NSA Wormhole Secrets

Chapter 1 THE NEW WORLD

        Jeremy Grodane crept down the cave path breathing lightly. From time to time he felt nauseous and unbalanced. It must be this weird mixture of alien air, he thought.

        From his point of view, he was the first person in history to embark on a journey through a wormhole on to what the scientists working for the National Security Agency (NSA) thought was a different planet. Despite the trepidation he currently felt, this thrilled the eighteen-year-old kid who thought about the possible fame that would embrace him when he returned home from this New World, and accept recognition of being the first human being to do so.

        At this point, Jeremy felt uneasy. He had not expected to end up in a weird smelly cave. His expectations were more along the lines of encountering strange landscapes with alien creatures flying and scurrying about — the sort of thing a young teenager reading sci-fi novels would expect.

        He wore no oxygen mask or pressure suit of any kind. A risky situation, but since his entry into this realm was self-directed and not approved by NSA management, they had not apprised him of the risks of entering a strange world with possible different life forms and a precarious environment. Why the hell did I come dressed like this, he asked himself. He wore knee length dark green shorts and running shoes in this chilly cave on a far-away world. Even when working as a NSA file clerk, this clothing was inappropriate — good for playing basketball on the street with other teenage kids though.

        One thing about being the lone human being in this world, it would make him this planet's tallest person. The last time he checked — on his seventeenth birthday last year — he was five feet five inches in height. Don't worry, said dad; you're still growing. The mop of hair on top of his head must have added another inch.

        He had enough foresight to have brought a light source with him. It was an app running on his iPhone that lit the place up. The light reflected off the walls in strange ways. Sometimes, he felt this light wasn't needed since there appeared to be other light sources. When he turned the light off, he noticed that some of the vegetation growing up the wall emitted light. He assumed it was vegetation, but how would he know; he was on a different planet after all. Who knows, it might be electrical wiring supplying power to hidden technology on the outside of this cave or enclosed structure. Maybe this wasn't a cave. The so-called lit vegetation progressed up the walls and onto the curved ceiling, so he couldn't determine whether it covered rocks or a constructed wall.

        One characteristic did allow him to think it might be a natural environment, and that was the rocky ground he walked on. There was such a large variety of different sized rocks and stones that it was difficult maintaining his balance.

        More possible illusions and weird thoughts seemed to disrupt his mind to the point where fear became the predominant emotion. After several minutes of walking, the cave at this point was nearly ten feet above his head and about the same distance from both arms.

        Then he saw a distant light indicating a possible opening to the cave's exterior. As he proceeded forward, the cave widened considerably, and a rumbling sound could be heard. His viewing angle to the opening changed, allowing him to discover the noise's source. It was a waterfall coming from the ceiling smashing onto the ground and heading outside. It had a bizarre appearance — he was on a different planet wasn't he? There appeared to be two currents of water associated with it, the normal current going down and somewhere in the middle, a smaller current going up. He was able to see this because objects moved up the waterfall's center and traveled to its source. Man this is bizarre, he thought. As he approached this descending cascade, he considered that strange upward flow in the middle might be a life form.