The Lost Treasure Map Series (67 page)

He decided to
ignore the great danger that they were in and to examine everything
that was occurring to try to explain things, and fit things
together and get a proper picture of what might happen and if they
could do anything. In the past they had pulled themselves out of
many dangerous and tricky situations, and he thought that they
could do it again.

He
examined
the
strange
alterations,
with
erratic
characterizations,
in
the equipment, and wondered how it was now affecting the plane and
the pilots and wondered if he could help there, and at least know
what would occur to it.

The
island appeared at a window and he joined some scientists there
examining it in detail. It was incredible and he had seen nothing
like it! At a distance it had seemed normal, but now it was so
unusual it left them confused!
The scientists about him started taking photographs, and
close ups, at different regions of it, and he saw they had also
decided to ignore the dangers there.

The island was
clearly not marked on any map, and uncharted, and he wondered where
the hell it had come from! It looked volcanic, but it was
definitely old and could not have just formed out of some immense
volcanic eruption.

Two of the
scientists discussed it loudly and gave evidence of such
occurrences as immense structures forming from volcanic
disturbances, and he thought of legendry islands of the
Pacific.

“
We
should have someone
contact the mapping companies
responsible
!” Merton
joked.
“
When we get back
!”

Parker nodded
firmly in agreement, and they returned to where they were working
in another compartment.

“
This
island is clearly new!” Mortimer continued. “Look at the way all of
the surrounding water has been churned up, and is full of muck from
the seabed!”

All the
scientists stared at it and started to confirm that it was true
more and more, and point out other disturbances that identified it
as being true and that something had occurred there recently, and
Bryson saw vast amounts of seaweed that had been forced up and into
large lines around its circular shore.

One of the
scientists pointed over at a large tidal wave shifting out away in
the distance from it, where all the water was rushing away from it,
and he considered if they should try and report it, as it could do
damage, but they knew that they could not make any messages from
the plane. Even their pocket phones had stopped working, and they
could do little other than monitor the situation and look for
answers to solve the problems.

“
That
island looks prehistoric?” a young scientist announced, looking out
the window with binoculars.

One of the
other older scientists beside him took the binoculars off him and
searched where he was looking, and at an area inland, and replied,
“Not only that it’s a tropical island too!”

“
How the
hell could a tropical island get there?” the younger scientist
replied.

“
It
could be there from the early planet when this region was warm!”
another scientist replied. “When dinosaurs once roamed the
continents ...”

“
There
are palm trees still growing there though!” the scientist looking
through the binoculars moaned.

Chapter 15

The Crash

Once the
plane started reacting crazily and started descending Bryson
realized like most of the crew that the worst outcome could become
real, and he saw them reacting to their
worst fears all around
him
and
he realized that they
could do little.

He copied the
ones that positioned themselves into seats and prepared for what
was ahead, covering themselves with objects such as pillows to
cushion violent impacts, to avoid being badly injured or
killed.

The
plane
hurtled down
towards the island
,
in
the
bright
sunshine
, reflecting over
the
sea, and
some
scientists
expeditiously rushed to positions, recalling emergency
procedures, and
others
swiftly
de
activated their
equipment, to avoid damage
.

Bryson went
beside Merton and Mortimer, in their original seats, and made sure
that he had a good view from the window of what happened outside.
He was sure that the plane should have more doors to escape out of
in such conditions. He imagined it going below the waves and them
drowning while trying to get to the door. And he wondered if extra
emergency doors would weaken the plane or made it harder and more
expensive to build.

The shades
of sunlight
pulsated
,
in
various
motions,
across his front
,
as he considered
what would happen now! Had it ruined the trip? If it crashed and
crashed badly! Yet they had found the island and what they were
looking for! If they survived to see what was there! All they could
do was wait for the outcome, and try to stay alive doing
it.

He started
realizing how professionally skilled and proficient the flight crew
actually was, and that Parker had gone out of his way to choose
them, realizing the dangers that could appear. He recalled hearing
of him having a crash at the Pacific island discovery, and he knew
that they had experience.

Everything on the plane
appeared in order,
and it was only being influenced by something clearly on
the island. He was sure it was forcing them to land and was now
avoiding destroying the plane, and it occasionally gave shudders
through the plane, shaking everything about, and scientists tried
to carry out tasks while it made them fall over and drop
things
.

