Part 35
[We have to tell him, John.] You urge. [He's not going to give way for anything less than the truth.
[I know.] John answers quietly. [I'm not happy with anyone in the military knowing our secret but I don't think we have any choice.]
He looks the commander in the eye and begins to speak rapidly but clearly.
"Jay and I are Tomorrow People. We're human, or mostly human, the next stage of human evolution. We have...talents. We can speak telepathically, we can move things with our minds, and we can move from place to place without passing through the space inbetween. We do not have any political allegiance. We are not interested in your base or its secrets. We are only interested in saving lives. We jaunted into your base in order to do that." Still looking the commander in the eye, John jaunts a foot to his left and the man starts in surprise. "Commander, something is seriously worrying you. You have to let us help."
You watch, expectant and nervous. You remember how difficult you found it to accept any of this. How will the commander react? The man sighs and runs a hand through his greying hair.
"Do I have any choice?" He asks rhetorically. "Look I still don't really know who you are and what I do know I don't believe. But you're right. I have a problem. In this base we have stockpiled raw ingredients for eight of the most toxic neuroagents ever developed. If this base is destroyed in a volcanic eruption and these ingredients react and vaporise the toxic cloud could affect the whole of Russia not to mention our Warsaw Pact allies."
"And beyond!" John murmurs aghast. This is worse than anything you had been expecting.
"Commander. Give the order to send your soldiers to safety." You urge practically. "Then you'd better take us to see these stockpiles."
[John, Jay,] TIM's sudden call is more unwelcome than you ever believed his voice could be. [You have only a few minutes! The eruption is imminent.]
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