NOTE:
Okay gang, this one is very strange and weird. I warned you. If you
can think of a better way to end this, let me know!
In the time
tunnel lab, General Haywood Kirk said, "I'm sure it's the
same power that's helped us all along."
Anne was unsure, "The Holy Spirit?"
"Yes," Ray agreed, "That's the only answer."
Kirk went on, "Prepare a time bridge. Maybe they can cross over it."
"To where?" Anne asked.
Ray answered, "To us."
Calabros, the Greek myth monster-man raised a claw at Penny Robinson inside the servo actuator control room. But he couldn't strike her for some reason. "You can't hurt us. Listen to me everyone, as long as you believe - their power over us is gone."
"No!" That giant red devil shrank again and was smaller than before, "NO!"
James T. Kirk asked, "You mean religion?"
"No," Penny turned toward him, "Not religion. People have been killed by others in the name of religion and that has not brought mankind closer to the truth---the truth being the living God. This evil thing has used religion to keep people blind and stuck to traditions rather than seeing the real God."
"That's enough! Nooooo!" The devil vanished, "I can't take it! No! Not again!"
The mass of evil creatures also vanished in a flame of fire. The lights came back on.
Carl Kolchak of the 1975 INS Press in Chicago turned off a mini tape recorder he had with him, "Boy, oh boy, Vincenzo is never going to buy this one!" He scratched the back of his head just beneath his straw hat.
Smith noticed that the majority of the villains were also gone. Multiple, Mallory, Chavo, Dorzak, Ming, Ardala, Bart, Ilan, and many others were also gone. Smith frowned, "That was the thing that caused all this trouble?"
"And kept millions in the darkness for eons," Penny added, "Thousands and thousands of years."
Maureen put an arm around Penny, "He's gone now, Penny."
Will shook his head, "He was such a ... a nothing."
"The only power he had was lies, " John added.
Don turned, "You seemed more volatile than it, didn't you, Smith?"
"Indeed."
"Where are all those people..." Sharkey was asked by Betty, "...those young people?"
"Gone, too," he shrugged, "Wherever they are, I hope they're not with him...it."
"So do I but they were so...so wrong..."
Sharkey frowned, "They couldn't help it. But they had the freedom to choose. No one forced them to be..."
The whole actuator began to shake! Explosions came from the control panels! Judy screams, "What's it doing now?"
Spock looked at his tricorder, "It cannot handle the confusion of evil and good. It now lacks a source to live off of."
McCoy looked at Spock,"Can't we give it a new one?"
More blasts rained out.
Spock nodded, "It is too late. The machine is going to destroy itself to protect itself."
Jim Kirk was nearby, "That is illogical."
"A bit like your 20th century Earth - build weapons to deter nuclear war," Spock countered.
Nelson looked at them, "If this explodes, this whole place will explode, too. This machine-creature is all that is holding it together!"
Outside, mountains began to explode and fall apart. Boulders crashed down into a million partial cities. Skyscrapers fell. Forests blazed on fire.
John Robinson herded his family, "Back to the Jupiter."
Steve gathered Barry, Dan, Val, Betty, Mark and Fitzhugh together, "To the Spindrift. We'll ride this out there."
Chip moved behind Crane and whispered, "Sparks says a tremendous wall of water is headed this way."
"Let's get to the Seaview," Crane answered.
At Tic Toc Lab, General Kirk watches as the groups fled to their spaceships. There were hundreds of people and almost as many vehicles. "You realize none of them have a chance unless we form that time bridge."
"General, all our experiments with a time bridge failed," Ray gulped, "You know that. A miracle is the only key."
"Well then, we expect a miracle," General Kirk ordered. Anne and Ray looked at each other in doubt. Then their faces changed. The nodded at each other.
