Zero 'g' by Srujanjoshi4 Page B

it. I could have been to my
room in seconds, but I think it’s been fifteen minutes since we
entered the house.”
    Carly laughed . “You
are incredibly bright, Henry. Your father must be very
proud.”
    Henry grinned . “Oh, he
is. He lets me know it all the time. I think my father has a bigger
plan for my future than even I thought about. But I guess all
parents are like that.”
    “ Oh , trust me—they are.
Parents just want the best life possible for their kids. So please,
Linus, continue to explain the room. I’m fascinated that a kid your
age would even be interested in something like that.”
    Henry interrupted.
“He’s not the smoothest with the ladies.” He started laughing, and
Linus swung at him playfully.
    “ I’ll have you both know that I have a girlfriend. I just
don’t know where she is right now .” He chuckled sadly.
    “ I’m sure she’s OK ,
Linus. I’m sure all our loved ones are.”
    Linus sighed deeply and continued with his
explanation . “We can live
there in that room with gravity in the same way you can on the
moon. All we would need is one-sixth of Earth’s actual gravity. So
I can mimic the same thing on Earth, like I did with this room. It
will also boost the suit, Carly, so you can actually wear
it.”
    “ Really?” she said with
a smile.
    “ My room ' s really small, so it 'll be a
tight fit for all of us, but at least we'll have
gravity . ”
    The idea was incredible , and the fact that Linus had pulled it off was even more
amazing. A room with gravity—it was the best thing she had heard
about all day. Who would have thought? And he had created it just
in time. Was that a coincidence, or did Linus know more than he was
letting on? She looked at him with interest, but she couldn’t read
his expression. It had to be a coincidence, right? Regardless, they
would be able to utilize the room and figure out their next step.
The four of them couldn’t just live in a room together and forget
the rest of the world. No, they needed to save it. Carly just
didn’t know how yet.

Chapter Nine
     
    One by one , the
countries all over the world began to lose gravity. Chaos ensued as
people frantically tried to find places to hide and wait out the
disaster. No one knew what was going on, and panic mounted, causing
more chaos. Governments were at a standstill trying to determine
the cause and hoping desperately that scientists could be found to
fix the problem.
    Civilians all over the world assumed that this was the end of the world. Movies
had been teaching them that for years. Chaos of that magnitude must
mean that it was over. People continued to die as the gravity
disappeared all over the world. People felt lost and hopeless,
trying to get to their loved ones, hoping that they were not
already dead. Time was of the essence, and yet the experts had no
idea how to turn everything around. How did it happen? How did
everything get so out of control?
    The president of the
United States was in a secure facility, wondering if this was
entirely his fault. Had the antigravity rocket been a mistake? He
had to wonder if they should have just left Particle B alone. But
they had been bringing it to Earth to save it from such
disasters.
    Telecommunications networks all over the world began to
fail one after the other as satellites moved out of Earth’s orbit, sending the world
into a form of seclusion. The ability to communicate electronically
had completely disappeared. People couldn’t call their families to
determine where they were, and the government was at a complete and
utter loss as to what could be done to restore it.
    Carly and the boys arrived at Linus’s bedroom and found it was empty. Carly checked
her sixth-sense bracelet for the hundredth time to call her mother,
but it still had no signal. Carly figured that all over the world,
the signals were lost, but she didn’t want to miss any chance. She
was dying to call her mother, but it didn’t look like that was
going to