The Legend of Things Past (Beyond Pluto SciFi Futuristic Aventures Book 1) by Phillip William Sheppard

Author:Phillip William Sheppard
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Beyond Pluto Publishing
Published: 2015-04-12T23:00:00+00:00

Donovan met with General Umar, Jonathan, and Tracee forty-five minutes later. Donovan was tired, but he didn’t regret the conversation with the young Lieutenant that morning. He felt lighter.

He smiled warmly in Jonathan’s direction. Jonathan smiled back.

General Umar looked at them. “You two having some kind of love fest over there?”

They snapped to attention, smiles wiped away in a second. “No, sir,” they said in unison.

“Then take a seat and listen up. We don’t have time for your bromance.”

Tracee stifled a laugh.

When General Umar looked her way there were no traces of humor around her lips.

“I’m assigning Colonel McGregor and Captain Umar to this case. I think they have a certain skill set that will be helpful.”

Tracee and Jonathan’s expressions reflected the surprise that Donovan felt.

“But you can’t assign him…” Donovan ignored General Umar’s affronted look. “He can’t know about his future self.”

“Boy, do not tell me what I can and cannot do.”

“But General…”

“Quiet!” General Umar said, leaning forward in his seat. “Do you think I’m an idiot? Do you think that an idiot would be in charge of the entire United States Army and Space Force?”

“No, but…”

“Then be quiet and listen.”

Donovan swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue.

“As I was saying,” General Umar continue, “Colonel McGregor is the most brilliant mind in technology that we’ve seen in recent years and Captain Brian, though lacking in serious combat skills, is the world’s leading biologist. Both men are the best in their fields.

“Considering that we’re going up against the most intelligent man since Stephen Hawking, I thought it would be a good thing to have the best working on this mission. Are there any objections to that?” It was clearly not a serious question, but Donovan couldn’t shut himself up.

“But what about the time travel laws? No one is supposed to be able to have knowledge of a future self.”

“Colonel McGregor will never know. We’ll change the brief and sign it with a different name. If it doesn’t allow you to edit we’ll make a new one.”

Donovan nodded. He felt a little uncomfortable at the prospect of lying to McGregor, even a younger version of him. He had to admit that they needed him though. Jonathan was good, but McGregor would be far more experienced.

“I’ve already briefed Captain Umar—he has a small team working under him but they don’t know the true nature of the mission. He’s at work analyzing the evidence you all brought back as we speak.

“I sent in another team to return Tobias’s home to normal. They retrieved the body of the man that attacked you. Captain Umar is studying that specimen as well. We’re hoping that when Tobias returns he’ll attribute the disappearance of the thing to its own doing. However, that is unlikely, so we mustn’t rely on that. We have to act as quickly as possible.”

“Sir, what do we do in the meantime?”

“Get as much rest as possible until we get the results of Captain Umar’s tests. Donovan, I need you to get to work on that brief.

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