Fate of the Future by Michael Lee

Author:Michael Lee [Lee, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

We had peeled off our wetsuits and helped put away the UTS’s. As Parker led us to the Sea Hunter’s conference room, I realized that I had not slept in… I didn’t know how long. Not since I woke up Friday morning for school. I didn’t know what the time was now. When we went outside at home, I would have had been going to bed soon had I not been hurled fifty years into the future. Since then, I had been shot, knocked unconscious, bandaged, treated for radiation, knocked to the ground, pinned by a giant squid, thrown around by a giant squid, and blasted by an explosion. Can I go to bed yet?

Nope.

We took our seats around a smooth metal table. On one wall was a map of the world today. I still couldn’t get over how strange it looked. All the little islands in the South Pacific had become little wisps of connected strings of land rather than dotted archipelagos. Captain Parker sat in front of the map at the head of the table.

“I cannot thank you enough for helping us,” he began, looking mostly at me. “However, now that we are safely on the surface, I ask that you tell me the truth. You said you came from 2020.”

I took my watch off my wrist and slid it across the table. He looked at it. “It’s frozen five minutes before the nuclear missile struck in 2020, but it doesn’t say the year.”

Patrick took his wallet out and handed the captain his birth certificate. 2002. He’d have to be like 67 now. He wasn’t.

“I see,” Parker said, handing back my watch and Patrick’s certificate. “Then how did you get here?”

Amber shrugged. “We’re not exactly sure. We were in the woods behind Patrick and Carter’s house and found five wells there. A light from one of them, or maybe all of them, we don’t know, pulled us in. We landed in the future.”

“You realize how unlikely that sounds, don’t you?” Parker asked.

“We understand,” Patrick said. “But how else can you explain our appearance here? Is anyone still alive other than on this ship?”

“No, you’re right,” he said. “The only survivors on land are slowly dying from the elements and lack of food. There is a renegade Chinese submarine lurking about, but that’s the last of it.”

“All we want is to get back home,” Amber admitted. “But the problem is, if we go back to our time, we’ll have less than five minutes before the missile strikes. We’re stuck.”

I looked around the table. O’Neill’s snide demeanor had not changed. Bradley looked very concerned, almost pitying. Then my eyes rested on Jennifer and I remembered what she had told me before. I had forgotten while I had been outside the ship. She had said she knew how to get us back.

My eyes met hers and she winked at me. She mouthed “tomorrow,” and I nodded. It would have to wait. I decided not to tell the others yet.

I looked back to the Captain.

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