Yolanda punched the air with excitement and grinned. ‘’ Now all those in favor of this verdict and agreement, please raise your hands up’’ President Washington asked. Hands were raised and there were 15 people happy with this verdict. ‘’ Now all those against this verdict raise your hands’’ President Washington said. 8 people raised their hands and they were C.I.A and US Defense staff. ‘’ Very well, from now on I give Yolanda full authority to be the head of this operation. She will have authority over everyone, compile her budget and assemble a team of choice to make this operation successful.
Merry Christmas everyone, meeting is over’’ President Washington said. Everyone was excited and cheering they were going home to their families. Yolanda interrupted and stood in front of the door with excitement. ‘’ Before anyone leaves, I would like us to meet on the 2nd of January and discuss our way forward. Thank you’’ Yolanda said. Everyone stared at her and went outside the door. She walked towards Charles and hugged him. ‘’Well done, Yolanda’’ Charles said ‘’ It was a close call’’ Yolanda said.
They went outside and Yolanda was escorted to her parent’s house. When the SUV arrived at the house, her parents and friends were waiting for her in the front porch. They went inside the house and celebrated her homecoming. Tears of joy flowed as Yolanda was thanking his friends and family for being there for her through thick and thin. They partied until midnight. Yolanda’s friends went home including Charles. Yolanda went straight to bed with a smile on her face.
The following morning, she woke up feeling good. She started working on her plans and potential people to partner with across the globe. Few days later at New Year eve, Yolanda and her parents were preparing for the New Year celebrations. Everyone is in a jolly mood. A knock is heard at the front door. Yolanda opened the door; it was Charles carrying gifts and a bottle of champagne. ‘’Wow your hair color is back to normal, you are beautiful as always.’’ Charles said. ‘’ Thanks, come in’’ Yolanda said He came in, greeted Yolanda’s parents and gave them gifts. ‘’It’s cold outside, I’m starting to shiver’’ Charles said. Everyone laughed. They ate at the dinner table, Yolanda’s parents teased her and told stories about her when she was a little girl.
‘’Mrs. Anderson, your food is delicious’’ Charles said. ‘’Thank you, Charles’’ Mrs. Anderson said. ‘’Do you want some more’’ Yolanda asked ‘’ No, I am full thanks’’ Charles replied. After they finished their dinner, Charles and Yolanda went outside. They sat at the front porch with the bottle of champagne and 2 wine glasses. Charles smiled and stared at Yolanda’s eyes. ‘’Are you ready for the massive task ahead’’ Charles asked. Yolanda grinned and sighed. ‘’ I think I am ready, I have been a second chance in life and I can’t mess that up Charles’’ Yolanda said. Yolanda took one glass, gave it to Charles and tried to open the champagne bottle. Yolanda struggled to open the bottle, Charles intervened. ‘’Let me do the honors and open it’’ Charles said. He opened the Champagne bottle. ‘’ Oops, bring me your glass’’ Charles said. He poured the sparkling wine on both glasses and they both took a sip. ‘’So…. How was Russia?’’ Charles asked. ‘’You have no idea, it was a nightmare’’ Yolanda replied. They laughed, discussed other issues and were in a relaxed mood. Charles stared at Yolanda and moved closer and tried to kiss her. Yolanda’s face looked the other way and took another sip. ‘’No, Charles don’t spoil this moment.’’ Yolanda said. Charles was about to respond to Yolanda, he was interrupted.
Her parents and friends came behind them. ‘’it’s the countdown’’ They shouted. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Happy New Year’’ Charles and Yolanda looked at each other awkwardly. They danced and partied for a few hours with friends. After the party ended every one left and waved them goodbye. Yolanda walked Charles to his car and smiling at each other.
‘’Big day for you tomorrow’’ Charles said. ‘’Yes and I’m nervous and excited at the same time ’’Yolanda replied. He pulled out his car keys from his pocket, opened the car and got inside. ‘’Charles, before you leave I have something to tell you.I would like you to be part of my executive team that will decide who will travel to space and find solutions to this mysterious universal puzzle…. ‘’ Yolanda said. ‘’Wow’’ count me in anything just to be close to you’’ Charles said. Yolanda smiled and shook her head. ‘’You are drunk Charles, drive slow and safe’’ Yolanda said. Charles kissed his index finger and placed it on to Yolanda’s lips. Yolanda blushed and smiled.’’ Goodbye Charles’’ she said. Charles left and Yolanda went inside the house.