The Jupiter II took off through a series of explosions. Godzilla was battling Ghidrah nearby. Spindrift flew up also. The Eagle took off with John Koenig, Helena Russell, Maya, and David Banner on board. The tidal wave crashed into the device and sent Seaview crashing into one of the legs of the servo actuator. The men inside were flying around the sub. Sparks flew across the sub from one side to the other. The deck tilted. The servo actuator building lifted up into the air...spiraled, shooting sparks from it, sparks which sizzled around like a firework flying saucer on Fourth of July. The entire building servo actuator exploded into a flaming ball, shooting out sparks and smaller fireballs. The Jupiter II followed suit---blasting away, its roof cracking sparks coming out of it and fire and bodies. Spindrift split down the middle from nose to tail and two halves fell to either side, blasts coming from the interior, a seat with a body attached flying out. On fire. Seaview was flooded and sinking in a series of giant tidal wave bombardment. The Alphan Eagle caught on fire and cascaded down, smoke billowing from it and it hit a hill and cracked apart as a fireball---an avalanche burying it before it could blow up anymore. Rock and ash flew apart.
Orbiting the patchwork planet, the USS Enterprise was crushed by a piece of fragment that came off the planet. The two long arms of the structure dipped as the saucer was split apart and went spiraling down at the planet, hitting a part of it and blasting the parts beneath. Jim Kirk was thrown and beheaded. The Doctor's TARDIS was tossed round and round and finally it, too imploded inward - shrunk. It was blasted into the time corridor as a tiny toy shape, no bigger than an inch and finally it was nothingness. All existence seemed to vanish in one huge massive arena of noise and light!
The ground split and swallowed dinosaurs and cities. Dams opened up and spit out seas onto villages and towns. Castles fell under the rain of debris. Icebergs crashed into dockside cities as other icebergs moved across the landscape, taking with it primitive villages and cavemen. Futuristic metropolises were destroyed by raining rocks.
Evil Sheriff Lucas Buck, a demon, tried to make his protective force keep his town, Trinity, intact. His face filled the town, darkening it. A ghost named Merlyn Temple, appeared and waved her hand in the sky over his face, vanquishing it out of existence.
Explosions spread across the entire world. Black holes formed and began to suck what was left into it - and finally fizzled out themselves. The Moon blasted out of space. Nothing seemed to survive the final explosions.
Yet through it all a strong yellowish light made a way that was safe. On it were all the people from the control area - they were there in spirit but not in body. The Robinsons, The Spindrifters, the Seaviewers, the Moonbase Alphans, the superheroes, the spies, the time travelers ... all running on this strange light bridge that began nowhere and ending ... who knew where. Around them the universes were ending and ... beginning again.
Around them were many things: planes were crashing into towers, men were killing hostages, a man is shot in front of the Washington Monument in DC, it then fell, flying saucers were crashing into it as well as other DC buildings.
Catholics were shooting Protestants and Protestants were shooting Catholics and then both were praying, a creature was coming out of Loch Ness, a man dressed as an old lady was killing a girl in the shower, a world where it always rained had many funerals, trains collided with trains --- and lost drunken children, London Towers were falling down -- Big Ben, London Bridge, Black Tower all fell, large giant monsters fell and turned to skeletons - -Gorgo, Gamera, Godzilla, King Kong, Konga, and others among them.
Jack the Ripper was unmasked and underneath was a Richard Nixon face, a bull monster was killing a matador in a Mexican arena, Mafia men were gunning down a restaurant while so called god fathers watched from limos, Moscow fired missiles at nothing and promptly blew up, Khomeni's and Arafat's and JDL members shot down each other -- as well as a married couple, one an Arab, one Jewish; Idi Amin and Khadafi and men shot guns up in the air and got shot by their own bullets, men in Medieval armor fought jousts, gladiators fought, Indians fought westerners, the Spanish Armada sun, witch doctors and cannibals raided African towns, mad elephants raced through towns, squashing; zombies walked through malls, drug addicts were thrown into prisons and killed and beaten, the Leaning Tower of Pisa fell over, the Eiffel Tower bent and fell over like plastic in a fire, kung fu experts were beaten up by a child's stare, hunters were hunted by their own prey and demons, devils and the most horrid creatures that for centuries had hidden all over Earth were now fleeing in fear--fear, something they had caused in the minds of men and women since Adam and Eve fell. Frank Black, a profiler for the FBI and sometime helper to the MILLENNIUM GROUP, wanted to explain some of this but he found he couldn't talk. No one could.
