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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Come Into My Brain! - -Author: Alexander Blade - -Release Date: April 27, 2021 [eBook #65177] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COME INTO MY BRAIN! *** - - - - - Come Into My Brain! - - By Alexander Blade - - Fitted with the new thought-helmet, Dane - Harrell plunged into the venomous brain of the - alien. It was a fast way to commit suicide!... - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - June 1958 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Dane Harrell held the thought-helmet tightly between his hands and, -before putting it on, glanced over at the bound, writhing alien sitting -opposite him. The alien snarled defiantly. - -"You're sure you want to go through with this?" asked Dr. Phelps. - -Harrell nodded. "I volunteered, didn't I? I said I'd take a look inside -this buzzard's brain and I'm going to do it. If I don't come up in half -an hour, come get me." - -"Right." - -Harrell slipped the cool bulk of the thought-helmet over his head and -signalled to the scientist, who pulled the actuator switch. Harrell -shuddered as psionic current surged through him; he stiffened, -wriggled, and felt himself glide out of his body, hover incorporeally -in the air between his now soulless shell and the alien bound opposite. - -_Remember, you volunteered_, he told himself. - -He hung for a moment outside the alien's skull; then, he drifted -downward and in. He had entered the alien's mind. Whether he would -emerge alive, and with the troop-deployment data--well, that was -another matter entirely. - -The patrol-ships of the Terran outpost on Planetoid 113 had discovered -the alien scout a week before. The Dimellian spy was lurking about the -outermost reaches of the Terran safety zone when he was caught. - -It wasn't often that Earth captured a Dimellian alive and so the -Outpost resolved to comb as much information from him as possible. -The Earth-Dimell war was four years old; neither side had scored a -decisive victory. It was believed that Dimell was massing its fleets -for an all-out attack on Earth itself; confirmation of this from the -captured scout would make Terran defensive tactics considerably more -sound. - -But the Dimellian resisted all forms of brainwashing until Phelps, -the Base Psych-man, came forth with the experimental thought-helmet. -Volunteers were requested; Harrell spoke up first. Now, wearing -the thought-helmet, he plunged deep into the unknown areas of the -Dimellian's mind, hoping to emerge with high-order military secrets. - -His first impression was of thick grey murk--so thick it could be cut. -Using a swimming motion, Harrell drifted downward, toward the light in -the distance. It was a long way down; he floated, eerily, in free-fall. - -Finally he touched ground. It yielded under him spongily, but it -was solid. He looked around. The place was alien: coarse crumbly red -soil, giant spike-leaved trees that shot up hundreds of feet overhead, -brutal-looking birds squawking and chattering in the low branches. - -It looked just like the tridim solidos of Dimell he had seen. Well, why -not? Why shouldn't the inside of a man's mind--or an alien's, for that -matter--resemble his home world? - -Cautiously, Harrell started to walk. Mountains rose in the dim distance -and he could see, glittering on a mountaintop far beyond him, the white -bulk of an armored castle. Of course! His imaginative mind realized at -once that here was where the Dimellian guarded his precious secrets; up -there, on the mountain, was his goal. - -He started to walk. - -Low-hanging vines obscured his way; he conjured up a machete and cut -them down. The weapon felt firm and real in his hand but he realized -that not even the hand was real; all this was but an imaginative -projection. - -The castle was further away than he had thought. He saw this after he -had walked for perhaps 15 minutes. There was no telling duration inside -the alien's skull, either. Or distance. The castle seemed just as -distant now as when he had begun and his 15-minute journey through the -jungle had tired him. - -Suddenly demonic laughter sounded up ahead in the jungle. Harsh, ugly -laughter. - -And the Dimellian appeared, slashing his way through the vines with -swashbuckling abandon. - -"Get out of my mind, Earthman!" - - * * * * * - -The Dimellian was larger than life and twice as ugly. It was an -idealized, self-glorified mental image