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will be in touch in short
order.”
    Iverson quickly sat down before the firing squad could get
to him again. He was relieved to be out of the limelight or the
interrogation room , however he
wanted to look at it. The world’s council was relentless, and he
hoped he wouldn’t have to do any more public speaking. He just
wasn’t very good at it. He preferred to stay back in the lab and
work on things with his fellow scientists. He knew it wasn’t over
yet, however; the panel would be demanding more information sooner
rather than later, and it was up to him to provide that
information. He just hoped that he could do that efficiently before
someone decided that he was too incompetent for the job.
    He looked over at President Gates , who was grinning ear to ear. Iverson wasn’t sure
what the president felt so confident about, but he nodded at him
nonetheless. Things were going to get ugly with the council; he
could just feel it. Even without doing the numbers, he knew that
the expedition was going to cost a fortune and no small one at
that.
    The president winked
at him, and Iverson suddenly felt like he was part of something he
didn’t really understand. Iverson suspected that Gates was just
pleased because he felt like he was involved in something that
would save the world, which was a pretty big deal for someone
looking to be reelected. But Iverson wasn’t sure it was all going
to work out in the end; it was too early to tell. There was still
so much unknown at this point. He would feel much better about
things once the data was fully analyzed. Until then, he was just
happy he had a few months before he would have to face them all
again.
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter Four
    After Nine
Months
    Jim Iverson stared at
the latest report in his hand and felt sick to his stomach. He
scanned it briefly before going in for a final read. It was
terrible news, the whole thing from top to bottom. He could barely
believe what he was reading. The whole team had been working
tirelessly for months, and things were still looking pretty dire
for the world. A lot of time had been spent on the rocket alone,
and then it needed to be launched. The process took forever, and it
was not without its problems. But they had gotten through it only
to discover that bringing back Particle B was not only a difficult
task but one that could be very dangerous to the Earth.
    It had taken them nine
months to build the impressive antigravity rocket, the very rocket
that was currently bringing back the particle they had discovered.
But when it came time to launch the rocket into the atmosphere,
they had learned that it wasn’t as easy as they’d all believed it
would be. Sure, the building process was a success, but launching
it and bringing back the particle had led to one problem after
another. The rocket’s launch had attracted quite the crowd. People
from all over the world had traveled to see it go off. Rockets were
launched regularly on Earth, but this one had a specific purpose.
The launch went off after solving a lot of hitches, and it was
considered another one of NASA’s legendary achievements.
    The rocket was launched at one end of the world while on
the other end of Earth, there
occurred one monumental natural disaster after another. It appeared
as if the damage done to Earth through all their explorations was
starting to come back to haunt them.
    They had known right
from the beginning that any explorations that were conducted could
cause damage to Earth, almost undoing their efforts. Iverson
groaned just thinking about it. Winning the battle wasn’t the way
Iverson thought it would be. He was trying desperately to not cause
further damage, but what else could be done? It was essential to
Earth’s survival that they keep looking for other means of making
the world more energy-efficient. They were using up their natural
resources quicker than they expected, as well as digging in the
mines and making the antigravity rocket; yet these things