The following morning a TV news station ran a story about Yolanda Anderson. Everyone wants to know why she isn’t charged, neither arrested nor being at a court trial. There were also TV and online petition to bring back Edward Snowden. People were in the dark and curious about the White House meetings were all about. Radio and TV shows invited Americans to weigh in their views on the issue of the relevance of the Espionage Act. Spies, cold war with Russia, whistleblowers, Yolanda, Snowden and convicted spies in the USA prison system. Millions of American gave in their opinions and felt strongly about this issue.
The astronomers’ elite team, White House staff and President Sharon Washington were in the Conference room. Yolanda came in earlier than anyone and was prepared her solutions and plans to execute them. ‘’Good morning! Yolanda, we are ready to start’’ President Washington said. Yolanda switched on the projector with enthusiasm and very focused. “In front of you ladies and gentlemen are scientific research findings I compiled, titled ‘’Dark Matter: End of Planet’’.
It’s basically about how earth and the universe can be attacked from space’’ Yolanda said. Everyone opened the document in front of them with curiosity.”Dark Matter is disappearing from space at fast rate. As a result the solar system has been disrupted and the invisible strings responsible for holding the planets together are breaking down. Earth and other planets are moving at a fast, abnormal pace and chances are it is moving now away from the solar system’’ Yolanda said. The meeting carried on for hours without a break. “Let us take a one hour lunch break. When we come back, I will present on how we are going to implement these plans and then open a dialogue with the NASA and astronomers elite team in the room. ‘’ Wow! Alright we will be back after an hour and listen to Yolanda’s plan of action’’ President Washington said.
The astronomers’ elite team, NASA staff and everyone in the room were blown away and impressed with Yolanda’s presentation. Yolanda was popular all of sudden, almost everyone in the room wanted to chat and sit next to her in the dining room. They were fighting for her attention and Yolanda was enjoying it. At that second, she had a moment of clarity. Yolanda noticed that she has achieved her goal. Her ex-male colleagues were very impressed with her work, proud to have worked with her and she felt like an insider. Yolanda realized she was very ambitious, impatient and that landed her in big trouble with her country. At 26, Yolanda feels she has achieved a lot in her career more than her friends and colleagues older than her. She grinned and went back to the conference room.
An hour later, everyone came back to the conference and President Sharon Washington instructed Yolanda to continue her presentation. Yolanda distributed documents to everyone on the table. Madam President, I propose we bring in the Defense Ministers of Iran, China, Russia, Great Britain and North Korea to come to the White House. We need to have their nuclear bombs, load them to the spacecraft and travel to space with them’’ Yolanda said. Everyone was shocked at what Yolanda just said and couldn’t believe she proposed that ridiculous idea. The US Defense minister stormed out of the room. ‘’This is Madness!’’ Brad Williams shouted. ‘’Wait, wait ladies and gentlemen, please calm down I haven’t finished talking. We are going to make the biggest super advanced, sophisticated and indestructible spacecraft. The spacecraft will travel to the Black hole and detonate these nuclear bombs and prevent planet earth together with other planets from leaving the solar system.’’ Yolanda said. ‘�
�� John Webber and the head of the NSA looked at each other and laughed. ‘’ Young lady, are you serious?’’ John asked.
Yolanda looks agitated after the head of C.I.A and NSA laughed at her proposals. ‘’ Yes sir, I am very serious’’ Yolanda replied. ‘’Are you aware that we are not in good terms with most of these countries; we differ on nuclear programmes and policies. How will this plan be possible?’’ Peter from NSA asked. ‘’Well, that is your job to make it possible together with C.IA,US Defense Minister, Congress and the president.’’ Yolanda said. Almost everyone in the room burst out laughing.
‘’Yes we do have the technology to build this spacecraft I have in mind but to be specific I need the nuclear technology from these countries to build an indestructible spacecraft that will travel 10 billion km away from planet earth. The spacecraft will not explode in space against Meteors, fires, gumma rays and radiation. Everyone in the room clapped their hands. ‘’ I think we should call it a day and adjourn this meeting. I will try and contact all the defense ministers. We will meet tomorrow at 7am and I thank you for your presence.’’ President Washington said.
