The Embryo of the Star by Elberto V Badon & Elizabeth V Badon

Author:Elberto V Badon & Elizabeth V Badon [Badon, Elberto V & Badon, Elizabeth V]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781689562607
Published: 2019-12-26T22:00:00+00:00

XII

Nuclear Virus

The chancellor had ordered that all documents pertaining to the lost planet be made public, including his pocket-size diary written during the last days of the beleaguered planet. While the expedition was being prepared, Lady Khinna gave Mark a newly printed copy of the chancellor’s diary. Mark opened the first page, which read:

1400 Avenue N

Apartment 7, Brooklyn,

NY 11230, USA Time: 6:00 AM.

Dear Diary,

I felt dead tired last night after that sleepy anti-nuke demonstration in front of the UN building yesterday afternoon, which drew a sparse crowd of about a thousand peace crusaders and, in my honest-to-goodness opinion, was another dismal setback. The UN chief had boasted about his successfully initiated peace accord among the nuclear-producing nations, banning the productions of all nuclear weapons, effective immediately. He declared to the whole world that the time had come for the Earth to be safe from possible nuclear catastrophe, but our group contested the celebrated agreement. We pressed for the immediate destruction of all nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, only a very few peace-loving souls responded to our call.

Early this morning while I was sipping from a cup of coffee, my cellular phone rang. It was our energetic leader of the peace crusader, Ruben Caloughsen, who was on holiday was calling from Tulum, Mexico. He asked me if I was aware of the tragic news early this morning. I told him that I know nothing because I’d just woken up from deep sleep. He suggested that I turn on my TV, which I did. What greeted me was the shocking news that millions of people died due to the nuclear explosion in northern China. “God!" I shouted in my room. I felt my heart pounding very fast. Ruben told me to stay calm. I suggested that we encourage the people to pour into the streets and march to the embassies of nuclear-possessing countries. He commended me for my heroic idea. But he had another agenda; he told me to call up all the staffers of our organization to assemble in my pad in the late afternoon.

At 4:00 P.M.

One by one the peace crusaders entered my suite. About thirty staff members whose ages ranged from twenty to forty-five, about a quarter female. Each one had different tales to tell. One lady nurse said that many hospitals were jam-packed with hundreds of cardiac patients. And the most common account was of their difficulties in driving through major thoroughfares, which were occupied by protesting mobs. Then Ruben Caloughsen showed up with three large, heavy suitcases, his pale face sweating. He motioned to us to take it easy and urged us to join hand in hand for the continuity of the human race. We would find special people all over the land and persuade these individuals to join the journey, but if they rejected us, he encouraged us to use force. even to the extent of killing any one of the potential candidates if necessary and freezing their brains in liquid nitrogen.

Everybody faltered regarding this strange plan. But Ruben isn’t the type of guy who is easily discouraged by a cool reception.

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