The Thunder Rolls
By: Jake Boney
Chapter 3: Road Trip
Pete had just turned over the engine, Myka was packing her bag into the trunk. She flopped into the passenger seat with a manila folder in hand. Pete was disappointed, he knew that this was going to be a quiet ride. When Myka read, books or files or pretty much anything, she was not very talkative. There was a silver lining here though, if she was reading the file, he didn't have to. Pete didn't like reading much, aside from comic books, he loved reading comic books. He thought of himself as being kind of like a super hero working at the Warehouse, and thought that his and Myka's adventures would make a fantastic comic. He started driving toward the airport, it was only a half hour drive, but he knew that he was going to be bored if Myka wouldn't talk. He turned on the radio, hoping to at least break up the monotony, and switched it to the local country station. There were about a million country stations in South Dakota. He actually liked this one, which was surprising, since he was not a big fan of country music. The Thunder Rolls by Garth Brooks was playing, and that was when the vibe hit him.
As they were driving toward the airport, Myka started to read the file that Artie had given her. When Pete turned on the radio, she was going to tell him off. He knew that she was not a fan of music, unless it was classical music, which she loved. She decided to let him off the hook this time, after all she was reading the file, and she knew Pete couldn't stand dead silence. When he flipped the station over, she noticed that there was a sharp intake of breath from the driver seat. She looked at him a little concerned, and noticed that there was a fearful look in his eyes, the one he only got when he had a bad vibe. She knew that his vibes were never wrong, so this scared her a little bit also.
"Pete, is everything ok? You had a bad vibe, didn't you?" said Myka.
"Yeah," said Pete, "when that song came on the radio, it just made me feel like something bad was going to happen. I am scared about what might happen on this mission."
They had just pulled into the lot at the airport when Myka finished reading the report. She was a little disconcerted at what she found in there. It appeared that when the Key surfaced, in the early 1920's, a chain of events that led to the deaths of two hundred people in Fargo North Dakota, including two Warehouse agents. The person using the Key was a man named Randall Thompson, who had worked with Nikola Tesla. He was angry with Tesla for firing him. Tesla fired him because he was experimenting with electricity as a torture device. When Thompson found the Key, he thought that he could use it to destroy Tesla's life work. He was not aware of the power of the artifact that he was dealing with, what started out as shutting down Tesla's power grids and blowing up his transformers, quickly escalated to unexplainable lightning strikes. Tesla was working with the Warehouse, and when he saw what was happening, he was almost certain that an artifact was involved. The Warehouse dispatched it's two best agents on the case, and they quickly located Thompson. They cornered him in North Dakota, and he panicked. His emotions had tied themselves to the artifact, and when he panicked, it unleashed a hellish lightning storm. The report stated that there were over a hundred lightning strikes in Fargo in only a ten minute window. It lit several fires in the outskirts of town, killing hundreds of people including Thompson and the two agents. The artifact was never seen again after that. Now it was back on the radar, and there was so much more electrical energy flowing through the world these days. The potential for disaster was exponentially worse.
I just wanted to say thank you to the people who have written reviews and followed my story. I have received some positive feedback, and some constructive criticism as well. SparkbyIrreplaceableSpark, I appreciate your input, but I find it difficult to break the habit of writing in paragraphs. I will keep that in mind while writing the chapters to come. If anyone notices any grammatical issues, please let me know. I have no proof readers, and I am actually publishing these chapters as I write them. There are no rough drafts or anything like that, it is going straight from my head to the site.
I also feel the need to add a disclaimer, I do not own Warehouse 13 or its characters, although the plot is all mine. Thanks for taking the time to read my story, and I will hopefully have a couple more chapters tomorrow evening. I can only write after work, so my time is sort of limited...Jake