Domes The Discovery (eBook)

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Debris: Day After the Upheaval

June 4, 2026

8:30 a.m. EDT

Washington, DC / White House

It had been a late, disquieting night. Members of Sabius Farrow’s group, including Melissa Farrow and Michael Lester, worn out from the day’s incredible events, retired to bedrooms in the White House. Farrow was given the Lincoln Bedroom, an honor few people received. But sleep evaded him. The enormousness of the scour, and its unforeseen consequences, haunted the professor. It was General Arron Voss’s insistence to remove the nuclear arsenals from America’s adversaries that had caused the chaos. In the end, millions of people died. For his part, Farrow realized that had they not removed the weapons, there would have been a world war. And if he had not taken the additional step of creating a new dimensional overlay, duplicating the current universe, the entirety of humankind would have been teleported to Earth’s sun. The Upheaval, as the event was being called, was transformative. Sleeping with such grim reminders was all but impossible. Still, he managed to drift off.

He awoke in an agitated state. It took him several minutes to place where he was. Not Palo Alto, that was certain. Thin rays of light crept into the bedroom. There were sirens in the distance, and Pennsylvania Avenue rumbled with the movement of fire trucks and rescue vehicles. Something was happening. It all flooded back. Earth Dimension 2, (ED2). The new world. The Upheaval.

As he looked around the room, he began to recount the events that had so recently changed the world.

The last few days had been extremely fast paced, with consequences cascading into decisions Farrow never thought he would have to make. His discovery some forty years ago of an underground alien dome complex in Idaho led him to encounter the vast technological superiority of the race of beings that had designed it. It was Robert Oppenheimer who had given Farrow an alien device, one powerful enough to change the course of human history. But the discovery of a cave on Mt. Deception in Idaho had introduced the professor to a vast underground complex of alien technology. The domes were interconnected structures made from impenetrable metals and linked together using sophisticated entanglement technology. With the devices in hand, Farrow was able to enter that complex. It was from his experiences inside the domes that the renowned physics professor had been able to teleport matter from place to place and teleport himself without instrumentation, a process he called tangling. Farrow had been able to keep the complex a secret, believing that if other individuals, or governments, were able to access such power, the consequences could be catastrophic. The irony, of course, was that despite his best efforts, a catastrophe did happen, which is why, just now, he was exhausted from the battle he had waged against both men and aliens. It was a confrontation between Farrow and an alien warrior that prevented his death. And if Sabius Farrow had died, every human on the planet would have been right behind him.

General Arron Voss, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a one-time college roommate of Farrow’s, had ignited the firestorm. Voss had inadvertently discovered Dr. Farrow’s curious tangling abilities, which led the general to surveil Sabius’s activities and learn about the domes’ existence.

By following the professor into that complex, Arron learned that Farrow could teleport material objects from place to place, even from planet to planet. That concept led the general to an idea of tantalizing consequences, at least for him. If Farrow could move objects, perhaps he could move the nuclear weapons of America’s adversaries to a location that the US military could control. The world would then be safe from the threats of a nuclear holocaust.

As luck would have it, Farrow’s daughter, Melissa, a brilliant physicist in her own right, was vacationing with her Stanford colleague, Michael Lester, when they became trapped inside the same mountain complex Farrow had been studying. They had encountered a UFO at the summit of Mt. Deception and were forced to seek shelter inside the mountain after the US Army frightened an alien form into a nearly hidden cave. Once inside, they became trapped and were dangerously close to running out of food and water. As they traversed from dome to dome, they began to piece together the purpose of the complex. The alien beings that built the domes were teleporting replicated resources from Earth back to a distant galaxy.

General Voss had discovered Farrow’s abilities long before Michael and Melissa had become trapped. It was only a coincidence that information to extort the professor into manipulating the power of the domes to find and steal the nuclear armaments of America’s adversaries happened simultaneously. By claiming he had kidnapped Melissa, he sought to convince the professor to steal the nuclear arsenals from the world’s most unstable nations: Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea, PINK, for short. He had his sights on Russia and China too, but selling so much at once wasn’t likely to persuade Farrow. Incremental, Voss thought. A little at a time.

The initial teleportation process went relatively smoothly. Even though Farrow protested, he realized his daughter’s safety was at stake, so he would do as the general requested. And as it turned out, stripping weapons of mass destruction from terrorist nations and teleporting fuel rods from reactors wasn’t the worst idea in the world. Yet there would be consequences, not the least of which would be a loss of power for millions. And there would be a reaction from other nuclear powers, like Russia and China.

The results were not what Farrow or Voss expected. While they had succeeded in stripping the PINK nations of their weapons and fuels, the sudden, inexplicable events caused alarm almost everywhere, especially in China and Russia. Embedded security agents for those countries heard rumors of missing bombs. And that was startling enough. But it was the missing fuels that everyone saw. Immediately after the portings, millions of people had no power. The fuel rods in reactors had been moved to a terminus site only Farrow and Voss knew. Such unlikely events caused the Russian president to assume the United States had been the aggressor. In China, the sentiment was the same.

Tensions between Russia, China, and the United States rose precipitously. But because President Dellums, Vice President Grace Pine, and Senator Stiles were the only US government officials who knew the truth of the events, America’s military strategists were equally confounded. They blamed the thefts and the power outages in Russia on a Russia-China coalition. Whoever had done it, the threat levels grew. America moved its threat assessment defense condition to three, one step closer to nuclear war. In rapid succession, China and Russia did the same. Tensions were growing.

Within days, there was a threat of World War Three. The president of China assumed that if the United States had the capability to steal China’s weapons, it would be better to use them before losing them. Use them against America. The same sentiment pervaded the Kremlin. The world was now poised for a nuclear holocaust, and no one knew why.

Voss decided that taking the arsenals from Russia and China was the only way to avoid a global thermonuclear war. While Farrow wasn’t happy with Voss’s pace and direction, preventing the planet’s destruction made sense. The irony was thick. Voss had commanded the professor to remove the weapons of bad actors, only to find himself forced to prevent a war he thought couldn’t be fought. His first intuition had been the correct one. Better to have stolen the weapons from everyone. That oversight was now threatening to destroy billions of people.

As the tensions rose, it was clear that Farrow and Voss had to act before Russia and China started the war of all wars. There was one problem.

The process of stealing the weapons seemed simple enough. Use the alien technology to locate the items to be teleported, highlight them with an undefined light source, and then teleport them to a specific terminus. In the case of the PINK nations, the terminus was a newly created dome, something Farrow had called an overlay, a way to design a container that had the same features as the dome the professor frequented. The critical factor was that the terminus was in the alien complex and away from prying eyes.

The problem arose when Farrow remembered that both China and Russia had nuclear weapons underground, on ships and submarines, and on planes flying outside their geographical boundaries, not to mention the likelihood of weapons on satellite platforms orbiting the Earth. The alien technology needed a specific limitation, a way to know where the weapons were. Farrow chalked it up to his lack of knowledge of the alien system. There might be a way to do it, but he didn’t know how.

In the end, Farrow and Voss decided they would have to choose another option. They couldn’t grab all the weapons because some would remain after the porting. There was only one way: teleport all of the planet’s weapons and fuels, including America’s, to some unhackable terminus site. That would ensure that all the bombs and fuels, whether underground, on the sea or under it, in the air, or in space, would be captured and removed. Once that was done, he could reclaim America’s weaponry. That was the plan. The critical element was timing.

When Russia and China decided to launch a full-scale thermonuclear...