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Escape From Pluto
By WILLIAM OBERFIELD

Exiled to Pluto's harsh wastes, Marcius Kemble


listened eagerly to the evil voices planning his
triumphant return. But even the Plutonians
underestimated the flaming glory to which they sent him.

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from


Planet Stories Fall 1947.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Marcius Kemble stood upon the frozen surface of Pluto and swore
aloud. He knew there were none to hear him but, just the same, he
shouted into his plastic space helmet until his ears were ringing,
cursing all the planets and their diverse inhabitants in order, most of
all Earth.
You see, Marcius Kemble was an example. He was an example to any
others, in the year of twenty-two hundred A.D., who would strive to
rule the solar system. The planets were independent states and they
were to remain that way. For trying to change this, Kemble had been
exiled to unexplored Pluto.
Marcius raised his mailed fist toward the mighty stars and ground out
curses against Earth and all those upon it, wishing that he could call
upon it the wrath of Heaven and Hell, for it had been the men of
Earth who had brought about his ultimate downfall.
It had been the age-old story of a power-mad tyrant finding out the
secret grudges of his subjects and working on them to inspire a
frenzy of hate, to maneuver them into a war against unsuspecting
neighboring nations. He had gained control of the whole of Mars in
this way and had been reaching out for the moon-system of Saturn,
when the full force of the Planetary Combine had come against him,
scattering his forces.
The counter offensive had been led by Earth, and it had been an
Earth ship which, after his short-lived escape, had parachuted him to
the cold surface of Pluto. Is it any wonder that he should hate them?
Marcius Kemble looked fearfully around at the bleak, frozen
landscape of Pluto, a cold Hell, hardly reached by the light of the sun.
Then he began to laugh.
Marcius laughed into the little plastic world of his helmet and the
sound roared back into his own ears, and he laughed louder. Tears
streamed down over the contact lenses in his eyes and caused the
white mountains to gesticulate and beckon to him.
He was beginning to see it all very clearly now. It wasn't his own
laughter in his helmet. The white mountains were laughing at him,
the stars and sun were laughing, and all the people of all the planets.
It was all concentrated into his ears by the curve of his helmet.
They were spying on him to see what he would do, laughing because
he could do nothing, their voices filling his head, asking who he was,
what he was going to do now, mocking him. He would show them!
Run to the laughing white mountains, cast them into an ocean, crush
them beneath his feet! That would put them in their places! Do it
now!
Marcius pulled himself to his feet. He knew that he had been running
and had fallen, striking his helmet upon something hard, and that he
had been laughing, crying and cursing at the same time. The
reverberating blow had shocked him into silence. And he was
remembering the words of the doctor who had cared for him, back
on Mars.
The doctor had said, "You have a great mind, Sire, and a very strong
will, but there are some flaws, as in all men. If you should know
defeat, your only hope will be death. Living, your mind would refuse
to give up, beating itself into insanity against a blank wall."
Now, Marcius knew what the doctor had meant. There were still the
voices in his mind repeating over and over, "Who are you?—Who are
you?" almost as if they were mocking the beating of his heart.
There was something strange about the voices, Marcius thought. It
was as if there were some alien intelligence behind them. There were
two of them, and they seemed to require an answer from him. It was
with no great hope that he answered the voices by concentrating
upon his name and present predicament.

