Justification For Killing (11 page)

When Captain Scarburg left
the conference room the SCAR family had no idea he planned to put
his own life in peril. If they had known the Captain was going to
ride number four they would have attempted to talk some sense into
his thick head.

Blast off was less than
fifteen minutes away

Captain Scarburg
knew all these risks. He had a mission to complete. He had to prove
to those waiting upstairs that
Pegasus
would work. His “sixth
sense” told him the alien blueprints were accurate. He reasoned if
he could be sent back to the correct time and at the proper
coordinates then molecular re-assembly would occur. He strongly
believed he could figure out how to get his flying saucer back
home. Captain Scarburg was a full-scale optimist.

Earlier the Captain
had formulated a plan with the
Pegasus
Flight Team. He had informed
Mr. Ryan Rousseau, Chief of Experimental Design and the
Pegasus
Flight Director
that he, the Captain would personally be the guinea pig for the
next ‘flight’. Mr. Rousseau had been a SCAR team member from SCARs
early inception; actually he had been involved before SCAR was
formed.

Mr. Rousseau had been the
head of the Special Operations Division, working in the CIA office
in Bangkok, Thailand. He worked with Spook’s two brothers Sam Lin
and Si Lei Kim. In fact, he had been their division supervisor when
Spook explained to Sam Lin and Si Lei that Papa Scarburg’s Special
Forces A-Team had found the alien documents in Cambodia. Needing
help within the CIA community Sam Lin and Si Lei had to take Mr.
Rousseau into their confidence and explain the mission Papa
Scarburg, Captain Scarburg, Spook and Tinker, were engaged in, a
mission that only a few knew, or should know about.

Spook and the Captain also
informed Spook’s two brothers of the discrepancies in the President
Kennedy Zapruder film. Sam Lin and Si Lei realized those alien
documents were monumental and could be vital to US security and
beneficial to society as a whole. They decided to become a part of
the team. It was entirely through their help and with assistance
from Mr. Rousseau that Papa Scarburg, Captain Scarburg, Spook and
Tinker escaped from Thailand and were able to return to the United
States. Later they, with the exception of Mr. Rousseau, would
establish the SCAR organization and facilities.

Ryan Rousseau and the
Captain had been colleagues for over forty years. The Captain
considered him a close friend. Rousseau was instrumental in helping
Sam Lin and Si Lei arrange all the inside CIA connections in
Thailand. His help allowed the team to avoid capture and escape to
the USA. He thought he deserved a top leadership role; however, the
recognition as a SCAR founder was his ultimate goal. Rather than
being thought of as a charter member, an equal to the Captain,
Spook, Sam Lin and Si Lei, he considered himself an underling, a
mere supervisor within SCAR.

Rousseau harbored a deep,
dark secret. A terrible secret he did not want revealed. A secret
he would go to any lengths, including murder, to protect. This
secret was much more sinister than just his desire to be recognized
as a SCAR founding member.

The Captain’s “trip”
was to begin at exactly 2:30:00 p.m. on Monday November 19, 2012
local Washington, D.C. time. The destination was programmed into
the
Pegasus
computers for him to land on the roof at the southwest corner
of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), 411 Elm Street. The
TSBD was located on the northeast side of Dealy Plaza in Dallas,
Texas. The time of arrival was programmed for exactly 12:29:30
p.m., on Friday, November 22, 1963, forty-nine years plus one day,
earlier. Extraction was to be at exactly 12:29:30 p.m. Saturday,
November 23, 1963, exactly twenty-four hours after arrival. The
spacecraft would remain visible for only five minutes after landing
at its destination then it would disappear.
Pegasus
would not reappear until
12:24:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 23, 1963, twelve hours later,
and twelve hours before departure. It was supposed to re-appear
back at the SCAR laboratory at 2:30:32 p.m. Monday, November 19,
2012. Two seconds after it left! To paraphrase a famous
general:
‘The plan of battle usually goes
awry at the sound of the first gun.’
Need
more be said about the Captain’s bold adventure?

