
that appeared at the library below the bar had been hideous beyond
anything anyone had seen. Not only had it been an entity/monster,
altering from one appearance to another, it had been mad, and ready
to kill anything to survive. Its entire plan had been
instantaneously ruined, and it could detect the crew of the
spacecraft starting to build a defense against it and to
exterminate it, and it sensed how far they intended to go.
    It had lost
touch with the outer entity, while it had been altering itself, and
it had lost memories, and it had turned into a new life form
completely, and had separated itself from the outer entity, and
even believed it would no longer consider it as part of it, unless
it could lower the energy shield and give it what it wanted, and
make proper contact with it. It had to do it now or it would be
killed, even if it had to kill everyone aboard to do it.
    What it and
the outer entity had not realized was through it being a human, and
for so long, it had altered itself to being one of them so much
that its way of thinking had altered, and it was what it considered
close to madness, with nothing left to do but survive, and kill the
puny life forms, who were taking away its dreams of leaving the
void and entering the outer universe.
    After it had
seen all that existed