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Another Adventure.

As Linc emerged from the portal, he found himself in a forested area.
He could hear the sound of a river nearby. He took the hatchet from
his pack and blazed a couple of trees to mark the way to the portal,
as he walked toward the river. Blazed a few trees there before
putting the hatchet back in his pack. He decided to walk downstream.
About a mile downstream he came to a rocky cliff. He scrambled over
some rocks and continued on downstream, where he could see some
buildings back over in the timber. He was just stepping out of some
brush, when all at once he was struck full force by a little boy
about five or six years old. The boy started to fall backwards so he
grabbed him. Boy started kicking him and screaming, "let me go, let me
go". As he let him go, some guy came up and poked a gun at him. He
pulled a radio out of his pocket and said into it, " got him, and some
other dude too".
The answer came back to bring them in.
Now what the heck had he got himself into? This is just ducky. They
went into a building where a group of men were standing around a man
sitting on a stool. It looked like a laboratory of some kind. There
was broken jars, vials, papers and other junk scattered around. A
very acrid smell hanging in the air, and Oh!, Oh! My God!…A dead man
lying on the floor. Holy cow thought Linc. What have I stumbled into
now?
He heard the man sitting on the stool say, " I tell ya, he must a had
a break-though of some kind, because he suddenly stood up and yelled,
good God, than started destroying the memory chips, records and the
computer. Other than that, I don't know what happened".
The gunman took Linc over to the man on the stool and asked him, " Who
is this guy"? Linc said, "What's going on here, I was just out hiking
when this kid and this gunman ran into me. I don't know anybody here
and I demand you let me out of here now". The man on the stool said, "
I don't know this dude, never saw him before". The gunman asked one of
the other men what was he to do with Linc and the kid, and was told to
toss them in the shed with the kids Mother. When the boss came the
next day, he could deal with them.
Linc and the boy were taken to an old shed and shoved inside. Linc
could hear the door being locked after them. It looked like the shed
had been a store room at one time, but was now being used to hold lawn
equipment and
as a repair shop. There was a woman sitting on an old wooden box,
crying. She jumped up hugged the kid then asked Linc who he was. Linc
told her his name was Lincoln Hanks and how he was just hiking around
and got caught with the boy. The woman said, " Oh my God! Our name
is Hanks too. My husband, Kenneth, I'm Jane and this is Lewis. Did
Uncle Jasper send you here to find us and get us out?" Linc said, "
No", and asked, "what is this place and what's going on"? The woman
started crying again, but through the tears, sniffles and the
hick-ups, she was able to tell him this. She and her Husband were
scientists. The Chinese were behind this. They and their son had been
kidnapped and brought to this remote hidden laboratory. They really
wanted the man her husband had gotten his idea from, but the man
disappeared and they figured her husband could re-create what he had
found out about the teleporting and levitation, information they had
learned about from the other guy. She told him her husband had met a
man who published an article in a journal about his experiment he had
done using an iron ring he had coated with different minerals. He
used it to levitate different objects to different heights. Also he
had transported or moved objects to other places. He started to use
an arch instead of a ring. The trouble is, he didn't tell her husband
what minerals he used, or just how he powered the whole thing. Since
then, the other guy and his lab came up missing. Her husband had made
some progress with some experiments of his own when they were
kidnapped and brought here to duplicate their findings.
Once they were here another guy called Herm who was supposed to be a
scientist was put here in the lab to keep an eye on everything they
did. She said they had even found hidden cameras watching their every
move.
They did find out they had to add 3 big electro magnets to the iron
ring they made that was small at first. Using different mineral
compounds and regents, they were able to levitate a different number
of items. This no sooner done than the Chinese boss was 'Johnny' on
the spot to see it for himself.

The boy was not kept under watch like the parents, because they knew
he had to stay close. He liked to roam around the compound and look
for rocks and minerals that he always gave to his Father who collected
rocks. His father always took the rocks and identified them for the
boy, then put them in a box as his collection. Most were nothing
special, but his Father always made out like they were. One day he
brought in a couple of rocks while they were working with a new
mineral application on the ring. They stopped for a break when the boy
came in to the lab. They were sitting by the ring when he handed his
Father one of the rocks. As his Father lifted the rock up next to the
ring to look at it, it was suddenly torn from his hand and propelled
across the room with such force it crashed against the far wall with a
loud thud. The Father retrieved the rock and held it up like before
and the same thing happened. Herm came in about that time and wanted
to know what was going on and Kenneth said he was just tossing a rock
around. As they guy left, them Jane said her husband turned as white
as a sheet as all the color drained out of his face. She said he shook
his head and moaned. "No! No! Going at it all wrong.". he said and
left the building, and went to their quarters. Herm asked what was
going on and she told him her Husband suddenly felt ill, and went to
lie down for a while.
The next day when they went to the lab, Kenneth asked Lewis if he
could remember where he found the last rock he gave him, and the boy
said yes. There were lots of them in the same place. Father said
good, he might want another one like it. Lewis had another one in his
pocket, and gave it to him.

