Hunting In Paradise: A Santana Cruz Political Thriller by Win Cady

Author:Win Cady [Cady, Win]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hudson Story Company LLC
Published: 2023-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty-four

Mission Hills, Kansas, USSA

“That’s it? This thing is way too small,” said VanHook.

Robert Tanaka answered, “Easy Steve, it’s a prototype. We wanted you to be here for the first demonstration. You need to see what we’re up against. When we dial in the specs, we have a blueprint to scale up the technology.”

“This is the next step in our plan. You’re already two weeks behind where you claimed you’d be.”

Tanaka’s wife and son looked up from their work from across the makeshift laboratory. Michelle said, “Steve, we want this as bad as you do. It’ll happen. We won’t let any of us down. You gotta know if it weren’t for Will, we’d be a month behind.”

Will Tanaka shook his head at his mother and dove back into his work. His black eyeglasses framed his oval-shaped face, black hair touching his collar. VanHook had never seen him without his blue Kansas City Royals ball cap. Today, he wore it backward. His forehead cleared from adolescent acne and the dark fuzz on his chin needed its first shave. He had his game face on.

Will was a sixteen-year-old protégé, home schooled since the Transformation by his Nobel Prize winning parents. The applied physicists told everyone their son was ten times smarter than them. Will could see how things fit together and worked. He could build anything.

Tanaka and VanHook walked across the lab to witness the demonstration. Will handed them each a pair of dark glasses. Will said, “The last time I turned this on, it emitted a bright white light. Hurt like hell. Almost blinded us.”

“Tell me what I’m looking at, said VanHook.

Will fiddled with making final wire connections to the base of two polished metal rods that were about twelve inches tall and mounted to the worktable. The rods sat six inches apart. Resting on the table leading to each rod were two by two pieces of wood, creating an eighteen-inch-long chute ending at the base of the rods.

Michelle explained, “The rods are magnets. Will is wiring up the lasers on each side of the rods.”

When the contraption was ready to go, Robert reminded everyone to put on their dark glasses. With all eyes protected, Will switched on the power and a lime green flash of light appeared between the magnetic rods. Will turned a dial, and the light grew dimmer and looked like wisps of green cloudy gas floating between the rods.

Michelle removed her glasses, followed by everyone else. VanHook said, “It can’t be green. The field has to be invisible. No one can see it.”

Will said, “Let me dial up the modulation.”

He turned a dial on the small control panel and the green light dimmed and disappeared. VanHook put his hands on his hips and nodded to Robert. Then, a rising hum started sounding from the experiment. VanHook’s shoulders slumped, and he crossed his arms. “It has to be silent, too.”

Will said, “The magnetic field between the rods appears to be holding. It’s the lasers that are ionizing the air within the field that seem to be off.

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