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  They stepped inside, then just as the doors were closing, Major Mace Magner
squeezed in between them.

Chapter
Five

Failure

 
 
    It was now
10:00 A.M. and Lee was frantically running in circles around his lab, trying to
save the embryos in their test tube environments. He reset the temperatures of
their chambers, rebalanced their nutrient levels, checked their gene functions on the monitors, injected electric stimulus….  
    No matter
what he did, they were dying, one at a time.   He put his hands on his head and grabbed onto handfuls of
graying hair.
    “Not
again!”   He yelled.   “I need more adaptable donors…or a more
habitable environment!   Perhaps a
different combination of nutrients, or maybe tweak the DNA a little more.”   He continued yelling at no one,
attempting to keep the last few embryos alive, but it was a hopeless effort.
    By 10:30,
they were gone.   Lee picked up one
of the test tubes and threw it against the wall behind him.   It shattered into a million tiny
pieces, which made him scowl.   He
stormed back to his office and pulled out his electronic notebook.   He started writing feverishly,
detailing the exact stage when the embryos ceased to live and all the
surrounding data that accompanied this formidable phase of his project.  

 
    Fifteen
minutes later, he laid his head on his desk and fell asleep, glasses askew on
his face, and pen still in hand.

Chapter Six

Lunch

 
 
 
    Camden
looked at himself in the mirror, straightened his collar and smoothed his hair
with his hand.   He rested against
the side of the lavatory and leaned in close to the mirror.   He sighed deeply and took extra notice
of the deep lines that had settled in his forehead.
    “Time to
change the world,” he said to his reflection.   Camden walked out of the bathroom and downstairs to his
lab.   He collected his packed
samples of the organic biomer metal and a stack of notebooks, full of data from
the past couple of days, along with his data from eleven years ago in a rolling
briefcase.   He picked up the phone
to call his driver, Ari.  
    “I’m
ready.   Pick me up in five
minutes.”  
    “Of course,
Mr. Riles,” Ari replied and hung up the phone.   Camden grabbed his coat and hat and proceeded to his private
rooftop-parking pad where his transport awaited.  
    Ari, who
lived with his family in a much smaller apartment in the same building, arrived
on the rooftop seconds after Camden.   He rushed ahead to open the door for his employer. When Camden was
seated inside, he walked around and started the engine to this luxury
craft.   It was a beautiful day, sun
shining, light wind, and the kind of day when Ari particularly enjoyed his job
of flying this magnificent machine. Inside the passenger cabin, Camden wrestled
with last minute doubts of handing his important research data over to Lee.  
    The transport took to the sky
and was soon at the same altitude as dozens of others.   Camden pressed a button that activated
a media player and his cozy cabin was filled with the soft melody of an
uplifting piano concerto.   The
music was soothing to him as he looked out of his window to try to enjoy the
beauty of the day.

 
    About five minutes later,
Camden noticed a government transport riding along outside of his window,
recognizable by the tri arcs in a diamond government emblem etched on the door.   He turned his head to look in all directions and saw that there were
three others nearby.    Camden’s heart dropped to his knees as he looked back into the cabin at
his suitcase containing the biomer sample. Several thoughts began to race
across his mind at once and a wave of panic swept over him.   What
has Ganesh done? was the first thought as he
quickly put together the now obvious secret nature of their meeting. The biomer
sample must have been stolen from the government labs.
    They may know nothing.   It
may just be a coincidence that four official transports seem to be