The following morning they met at the White House and the president came in earlier than usual. ‘’Yolanda, I am curious about this spacecraft. Do you have a diagram, concept drawings or pictures of it?’’ President Washington asked. Yolanda nodded, pulled out a chart from her bag and forwarded it to the president. ‘’Well, I am impressed I will forward this to the architects. On another matter, the defense ministers of China, Russia, North Korea, Britain and Iran have all agreed to come to the United States. They will all arrive this evening and we all agreed these past natural disaster have literally affected everyone on earth.’’ President Washington said. Everyone in the room stood up and clapped hands.
‘’I will adjourn this meeting as I have more urgent matters to attend to and we will meet tomorrow when I bring the Defense ministers to the White House’’ President Washington said. Everyone stood up and left the room except Yolanda. She is packing her staff, ready to go and the defense minister appeared. Brad blocked the door, pushed Yolanda inside the conference room and closed the door behind him. ‘’What you are doing is not going work. Listen here young lady, you can fool anyone in this room but you don’t fool me with your fancy Talk, it’s all bullshit’’ Brad said. Yolanda became emotional and a tear came from her left eye. ‘’This is the chance to redeem myself and help my country defeat this’’ Yolanda said.
‘’ Bullshit, you are going to give the spacecraft to your masters in Russia and blow us all up and they will win this war. Come to think of it, ever since you left to Russia. These ‘’natural disasters’’ started to occur and then you proposed to come back and will reverse these disasters from occurring. How do you know so much about these nuclear technologies from other countries? Just know you are still a spy and a traitor. I am watching you’’ Brad said. He left the room; Yolanda sat down and broke down crying uncontrollable.
Yolanda went shopping at the nearest mall and after she finished shopping. She saw Charles sitting at a coffee shop; she smiled, and went inside. Charles also saw Yolanda walking towards him. ‘’Hey Beautiful’’ Charles said. ‘’ Hi, can I join you?’’ Yolanda asked. Charles smiled and stood up. ‘’ Of course you can’’ Charles replied. Yolanda and Charles talked the whole afternoon and enjoying each other’s company.
The following morning at the White house, as everyone was entering the conference room. They saw unfamiliar faces from different nationals and some of the guys were frisking everyone to check if they have any weapons on them. A moment later, President Sharon Washington enters the room with 5 men wearing military attire. ‘’Good morning, allow me to introduce to you thedefense ministers. Michael Chang from China, Vladimir Kournikova from Russia. Eddie Yusuf from Iran,Jon Pan Wan from North Koreaand Frank Roberts from Britain. Everyone in the room clapped their hands and welcomed them with warmth.
Everyone sat down and the president pointed her finger at Yolanda. ‘’We can start Yolanda’’ President Washington said. Yolanda switched on the projector and began her presentation. A concept spacecraft was displayed on the screen. ‘’ Ladies and gentlemen, this is the mother of all spacecraft’’ Yolanda said. People looked and murmured at each other and others nodded. ‘’ The spacecraft will be equipped with advanced nuclear technology to protect it against space elements. The spacecraft will be indestructible against gases, and other powerful rays in space. This technology will freeze the whole spacecraft and protect it from exploding in harsh heat condition as higher as 5,000,000 degrees. When the rays strike the spacecraft, the space craft will have a cooling button that will repel the heat. Astronauts will have no space gear when they are in space. The Oxygenex Technology will be installed; astronauts will be able breath normal.
They will not wear anything to cover their heads. There will be gravity on the spacecraft because it will be installed with advanced Magnetified technology that will make them walk normal inside the ship when they are in space. The minister of Iran, Eddie Yusuf intervened. ‘’ We have just developed the Nuclear Fuel technology. The nuclear fuel will replace oil and gas in the near future. We can supply the spacecraft with the nuclear technology. The spacecraft will have nuclear fuel that will sustain it and will only run out after it has travelled more than 15billion km’’ he said.