The thoughts of Marcius Kemble did not go unheard. Unknown to the


rest of the solar system, Pluto had its inhabitants. To Earth men,
these would be very strange beings, not alone in appearance but in
composition. Their heads were roughly triangular, widening upward
from a pointed chin and resting on thin, yet strong, necks above
equally strong and spindly man-like bodies. They were mainly
composed of elements which became solid only at very low
temperatures.
Thus it was that one of these beings sat before a radio-like device
and perspired in the extreme cold of the room. His long pointed ears
were depressed by the weight of a shiny metal cap and his too-large
eyes held a look of worried consternation. The reason for his
consternation was the thoughts of the ex-dictator of Mars.
The wearer of the cap shot a series of rapid sounds at the other
occupant of the room.
He said, in effect, "I have received thought emanations from the
direction of the great plain, rather garbled. The being is probably a
giant from some other world, for his thoughts are alien and he
evidently considers it within his power to crush the mountains which
house us!"
The other made a negative gesture with a slender hand. "Don't you
think it is more likely that it is a trick of the enemy to frighten us,
Gor? They have tried such things before, you know."
Gor was quiet while he peered into the eyepiece of an instrument;
then he replied, "We will soon know. Tower Three has made contact,
giving us the exact location, and the inquisitors have now gone to
work on him."
For a while, the two Plutonians busied themselves with their various
machines, then Gor spoke again. "You are radiating sorrow, Bakar.
What troubles you?"
Bakar sighed. "I was thinking of the ancient pictures of Ahndee in the
days when its orbit was much nearer the sun, and we, the
inhabitants of Ahndee, were happy in our beautiful cities.
"Now, the two remaining great nations hide, one from the other,
beneath the mountains, and neither can break the defenses of the
other, but still we try. What is the use of it?"
"Careful, Bakar," Gor looked sternly at the other. "The Four may have
you in the thought beam. You know that The Four lead us along this
path because it is the only choice, the path shown in the future
machine.
"In the time you speak of," Gor went on, "the people were no better
off than we of today. Because they did not have the future machine,
they had failures. They wandered from the way and their failures
turned them back to the course provided by the natural law. Now we
know for what we are bound and, if we work toward that end, can
know no failures."
A strange light came into Bakar's eyes, but he said nothing.
Shortly thereafter, a voice drifted into the room. It was a mild voice,
but it was also old and wise.
The voice said, "This is Nel, one of The Four. The being on the plain
has been probed and analyzed and has been found to be a creature
of the carbon class from the inner worlds. He has sought to deceive
us in the manner in which he has deceived his own, but we have
seen all.
"The being is of a race called man and is named Mah Shuss Kem Bil.
He is clothed in a type of space armour which embodies an air
purifier, good for a period of time long enough to transport him to the
fourth planet at half the speed of light, and is protected against cold
by electric and tonic stimulants which do not produce heat, but only
suspend the sensation of cold. Therefore we may come in contact
with him without fear of burns.
"Since the future machine indicates that he must be sent back into
space, and since there is no place for him in our world, he will be
disposed of at once. Tower Two will dispatch two ships. The man will
be instructed in the operation of one of the ships and sent on his
way. The pilots will return in the other ship. That is all."
For a long moment, quiet filled the room.
Gor was uneasy as he said, "Well, Bakar, have you not heard? It is
your duty to dispatch the ships. Why do you hesitate?"
Bakar sprung to his feet, a small weapon clutched in his claw-like
hand. "No!" he hissed, "I will not obey the machine. I am going to
prove to you, and to all, that it can be wrong. You know of the soft
places in the plain, Gor. It is a wonder that the man did not land in
one of these, considering that there are more of these than solid
ground. But he will weary of waiting for the ships, which he has been
informed of, and begin to wander. He cannot go far before he is
swallowed up, sinking deeper and deeper. Then we shall see if the
future machine is always right!"
Gor said nothing, but a slight smile came to his lips, a rather ironic
one.
It was much later when Gor again spoke. He turned from his position
at the thought receiver and said, "News for you, Bakar. I have just
received thought that the man is on his way."
Bakar visibly started, and Gor continued, "How many times have you
complied with an order from The Four and pressed the button that
informs second in command that you had done so? Force of habit
caused you to perform it this time, Bakar. The order went on, through
second in command."
He added softly, "The future machine never lies!"