Harrell faced. - -The captured Dimellian was about five feet tall, thick-shouldered, with -sturdy, corded arms and supplementary tentacles sprouting from its -shoulders; its skin was green and leathery, dotted with toad-like warts. - -Harrell now saw a creature close to nine feet tall, swaggering, with a -mighty barrel of a chest and a huge broad-sword clutched in one of its -arms. The tentacles writhed purposefully. - -"You know why I'm here, alien. I want to know certain facts. And I'm -not getting out of your mind until I've wrung them from you." - -The alien's lipless mouth curved in a bleak smile. "Big words, little -Earthman. But first you'll have to vanquish _me_." - -And the Dimellian stepped forward. - -Harrell met the downcrashing blow of the alien's broad-sword fully; the -shock of impact sent numbing shivers up his arm as far as his shoulder -but he held on and turned aside the blow. It wasn't fair; the Dimellian -had a vaster reach than he could ever hope for.... - -No! He saw there was no reason why he couldn't control the size of -his own mental image. Instantly he was 10 feet high and advancing -remorselessly toward the alien. - -Swords clashed clangorously, the forest-birds screamed. Harrell drove -the alien back ... back.... - -And the Dimellian was eleven feet high. - -"We can keep this up forever," Harrell said. "Getting larger and -larger. This is only a mental conflict." He shot up until he again -towered a foot above the alien's head. He swung downward two-handedly -with the machete.... - -The alien vanished. - -And reappeared five feet to the right, "Enough of this foolishness, -Earthman. Physical conflict will be endless stalemate, since we're only -mental projections. You're beaten; there's no possible way you can -defeat me, or I defeat you. Don't waste your time and mine. Get out of -my mind!" - -Harrell shook his head doggedly. "I'm in here to do a job and I'm not -leaving until I've done it." He sprang forward, sword high, and thrust -down at the grinning Dimellian. - -Again the Dimellian sidestepped. Harrell's sword cut air. - -"Don't tire yourself out, Earthman," the alien said mockingly, and -vanished. - -Harrell stood alone in the heart of the steaming jungle, leaning on his -sword. Maybe he was only a mental projection, he thought, but a mental -projection could still get thoroughly drenched with its own mental -sweat. - -The castle still gleamed enigmatically on the distant mountain. He -couldn't get there by walking--at least, it hadn't seemed to draw any -nearer during his jaunt through the jungle. Hand-to-hand combat with -the alien appeared fruitless. A fight in which both participants could -change size at will, vanish, reappear, and do other such things was as -pointless as a game of poker with every card wild. - -But there had to be a way. Mental attack? Perhaps _that_ would crumble -the alien's defenses. - -He sent out a beam of thought, directed up at the castle. _Can you hear -me, alien?_ - -Mental laughter echoed mockingly back. _Of course, Earthman. What -troubles you?_ - -Harrell made no reply. He stood silently, concentrating, marshalling -his powers. Then he hurled a bolt of mental energy with all his -strength toward the mocking voice. - -The jungle shuddered as it struck home. The ground lurched wildly, -like an animal's back; trees tumbled, the sky bent. Harrell saw he had -scored a hit; the alien's concentration had wavered, distorting the -scenery. - -But there was quick recovery. Again the mocking laughter. Harrell knew -that the alien had shrugged off the blow. - -And then the counterblow. - -It caught Harrell unawares and sent him spinning back a dozen feet, -to land in a tangled heap beneath a dangling nest of vines. His head -rocked, seemed ready to split apart. He sensed the alien readying a -second offensive drive, and set up counterscreens. - -This time he was ready. He diverted the attack easily, and shook his -head to clear it. The score was even: one stunning blow apiece. But he -had recovered and so had the alien. - -Harrell aimed another blow and felt the alien sweep it aside. Back came -the answering barrage of mental force; Harrell blocked it. - -_Stalemate again_, the alien said. - -_We're evenly matched_, Harrell replied. _But I'll beat you._ He looked -up at the far-off castle on the mountainside. _I'll beat you yet._ - -_That remains to be proven, troublesome Earthman._ - - * * * * * - -Harrell tramped on through the jungle of the alien's mind for a while, -and then, realizing