Ascendant Saga Collection: Sci-Fi Fantasy Techno Thriller by Brandon Ellis (easy to read books for adults list txt) 📕

“We’re working on getting the routing system unlocked. Your trip back to Earth won’t last long.”

Ken took a step around his desk, gun at Slade. “I’m old and maybe I’m being a little too much of a humanitarian, so here is what I’m going to propose. We head back and I won’t throw this whole business in your face ever again. It’ll be like it never happened. I’ll put you in command of building these pyramids or powering them on.” He lied. He would do no such thing for Slade. He’d hire the most talented physicists and engineers while putting Slade behind bars. “Jaxx wrote about the conductive power of dolomite and I’m convinced building these pyramids the Jaxx-way is the answer. Dolomite is a limestone with a high magnesium content. It’s a type of limestone that conducts electricity—freely. That’s what the Pyramids of Giza and many other pyramids are made out of. Used correctly, and when we tap into them, they can power entire cities without using up natural resources. They’re giant, healthy power plants.”

Slade gave him a blank stare.

Ken hit the papers in his hand with the pistol. “We can make these.”

“You’re an idiot if you think we can replicate what the ancients did.”

“We can make pyramids exactly how Jaxx wanted us to. These pyramids act as a magma release valve, taking the pressure off the major earthquakes that are coming. We don’t have to go through the shitty Earth changes that you left Earth for...that we all left Earth for. All you have to do is create more of these pyramids in specific locations throughout the world and ease Earth into the next ice age instead of a major, sudden shift. We can do this, Slade.”

Slade clapped his hands. “Bravo. You have solved our problems.” His sarcasm was more than apparent.

“No, it’s more than that. Listen...please.” He cleared his throat and read a few sentences on the pages. “The dolomite limestone core is electrically conductive. The core is wrapped by an effective insulator; dura limestone. When you look at the pyramid’s passageways, you find that they are made out of granite, and granite is slightly radioactive and will ionize and electrify the air, along with releasing radon gases. The shafts are lined with granite to keep the electric charge moving back and forth in the shaft. It’s built like an insulated wire, which also draws the electric charge from the ground.”

He looked up. Slade was shaking his head.

“I know what you’re thinking,” said Ken.

“You have no idea what I’m thinking. If you did, then you wouldn’t have taken your eyes off me.” Slade now held a small pistol. “I could have blasted you ten times by now. That’s the difference between my intelligence and your intelligence. You want to go back to Earth and fix things. I know they aren’t fixable. They’re simply not. I’m practical—a realist. You’re an optimist.” He grinned. “Give me the documents. We have no time for your silly ideas or this mutiny.”

Ken backed away, thrusting his gun forward. “And, why would I do that?”

“So no one gets their paws on these and starts thinking optimistically.”

“We can power Earth with these things. We no longer need fossil fuels. No longer need natural gas. We no longer need wars over land resources.” Ken started shaking, bringing his eyes back to Jaxx’s writings. “Many pyramids have water beneath or near them. The gravity pull from a pyramid draws water from underneath it and or near it. In essence, it draws water closer to the surface and closer to the pyramid’s base, creating a primitive aquifer, doing two things. One, it pulls up minerals and two, it moves water through lime or chalk aquifers, producing electricity and changing the magnetic field inside and around the pyramid. It’s a giant battery.”

Slade aimed at Ken’s head. “I get it. Pyramids are power sources as well as goddamn terraforming devices. Now, drop your pistol and I’ll let you live. If you don’t, you’ll be on the ground in three seconds, dead.”

Ken put the pistol on his desk. “I want to save us all, Slade.”

“Your ideas are in the right direction, just not in the direction to keep us a hundred percent safe. Callisto is our best bet. It’s tidally locked to Jupiter—the same side always faces the planets, and because of that, there’s virtually zero earth change activity. And most likely never will be. We’d never need to worry about global warming, natural disasters, and the like again.” Slade swiped the papers out of Ken’s hands. “Thank you for your cooperation.”

He pushed the small gun down past his waistband and in the crotch portion of his underwear. “Now, if you don’t turn this ship back toward Callisto and convince the rest of the government to abide by my rules, then there’ll be dire consequences, starting with your wife. Do you understand?”

The thought of his wife, dead, pulled at his heart. He’d rather die than not be with her. Ken nodded. “I’ll see what I can do.”

40

Planet Taiyo, Sector 9 - Galactic Arm, Milky Way Galaxy

Jaxx took another cautious step, eyeing the forest, sensing the Agadon was near, safe, and angry as hell. He had gotten the upper hand and sensed that no one got the upper hand with this guy; this blue freak of nature.

A crackle pierced the forest.

Jaxx stopped and listened. He needed to know why and how this Agadon was like him. Was the Agadon part Atlantean? Did he have some human in him? Was there an even bigger glitch in the AI-based system in his hardwired brain, more than the rest of the Agadon’s?

He lowered his head to avoid a low-hanging branch. He was walking closer to the fire, the Agadon’s crash site. He unholstered his gun, holding it at his side.

“Welcome, Kaden Jaxx.”

Jaxx halted, eyes darting left and right. His weapon spun out of his hand and crashed against a