Marcius Kemble stood upon the frozen plain and waited. A satanic
smile lighted his face and the cry for revenge was in his heart. He
somehow felt that the thoughts had not lied, that they would send
the promised ship. Then he would be free again, blasting back to
quench his thirst for revenge against the Combine. His face became
flushed and the temperature within his suit became perceptibly
greater, as he formed his fanatical plans. While he waited, the leaders
of the Combine, in his mind, suffered and died a thousand times.
The coming of the ships was swift. One moment there was nothing;
the next, they rested upon the plain before him. Marcius was
surprised to note that they were very small, as compared to others
he had seen. So much the better, he thought, to elude the space
patrol.
He also marveled at the fact that the creatures coming toward him
from the ships were lightly clothed, and that they could speak to him
through his mind.
"Do not fear us," came the thought. "You must come with us into one
of the craft, to learn of the controls."
Inside the ship, Marcius found that "learning of the controls" was
much simpler than he had thought it would be.
He sat in the pilot's seat, hands on the controls and eyes closed. A
thousand times more effective than words, thoughts came to him,
and he flew the Plutonian ship through every condition and position
that could ever be encountered, even though he never left the place
at which the ship had come to rest on the plain. Mental instruction.
It all ended with Marcius Kemble, condemned dictator of Mars,
soaring away from Pluto forever, still enclosed in his space suit
because the air within the ship was never meant for the lungs of
men, and heading toward earth, toward the fulfillment of his evil
plans.
As the atmosphere of Pluto fell away behind him, Marcius wondered
that he felt no acceleration. Then he remembered a faint something
which he had detected in the thoughts of his instructor, something
about increased momentum being induced into each individual atom,
so that each retained its normal position to that of every other.
But Marcius was not the kind to spend much time on thinking of such
complicated matters. Instead, he lapsed into an ecstasy of evil
dreams, dreams in which he was again the mighty monarch, this time
of Earth.
As the little ship drove on through space, Marcius pictured himself
walking in on the members of the Council—he would have gained his
rightful place as ruler by then, of course—and chuckled at the
expressions he imagined on their faces, mouths hanging open, eyes
many times too large, and their heads hanging nearly to their belts.
Someone was kneeling before him. It was the Martian member and
his eyes were tightly closed against the stinging tears while his thin
hands were clasped before him, praying to Marcius to have mercy.
Marcius was about to order them strung end to end and dangled, for
the rest of their lives from an over-hanging cliff, when he became
aware of his present surroundings with a start. Time to start
decelerating.
Sighing, he reached for the proper lever and pulled it back.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then the ship seemed to shake
itself and Marcius was half lifted from his seat. It couldn't be! The
decelerating force should act equally on his body and the ship. How,
then, could he be thrown forward?
Something bumped lightly against his helmet and drifted on by. Only
for a moment did he stare blankly at the little silvery sphere, then the
nose of the ship came away with a weird plopping hiss, and he was
jerked through the opening by the force of the escaping air.
In confusion, he tried to swing his body around so that he could see
what had happened. He twisted his shoulders around, but his hips
turned equally in an opposite direction. To halt one meant to halt the
other. He tried kicking his legs back hard, but only succeeded in
arching his body and wrenching his back. Desperately, he began
kicking and squirming like a mad dancer. Each motion depended
upon an equal and opposite motion of his body.
He began kicking and squirming like a mad dancer.

In the midst of his struggles, his heel struck on something and


started him spinning, head over heels. It was the ship. The combined
gravities of the ship and his own body had brought them together
again, and he was revolving about the heavier object in a close orbit,
and he was turning end for end, now.
Marcius could not feel the motion. It seemed as if the universe were
turning about his stationary body, rising at his head and setting at his
feet.
He saw the ship then, but it was no longer a ship. It dawned on him
why the Plutonians had never ventured much nearer the sun, and
why, after they had known all about him, they had let him go.
Receding from him, was a perfect sphere of liquid mercury, once the
hard hull of a space ship, covered with a thin layer of water that had
once been windows, with small pieces of solid material floating on
the surface. It was only a natural law that it should revert to this
form when deprived of the sub-temperatures of Pluto.
Yes, Marcius Kemble saw it all now, but too late. He remembered a
demonstration he had seen when a child. A man had poured mercury
into a mold and cooled it to near absolute zero. When withdrawn
from the mold, it had been a little bell that gave a clear tone.
Why hadn't he thought of it before? The cold bodies of the Plutonians
enabled them to handle such metals as he would handle steel! They
made their ships and machines of such things as mercury and ice,
and perhaps a few materials unknown to man, but all of a low
melting point. Why should they do otherwise, when the extreme cold
of Pluto made those things as hard as steel? It was even doubtful if
they could produce enough heat to melt steel or even glass, or if they
could produce a substance able to retain such fires.
A hot rage began to boil within him. The Plutonians had known it all
along! With their science they could have kept him alive until they
had learned how to build a ship that would not melt from the heat of
the sun.
Now, Marcius Kemble's unretarded speed carried him through the
orbit of the earth while it was still many thousands of miles distant.
He began to feel the boiling heat of the sun and realized what it
would be like when the insulation of his space suit gave way to that
awful heat, but he decided that he would never live to suffer it.
Better to let the vacuum of space draw his life from him quickly and
painlessly.
Slowly, he reached up to unscrew his helmet. He gave it a slight tug,
then twisted with all his might. The helmet did not budge. For a
moment he could not think clearly. Then it came to him. The air
pressure within the suit was so great, in relation to the vacuum of
space, that it bound the threads together with a friction that he could
never hope to overcome!
With fear-filled eyes, he watched the hot disk of the sun expand
around him as he fell toward it.
The system would soon be rid of Marcius Kemble.
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