he was getting no closer to the all-important -castle on the hill, stopped by a brook to wipe away his perspiration. -It was hot on this accursed world--hot, muggy, dank. - -He kneeled over the water's surface. It looked pure, cool. A sudden -thought struck him and he ripped a strip from his shirt and dipped it -in the water. - -The plasticloth blackened and charred. He let it drop and the "water" -quickly finished the job. Pool? No. Concentrated sulphuric acid or -something just as destructive. - -Smiling grimly at his narrow escape, he wiped his perspiration with -another strip torn from his sleeve and kept going. Several hours, at -least, had passed since he had entered the strange world within the -alien's mind. - -That meant one of two things: either the time-scale in here was -different from that outside or his half-hour limit had elapsed in the -outer world and Dr. Phelps had been unsuccessful in bringing him back. - -That was a nice thought. Suppose he was stuck here indefinitely, inside -the mind of an alien being, in a muggy jungle full of sulphuric acid -brooks? - -_Well_, he thought, _I asked for it...._ - -The stalemate couldn't continue indefinitely. If he had swallowed -some of the acid that would have ended the contest without doubt; he -wouldn't have had time to cope with the searing fluid. - -The answer lay there--_surprise_. Both he and the alien were mental -entities who could do battle as they pleased--but in this conflict -it was necessary to take the opponent by surprise before he could -counterthrust or vanish. - -He began to see a solution. - -Up ahead lay the castle--unreachable, through some trick of the -alien's. Very well. Harrell's brows drew together in concentration for -a moment; his mind planned a strategy--and formed men to carry it out. - -There were six of him, suddenly. - - * * * * * - -Six identical Harrells--identical in size, shape, form, purpose. -They would attack the Dimellian simultaneously. Or, at least, -five of them would, creating a diversionary action while the -sixth--Harrell-original--made a frontal assault on the castle. - -Harrell-original faced his five duplicates and briefly instructed each -in his job. They were like puppets. - -"Harrell-one, you're to attack in conjunction with Harrell-two, on the -mental level. Take turns heaving mental bolts at the alien. While one -of you is recharging, the other is to unload. That won't give him time -to get any sort of defense organized and certainly no counter-attack. - -"Harrell-three and Harrell-four, you're to attack physically, one armed -with sword and one with blaster, from opposite sides at once. _That_ -ought to keep him busy, while he's fighting off the rest of you. - -"Harrell-five, your job is to serve as front runner--to find the -Dimellian and engage him in conversation while the other four are -getting ready to attack. Make him angry; get him concerned about what -you're saying. The instant his defenses drop the other four of you jump -in. All of you got that?" - -They nodded in unison. - -"Good. Meanwhile I'll make an assault on the castle and maybe I can get -through with you five running interference for me." - -He dismissed them and they set out in different directions. He didn't -want the Dimellian to find out what was up; if the alien saw the -strategy and had time to create duplicates of its own the conflict -would end in stalemate again. - -Harrell waited, while his five duplicates went into action. - -Through the mental link with Harrell-five, he listened as his -duplicates said, "The time has come to finish you off, alien. I'm glad -I found you. That acid trick almost got me but not quite." - -"A pity," the alien replied. "I was hoping the ruse would finish you. -It's becoming quite irritating, having you in here. You're starting to -bore me." - -"Just you wait, you overstuffed wart-hog. I'll have those tentacles of -yours clipped soon enough." - -"Empty words, Earthman. You've run out of strategies; your best course -is to get out of my mind and forget this entire silly affair." - -"Oh, no. I'll have those secrets pried out of you quicker than you -think." - -"How?" - -"I'm not giving away _my_ secrets, alien. I'm here after yours." - -Harrell readied himself. He gave the signal: _now_. - -Harrell-one and Harrell-three appeared. Harrell-one loosed a -bombardment of mental force that shook the alien; Harrell-three dashed -forward, wielding a machete. - -Harrell-two and Harrell-four went into action, Harrell-two following up -with a second mental bolt, Harrell-four firing a blaster. The bedeviled -alien looked from side to side, not knowing where to defend himself -first. - -The scenery began to rock. The alien was going down. - -Harrell took to the air. - -Levitating easily above the jungle, he found the castle and zeroed -in on it. As he dropped downward it changed--from a vaulting proud -collection of spires and battlements to a blocky square building and -from that into an armored box with a padlock. - -The Dimellian stood before it, struggling with the five duplicate -Harrells. - -Harrell stepped past--_through_--the writhing group. The Dimellian's -defenses were down. The secrets were unguarded. - -He wrenched the padlock off with a contemptuous twist of his hand. The -box sprang open. Inside lay documents, neatly typed, ready for his eye. - -The alien uttered a mighty howl. The forest dissolved; the universe -swirled around Harrell's head. - - * * * * * - -He woke. It seemed to be months later. - -Dr. Phelps stood by his side. - -Harrell took two or three deep breaths, clearing his head. He grinned. -"I've got them," he said. "Information on troop movements, plan of -battle, even the line of journey across space." - -"Good work," the psychman said. "I was worried at first. You had some -expressions of real terror on your face when you put the helmet on." - -"Dead?" - -"I'm afraid so." - -Harrell grinned weakly. "I guess I was just too many for him. The shock -of having the core of his mind penetrated--" Tiredly he said, "Doc, how -come you didn't get me out at the half-hour mark?" - -"Eh?" - -"I told you to pull me out after half an hour had gone by. Why didn't -you? I was in there half a day, at least--and I might have stayed there -forever." - -The psychman was looking at him strangely. "Half a day, you say? No, -Lieutenant Harrell. The total time elapsed from the moment you donned -the helmet to the instant the alien screamed--why, it was less than 10 -seconds!" - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COME INTO MY BRAIN! *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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It was a fast way to commit suicide!...</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -June 1958<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Dane Harrell held the thought-helmet tightly between his hands and, -before putting it on, glanced over at the bound, writhing alien sitting -opposite him. The alien snarled defiantly.</p> - -<p>"You're sure you want to go through with this?" asked Dr. Phelps.</p> - -<p>Harrell nodded. "I volunteered, didn't I? I said I'd take a look inside -this buzzard's brain and I'm going to do it. If I don't come up in half -an hour, come get me."</p> - -<p>"Right."</p> - -<p>Harrell slipped the cool bulk of the thought-helmet over his head and -signalled to the scientist, who pulled the actuator switch. Harrell -shuddered as psionic current surged through him; he stiffened, -wriggled, and felt himself glide out of his body, hover incorporeally -in the air between his now soulless shell and the alien bound opposite.</p> - -<p><i>Remember, you volunteered</i>, he told himself.</p> - -<p>He hung for a moment outside the alien's skull; then, he drifted -downward and in. He had entered the alien's mind. Whether he would -emerge alive, and with the troop-deployment data—well, that was -another matter entirely.</p> - -<p>The patrol-ships of the Terran outpost on Planetoid 113 had discovered -the alien scout a week before. The Dimellian spy was lurking about the -outermost reaches of the Terran safety zone when he was caught.</p> - -<p>It wasn't often that Earth captured a Dimellian alive and so the -Outpost resolved to comb as much information from him as possible. -The Earth-Dimell war was four years old; neither side had scored a -decisive victory. It was believed that Dimell was massing its fleets -for an all-out attack on Earth itself; confirmation of this from the -captured scout would make Terran defensive tactics considerably more -sound.</p> - -<p>But the Dimellian resisted all forms of brainwashing until Phelps, -the Base Psych-man, came forth with the experimental thought-helmet. -Volunteers were requested; Harrell spoke up first. Now, wearing -the thought-helmet, he plunged deep into the unknown areas of the -Dimellian's mind, hoping to emerge with high-order military secrets.