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What was so frapping funny?
    An hour later the carrier landed smoothly at the spaceport. Even Jillian couldn’t violate the flight protocols around that facility. Chris had a chance to compose himself and get over the dizziness assaulting him. He knew his shoulders were bruised from the brutal flight. Jillian stepped out of the cockpit and Chris said, “Can we please do that again? I want to be able to fully describe this fun ride to my twelve year old nephews.”
    Jillian stared at Chris and said stiffly, “Follow me. You two can wait here.”
    Bob said, “Yes Sir.”
    Jillian walked toward the port, and Jeff held a thumbs-up to Chris. Chris nodded and said, “Are we going to another marathon? I need to change my shoes if we are.”
    Jillian stopped just outside the port and put her hand on Chris’ chest to stop him. “Doctor Connor, I apologize for taking my frustration out on you. Quite frankly, you represent everything I detest about the male species. I blame myself for asking for you help. However, I’ll stop badgering you if you will agree to pay attention for a few minutes so we can get this over with. I’m just as impatient as you are to send you home and get you away from me.”
    Chris smiled, “You have my undivided attention.” Jillian turned and started walking toward a huge building. “What are we going to see, Dr. Gordon?”
    Jillian said, “The future as seen from the past.”
    Chris was startled by the response, “My device sees the past from the future.”
    “Then you should find this somewhat entertaining. I find it very frightening.”
    Chris wondered what could possibly frighten Jillian. He wasn’t at all certain if he wanted to find out. He followed her through multiple security check points and arrived at a giant door that had a DNA scanner. Jillian breathed into the device and the huge locks slid silently out of their channels. The door smoothly swung inward, and Chris followed Jillian into a huge room that was almost a half mile long. He saw search lights in the ceiling of the building were shining down on a tall object in the center of the room. As he focused on it, he saw ten individuals at the base of the object staring up at it and writing on small computer tablets. As he drew closer, he saw the object was a huge tablet-shaped stone. It had to be twenty feet tall, five feet thick, and must have weighed more than a hundred tons.
    Jillian said, “This tablet was excavated at the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. It was deliberately buried more than a hundred feet down at the time the Great Pyramid was completed.” She turned to Chris and said, “You remember the stardrive President Chen mentioned?”
    Chris nodded. He stared up at the massive stone block as they arrived at the base.
    “We developed that drive from diagrams carved on the back of this tablet.”
    Chris stopped dead in his tracks and looked at Jillian with shock on his face.
    She looked up at the tablet and said, “The front of the tablet tells us that Earth is going to be destroyed within the next five to ten years. Nothing will survive.”
    Chris looked at her with shock and amazement. Jillian saw his expression, smiled ruefully, and said, “Welcome to my world, Dr. Connor.”

Chapter Three
    C hris stared at Jillian, looked up at the tablet, and said, “You’re not kidding?”
    “No, I’m not. This tablet was buried under a chamber that appeared to be uncompleted in the base of the pyramid. We discovered it two years ago and we moved it here to do further work on it.”
    Chris stared up at the giant tablet and saw row after row of strange symbols. “May I see the back?”
    “Why, you’re not going to be a part of this project? Your fear is obvious and you need to go attend your next party.”
    Chris looked at Jillian and then back at the tablet. He remained silent and Jillian wondered what he was thinking. “You’re certain when it was buried?”
    “Absolutely. A body was buried with it that allowed us