All these images were going on below, above, and around our heroes. They didn't stop to understand. Everyone on the bridge was helping someone ahead - to where they did not know. It was an option. Large mushroom clouds rose up all around the bridge.
Islands sank and seas rose. Tunnels fell in and millions vanished. Eskimos got hot and Hawaiians froze. The Rockies were flattened and people drove buses over them. Lumberjacks cut down trees and then yelled timber. Snipers shot at Popes, women, children, trains, other snipers, and cars. People cried out for rocks to fall on them. Cubans demanded access to DisneyWorld. Children were put in strait jackets. The Statue Of Liberty broke her good arm. A giant vacuum sucked up businessmen and pimps on 42nd Street while one priest held onto three young children to keep them from being drawn up.
Two planets wiped each other out of space. Rock bands shook hands with horrible, red monsters and crowds of people waved at them both, making signs with their fingers that looked like horns. Thinking it was cool to do so. They sizzled into ash and fire. A black man punched a white man. A white man punched a black man. Both punched an American Indian. An Indian hung himself. Good people are locked in one side cells---by themselves, alone. In the dark.
Tic Toc Labs saw all of this until the blue smoke of the tunnel lip faded. Then everyone ran out into the Lab. Anne greeted Doug and hugged him. Kirk and Ray grabbed Tony from either side. Everyone was amazed. Well, almost everyone. Dr. Zachary Smith groaned, "Back here again, oh no."
Will turned to Barry and Jeffrey the Voyager's little boy pal, "Did you see that?"
Tegan Jovanka held her temples, "Doctor, that hurt my head."
"Good then, it was all worth it then," Doctor Five said.
Tegan frowned. Helena Russell asked, "Oh John, what did it all mean?"
"Since we left Earth, what did anything we experienced mean?" Koenig answered her.
The Time Tunnel Tic Toc Lab shook a bit and then stopped. A loud but sensitive voice began to speak, "I will not permit it. It is not to be yet. The end is not to be this way. I must intervene."
Penny whispered, "Mom, it's Him ... them ..."
"Yes, Penny. I am a personal God. I have tried to tell people that but they perish from lack of knowledge. There are many voices in our worlds --- our worlds because I share my worlds with my creations and none of these voices is without some truth but if my people just listened to my voice they would know me. You are all forgiven. You, Barnabus Collins, and you, David Banner, you are cured of your curses."
"Forgiven," Smith gapped, "I'm saved!"
"Dr. Smith, you have much to learn but your heart is good. You have always tried and I like that. Your mind ... is sick however."
From a frown, Don smiled, "I always knew it."
"So is yours, Major West. The whole human mind is. It became that way after man started to listen to voices other than my own. I wish I could have forced you not to but I could not - I would not betray your free will. Inside your heart you all know the consequences - and the truth."
Smith gulped, "Truth or consequences, how nice."
"If I intervened with your free will, interfered, I would have made you robots. I would have violated what I am."
Maureen smiled, "Yes. Yes."
"What are you?" Koenig asked, "What is your nature?"
"You Commander John Koenig, should know. I carefully saved Moonbase Alpha a dozen times when it should have perished. You thought it was an alien. You thought God was an alien. I am not an alien to you. I want you to know me. My nature is love. I am love. I am the Father. I am the Son. I am the Spirit of Truth. I was once a man - for you, all of you. I have saved you all many times as you have done my work and I was pleased by you.
Admiral Nelson, in your own way, you have aided me. Who was it that stopped that alien's threat of removing Lee Crane's and crewman Patterson's cure when they were infected by radiation - ready to die to save others - it was I who removed the disease from them. John Robinson, you and your family will reach Alpha Centuari and your seed shall be planted across space - as shall you and your people Commander Koenig."
"That's what Queen Arra told me."
"She knows me."