</p> - -<p>His first impression was of thick grey murk—so thick it could be cut. -Using a swimming motion, Harrell drifted downward, toward the light in -the distance. It was a long way down; he floated, eerily, in free-fall.</p> - -<p>Finally he touched ground. It yielded under him spongily, but it -was solid. He looked around. The place was alien: coarse crumbly red -soil, giant spike-leaved trees that shot up hundreds of feet overhead, -brutal-looking birds squawking and chattering in the low branches.</p> - -<p>It looked just like the tridim solidos of Dimell he had seen. Well, why -not? Why shouldn't the inside of a man's mind—or an alien's, for that -matter—resemble his home world?</p> - -<p>Cautiously, Harrell started to walk. Mountains rose in the dim distance -and he could see, glittering on a mountaintop far beyond him, the white -bulk of an armored castle. Of course! His imaginative mind realized at -once that here was where the Dimellian guarded his precious secrets; up -there, on the mountain, was his goal.</p> - -<p>He started to walk.</p> - -<p>Low-hanging vines obscured his way; he conjured up a machete and cut -them down. The weapon felt firm and real in his hand but he realized -that not even the hand was real; all this was but an imaginative -projection.</p> - -<p>The castle was further away than he had thought. He saw this after he -had walked for perhaps 15 minutes. There was no telling duration inside -the alien's skull, either. Or distance. The castle seemed just as -distant now as when he had begun and his 15-minute journey through the -jungle had tired him.</p> - -<p>Suddenly demonic laughter sounded up ahead in the jungle. Harsh, ugly -laughter.</p> - -<p>And the Dimellian appeared, slashing his way through the vines with -swashbuckling abandon.</p> - -<p>"Get out of my mind, Earthman!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Dimellian was larger than life and twice as ugly. It was an -idealized, self-glorified mental image Harrell faced.</p> - -<p>The captured Dimellian was about five feet tall, thick-shouldered, with -sturdy, corded arms and supplementary tentacles sprouting from its -shoulders; its skin was green and leathery, dotted with toad-like warts.</p> - -<p>Harrell now saw a creature close to nine feet tall, swaggering, with a -mighty barrel of a chest and a huge broad-sword clutched in one of its -arms. The tentacles writhed purposefully.</p> - -<p>"You know why I'm here, alien. I want to know certain facts. And I'm -not getting out of your mind until I've wrung them from you."</p> - -<p>The alien's lipless mouth curved in a bleak smile. "Big words, little -Earthman. But first you'll have to vanquish <i>me</i>."</p> - -<p>And the Dimellian stepped forward.</p> - -<p>Harrell met the downcrashing blow of the alien's broad-sword fully; the -shock of impact sent numbing shivers up his arm as far as his shoulder -but he held on and turned aside the blow. It wasn't fair; the Dimellian -had a vaster reach than he could ever hope for....</p> - -<p>No! He saw there was no reason why he couldn't control the size of -his own mental image. Instantly he was 10 feet high and advancing -remorselessly toward the alien.</p> - -<p>Swords clashed clangorously, the forest-birds screamed. Harrell drove -the alien back ... back....</p> - -<p>And the Dimellian was eleven feet high.</p> - -<p>"We can keep this up forever," Harrell said. "Getting larger and -larger. This is only a mental conflict." He shot up until he again -towered a foot above the alien's head. He swung downward two-handedly -with the machete....</p> - -<p>The alien vanished.</p> - -<p>And reappeared five feet to the right, "Enough of this foolishness, -Earthman. Physical conflict will be endless stalemate, since we're only -mental projections. You're beaten; there's no possible way you can -defeat me, or I defeat you. Don't waste your time and mine. Get out of -my mind!"</p> - -<p>Harrell shook his head doggedly. "I'm in here to do a job and I'm not -leaving until I've done it." He sprang forward, sword high, and thrust -down at the grinning Dimellian.</p> - -<p>Again the Dimellian sidestepped. Harrell's sword cut air.</p> - -<p>"Don't tire yourself out, Earthman," the alien said mockingly, and -vanished.</p> - -<p>Harrell stood alone in the heart of the steaming jungle, leaning on his -sword. Maybe he was only a mental projection, he thought, but a mental -projection could still get thoroughly drenched with its own mental -sweat.