(6)-More Bad News.

"And that's how i ended up here. Tommy's disappeared, millions of people around the world have disappeared, and here i am almost completely out of my mind." Said Clare, concluding her story.

"Could he have gone somewhere? Tommy, i mean." Said the commissioner.

"In the middle of the night without telling me? No, he wouldn't do that. I'm telling you, he's missing. I went upstairs to his room to check on him and he was gone. I mean, his sleep-clothes were still there, but he was gone, vanished. " Said Clare.

"Okay...here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna talk to everybody else...and then i'll get back to you. But i want you to know we're doin' the best that we can." Said the commissioner.

A man then opened the door and entered inside. "Come on, ma'am. I'll get you some coffee."

"You're not gonna find him, are you?" Clare asked the commissioner, reffering to Tommy.

"Of course we are." Said the commissioner.

"Come with me." Said the man.

Clare got up from her seat. "He was everything i cared about. He was my life."

"I know." Said the commissioner.

Clare and the man then exited the room and he closed the door behind them. They then noticed that all of the people were glued to the TV that was broadcasting more news about the vanishings.

On screen was an anchor-man sitting behind a desk, discussing the world-wide vanishings.

"This is the kind of ordeal we've been witnessing since just a couple of hours ago. In case you've just joined us, this is CNN's continuous global coverage of what can only be discribed as the greatest disaster or possibly attack in human history. It's uncertain what has brought about the chaotic events we're witnessing. There is still no explaination forth-coming. It seems that all efforts from around the globe are aimed at trying to control and stabilize the situation. Here is what we do know. Less than two hours ago, millions of people literaly vanished off the face of the Earth-leaving behind their clothes, shoes, and other worldly items that weren't attached to their bodies-both from this country and around the world. The situation certainly defies reasonable explainations. Reporter Martin Newton has been collecting information from various sources and files this globle report." Said the anchor-man.

The anchor-man was then replaced with the scenes of millions of people around the world in a state of panic due to the disappearances.

"With the sudden disappearances of millions of people, the entire planet is experiencing fear and confusion." Said the voice of a man.

Clare stood stunned. Even though she already knew that vanishing event had occured all over the world, she still hadn't plugged into any of it, because none of it seemed real to her. She never saw it coming. She never imagined it could be possible. But it did happen. She had seen it with her own eyes. Millions had instantly vanished, yet she and countless others had been left behind. What happened? Where did they go? What happens now?

Clare then tuned back in to the News.

An anchor-woman was now on screen, ready to give her report.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are recieving reports from all around the world that may shed some light on exactly what might have happened. We'll start with videographer, Alan Bren in London." Said the anchor-woman in a british accent.

"The situation here in centural England is absolutely out of control. There are hardly words to discribe it. With reports of tens of thousands of what you would have to call vanishings now reported the impact has been staggering. Here on a highway not far from London, thousands of vehicles suddenly became deadly projectiles when their drivers simply disappeared into thin air." Said the british voice of Alan.

"It's almost impossible to comprehend. In a tiny swiss village, this is the scene of a suddenly un-maned passenger train with more than 60 cars race into a train station at full speed, smashing into the back of another train without warning." Said the voice of another male reporter.

"This aircraft plummited to the ground in a huge fireball an instant after the airport lost contact with the pilot." Said another male reporter.

"This helicopter lost althetude without explanation and crashed into the water below. The pilot's clothes were found, but no body was recovered." Said the voice of another man.

"And citizens around the world are reacting in the only way most people could expect: With total panic. Here in Tokyo, hundreds of people were gathered around this lobby, listening to a top government official. As he spoke, however, he vanished in front of them. No one could've possible known that the same thing had happened in every town, city, state and country on Earth." Said the voice of another man.

"And no matter where you look around the world, it seems that almost everyone has lost someone. And there is total mayham on city streets everywhere as people rush around, trying to find their loved ones." Said the voice of a woman.

"Where the people went, however, is anyone's guess. Nasa and the crew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia report no sighting from beyond this world. At least none that out instraments can detect." Said the voice of a man.

"On the military front, all haustilities have simply ceased in chaos and confusion. Any military forces that can be spared patrol the boarders of their respective nations, but not one of those nations has any idea who or what they're looking for." Said the voice of another man.

"Looting and rioting are a comman place. And as one New York police chief told us, it's as if cloud of evil suddenly descended upon us tonight. Unfortunately, many of the world's peace officers are being forced to pay the price. Why were they taken? Why were we left behind? For CNN, i'm Janna Sheen." Said the voice of a female news reporter.

"Ronald Sims is standing by in London." Said the anchor-man from earlier. He then turned around to face a huge screen that showed a male news reporter. "Ronald, how are the people in Briton dealing with all this? How are they deal with the disappearance of literaly millions of people? What possible explanations do they have?"

"I have with me professor Thorn from the sociology department of Oxford. He has dedicated his entire life to the study of social eveloution. Professor, what happened today?" Said the reporter known as Ronald with a british accent.

A man standing by Ronald, known as professor Thorn, began to speak in a british accent. "Well, i was able to hear bishop's message a moment ago, and i agree with him. What the Bible spoke about concerning human eveloution has been spoken of by great leaders of all regligions and years gone by. The fact is while this is startling, this is not a suprising event. In fact, this is simply the next step in the social eveloution process."

"Bishop Swilson made meantion of the same thing. But how does this tie in with eveloution?" Ronald asked.

"Look...do you think eveloution was something that happened in a rainforest somewhere a million years ago? Eveloution by it's very nature is an on-going process. This step in eveloution was the final one that humans needed. And what has just occured all over the world was not physical eveloution, it was spiritual. Don't you understand? We are gods." Said professor Thorn.

The man then turned off the TV. "Gods, huh? I thought i was searching for answers."

"What do you make of it? The disappearances, i mean." Clare said.

"You don't wanna know. Come on. Let's get that coffee." Said the man before he and Clare walked off down a hallway.
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