Zero 'g' by Srujanjoshi4

Carly feared that they would hit a wall or building and get
killed, but little David just laughed and enjoyed the
ride.
    “ Stop accelerating ,
Henry!” shouted Linus.
    Henry stop ped
accelerating, and David stopped laughing, hoping to have more
rotation.
    “ I will tell you when to accelerate ,” said Linus.
    The plan w orked with
the help of Linus’s instructions. He sat backward on the motorcycle
to see well. They drove like that for more than an hour before they
ran out of fuel.
    They all got off the motorcycle in dismay.
“Well , it was fun while it
lasted,” Carly said, trying to keep the tone light. They didn’t
need to lose hope. They had already come so far, and they weren’t
far from Linus’s place now.
    “ We will just have to use the parachute
again ; that’s all, And we can
only use the parachute as long as there is air present,” she
added.
    All four again
attached themselves to the parachute. It wasn’t long before they
arrived, exhausted, at the house where Linus’s family lived. Even
the house seemed to be suffering from the loss of gravity, as it
leaned at an odd angle with mud and trees floating in the
air.
    Carly wondered if this
plan would work. Then again, the house was still on the ground,
maybe because of Linus’s room.
    “ I guess my family isn’t home , after all,” he said with no small amount of
disappointment.
    Carly put her arm around him. “I’m sorry , Linus. I’m sure they’re OK. How about you show
us this moon room of yours?”
     

Chapter Eight
     
    The four of them made their way slowly through the hallways
of Linus’s home. The house was a fair size , so it took them some time to cross the main floor.
It wasn’t easy for any of them to travel; it was almost like having
to swim everywhere. It was worse if you weren’t a very good
swimmer. It was a painstaking adventure, one that Carly wished she
didn’t have to deal with. She had a hard time not thinking about
Rose, and she wondered where the little girl was. The thought of
Rose being hurt or in danger was enough to make Carly want to crawl
into the fetal position and never come out. That sort of fear could
immobilize her and make her useless to the team. She needed to
focus on the fact that Rose was probably just fine and unharmed in
any way. She hoped that Annette was handling the situation OK and
that she hadn’t had a heart attack. Her mother was a healthy woman,
but no one would ever expect anyone to deal with the situation they
were in without a little bit of shock and fear. She hoped they were
both OK and unharmed; that’s what she needed to believe.
    Carly stayed ahead of the team , making her way toward Linus’s room. She wasn’t sure what
was going to happen when they found it, but she had confidence in
the kids. Both of them seemed very bright. She had never met Jim
Iverson personally, but she had heard enough about him from her
friend Karina to know that he knew what he was doing in the field.
He had a bright kid, and Linus seemed to be the same way. This moon
room might be the best place to look for answers, and maybe they
would be lucky enough to find more people. At the very least, the
room would allow them a break from fighting through the
air.
    It was too bad that Iverson wasn’t with them currently. She
could use another adult’s advice , especially since he had been working with the space
program. Who better to get answers from in finding out what went
wrong and how to fix it? He had been privy to information that she
just didn’t have. He might actually know what had caused the
problem. She felt at a loss being in charge of a bunch of kids,
despite their intelligence. She just hoped that Linus and Henry
would be able to pull off their plan without a hitch. If they
couldn’t, they would have to start over at square one and figure
out another way. She had no idea how much time they had before the
gravity would be completely gone from the planet. When that
happened, things would really