</p> - -<p>The castle still gleamed enigmatically on the distant mountain. He -couldn't get there by walking—at least, it hadn't seemed to draw any -nearer during his jaunt through the jungle. Hand-to-hand combat with -the alien appeared fruitless. A fight in which both participants could -change size at will, vanish, reappear, and do other such things was as -pointless as a game of poker with every card wild.</p> - -<p>But there had to be a way. Mental attack? Perhaps <i>that</i> would crumble -the alien's defenses.</p> - -<p>He sent out a beam of thought, directed up at the castle. <i>Can you hear -me, alien?</i></p> - -<p>Mental laughter echoed mockingly back. <i>Of course, Earthman. What -troubles you?</i></p> - -<p>Harrell made no reply. He stood silently, concentrating, marshalling -his powers. Then he hurled a bolt of mental energy with all his -strength toward the mocking voice.</p> - -<p>The jungle shuddered as it struck home. The ground lurched wildly, -like an animal's back; trees tumbled, the sky bent. Harrell saw he had -scored a hit; the alien's concentration had wavered, distorting the -scenery.</p> - -<p>But there was quick recovery. Again the mocking laughter. Harrell knew -that the alien had shrugged off the blow.</p> - -<p>And then the counterblow.</p> - -<p>It caught Harrell unawares and sent him spinning back a dozen feet, -to land in a tangled heap beneath a dangling nest of vines. His head -rocked, seemed ready to split apart. He sensed the alien readying a -second offensive drive, and set up counterscreens.</p> - -<p>This time he was ready. He diverted the attack easily, and shook his -head to clear it. The score was even: one stunning blow apiece. But he -had recovered and so had the alien.</p> - -<p>Harrell aimed another blow and felt the alien sweep it aside. Back came -the answering barrage of mental force; Harrell blocked it.</p> - -<p><i>Stalemate again</i>, the alien said.</p> - -<p><i>We're evenly matched</i>, Harrell replied. <i>But I'll beat you.</i> He looked -up at the far-off castle on the mountainside. <i>I'll beat you yet.</i></p> - -<p><i>That remains to be proven, troublesome Earthman.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Harrell tramped on through the jungle of the alien's mind for a while, -and then, realizing he was getting no closer to the all-important -castle on the hill, stopped by a brook to wipe away his perspiration. -It was hot on this accursed world—hot, muggy, dank.</p> - -<p>He kneeled over the water's surface. It looked pure, cool. A sudden -thought struck him and he ripped a strip from his shirt and dipped it -in the water.</p> - -<p>The plasticloth blackened and charred. He let it drop and the "water" -quickly finished the job. Pool? No. Concentrated sulphuric acid or -something just as destructive.</p> - -<p>Smiling grimly at his narrow escape, he wiped his perspiration with -another strip torn from his sleeve and kept going. Several hours, at -least, had passed since he had entered the strange world within the -alien's mind.</p> - -<p>That meant one of two things: either the time-scale in here was -different from that outside or his half-hour limit had elapsed in the -outer world and Dr. Phelps had been unsuccessful in bringing him back.</p> - -<p>That was a nice thought. Suppose he was stuck here indefinitely, inside -the mind of an alien being, in a muggy jungle full of sulphuric acid -brooks?</p> - -<p><i>Well</i>, he thought, <i>I asked for it....</i></p> - -<p>The stalemate couldn't continue indefinitely. If he had swallowed -some of the acid that would have ended the contest without doubt; he -wouldn't have had time to cope with the searing fluid.</p> - -<p>The answer lay there—<i>surprise</i>. Both he and the alien were mental -entities who could do battle as they pleased—but in this conflict -it was necessary to take the opponent by surprise before he could -counterthrust or vanish.</p> - -<p>He began to see a solution.</p> - -<p>Up ahead lay the castle—unreachable, through some trick of the -alien's. Very well. Harrell's brows drew together in concentration for -a moment; his mind planned a strategy—and formed men to carry it out.</p> - -<p>There were six of him, suddenly.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Six identical Harrells—identical in size, shape, form, purpose. -They would attack the Dimellian simultaneously. Or, at least, -five of them would, creating a diversionary action while the -sixth—Harrell-original—made a frontal assault on the castle.</p> - -<p>Harrell-original faced his five duplicates and briefly instructed each -in his job. They were like puppets.