"Steve Burton, you shall have to return to the land of the giants, the giant planet for a short time. Your people and their's will come to an agreement that is important to both planets. My end is not an end at all. The end of the present world will be a joy when you see the start of the next. There is much to be done there - it is not clouds and harps - that was Hollywood lies. Heaven is the best planet there is. It is my gift to you who simply believe on my name and my shed blood. That is all that is required. That and a heart. I look into hearts. Some who do not know it, will go there. Remember what I have said. All will be as was. I am always with you even to the ends of the universes. I have created a bridge for you to cross over to the safe land. When you looked upon the enemy you saw his true self. Recall what he is and who you really are - a value to me. Know."
The Lab spiraled slowly at first, then quickly but no one felt uncomfortable about it. Time was split again. Seaview sailed in the sea. On board, Nelson told Lee, "So you see, Lee, there is much to be learned from reading this book." He held a Bible.
"Betty." Sharkey was looking out the nose at the water's surface bubbling up with white waves, "Betty, I wonder when and where you are now."
On the Land of the Giants, Steve Burton smiled at his group gathered around the fire at night near Spindrift, "It's good to know we're really going to make it."
Fitzhugh frowned, "But ... but how? I wanna know how!"
"Fitzhugh!" Dan laughed, "Isn't it enough to know we will, Fitz?"
Fitz made a face that showed Dan he wanted to know how. Fitzhugh dare not tempt God by saying it out loud.
" Fitz," Dan laughed, "You're unbelievable!"
Betty smiled, "It is good. Someday maybe we'll all meet again on the way, in the air, back to Him."
"What?" Val asked.
"I'll tell you when I understand it better myself," Betty smiled at her.
Tony and Doug were once again flying through time vortex along the infinite corridors of time, both past and future ages. In the Tic Toc lab, Anne looked at this via the tunnel imager, "Why are they?"
General Kirk nodded, "I don't know. All we must do is trust there is a good reason. Trust God."
Ray nodded, "Yes, and at least they're still alive."
The Jupiter II flew through time into its correct time period. In outer space, it continued on. John Robinson wrote in his diary, "For us a purpose to continue has been sparked - and so we do continue to press ahead, not looking behind but up and within ourselves to know, know more." The Jupiter II flew through the starry space scape ahead. Maureen came to John in the control room and hugged him as he sat in front of the star filled viewport. They smiled and looked out into the depths of space. A bright star was ahead.
God saw them. He saw them all. He saw Earth, the traveling Moon, the Jupiter II, the land of the giants on the giant planet, the Seaview under the ocean as it dove, Tony and Doug in the time particles, David Banner, the Enterprise, etc. He saw them clearly and closely - from above but more importantly He saw them from within their hearts. Even more importantly they all, in their own ways and in their own stages of growth--now could see Him more clearly.
They all liked it.
The End
TITLES FOR PARTS:
part
one-TUNNEL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
part two-VOYAGING THROUGH THE
TIME TUNNEL
part three-MISUNDERSTANDING
part four-ESCAPE FROM
GIANT LAND
part five-FROM THE FIRE INTO THE FRYING PAN
part
six-COMBINING FORCES
part seven-TRAPPED IN THE TARDIS
part
eight-ONE WAR, MANY BATTLES
part nine-BAD MOVES
part ten-OLD
FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES
part eleven-THE PAST TO HAUNT US
part
12-CONVERGENCE POINT
part 13-REVELATIONS AND FACEOFFS
part
14-RETURN TO NORMAL
THE LAND OF THE GIANTS TIME TUNNEL ON THE LOST IN SPACE SEA VOYAGE
Synopsis
The little people discover a giant time tunnel project in their fourth year on the planet.
Doug and Tony land on the land of the giants.
The Time Tunnel Tic Toc Lab gets signs that the Giants are building a time tunnel of their own which begins to intefere with time.
From year two's start --1998-- of Lost In Space, the Jupiter 2 is taken just before it crashlands on the second year planet.
The giants' time tunnel takes them and captures them after they crash land on the giant planet.
The 1969 Earth Time Tunnel sends the Seaview to the giant planet as the Seaview has found itself on an alien planet thanks to a time shift ripple effect. Seaview encounters giant sea life.
The Giant Time Tunnel pulls in the Time Tunnel and the entire Tic Toc Project is captured.
Sharkey decides to stay with Betty.
