DNA. by James M. Corkill

Author:James M. Corkill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alien technology, Alien artifacts, Alien contact, Asteroid impact, First contact, Human extinction, Mind control, sci-fi Time travel, genetics, Telepathy, human aliens, Science Fiction Mystery
Publisher: James M. Corkill
Published: 2017-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

THE MOON:

Vesta takes the last load of passengers up to the ship and lets her team direct them to the stasis chambers. One person appears to be disappointed and remains behind. She puts her hand on his arm. “Thanks for all your help, Zane. You should go with the others.”

“You know what, Vesta? Until this moment, I kept hoping this was all just a bad dream, but now I think of it as a nightmare. The way some people reacted when they learned about the comet was bad enough, but the way they reacted against the people who were selected makes you realize just how savagely self-centered the human race can be. I feel sorry for the good people being left behind just because of their ancestry. A lot of them will be murdered before the comet even comes close to hitting the Earth.”

“I know, Zane, we’ve seen it before. That’s why we rushed things along to get the right people off the planet before your society crumbles. I’ll see you again when you come out of stasis. Sleep well.”

Once Zane is gone, Vesta strolls along a narrow hallway and enters the control room on the first floor of the enormous spaceship. She sees Belinda waving her over to the DNA laboratory and joins her. “What’s going on?”

Belinda brings an image up on the desktop, showing two strands of DNA. “What do you know about the backgrounds of these two samples you gave me?”

“One is from a woman with only Native American markers. She’s a descendant of one of the original pair of humans that were brought here twenty-five-hundred years ago.” Vesta suddenly realizes she doesn’t know the owner of the other one. “I have no idea where the other sample came from.”

“It’s definitely a male sample, but there’s a strange tag on the eye color marker. Is he one of the volunteers?”

“I don’t think so. Why do you ask?”

“Under the right conditions, his eyes will actually sparkle, and some of his other markers are not found in our database. I think this person is a descendant from a completely different race of humans. He should be saved with the others.”

“I’ll find out who the owner is while we still have time.”

Vesta hurries out of the room and along the hallway to the entrance into the stasis chambers and finds Paul. “Is Zane in full stasis yet?”

“No, I was just getting ready to slide him into the tube and seal his hatch. He’s right over there. Level two, row three, number one-forty-eight.”

Vesta steps onto a large square platform and enters the number on a control pad. It begins moving and stops in front of a narrow table extending from a thirty-inch opening in the wall. She goes over and stares down at Zane. “Are you comfortable?”

“I’m a little cold, but not too bad. I didn’t expect to see you so soon.”

“I forgot to tell you about that second DNA sample you wanted analyzed. We can’t identify the genetic tag. Who did it belong to?”

“Alex Cave.

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