“Pakal Ahau” Flash Story (Serial) Sec. #2

 

 

“Pakal Ahau”

 

Their ad hoc resistance would be the last action taken by the environmental movement to protect the earth. ‘What a sad commentary,’ Jane thought.  Her mother attended the first earth day held in Philadelphia, Pa in 1977.  There, protests by the public surfaced demanding protection of the planet’s resources.  Progress was made in the ensuing decades.  Slowly the air and water across the country cleared of pollution.  Then a group of people came to power and through their policies of political bungling and secrecy joined with the publics complacency the scales were tipped and the earth’s resources began a horrific decline.

 

” Ouch.”  Jane said.

 

” Just a few more minutes Jane, “ said Candy, ” The chip has travelled up your wrist.  Were having trouble finding it with the scan and were out of pain lozenges for you to suck on.”

 

Jane’s eyes formed a slit.

 

“Wait, got it.  Sam will laser and clean the wound.  I want to give those blue suits at the RND a run for their money, ” Candy dopped the chip, as she had done with the last five , into a small airborne satellite programmed to fly outside the zoned reserve.

 

” That ought to keep them busy for sometime.”  She threw the ball into the air and it whizzed off into the direction of the dead zone.  The dead zone was delineated by a techno fence that separated the two areas.

 

The future of the Amazon was that bio-engineered forest of flora and fauna unless they could protect the reserve from a takeover by the CIDs.  CIDs were 1/3 computer and 2/3 cloned human .  They were bio-engineered in the last decade and used as an endless supply of military men and women when the general populations of the world, after a decade long war, refused to fight.  The last remaining oil reserves on the planet lay deep beneath the Amazon forest.

 

” Jane,” Candy said as she loaded her electromagnetic transponder gun, ‘put this thermo gear on so your body can not be detected by the heat sensor helicopters.”

 

“Thanks.”  Jane went to the back room  stripped down and put on the gear.  Her wrist ached even though it was healing quickly,  The scanner’s laser marks were almost gone.

 

They had a plan -sort of.

 

 

To be continued…

 

Flash Story (serial) / Planet-Green-Trust presents!

 

 

“Pakal Ahau”

 

 

 

Cast of Characters

 

Jane – American, Northern, Government worker from Philadelphis, PA, not an Eco- International City member – works in South America

 

Ahmed – Palestinian, former Seattle, Washington engineer, joined Eco-International 28 yeras ago

 

Candy – American from Tupelo, Mississippi , temp officer worker, oil painter -joined 20 years ago

 

Sam – American from San Diego, California, ex – detective, musician joined Eco-international 7 yeras ago

 

 Ju LI – Korean monk, from Yala, Thailand, joined 15 years ago

 

Gustav – German from Berlin formerly homeless till he joined , Eco- International  City, member  12 years ago

 

Eco-International City – Organization formed by the countries of the United Nations to enforce existing international environmental laws

CIDS - Computer Integrated Drones 

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Part One

 

The fight was over.  This was the last self perpetuating forest anywhere on the planet.  Smoke drifted over the canopy of the forest.  The security force’s blasts could be heard by the lone remaining park service ranger who was holed up in an old eco tourism building.  The forest ranger, Jane Cloud, and six Eco International City members were all that stood between the destruction of the earth’s last pocket of ecology and a man-made wasteland.

Jane had no plans to give it up, not without a fight.

The heart of the Amazon was at stake.

All were implanted with a GPS system chip as mandated by the States Counsel, they were in the process of removing those chips so their movement could not be tracked – a federal offense.  After this step there would be no turning back.  As the metal sliced through her skin she reminded herself of an old quote by Albert Einstein,

” Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

 

 

To be continued…