If They Should

New Mexico...Facility #6…that’s the entire name…one of dozens of unknown facilities scattered across the White Sands desert. Just a solitary sign on an old telephone pole out on the highway, not enough to reveal anything about the place. 6,317 miles across the Atlantic; a near-identical facility, Proiect Balcescu, north and east of Bucharest, Romania, a few clicks from the shadows of the Fagaras Mountains. What’s going on inside both facilities is, simply put, life-changing, and classified off-the-chart-secret; nothing comes in, and for damn certain, nothing gets out.

Try this: what if we can make mankind immune from every disease thing that’s killing us? We have the road map…HGP, the Human Genome Project. Man is ever so slowly evolving towards natural immunity, maybe in 50,000 years or so, that’s the estimate. HGP can speed that up. That’s what #6 Proiect Balcescu are all about, both funded by billions in government money, because those governments have their own designs for the finished product(s). Charles Rodham on the American side, Petru Balcescu and his second, Andre Dalakis on the Romanian side, true believers in their own creative abilities. After nearly twenty years, success: two near-simultaneous births, Trig, a boy at #6; Stela, a girl at Balcescu. Beautifully perfect in every detail, naturally immune, with off-the-chart intellectual capacities, astounding physical prowess, and a rapid growth track that takes them to full early-twenties-appearing maturity in the space of five years, the latter two attributes shared with a branch of the tree no one seriously believes exists. Maybe once, eons ago, before we learned better. But today…just so much mythical bad fiction, right? Trig and Stela are real enough and they’ve discovered each other, (no accident that). They understand they’re the future right-the-hell-now. And something else…their contemporaries aren’t that contemporary and maybe the superkids’d be better off without them…er, us. They devise a plan and it’ll work, an old-school pandemic, unstoppable…and devastatingly thorough. Trig and Stela break out of their respective facilities and race towards a historic rendezvous, killing all in their path, while several alphabet agencies from two governments chase after them, anxious to recover their very expensive properties, unaware of the extreme threat Trig and Stela really present.

Threats to the bloodline…they aren’t always Ma Nature’s error, sometimes men create the problem, like here, Rodham and Balcescu, who should have left creation to Someone Else. No worries, The Creator anticipated the possibility since that little problem back in the garden when Adam and his honey lost perfection for the rest of us and gained an imperfect world instead. God’s Plan B, another branch of the human tree, guardians for the bloodline, call’em the Hand of God; blessed with some special options not available on the rest of the line, with one God-given imperative: locate those genetic threats and eliminate them. For four-hundred-thousand years they’ve executed their mission, frequently misunderstood, feared, eventually forgotten as their brothers learned more and more about their imperfect world and moved on from things and superstitions that they couldn’t explain. Plan B became so much myth and fiction. Interesting how much work you can do when no one believes you exist anymore. Two of God’s creations are Luca Caust and Elisa Ripanu. They’ve been watching Rodham and Balcescu’s efforts; they know the frightful threat Trig and Stela represent; Luca and Elisa work to lead the superkids into a killing field of the kids’ making, away from any collateral damage. Trig is taken out but Stela escapes and sets about securing her future without Trig…because she’s pregnant with their son…and there’s nothing Stela won’t do to protect him.