The diary of Maximillian Arturo, after being stranded on a world much like ours.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 126 - Words: 31,920 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Updated: Jan 27 - Published: Mar 28, 2022 - id: 14059390
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February 21, 1997
I was at Yerba Buena to witness the first human slide from this dimension since this world's Quinn Mallory, Wade Welles, and Rembrandt Brown disappeared in September of 1994. With me in the observation room was Conrad bennish, Jr., Dr. Vladmir Jariabek, Dr. Diana Davis, Dr. Steven Jensen, Colonel Anguas Rickman, Major General Alexander Hunt, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley, members of the Oversight Commission, and some other people.
The slider- Captain Maggie Beckett, United States Air Force- entered the room. She was wearing a space suit just like astronauts wore. Our plan was to send her to a world where there is already a breathable atmosphere, but there are no guarantees in sliding- I had twenty months' of lessons.
"Our coordinates are locked in," said Dr. Jensen. "Captain Beckett's timer is set for sixty seconds. You do the honors."
"It couldn't have been possible without you," said the Commerce Secretary.
I pressed the Return button on the keyboard.
And then I saw the wormhole open in the other room.
Captain Beckett gacve a thumbs up, and then stepped into the wormhole. It soonc losed.
There was a clock in the observation room, counting down.
When it hit zero, the wormhole did not open up instantly.
Was Captain Beckett stuck there?
The wormhole opened up less than a second later. I breathed slowly and I remembered feeling nervous.
Then I saw someone in a spacesuit return. She gave a thumb up; Captain Maggie Beckett had returned.
Other people in clean suits whisked her away; I was told she would be taken to a quarantine facility in a U.S. Navy hospital and spend two weeks in isolation.
The press of course asked questions.
That evening, I celebrated with the research staff at the Bar and Grill at Pier 39.
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