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to himself. “It’s a horribly
thought thinking what it could have done!”
    “ Well,
what do you think he was up to here? He seems to have done crazy,
and savage ...”
    “ It
killed them brutally, and then dragged them into hidden
areas.”
    “ Perhaps
scared that he would be caught in the act, with all the bodies
around him, and so hideously killed, and that he might be killed
for it.”
    “ Which
indicates that it can be killed, and was in danger of being
killed.”
    Kruger
considered if it was true, and if it was just the alien being up
against something that it had not seen before.
    If it
descended at this void, then it would not know of the outer
universe, and would never have seen anything like them, their
technology, capacity, and would not be sure what it was up
against.
    “ Which
is clear!” Major Ripley replied. “I wondered what he was up to
here?”
    “ It may
have taken a look at this occult stuff!”
    “ What
would that be for? Unless he turned into a psycho, and was affected
by it!”
    “ No! It
was fighting for its life, and to escape ...”
    “ You’re
probably right.”
    “ It took
the form of Dan, which makes it capable of altering itself to human
form ... And could be capable of far more!”
    “ Great!
Meaning it could copy anyone aboard – and get rid of the original
person – and the next time miss out all its mistakes. And it could
even copy the president, if it got good enough!”
    “ Or even
an animal, if it wanted to go into hiding ... It’s in great danger,
and it may not have full control of itself! Look at the mess it
made! Which could be due to the state it is in at the
moment?”
    “ Such as
someone’s pet cat!”
    “ It may
want to hide out until it can get out of here.”
    “ It may
be able multiply itself on one of our worlds!”
    “ Yes!
They will have to destroy the thing! Perhaps they can find a way of
detecting it. Or we could come up with some way of recognizing
it.”
    “ Good
one, Kruger. There has to be a difference in it
somewhere.”
     

Chapter 16
     
    The Paranormal
Scientists
     
    There was
something not right about the alien that Kruger could not grasp,
and he again went back to the library, and wondered why it had been
interested in the occult books.
    He had an
interest in investigating paranormal activity, as well as aliens,
and though he had never properly proven the existence of anything
of that nature he still investigated everything of that nature.
Could this thing be from beyond this realm of space, and some form
supernatural being?
    On the ship he
knew all the scientists, and knew two who had the field of
investigating the paranormal, and who were there to investigate
anything in that region for a paranormal association, and he had
known them for years, and had accompanied them on a few of their
investigations.
    They were very
accurate in their investigations, and checked everything, searching
for the proof they had always dreamed of coming across, and never
took anything for without reflection, and had built up the most
advanced research paranormal establishment that there was,
containing the most highly advanced equipment that there was
available, which they had aboard.
    They were
there to investigate what other scientists could not, and do it to
a far greater degree than before.
    He sometimes
wondered if they would eventually find something that had gone
undetected by everyone else, with their detection methods and
equipment, which he had not heard of being available anywhere
else.
    At their
research laboratory, he entered staggered, as they had advanced far
further than he had even imagined, and the place was packed solid
with ever form of equipment possible.
    They had to be
at the pinnacle of their profession!
    It was
sometimes like an experiment to them to see what would happen if
they pushed beyond the boundaries of natural science, and out it to
the supernatural.
    The paranormal
research equipment was everywhere all over it, and the