The World Keys (The Syker Key Book 2) by Aaron Martin Fransen Read Free Book Online

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Minor Acts of Rebellion
    There were simply too many asteroids.
    John doubted that the three of them could muster enough energy from the Key to move them all. It wasn’t magic after all, just redistribution of energy, and there was only so much of it.
    But every second he delayed the threat became worse.
    If he thought Earth was defenseless now, what shape would it be in after he spent all that energy redirecting a bunch of rocks? It wasn’t starting to look promising.
    “Well, I know what I’d like to do with a couple of those damned asteroids,” Jessica said, removing the last of the space suit.
    John gave her an inquiring look.
    “There are a few places on the planet I sure wouldn’t mind get a visit from them.”
    “Such as?”
    “HAARP, Wall Street, Washington, the EU headquarters-”
    John stopped her. “Holy shit, you’re right. Do you think you could move one of those asteroids straight to Earth?”
    Jessica stared at him as if he’d lost his mind. Then slowly a smile creeped onto her face. “What did you have in mind?”
    John smiled back. “Well, my plan to take out HAARP was going to take another month to work. I think you just came up with a way to shut it down right now.”
    Jessica grinned widely, apparently liking the idea. Then her smile faded and she sighed. “I have to put the space suit on again, don’t I.”
    ***
    Something had been nagging at Chuck. There was a power fluctuation that had been growing ever so slightly, a variability in the energy curve. He doubted anybody else would have seen it, but his obsession with clean signals had paid off. There was a minor drift, like a top that was slowly starting to fall.
    Fortunately he had built some extra controls into the system to accommodate such fluctuations before they hit the array. He was at risk of tripping a breaker, but better to trip a few breakers than melt down the array.
    He wasn’t worried beyond trying to find the source, but it was enough for one day. He was tired, and decided to call it a night.
    At that moment fifteen large meteors struck the Earth’s atmosphere in brilliant displays of fire and light.
    The meteorites struck strategically in places where they would be seen by tens of thousands of people around the world, but do little or no actual damage.
    Except in Alaska.
    At 9:04 PM local time, the HAARP array melted under an air blast from two hundred feet up as a two hundred and fifty foot diameter meteorite blasted into Earth’s atmosphere at a hundred times the speed of sound. Twenty technicians and guards lost their lives, including Chuck Magnuson.
    ***
    Jessica was panting. The exertion was enormous, and she wasn’t sure how much more of that she could have done. And that was fifteen damned rocks. Out of tens of thousands. If all of them struck the Earth at the same time the destruction would be enormous. Spread out over time, they had a chance, but time wasn’t their friend.
    She knew, or hoped, that because of the mass of sightings around the world, the government would in no way be able to fall back on a false flag attack, claiming terrorists had destroyed a government installation. The public would hopefully know better, since everyone had seen the meteor storm for themselves.
    It was going to be a very busy time for meteors, and there was an unexpected side effect she thought about: Everyone was going to be watching the skies now.
    All she had done was teleport them a few light minutes from just inside the orbit of Mars directly to Earth, very, very carefully landing them in unpopulated areas, but at the same time areas where they’d be seen. Except for HAARP of course. That was deliberate. And she was glad to be rid of the monster.
    After depositing the last rock from high above the Earth, Jessica just floated and watched the blue marble below her. It was a breathtaking sight, seeing the whole of the planet in your sight. She could sense the hundreds of satellites above and below her, and could