Zero 'g' by Srujanjoshi4 Page B

magnetic field. It will take approximately ten
minutes to get the required magnetic field,” said Linus.
    She turned to find Linus and Henry looking at her from
inside the house. They stared out the window in awe of the human
chain forming. They didn’t know what was
happening , but they knew she
must have had a plan. Floating in the air, Linus and Henry
unknowingly made a human chain of their own and followed others
near the statue. It didn’t take long before there were fifty or
sixty chains spun around the Statue of Liberty. It was miraculous,
and Carly couldn’t believe what she was doing. She had formulated a
plan that was going to save the world; not only that, but she had
found a way to save people from dying. She hoped the same chain
links were happening all over the world. What a sight that would be
if the news stations were still running. The thought of it brought
tears to her eyes, and she hugged David tighter. She was confident
that they would be OK. If people could come together the way they
were now, then how could they be defeated in the end?
    Carly smiled as she saw the plan starting to come into
action. The chains appeared to be working because the Statue of
Liberty started to slowly descend. There had been a few groups of
people who had argued with Carly , thinking her plan was dumb. Those people were now
watching the statue descend and becoming believers. She chuckled as
they moved toward the statue and started forming human chains and
tightly hugging the statue.
    When the human chains reached more than one thousand people, the Statue of Liberty made
its way down and fell solidly to the ground. She stood there once
again proudly, as she was meant to be. Everyone on the statue
remained attached firmly to the statue, and Carly was sure that
they would all be OK. Carly couldn’t take her eyes off of the
Statue of Liberty. Her heart was full at the sight of it; it was
truly mind-blowing to see. It stood there proudly right before her,
and it was all because of her quick thinking. She was so thankful
that she could at least help some of the people and save them from
death.
    She turned to find the guys , and then Linus saw her and gave her the thumbs-up. She
nodded; he must have completed the rings.
    She was right , because
in a matter of minutes, Linus had created from scratch the magnetic
rings they needed for their mission.
    The rings went out. As Earth started to rotate due to the repulsion of the
magnetic field, so did Mars. The problem was, Mars began to rotate
in the opposite direction, thus developing too much distance
between the two planets.
    To their shock and dismay , something went terribly wrong, something they hadn’t
expected. Both Mars and Earth rotated at the same time, causing
Mars to move farther away and Earth to get stuck at an angle of
sixty-three degrees.

Chapter Eighteen
     
    They hadn’t anticipated what happened between Earth and
Mars. She hadn’t taken into consideration that Mars would get
pushed so far away from Earth.
How could she have expected any of it? It had all been so
terrifying to watch, and now they weren’t sure what was going to
happen. They had only one chance, and she worried that they had
failed so completely that there would no longer be any hope. Was it
over for them? Would she be front row center to the end of the
world? She thought about all the people out there, clinging to the
human chain, hoping against all hope that they weren’t going to die
that day.
    Their plan of having the asteroid hit Earth was not going to happen. The three of them
watched as things started to fall apart. The asteroid was not able
to hit Earth because of the degree change. But then, something
miraculous happened.
    The asteroid that they had been betting on wasn’t going to hit Earth, but out of
nowhere several previously undetected asteroids hit the one that
they were originally planning on crashing into the planet. The
atmosphere shook around them, and they had to brace