“
I
don
’t
believe this!
”
he
heard the captain moan loudly,
through the cockpit door, clearly letting them
hear
.
“
Tell me if our
speed increases
any
further!”

Bryson
was surprised that they could not fully control the speed of the
plane, and he tried to give a logical explanation for it if there
was not anything affecting the plane. How could anything take
control of a whole plane and at such a distance? What form of
technology was behind it? Could it be used to kill? Was it a form
of military technology? And could they have figured
out a way to compensate
and stop it? Surely there had
to be a way to obstruct or weaken it?

“
It
’s
uniform!
” one of the crew called out. “It’s not increasing
any faster!”

The pilots
tested
and did
what they could perceive,
and Bryson realized that they
could be in for a more interesting trip than he imagined! Though
there seemed to be going to be some deaths! And he considered what
they were up against this time, but nothing anywhere indicated
enough to put anything together!

There had to be
something irregular
and
visible somewhere, and he was sure that he could find it if he had
long enough and the right means
!

“
We’ve
still
lost all
contact
with the outside
world
,
”
Merton
confirmed
again
, as
he
examined
his phone
.

“
Remarkable!
”

Many
of
the scientists
started
avoiding
looking at each other, with
occasional
horrified glares, as they
saw that they were going to land
soon
.
T
hey were no
longer in control of their fate!

“
We’ve
a regular
speed
and look like
we’ll descend correctly
,
”
Merton
resumed.
“But where
can they land this thing, without destroying it and us?”

“
I
don
’t
get this!
”
one of the
scientists
uttered,
as he entered there from the
cockpit
.
“It were as though the plane had a computer that
kicked in and started landing it for them, and they
cannot discover why
it
is
taking us down
and to a
different destination than we were set to land
!
”

“
Has
this plane got something to land it then?” Merton asked
curiously.

“
It does
not! And i
t seems to be carrying
out some form of alternative plan
–
to land
us!
”

Faint
lights
illuminated
everything
from nearby
as if some
supernatural disorder burst into its confines!

The
plane
flew
in
low,
at a regulated pace, almost
as though it were
being
overwhelmed by
something
.
The scientists started
monitoring what was happening about them as it happened, and Bryson
realized that they
liked to handle
things rather than to ignore them,
and for some reason they were more confident of
surviving!
He did not wish
the
flight
crew
had
too much
comfort
and hoped they
just got control of the plane
and
could avoid an
uncomfortable situation.

“
W
e have gear to survive in
the
sea
?
” Merton announced, arriving back at his
seat, after checking what was happening. “
There are some inflatable life rafts!
”

Bryson gasped,
and realized that there could be a problem there now, but he
recalled that it was going to a destination on land!

He did not
know what to want! How could the plane land without the pilots,
with whatever landing it, and land on a proper landing site. Even
the professional pilots aboard would have had a hard time finding a
landing site there, and he was sure that there was not anything
even there that was properly safe.

The shudders
from
turbulent energy
surges from something made them jerk forwards and backwards, making
them all go silent, and stop conversations.

At times he
was sure that something was playing with them or checking them out
in the only way that it could!

For a
moment
Bryson
gasped,
while
recalling
seeing the
plane
wings and
how thin they were, and realized why
crashes were so dangerous and leaved such
destruction
.

“
It seems to be
taking us somewhere!
”
Merton
finally
whispered
jokingly, and trying see what he would
say
.

He nodded sharply,
and copied the others by glaring
blankly
out of
the windows,
and
replied,
“
We could survive
in
the
sea!
”

It was greatly
overestimated! If they did survive in
the
rafts in the
waves below he was sure that they might not even
make it ashore
. The
shore
of the island was strange and rugged and had very large waves
lashing about.

From the window,
he saw the expanse of lashing waves shifting around with tremendous
velocity and energy
at
one region for no apparent reason
.

He
expected to see some form of
landmark
there
and
maybe even a distant fishing boat
.
Yet
t
hey were too far from
anywhere
and
beyond civilization!

At times he felt
as if
he
were drifting
down to a hideous death!

His eyes glared as
he barely believed the destructive forces lashing out at
the plane as it started to
reach the island, and he realized that they had avoided going into
sea
.
Something sounded and felt like it were trying to
grasp the plane and take a more powerful control of it.
It was hard to grasp how
the
tremendous forces could be generated
!