Sentinels of the Cosmos Trilogy (29 page)

Everyone present was filled with apprehension. Ally
and Chase themselves gasp in dismay as they watch
the scenes unfolding before them, humans and
animals starving in the streets of cities and in the
countryside, technology run amuck, natural resources
completely gone or in extremely short supply, air
nearly un-breathable, oceans polluted, sea life dying
or deformed, medical services and pharmaceuticals
available only for the wealthy few; a terrible scene of
a world where only a few people have control over
the dwindling resources and fresh water and fresh air
are more valuable than gold.
The corporations and their oligarch heads rule like
slaveholders whose subjects are all indebted to them.
Everyone is watched constantly. The best jobs are
either military or communications. Everyone was
aware that none of the principal perpetrators were
paying the price for these conditions. The very earth
is dying, people, animals and crops have developed
terrible afflictions and mankind is on the brink of
extinction.
Then as suddenly as the vision appeared to all, it
disappears.
But this experience had been seared deeply into their
consciousness, their consciences finally touched.
Imagine everyone in the world, even the children,
experiencing the same terrifying vision of this future
all at once - unable to avoid the horror of the
situation.
Only hours before, hundreds of thousands had died in
nuclear disasters. The continuing fallout contributed
to the true terror of the situation showing a portal into
their futures; the future that that everyone had just
experienced. The entire world screamed in one voice,
“How could this be allowed to happen?” No one
knew how this all happened! Was it a giant computer
glitch? Was it was a visit from our creator? But
regardless of how or why, the earth had been changed
and it became obvious that mankind would no longer
be able to live on this planet with what they were
doing to it.
There was a long pause before everyone recovered
from the experience. When those around the table
recovered their senses Chase began to speak again:
"As I said, Ally and I are Sentinels of the Universe.
Our assignment is to restore the balance to this solar
system. You must understand that there are not many
planets in our universe that can support organic life.
Earth is one of the few. And the human form of
organic life is made and exists, in fact, in order to
produce energies that the Cosmos requires from each
universe to balance itself.
This earth originally had two moons. Your species
was created when there were two moons and those
that lived to maturity at that time knew, understood
and cooperated with their natural purpose and served
the earth and the Cosmos. They learned and lived a
life in balance with nature, the planet and the
universe. But one of your moons was destroyed by an
asteroid and humans began to evolve in ways that
were out of balance with nature. You somehow began
to develop egos and personalities to compensate for
the loss of your moon. This caused terrible afflictions
for all of you but with special efforts it was still
possible for some of you to serve great nature
appropriately again. It was a noble struggle for some
to try and balance themselves and live in balance with
their environment, but there were just not enough
who tried and even fewer who succeeded. A great
shame really."
Ally continues: "As you saw in that vision this earth
is dying and all of mankind is responsible. We could
let that happen. Planets die every day, suns go nova or
turn into black holes. The process of transformation is
the will of the universe - chaos to order, order to
chaos. What should be available from earth is unique
and needed to help maintain the universe and the
cosmos. Ths universe cannot wait any longer for a
sufficient number of you to balance yourselves. The
nuclear bombs that were exploded today are the final
straw. Over half a million people and huge amounts
of other organic life died today, but the real horror is
what was done to the already enfeebled planet. That is
inexcusable. We have the responsibility to try to
preserve the earth and its millions of life forms so
they can be able to do their jobs.
“We knew nothing about Charles’ plan,” exclaimed
Senator Bennett.
“It’s not our fault.” said Senator Lee.
Tripp chimes in, “We had no warning about this kind
of possibility.”
Ally responds, cuttingly. "That is how you all are.
You all blame others, but you are
all
responsible. You
have no aims as a species and your individual and
nationalistic aims are merely self-serving."
"That is not justice. Charles is going to have to pay!"
Trip speaks out.
Chase continues, "There is objective justice; your
species created the nuclear weapons in the first place.
Everything you do is rationalized, justified and
excused by some form of imagined need. You have
no shame, no real remorse, in fact no conscience.
What you as a species do best is to continually find
new ways of killing each other, which had its uses
because at one point your wars released the level of
energies necessary for balancing this solar system.
But you went amuck. The energies you generated got
coarser and coarser and the damage you did to the
ecosystem now has put the planet at real risk of
extinction. You all have to leave earth and allow it to
recover," Chase continues, "This is what is going to
happen. You have 50 years to leave earth, all of you.
You will all move to Mars. Charles is going to head
up the exodus which will be your race's penance."
"Are you insane, he's going to prison," Trip says.
Ally smiles and her large black eyes widen as she
says, calmly, "No, Charles is not going to one of your
prisons. Let's understand one another. You're all here
to play a part to assist in leading this necessary
change – I promise if you do not you'll all be
destroyed. The earth will be reseeded with a new and
better functioning species. Our common creator is
being merciful to all of you."
Chase then continues, "Accept the facts, you are all to
blame. What happened today is only a small part of
the unintended consequences of all of your actions.
The FBI and CIA and NSA have all been spying on
EOJ for years and keeping secrets from each other so
they could continue stealing their technology. Ruth is
the result of that. Why did you allow EOJ to exist this
long? You have to admit that it was because it was to
your benefit. You knew they had developed an army
of assassins all in the name of what you call ‘good.’
Your President is a Guard; your Vice-President is a
Guard. That is why you are all here. You are each
individually and all collectively responsible for what
you got from what you call ‘only politics.’ I'm
horrified by all of you."
At that moment Ian suddenly draws his gun and
screams, “traitors!” Then he fires a dozen times at
Ally and Chase. The bullets simply fall to the floor in
front of them as before, in front of the armory. Chase
lifts Ian out of his chair simply by willing it and
moves him to within a few feet of them. "You don't
have to participate in this Ian, would you like to be
removed from the project?" Then he set him down.
Ian reaches out to touch them. His hand goes right
through Ally "What are you?" Ian asks breathlessly.
"We are matter and energy" Chase returns, "Do we
need more demonstrations? In truth everything you
have done until now is lawful. It's been decided that
you will be preserved as long as you are useful to the
project and the universe."
The room is quiet and the voice of reason prevails;
Kathryn speaks, asking, "So how do we start?"
Chase answers, "You are being given a great
opportunity - to start again. This is the series of
events that must occur: The President will kill the
Vice-President and then himself. The rationale is that
he is bipolar. Together we will see that the President
takes full responsibility for the nuclear strikes.
Charles will become the new President by your laws
of succession and he will call for a new election.
Chase will be elected the new President and one of
you Vice-President. The United States will pledge to
pay compensation to all the countries bombed. That is
the first step of the plan. Charles will be in charge."
Everyone grumbles as Chase continues, saying, "And
one more thing. Charles is now a Klacknel." Ally
moves her hand towards Charles and he becomes a
box then a woman then a chair and then back to
Charles. He continues, “Klacknels are a useful life
form in the universes. They have mind, body and
feeling but no true sense of themselves. They are
immortal machines on a cellular level. They can
forever repair themselves. I will be explaining more
about them in the future, because they will be the
ones making Mars habitable for the human race. We
all have a lot of work to do."
"There are a great number of people who saw Charles
and know or suspect what he did," Ian interjects.
"We have already reorganized their minds as we were
meeting here. They only know you went into the
armory to see what this place was." Ally says.
After the meeting there was a lot for everyone to
digest. Trip and Ian retired from the armory and took
their troops back and went to their offices to clean up
the PR mess. The two senators Robert and Kathryn
needed to guide the senate. And Charles needed to
guide Congress and become the interim President.