</p> - -<p>"Harrell-one, you're to attack in conjunction with Harrell-two, on the -mental level. Take turns heaving mental bolts at the alien. While one -of you is recharging, the other is to unload. That won't give him time -to get any sort of defense organized and certainly no counter-attack.</p> - -<p>"Harrell-three and Harrell-four, you're to attack physically, one armed -with sword and one with blaster, from opposite sides at once. <i>That</i> -ought to keep him busy, while he's fighting off the rest of you.</p> - -<p>"Harrell-five, your job is to serve as front runner—to find the -Dimellian and engage him in conversation while the other four are -getting ready to attack. Make him angry; get him concerned about what -you're saying. The instant his defenses drop the other four of you jump -in. All of you got that?"</p> - -<p>They nodded in unison.</p> - -<p>"Good. Meanwhile I'll make an assault on the castle and maybe I can get -through with you five running interference for me."</p> - -<p>He dismissed them and they set out in different directions. He didn't -want the Dimellian to find out what was up; if the alien saw the -strategy and had time to create duplicates of its own the conflict -would end in stalemate again.</p> - -<p>Harrell waited, while his five duplicates went into action.</p> - -<p>Through the mental link with Harrell-five, he listened as his -duplicates said, "The time has come to finish you off, alien. I'm glad -I found you. That acid trick almost got me but not quite."</p> - -<p>"A pity," the alien replied. "I was hoping the ruse would finish you. -It's becoming quite irritating, having you in here. You're starting to -bore me."</p> - -<p>"Just you wait, you overstuffed wart-hog. I'll have those tentacles of -yours clipped soon enough."</p> - -<p>"Empty words, Earthman. You've run out of strategies; your best course -is to get out of my mind and forget this entire silly affair."</p> - -<p>"Oh, no. I'll have those secrets pried out of you quicker than you -think."</p> - -<p>"How?"</p> - -<p>"I'm not giving away <i>my</i> secrets, alien. I'm here after yours."</p> - -<p>Harrell readied himself. He gave the signal: <i>now</i>.</p> - -<p>Harrell-one and Harrell-three appeared. Harrell-one loosed a -bombardment of mental force that shook the alien; Harrell-three dashed -forward, wielding a machete.</p> - -<p>Harrell-two and Harrell-four went into action, Harrell-two following up -with a second mental bolt, Harrell-four firing a blaster. The bedeviled -alien looked from side to side, not knowing where to defend himself -first.</p> - -<p>The scenery began to rock. The alien was going down.</p> - -<p>Harrell took to the air.</p> - -<p>Levitating easily above the jungle, he found the castle and zeroed -in on it. As he dropped downward it changed—from a vaulting proud -collection of spires and battlements to a blocky square building and -from that into an armored box with a padlock.</p> - -<p>The Dimellian stood before it, struggling with the five duplicate -Harrells.</p> - -<p>Harrell stepped past—<i>through</i>—the writhing group. The Dimellian's -defenses were down. The secrets were unguarded.</p> - -<p>He wrenched the padlock off with a contemptuous twist of his hand. The -box sprang open. Inside lay documents, neatly typed, ready for his eye.</p> - -<p>The alien uttered a mighty howl. The forest dissolved; the universe -swirled around Harrell's head.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He woke. It seemed to be months later.</p> - -<p>Dr. Phelps stood by his side.</p> - -<p>Harrell took two or three deep breaths, clearing his head. He grinned. -"I've got them," he said. "Information on troop movements, plan of -battle, even the line of journey across space."</p> - -<p>"Good work," the psychman said. "I was worried at first. You had some -expressions of real terror on your face when you put the helmet on."</p> - -<p>"Dead?"</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid so."</p> - -<p>Harrell grinned weakly. "I guess I was just too many for him. The shock -of having the core of his mind penetrated—" Tiredly he said, "Doc, how -come you didn't get me out at the half-hour mark?"</p> - -<p>"Eh?"</p> - -<p>"I told you to pull me out after half an hour had gone by. Why didn't -you? I was in there half a day, at least—and I might have stayed there -forever."</p> - -<p>The psychman was looking at him strangely. "Half a day, you say? No, -Lieutenant Harrell. 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