Kenneth had an idea. He took the rock and ground it into a powder.
He then added another powered mineral to it in a small vial. He was a
bit excited about this idea that came to him as he tried to sleep the
night before. It may turn out to be a good thing or it could be
something he really dreaded. With a regent added and used to coat the
iron ring, it could be the break through they needed to teleport
things for a distance. Another different regent could be a disaster.
Then again, either regent could be wrong.
Jane said she had no idea what he had in mind, since he never told her
what he was going to do. She said Lewis was sitting under the counter
reading a lesson book, and the next thing she heard, was a very loud
pop and a brilliant flash as Kenneth added a regent to the vial. She
let out a screech, and rushed to see what happened. She said Kenneth
jumped up, Yelled, "no way" and grabbed all the memory chips put them
in a dish and poured an acid over them then started pouring acid on
the computer when Herm and a guard came in and saw what he was doing.
Herm told the guard to stop Kenneth, and the guard hit him and he fell
against the counter, hit his head so hard it killed him.
Herm screamed at the guard, and others came rushing in. "He must have
a break-through, he was destroying all the records and this fool
killed him."
He glared at Jane and said " she must know what he was doing "
Jane said, "she didn't know what he had planned this morning, as he
didn't tell her.' Herm pointed at her and "called her a liar.
Claimed they were both liars, as he saw on the camera that they
teleported a rock clear across the room. Look, I'll show you how they
did it". He went back to the ring, took a rock out of the box and
dropped it in front of the ring, where it hit the counter. Picked it
up and dropped it again and hit the counter and bounced to the floor.
Red faced, he smashed his fist on the counter, and yelled, " It
happened, it happened just like I showed you. I saw it on the tamers
over there", and pointed to what looked like a nail head in the wall.
Lewis got scared and ran out of the building. One of the guards went
out after him to watch where he went. Lewis went outside and was
sitting on a stump crying, so the guard went back into the building.
Herm didn't know what to think. He sat on a stool. The head guard
asked Jane again what she knew, and was told nothing, so the head
guard said to lock them up in the shed and the boss could deal with
her.
The guard grabbed her by the arm and drug her away from Kenneth's
body. She screamed at him to let her go. As they took her out the
door, Lewis saw them and took off running into the woods, with a guard
chasing him. That's when he ran into Linc. Now he knew what was going
on and wondered just how they were going to get out of this mess.
Linc prowled around the shed trying to find a weak place they might
get out from. He could use the hatchet from his pack, nut that would
make too much noise and they would be caught. The only window was too
small and too high up. A narrow glass in the door , one could only
see through. There was a small light bulb in the ceiling. Linc
switched the switch by the door, and it lit up. He turned it off.
Jane said, "even if we could get out of here the dogs would follow us".
Linc tapped on the door to see if there was a guard just outside. No
response, so he did it again, still no response. Did that mean there
was no guard close by? He hoped so. He looked out the glass in the
door and could see no one anywhere. They must all be inside. If he
could only chop around the lock they could get out. He hit the door
with his fist, and heard a dog bark. Well that settled that. Jane
said, "maybe we could burn around it". Linc said, that could get us
burned up too." "No, she said, not if it is a controlled burn "
I see this is a gas generator. If you could get some gas in this old
can, I can make some napalm to pack around the latch to burn it off."
Linc took his Leather-man tool and took the gas line loose on the
generator and put some gas in the can while Jane was tearing up a
Styrofoam plate that had held screws and washers, that was on the
bench. She put the bits of Styrofoam into the can of gas and stirred
it with a stick she found. It turned into a solid mass of stiff jelly
like putty that she packed all over the door latch. "Now she said, I
hope you have a lighter.". Linc took the fire starting kit from the
pack, and told them to stand back while he lit the stuff. Wow! It
took off like crazy, and the latch just seemed to melt. Linc pushed on
the door, and it swung open. They rushed as quickly and as quietly
as they could and headed into the woods.
Linc figured it best to go back to where they caught him and Lewis,
because their scent was already there, From that point they could back
track to the rocky point where his scent was, and cross the river to
lose their scent from the dogs. Then they could turn and go
downstream to find help. Lewis ran on up ahead toward the mine. "We
could hide in the mine", he said. Since they were by the mine and
close to where they were caught, Linc wanted to grab a few of those
rocks that Lewis found. He could take them back to his professor to
identify. Putting several in his pocket he led them to intersect the
point the guard caught them. They went on upstream to the rocky point
to cross the river. It didn't look to be very deep here. Linc picked
up a stick and told Jane to take hold of a strap on the pack. He took
Lewis by the hand and started across the stream. About mid stream,
Jane slipped and pulled him down. He got back up and pulled her out
of the water and continued on over to the bank. Good thing he held on
tight to Lewis. They were all sopping wet but they headed off into
the woods. They had to get far enough away from the river so they
could not be seen nor have their scent float to the dogs, yet they had
to stay within hearing distance of the river so they knew which way to
go.
After they got in the woods a ways, they came to a road that seemed to
follow the river. They walked downstream , and a farm truck came
along. Linc hailed it, and it stopped.. Linc asked the driver if they
could get a ride in the back until they got into a town or something.
Driver said sure enough, hop in, so they did.
They came into a small town that did have a police stationl. They
went in and told them what had happened and where they thought the
place they were held was.
The cop called some other town and then they piled into a police car
and headed out of town. Went over the river bridge and was met by
three other police cars. They all went up river to the place where
they had been held, but there was no one there. They found Kenneth's
body, But the rest of the lab was destroyed.. Herm's computer was
gone. There was nothing around to tell who the people were. Not
everything was taken, so the police gathered up what they could find.
Jane called her Uncle Jasper and told him what happened. He was on
his way to get her and take care of things for her. While all this was
going on. Linc left the place and went on back up to where the portal
he came in was. Back at the truck, he had to stop and think about
this. Another Hanks. He wasn't able to help this one, but he did
help his wife and child. What was this all about? Where did he go,
and why? Something to do with the rocks? Must be. He had to get
these samples to his professor right away.

To be continued.