After landing in
Dallas, the Captain would have to open the hatch, jump from the
‘flying saucer’, attack the shooter on the roof, disrupt the
assassin’s first shot, and if able, jump back through the hatch
into
Pegasus
before it disappeared. It must disappear; the roof will be
swarming with police just minutes after the first shots are fired
at the President. Five minutes might be cutting it short, for once
the hatch closes the craft dematerializes and the Captain will not
be able to enter
Pegasus
and return for twelve hours.

This five-minute period of
time would be some of the most dramatic five minutes in American
history.

Why wait twenty-four
hours before attempting extraction of
Pegasus
?

It was believed the
Sunev aliens engineered the automatic exit flight exactly
twenty-four hours later as a safety margin. This would allow some
leeway in case something went wrong. During this time,
Pegasus
would be totally
invisible except for a five-minute window of time exactly twelve
hours later, and it would not materialize again until five minutes
before the 12:29:30 p.m. November 23, 1963 departure time. If
something went wrong, this five-minute appearance of
Pegasus
would allow
someone to re-enter the craft.

It was necessary to land
on top of the Texas School Book Depository at the southeastern
corner of the roof at exactly thirty seconds past 12:29. The
shooting of President Kennedy occurred at 12:30 sharp. A witness
had placed a second shooter on the roof in that exact location -
this shooter was using a 30-06 rifle. A much more powerful rifle
than the 6.5 mm Italian Carcano supposedly used by Lee Harvey
Oswald. Papa Scarburg, the Captain, Spook and Tinker all say they
heard four shots fired as they viewed the Zapruder film on the
‘Edison’. Papa Scarburg and Captain Scarburg both military men,
recognized two of the weapon discharges, as coming from a 30-06
rifle, if not a 30-06 it surely wasn’t a 6.5 mm Carcano rifle.
Additionally, we know in the Alternate Universe Agent Hill jumps on
the rear of the limousine after the first shot is fired and is hit
in the back by the second shot saving President Kennedy from a
fatal wound. The Captain had to distract this shooter long enough
to allow Lee Harvey Oswald or whoever to fire the fatal second
shot. This second shot would hit the head of the target at which
they were aiming - President John Kennedy.

President Kennedy would be
killed, and destiny’s road would take a totally different path.
Earth’s destiny will be set on the correct course. Since we had the
benefit of knowing the course of both the current Universe and the
original Universe, there was no doubt the original was the right
choice.

LAUNCH!

The Transport Launch
Sequence leading up to the departure of
Pegasus
had already started
approximately thirty minutes before Captain Scarburg arrived in the
laboratory. He had to hurry, it was already 2:20 p.m. - only ten
minutes to ‘transport’.

He quickly jumped
into his bright red flight suit and slid through the entrance
hatch. The Flight Prep Crew hurried to secure his safety harness
and flight helmet when he heard the Crew Chief Mike Watkins
announce from the Pegasus Control Center,
“T minus four minutes, thirty seconds.”
This command activated the craft’s operational instrument
recorders. Time in this world was running out, but before that
happened disaster was about to strike. The Flight Prep Crew could
not get one of the d-ring buckles to lock on the Captain’s harness.
It had to be fastened, or the mission had to be aborted. If
postponed, it would be hours, if not days, before
Pegasus
could be
prepared for another attempt. The bank of onboard computer, which
have many different types of formulas and equations, would have to
be re-programmed in order to manipulate the time/space continuum.
The re-programming was essential to insure the craft arrived at its
preselected destination.

At T minus
thirty-one seconds,
Pegasus’s
onboard computers started their terminal launch
sequence. Although, according to the alien documents the ‘flying
saucer’ remained exactly in the middle of the staging area where it
started, it never actually moved, only the world around it changed
to the
Pegasus
selected destination GPS coordinates. The craft just broke
the thin fabric of time though a wormhole and crossed into another
Parallel Universe. Strange huh? But the problem still remained –
Captain Scarburg’s harness was still not fastened! The launch
window was quickly closing. “Come on we have less than thirty-one
seconds to get the latch snapped shut - do something - anything!!”
With this demand, one of the Flight Prep Crew grabbed a pair of
Vice-Grip pliers and with all his might squeezed the latch closed.
It might never open again, but the Captain simply could slip out of
the harness even with this latch locked. He gave the Prep Crew a
thumbs up signal - he was finally ready to go as they hurriedly
tried to get everyone out the hatch - time was running
out!!

