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even see the International Space Station. She hoped they weren’t looking her direction, since a NASA space suit was a pretty bright light in direct sun.
    From up here the world’s differences seemed so petty, insignificant. If only every person could see the world like this, she was convinced things would be different.
    It broke her heart to think of the destruction coming if they couldn’t find a way to stop it.
    Something twigged her attention. The Key was showing her something, something in the electrical field. There was a problem, and destroying HAARP hadn’t solved it.
    Something else at the south pole was bleeding into the ionosphere.
    ***
    Janet Godfrey was a scientist, not a photographer, but she was glad to have her tiny Nikon with her on the International Space Station. Besides her children would probably have killed her if she hadn’t taken it. After she heard about the meteors striking the planet below, she trained her camera on the skies, trying to find any evidence of more incoming threats.
    Instead she saw something bright and unmoving, and zoomed in. Thankfully she had decided to put it in video mode, and captured...it? Them? Someone in a space suit, it had to be. And in a blink it was gone.
    She replayed the video on the camera, and digitally zoomed right up. It was a space suit, one of NASA’s. She couldn’t believe it, but being a bit of the rational sort, filed it away under “things she didn’t understand, yet.” Emphasis on “yet.”
    Janet knew that NASA would love to put a lock on something like this, but dammit she was from Mother England and was not about to let any damned Yankee tell her what she could and could not do with her footage.
    So after posting the footage on Facebook to all her friends and family, she tweeted it to the twenty five thousand people following her. She grinned wickedly. She knew NASA would be upset. What were they going to do, fire her?
    Within the hour her followers mushroomed to over five million.
    ***
    “It’s a disaster, a fucking disaster!” Rob screamed.
    How the hell had this fallen apart so quickly? He almost called the Vice President and demanded that the Internet feed to the ISS be cut, but he realized that cat was already out of the bag.
    Declan sat in the background calmly. He was probably used to the odd outburst, but Rob was livid this time.
    A few minutes earlier Rob had had his proverbial ass chewed out by his superiors, calling his management of the situation incompetent. He was hard pressed to disagree, but clearly it was the result of incompetency on the part of those who worked for him .
    HAARP was gone, destroyed apparently in the same meteor storm that was seen everywhere around the planet. Someone had hacked into the FBI and found Declan. And to top it off one of the damned scientists on the ISS had taken video footage of something, then leaked it out to the Internet.
    If he could have, he would have ordered the scientist be terminated right there on the station.
    Instead, he did the next best thing. He called someone in Hollywood who owed him a favor. “Listen, that footage? You’re going to pick it apart and explain conclusively that it’s faked.”
    “How am I going to do that?”
    “I don’t give a flying fucking grandmother how! Just fucking do it!” and he slammed the phone down. He didn’t like losing his temper, but it was an extreme situation.
    Actually, that wasn’t true. He loved losing his temper. It was therapeutic. But you couldn’t show people that, they tended to get self righteous about it.
    HAARP was another problem. It meant they were down to only one facility. It was up to the Antarctica installation now.
    But that space suit. Declan reminded him that NASA had reported three missing suits. So this could be one of them, but who was using it? Rob knew his superiors had the technology to teleport, but if it was them they would have told him.
    Somebody else was playing with them, and Rob determined that if it was