Hybrids - Alien Invasion (vol 2) by Joshua Free

The huge metal-framed pyramid stood apart from where the rest worked and studied, a conductor currently unused and un-powered. The Owl walked toward it, examining the first large blue crystal he came to, bending close to the pillar it rested upon to inspect it. The four choice specimens used as capacitors had been acquired not long after the Babilu sect had taken up residence in the mansion. They were precisely cut to the required specifications by a group in the Boulder outlands that called themselves dwarves because of their specialization in stonework and metalcraft. A copper and silver base had been also carefully fashioned to hold them – and to make them functional. The pillars were merely decorative plaster.

From the apex of the structure itself, the fifth crystal hung suspended in its perfection. Easily mistaken to the untrained eye as simply another beautiful specimen of lapis lazuli, along with the rest, no Old World geologist had ever been privileged to see something so pure – except in a laboratory, where this very piece had been infused with additional materials like gold and cadmium phosphorus – by the very pioneering scientists that led to the success of Lucien Industries. These unique crystals were known simply as spheres and not long after their “discovery,” they were being manufactured all over the world.

With a purpose never declassified, the experiments by corporate scientists were promising but with no valid conclusions. The spheres were special, but they were also practically useless without far deeper investigation or unique assistance, of which neither came. They were also dangerous, griping at an energy in a silent and unobservable means that no one on earth could comprehend. The pursuit was abandoned. Sometime later, quite mysteriously, all of the specimens disappeared from the corporate laboratories completely unaccounted for. Simultaneously, they had “mysteriously” found their way to be in the hands of the Guardians. In their hands – useful, powerful and radioactive transformers.

The Owl walked toward the copper base perimeter of the pyramidal structure. He could feel the attention energy of the group behind him. Taking several gauged rhythmic breaths, Owl cleared his mind, emptied his being of all worldly stimuli and stepped across the threshold into the pyramid. Instantly the perceptibly external world melted away. He moved to sit squarely in the center, below the apex crystal, never once having ever given thought to what might happen if the suspension chain were to give way, letting the sphere fall free.

For Owl, the pyramid had at once came to life, buzzing with raw, untempered energy, drawn from the zero-point abyssal unification of spatial existence without the assistance of anyone else. Few were privy to the secret of The Owl’s solitary success in activating the otherworldly power. He shuffled through the fabric of his garments to bring it out – enveloped in the primordial aether, none would be able to see it now. He knew that those who looked on as he stepped within the structure, while wearing the the gold disk-shaped me, simply saw him disappear.

His actions and presence were now, in one sense, existing only several feet from the normative world of the mansion – the fragmentation of reality allowed it also to exist wholly separate to an individual identity; same space – different frequency. In one breath, The Owl was aware of his body, as an individualized identity, sitting within the pyramid – in the next he was not. His awareness was no longer of The Owl. He was not able to feel or sense through his body. Sensations like heat and coolness and visions of color and mood dissolved into the monochromatic singularity of the nothing. Everything was darkness. When the vision and the voice came, it happened all at once in an instant. No loss of time was spent in relay, transmission of imagery in slide-show pieces or the gradual utterance of speech. When it happened it happened fast and then it was done. Timeless.

Finally, satisfied and hazy-eyed, Owl stood and exited the pyramid, returning to the realm of the Guardians.

Hybrids - Alien Invasion (vol 2) by Joshua Free