Defense minister of Britain, Frank Roberts raised his hand. ‘’ We can assist with supplying powerful engines components that assist the spacecraft travel a thousand times faster than theusual spacecraft. The spacecraft will travel at 85 million km/h and can reach around the Black hole within 5 days.’’ He said. President Sharon Washington interrupted. ‘’ How long will the spacecraft take to build, Yolanda?’’ Yolanda went back to her bag and flipped few pages of her files. ‘’the spacecraft will be finished within 2-3 months’’ Yolanda replied. Defense minister of China, Michael Chang also weighed in. ‘’we can assist in hosting and assembling the spacecraft in China. Also we can build over 50 layers of platinum and indestructible metal over the exterior. Just in case the spacecraft encounters harsher conditions than weanticipate, the spacecraft will automatically lose the destroyed exterior parts and will regenerate into another layer. ‘’ Well I am impressed ministers and I thank you for your cooperation. I have compiled a list of the best Astronauts in the world that will travel to space. There will be 3-6 Astronauts that will be travelling…. ‘’ Yolanda said. The chief of staff came rushing and whispered something on Yolanda’s ear. Yolanda sighed and shook her head. ‘’ Ladies and gentlemen, I am afraid I have bad news. All astronauts have declined the opportunity to travel to space. They say it is a suicide mission and they feel chances of travelling outside the solar system and surviving is non-existent ’’ Yolanda said.
‘’This is a huge blow and for the first time I really don’t know what to. Is it possible to convince them otherwise?’’ President Washington asked. The Chief of staff shook his head. There was silence in the room, everyone looked at each other and it looked like no one knew what to do. ‘’ I, Yolanda Anderson would like to put my name forward as the person who will travel to space. I also wish to travel with Charles and other volunteers’’ Yolanda said.
An argument broke out at the conference room with everyone disagreed with what Yolanda just proposed. ‘’All our astronauts have declined to travel to space maybe it’s a sign we should just cancel this expedition and accept our fate’’ one scientist said. ‘’I agree with you young man, we should cancel this madness before our country is destroyed by our enemies and spies. Yolanda volunteers to drive the spacecraft. What if she detonates all 6 nuclear bombs and the whole North America will be wiped out. Wake up people this woman is still a spy and is playing all of us. ‘’ Mr. Brad Williams I have been listening to your negative and unproductive inputs for quite a while now. I would like you to please leave this room with immediate effect’’ President Washington said. Brad stood up, rushed outside and slammed the door on his w
ay out. ‘’Yolanda are you sure want to travel to space?’’ President Washington asked. ‘’ Yes, madam President’’ Yolanda replied. ‘’Charles, are you interested in travelling to space with Yolanda’’ President Washington asked. Charles nodded, sighed and wiped his face with his right hand.
‘’I think we are ready to go in building this spacecraft. As soon as the congress approves the $17.5 Billion budget, the spacecraft will be finished within few weeks. This project is a secret mission; I do not want anyone leaking anything outside this room. The spacecraft will be built in a secret location and the 6 nuclear bombs will be supplied and loaded to the spacecraft. Only the presidents and prime ministers of these countries will know exactly when and how the nuclear bombs will arrive in the USA.NASA head raised his hand. ‘’ Yolanda, you and Charles need to attend a one month intensive space training and drills’’ he said. Yolanda nodded and looked at Charles who seemed like he just saw a ghost. ‘’Very well, I think we have covered everything and we will meet in 2 months times on the 5th March 2021,meeting adjourned.
Yolanda and Charles went out to a restaurant and had a late lunch. ‘’What a day’’ Yolanda said. ‘’ Charles poured warm milk to his cup of coffee. ‘’ Tell me about it’’ he said. Yolanda picked the menu and read it. ‘’Why did you put me on the spot like that, telling the president I will go to space without consulting with me first.’’ Charles asked. ‘’ I thought you wouldn’t mind, I’m sorry Charles’’ Yolanda said. Charles sighed ‘’Ah well, what’s done it’s done. I’m looking forward going on an adventure with you’’ Charles said. ‘’ Does that mean I am forgiven? ‘’ Yolanda asked. ‘’ Of course,you know I enjoy being with you’’ Charles said. Charles held Yolanda’s hand but she pulled it back and called the waiter. Moments later, Charles looked at Yolanda and smiled. ‘’Do you think we will ever get back together?’’ Charles asked. Yolanda shook her head and stirred her coffee. ‘’I am happy where I am and enjoy my freedom’’ Yolanda replied. ‘’Fair enough, so when are we going to NASA attend the training sessions’’ Charles asked. ‘’David Wilson will call us in few days to confirm’’ she replied. The waiter brought Yolanda’s and Charles’s order and placed the food on their table.
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