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Updated: August 10, 2024
On the first screen flashed the picture of a huge tower such as Phobar had seen in the metal city. Garboreggg adjusted a second control that was something like a range-finder. He pressed a third lever and from the tower leaped a surge of terrific energy, like a bolt of lightning a quarter of a mile broad. The giant closed another switch and on the second plate flashed a picture of New York City.
"I am Garboreggg, ruler of Xlarbti, the Lord of the Universes." "Lord of the Universes?" "I and my world come from one of the universes beyond the reach of your telescopes." Phobar somehow felt that the thing was talking to him as he would to a new-born babe. "What do you want of me?"
"The universe of matter that you know is only one of the countless universes which comprise the cosmos," began Garboreggg. "In your universe, you have a scale of ninety-two elements, you have your color-spectrum, your rays and waves of many kinds. You are subject to definite laws controlling matter and energy as you know them.
At length Phobar's captor, or another thing like him, reentered when Garboreggg flicked a strange-looking protuberance on the panel. "You will now be returned to your world," came the thought of Garboreggg. "We shall watch you through our cosmotel to see that you deliver our instructions. Unless the nations of Earth obey us, they will be obliterated at the end of seven days."
Somewhat like the orange-ray, it disintegrates the object and reassembles it here." So that was what Phobar's captor had been trying to do with him back there in the laboratory! "Why was I not brought here by that means?" burst out Phobar. "Because you belong to a different universe," answered Garboreggg.
"And if Earth refuses your demand?" For answer, Garboreggg rippled to a wall of the room and pressed a button. The wall dissolved, weirdly, mysteriously. A series of vast silver plates was revealed, and a battery of control levers. "This will happen to all of your Earth unless the ores are given us." The titan closed a switch.
But he had no choice, and so he told Garboreggg of the life on Earth, how it arose and along what lines it had developed; he narrated in brief the extent of man's knowledge, his scientific achievements, his mastery of weapons and forces and machines, his social organization.
"Solely because you were the first apparent scientist whom our cosmotel chanced upon. It will be up to you to notify your Earth governments of our demand." "But afterwards!" Phobar burst out aloud. "What then?" "We will depart." "It will mean death to us! The solar system will be wrecked with Neptune gone and Saturn following it!" Garboreggg made no answer.
When he had finished, he felt as a Stone Age man might feel in the presence of a brilliant scientist of the thirty-fourth century. If any sign of interest had shown on the peak of the metallic lord, Phobar failed to see it. But he sensed an intolerant sneer of ridicule in Garboreggg, as though the ruler considered these statements to be only the most elementary of facts.
Your stay is almost up. "In that one control-panel lies all the power that we have mastered," boasted Garboreggg with supreme egotism. "It connects with the individual controls throughout Xlarbti." "What is the purpose of some of the levers?" asked Phobar, with a desperate hope in his thoughts. A filament of metal whipped to the panel from the lord of Xlarbti.
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