At T minus ten
seconds, the
"Go for Magnetic Rotor
Start"
command is issued by the TLS. All
physical connections from
Pegasus
to the launch facility have been severed.
Pegasus
was ‘good to
go’. Captain Scarburg quickly pointed his camera out the porthole
to his front and snapped a picture.

At T minus six
seconds, the three main rotors energized at intervals of 110
milliseconds. The rotors had three seconds to throttle up to 95
percent rotational speed. At T minus three seconds, if the main
rotors were at the required ninty-five percent, the ‘Tachyon’
sequence started. Theoretically a Tachyon is a sub-atomic particle
moving faster than the speed of light. The
Pegasus’s
four primary flight
computers monitor all of these faster than the speed of light
events.

At T minus zero, the craft
began to disappear and totally ‘departed’ the staging area at T
plus seven seconds. Hopefully, at T plus twenty-three seconds the
craft and Captain Scarburg should appear on the roof of the School
Book Depository. The Captain had to exit the vehicle, accost the
shooter on the roof, disable him somehow and get back into the time
machine before the allotted five minutes had expired.

From the window of
his office, Ryan Rousseau stood and watched
Pegasus
gradually de-materialize
into thin air. His right hand rubbed the whiskers of his beard, but
this hand did not cover the diabolical grin he had as Captain
Scarburg’s flight disappeared.

Chapter Nine

THE UNIVERSE HAS A
PLAN

The day was beautiful - a
clear, deep cobalt sky was directly overhead, which faded as one
looked toward the horizon to a gorgeous blue-green. It was Friday,
a dazzling autumn day in the city of Dallas, Texas. A day where one
could say, ‘Isn’t it thrilling to be alive just to be a part of
such a magnificent day?’ Decade’s later people would remember this
day and know exactly what they had been doing; exactly where they
were; exactly what they said and saw on this most incomparable day.
By then words like, awful, dreadful, horrible and terrifying would
replace the words marvelous, magnificent and beautiful - soft,
gentle words, which would no longer be used in conjunction with
this egregious autumn day in November 1963.

Earlier in the morning
there had been a drizzling, cold rain, but as if nature knew how
momentous this day was to become the sun was now out in all its
southwestern brilliance. Even the clouds had hidden themselves from
view as if saying they did not want to be witness to the day’s
coming events. The air was brisk and fresh with a slight northerly
breeze gently blowing over the Texas School Book Depository
buildings built on the northeast corner of Dealy Plaza. But this
was nothing unusual for this time of the year in the Lone Star
state of Texas. Now the sun was shining, and everything in nature
seemed to be in perfect balance. Dealy Plaza was a park, and a
beautiful sight to see. Bounded on the east by Houston Street, on
the north by Elm and on the south by Commerce; Main Street neatly
split the Plaza into north and south sections; the west end was
bounded by the Triple Train Overpass.

At the northwest
corner, of Elm and Houston Street on Dealy Plaza was the Texas
School Book Depository and diagonally and down the street a bit to
the east on Houston was the Dallas City Jail. A flock of pigeons
was clearly visibly above the school book building, fluttering off
in all directions, up and over the oversized, red lettered ‘HERTZ
RENT A CAR’ sign, and the Chevrolet sign with its digital clock
mounted above. Both the Chevrolet and the time clock signs used
big, bright, yellow letters that could be seen for blocks. That
day, the clock’s yellow, digital letters seemed to click slowly.
Time was so surreal it was spooky. It were as if the clock itself
said, “Stop, I must stop,” but onward the minutes clicked...
ticking unceasingly to arrive at the time destiny had allotted for
this moment! It would seem, somehow, the elements had picked up on
what was about to happen. It was as though, somehow, an invisible
finger slipped into the beautiful day and pointed as to say,
"Careful now, the Universe has a
plan."