The Roswell Swatch by Scott Powers

Author:Scott Powers [Powers, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Off-University Press
Published: 2016-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

GUERRILLA RADIO

Meln’s lab was in the basement of the building where Eve had taken him at gunpoint that morning. The five of them stepped in unnoticed and took the elevator.

No one saw Meln drop a napkin in the elevator. They got out without event, and a few feet down the corridor, Meln unlocked the lab.

The lab was full of machines on desktops, like Ted’s lab before Melntorched it. Unlike Ted’s, it was crammed into an odd, U-shaped room. No one else was inside. Ted scouted around and liked what he found.

“Showtime,”he said.

Ted plugged a laptop computer into one of the machines in Meln’s lab and began typing and surfing. When he had that fully set up, he produced a tablet computer from the bag hanging from his chair and set it up on a mount on the arm of his chair. Eve handed him the sample.

“Just remember: I shot the last guy who tried to take that from me,” she said.

Eve's job was to keep the hostages, Meln and Val, out of the way and quiet. Jen operated a video camera.

“This time,”Ted said,“we’re going to have witnesses. Not just witnesses, but some of the top scientists in America overseeing what we have here. And I’ve opened it to others who are interested in this sort of thing.”

After a few minutes, the screen on the laptop had three windows showing video links to two men and a woman, a fourth with Jen’s feed of her brother, plus a dialogue box.

“Welcome, Dr. Yen from MIT, Dr. Bollinger from the University of Akron, and Mr. Freidrich from Materials Journal,”Ted said.“Thanks for joining our analysis seminar. Welcome to all others watching on our open invitation. You will be able to observe, but only Drs. Yen, Freidrich, Bollinger, and myself will be able to participate.”

Jen brought the camera around so her brother could see the faces on the screen and talk to the camera. He turned away from the laptop and kept an eye on the tablet in his lap.

“If these tests go as I hope, the data feeds you’ll get may appear dubious,”Ted said.“All I can say is, we’ll show you in due time.”

“Just get on with it Ted,”said one face on the screen, Sue Bollinger at the University of Akron Polymer Institute. She was a thin, hard-looking woman in her fifties with dark hair streaked with grey.“I’m sure we’re all very busy.”

“What should we expect?”asked Ron Freidrich, the journal editor. He was in his thirties, with a thin face and John Lennon glasses.

Ted leaned in, smiling.“I hope a carbonic crystal like nothing we’ve seen on Earth. I promise you, you’ll be very interested in what we’re about to examine.”

As Ted and Jen progressed into their show with the three online scientists, Eve, Meln, and Val watched like the unknown multitude of digital witnesses.

“My compliments to Ted,”Melnsaid.“I had no idea he had enough credibility to draw these three in. Yen’s one of the best young crystalline chemists in the country. Sue Bollinger’s work on hardened polymers is drawing a lot of attention.

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