*****
The President and Vice-president were found dead in
the oval office and Juan and Ruth of the FBI took
over the investigation of their deaths.

*****
Time passes… They all meet for countless hours day
after day. This new EOJ was like the beginning,
people working together. Human beings are
extraordinary creatures when they have a common
purpose. The Guards were all converted to Klacknels.
Sam was put in charge of introducing the Mars
project to the world. Charles was sworn in as
President by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
and did a masterful job of making all the pieces
appear seamless to the press, public, conspiracy
theorists and very angry nations around the world but
his 60 minute interview was historical.

60 Minutes’ interview with Charles Dean shown
globally with simultaneous translation into 86 major
languages

Host: “With me today is the
new President of the
United States former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Charles Stanton Dean; welcome
President Dean.”

Host: “What a tragedy, what a horror, over 500
thousand people dead world-wide with over 23,000 of
them right here in Virginia and our former President
and vice-president - all dead. The American people,
in fact all the peoples of the world need to make sense
of all of this.”

President Dean: “How does one make
sense out of
such a tragedy? We are all in God’s hands and
sometimes it's impossibly difficult to make sense of
such events, but I will share with you what I know.
Our esteemed President Grant had a bi-polar disorder.
The pressures of his office and position seem to have
come forward suddenly and because he was
undiagnosed and untreated he snapped.”

President Dean: “He was seemingly having some
difficulty with Vice-President Barkman and
apparently attacked and strangled him right in the
middle of a cabinet meeting. Then, realizing what he
had done, he took a gun and killed himself. We know
this because the whole scene was witnessed by the
entire cabinet. We also have it on video, but because
of its severe graphic nature the video has been held
back.”
(This was easy to achieve. Kathryn and Amy back at
EOJ headquarters had simply programmed the
President and Vice-President to carry out the plot at
hand.)

President Dean:
“That's still under investigation, but
what we do know is these places all had personal
significance to him. Some dark part of him must have
been planning this for some time, maybe even
months. It was a very complex operation. But it
seems his motivation for Lyon France was that he
was angry at a waiter there for having refused to
speak English and embarrassing him in front of his
wife, Betty. The rest of his reasons were equally
alarming. It seems he had been drifting away from us
for some time. Such a tragedy, if we had known
sooner we have wonderful treatments for such
disorders.”

President Dean: “I believe they are all still in shock,
as are many of us. They too had no idea of his
condition.”
Host: “So, you're now the President, what is your plan
for the United States?”
President Dean: “Well Mike, I have asked congress
for a special election. The good old U.S.A. needs a
reboot. The only way to heal from this epic tragedy is
a new free national election. The world is watching
us. How do we correct such a terrible tragedy in the
eyes of the world? We need a president that is free of
the politics that have tainted Capitol Hill for decades,
a fresh, new beginning. Russia wants to bomb us,
France wants to annex Hawaii, and Egypt wants two
trillion dollars and so on. You can see we have a huge
price to pay for these actions and no matter how you
want to look at this; it's a tragedy for us all. It's a
blemish on our illustrious past.”

President Dean: “I may be, but I'm not quite ready to
announce that yet. As they say in your business, stay
tuned.”

The interview was a tremendous success and the
United States had its election. Chase Stern and
Katherine Bennett were elected by a landslide. How
that happened is one of the greatest election stories in
history, but on January 1st 2044 Chase Stern took the
oath of office as the President of the United States
with his lovely wife Ally by his side bringing new
meaning to the word ‘alien.’