America One 04 - Return To Earth by T.I. Wade

Author:T.I. Wade [Wade, T.I.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: TIWADE Books
Published: 2013-07-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Aliens found!

DX2017 had become an oasis in the solar system during the long stay. The scientists were still baffled by how the shields worked, and embarrassed they had not figured it out. Even with months of research, they had not decoded the black box and its totally unfamiliar system of electronics. Igor, the best in the business, couldn’t figure how to repair the system. The broken black box had been dissected a hundred times, but still did not give up its secrets.

VIN’s room, the one he finally had the spider cut through, had given up its secrets. This room held the most interesting feature of the alien base, more so than all the other rooms put together.

VIN, then Fritz, then Igor—when he gave up on the black box—tried to get the final door to open, but to no avail. They even set the backup nuclear battery at 90 percent, nearly blowing the whole cavern up with sparks and rays of lights shooting out from the walls. Ryan ordered them to give it up.

When VIN’s attempts failed, many of the scientists began to return to America One to complete tests using the massive array of scientific equipment still in the mother ship. Only Suzi, Fritz and Boris, remained on DX2017. Suzi was already planting crops in the dome above; it took a month for the temperature to reach sixty degrees, and was now hovering in the 65 degree range, never getting warmer.

But, before the door was finally opened, much would happen in their new home.

Time flew by. VIN only returned to the mother ship once during the first six months. He, Suzi and Mars were happy in the caverns. Mr. Rose spent ten days on the planet and then ten days in the mother ship working on both of his greenhouse farms, as he called them. The biology team spent time travelling up and down as well, bringing down and taking up new plants, or cuts of vegetation to test in their labs. Jonesy and Allen Saunders flew down once every ten days.

The chickens hadn’t done well down on the surface. The gravity wasn’t strong enough for them to grow, but the rabbits thrived, and Suzi was surprised to see that female rabbits were born in America One, but on the planet’s surface at least one male rabbit was born for every dozen females. Also many of the crew had stopped eating meat, and it looked like the rabbits and the meat chickens could become extinct aboard ship.

What held true for rabbits also held true for humans aboard America One. Since leaving Earth, 19 babies had been born, and of the babies born in space all were girls. Suzi was hopeful though, as two of the crew might have become pregnant while on the surface of DX2017, Penny Pitt and Jamie Saunders. Everybody was hoping for a baby boy.

An older scientist in the chemistry team had died, the first death aboard. He died of a heart attack and left his body to science.

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