Yocto by Timothy Jon Reynolds

Author:Timothy Jon Reynolds [Reynolds, Timothy Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, Thriller, Suspense
Publisher: American Pride Press
Published: 2017-05-16T18:30:00+00:00

5 – Contingencies

President Walter Kessel walked into the Oval Office numb. As was the norm after a Cabinet meeting, Vice President Sid Langston was rolling in behind him so they could talk things out. It was kind of weird because he was sure that most Presidents also had their Chief of Staff in tow, as well as an array of sycophantic staffers, but that was not the case with Walter Kessel.

Gary Salisbury, his Chief of Staff, had a laundry list of things to get done, and he didn’t need to sit and wonder what the hell was going on with Sid and him. The two of them might as well have been sitting on a back porch somewhere the way they carried their demeanors. But it worked for Walter, as Sid had more collective knowledge than his whole damn cabinet put together.

He walked over to the expansive window and positioned himself to be able to see the blackened patch of grass where the VH-71 crashed and burned. One of the first things he did when he came into office was to utilize the VH-71, because it seemed so foolish that the previous administration had built nine of the crafts, and then mothballed the whole thing due to budgetary concerns.

Of course, it was not the quality of the aircraft that failed, nor was it one of the protesters as the news agencies had been reporting. The shot that felled the copter was fired from nearly a thousand yards away, from a .50 caliber sniper rifle. The assassin assumed he had pulled off something they had never thought of. An electronic shot-spotting system that was in place for miles in every direction around the White House instantly found his location, and Walter’s men in the Secret Service had the scumbag in custody before he knew what had hit him. He did suffer a non-life threatening injury during his arrest, as he was shot in the shoulder while trying to pull a pistol out of his jacket.

All the flags outside flew at half-mast, in honor of the men and women who had perished in that craft. They tried to follow an organized lead from this, but this deranged man had been a sniper in the Marines, discharged. He was forced out due to odd behavior linked to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This was his way of proving he was worthy to still serve his country as a taker of peoples’ lives.

If that were all he had to worry about, then life would be a picnic, but no President in the history of the world had ever had to deal with what he was now having to deal with. At first it looked like the Secretary of Agriculture was on the trail of how the radio waves were being used, but then the bee die-offs, and the low probability of that theory working due to the fact that bees could not ingest flecks of conductors, such as the gold that Secretary Copeland hypothesized about.

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