Hell's Highway A Jack Tyson Novel
by Lonnie Born
Febuary 2nd, 2010
Stealing The Show
It felt wierd for Tucker Henderson to be in space. He had been before but it made him feel a little queezy. "Dr. Brezhev are we off radar?" Tucker asked his chief scientist. " Yes sir." came the reply. Dr. Brezhev was a very smart man. He graduated from Moscow State University in Russia. He had set up all the technical plans for the mission. And he had now just accomplished the most important task of the mission. But next was the main goal. Shutting down the power to the greatest pride the Americans had today. The U.S.N.S.P. United States Nuclear Space Platform. In the passenger bay of Henderson's shuttle, sat many of his mercenaries. They would guard the platform once it was taken over. He had many more mercenaries at home, but these were just for stealing the show. "Ok Dr., shut her off." "Yes sir." Right beside Tucker, Brezhev stood. He typed into his computer and waited. "Mr. Henderson, I will now start the hacking" Brezhev told his boss. "You may Proceed" Brezhev hit the enter button on his keyboard. Now It began.
A buzzing sound started to run all over Henderson's space shuttle. It was the sound of the electronic hacker Brezhev had put together. "It is almost done sir. I designed it to work fast enough to where it would give the Americans no time to respond" Brezhev said very quickly and accurately. "Allright..." A sudden laser shot came from the space platform. "Crap!" Brezhev hit the enter button immediately. The buzzing noise stopped. All the Infared light and visible power from the U.S. platform was gone. "Yes!" Henderson stated in pride. "Sorry about the timing sir, it was a tad bit slower than I expected" Brezhev told Henderson. "Oh no I will have none of that Oleg, nobody else could have even got close to this. You deserve a raise and a vacation." "Thank you sir" "Now go order the mercenaries to the platform to clean up dead bodies." Henderson told Brezhev. "Yes, I will also get the power back to the platform and put it off radar too." "And disable all U.S. technology in it." Tucker reminded him. "Oh of course, and you will send the security tightened threat message to the U.S. ordering not send anything or anybody up." "Yes, or we will blow the platform into a million pieces." "Along with us?" "Precisely"
"What in the heck just happened!" The N.A.S.A. space chief exclaimed. "The freakin thing is off radar!" "Sir right before the platform shut down, there were very fast computer waves hacking the system. Then there was a laser shot from our men on the platform, then nothing..." The chief executive explained. "What was hacking it?" "We had a space shuttle on radar right out of earth about five minutes before the system shut down. Then it suddeny dissapeared. I came to tell you right as the shut down began." "Any idea where the shuttle came from?" "Not from the U.S." The Chief of NASA, known as John Parker, was not your average man. "In fact for this job you couldn't be." He thought to himself. But this was the stupidest thing that had ever happened to him. "I cut the workers a little slack trying to be a nice guy, but instead I lose a four hundred million dollar piece of equipment"... "I am so fired." He told Travis . " What now sir?" He asked. "You send the army up. I'm making a phone call to the President." John said with no heart.
"Good heaven above what is going on?!" President Mcclain asked his secretary. "The nuclear space platform has been stolen!" She answered. "How do you steal something that big Irene. It's like telling me the Statue of Liberty has been stolen!" The President retorted. "I don't know!" The voice of the White House communications director came over the loud speaker. "Mr. President, we need you here immediately!" The president ran down the halls until he came to communications room. "What is it Mike?!" "Sir,It's a threat message from the robbers" Mike turned on the message. The voice of the man in the message was unquestionably changed through the computer. "This man must be known." The President thought. Or else he would not bother to do that. The voice sounded like a retarded robot trying to kill a goat. "Americans, do not send anything or anybody up into space. If you do, we will blow the platform into oblivion. And with all the nuclear missles on it. I would do what I was told. Do not try offering money that is not what I am after. Don't worry, you will soon figure out what I am after." "The man is quite a socializer." The president commented. Mike chuckled. "Mr. President, the NASA space chief is on the secure line." Irene said out of breath coming into the room. "Good, I was thinking about firing him anyway. The fool cares more about his reputation than the job." He walked over to the phone on the communications desk. He pressed in the code for the secure line. "Hello, is this John Parker? The most likeable man in NASA." The president said in pure anger. "Sir I am sorry let me" "Explain?! Or do you really mean for me to let you make an excuse?!" "Sir I am sending up the army right now." "NO! Call them off you idiot." "Why?" "Because I said so. We just got a threat message from the robbers. Andwhat are you doing sending the army around without my permission?!" "Sir I" "GO!!" The president screamed. He then hung up. "Dear God" Mike stated. "Yes... May he protect us all." The president said quietly. He then picked up the phone. He again set it to secure line and dialed the F.B.I. It was five in the morning so they probably just got to work. It rang for a minute... "Federal Bureau Intelligence Agency, this is Ms. Nichols speaking." A tired,soft voice said. "This is the President, I need to speak to Mr. Miller please." "Ok..." He was put on hold for a short moment. "This is Miller speaking Mr. President". "Hello Caleb have you had a nice morning?" "Waking up at 3:30 on a sunday is never good sir." He stated and then yawned. "Niether is having a nuclear space platform stolen at 4:00 in the morning on a Sunday" "What?!" "Yes, you heard me right" "Who could have done this?" Miller asked. "That is what I called you for." "Well how would I know?" "Oh dont be lazy, take a nice swallow of coffie and think." "Well it could'nt be a goverment, it has to be the work of one man with a lot of help." "What makes you think that?" "Well the Nasa radar would have detected a goverment shuttle." "I believe it was off radar." "Yes but the robbers could not have cleared themselves off radar before entering space. At some point Nasa got a detection of them. And if it was a goverment's shuttle you would know already from that NASA boy. And you would not be talking to me." "You are a very smart man Caleb. Well you know your job don't you?" "Yes sir, find out who he or she is." "Precisely. Here's some advise. Look into the platforms history, as short as it is.Ninety nine percent of the time that something like this happens. If it's it not an opposing goverment, it's someone connected to ours. Or at least used to be." "I'll get on this immediately. I think I have an analist perfect for the job. He's a rookie, but very smart. He can crack this wide open. What do you think these lunatics are going to do with the platform? And how long do you think we have?" "Well I believe they are going to do something catastrophic. They don't want money, there is something wierd about all this. To answer your other question, It should take them... Wait I just got a fax from the robber!" The fax machine printed out only one paper. "Oh my God." "What?!" Caleb asked. "July 4th is your dooms day Mr. President" The president read off off the fax. "Well There's my answer" "Sounds like the guy wants to wait to make it more dramatic" The President said. "Who's this rookie?" "He just came in a few days ago. Used to be a spy for the army. He's very new, but very smart. His name is Jack Tyson.
