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 You raise your pistol at Kate. “What are you doing Kate? This is not the way to settle things. It’s the professor’s work, let him decide,”

“Grandfather, please hand the information to Kate!” Emily pleads with the professor.

Kate aims her pistol at you, while Jack and Mike draws their pistols and aims at you and Emily.

‘“I’m sorry, but the life of a single person cannot outweigh the needs of a whole planet.” You hear a sadness in her voice that you have not heard before.

A sharp pain announces itself at the back of your head and the world goes black. Jack has snuck up behind you while Kate was speaking to you, knocking you out with the butt of his gun.

You wake up a few hours later, a massive headache that beats with your pulse. The lab is empty. You stumble outside, finding the other helicopter, the pilots are unconscious and tied up inside the chopper. You decide to leave them alone and radio for help from the rig’s control office.

Hours later, a helicopter lands. A man in a black suit and reflective aviator glasses walks over to you. “I’m agent Jones from the Military Intelligence Agency. Seems you stumbled into something larger than you imagined.”

“Yes, any news on the professor and Emily? How about Kate?”

“You have been out of it a long time son. We found their bodies in the city a couple of hours ago. Seems that the professor has a tracking device on him. Kate and her two accomplices put up a brave fight, but they were overwhelmed. I’m sorry for your loss’.

The end.