Sharon: “Louise wanted to have a child and Kristen proposed first, I believe this is why Maxine got pregnant on the same day Louise and Kristen left for their honey moon”

Phyllis: “wow….are you serious?”

Sharon: “that is what Maxine told me when she was carrying Bette before telling the future father, after Louise and Kristen, Melvin was her closest friend and her consolation during the wedding preparation, then, apparently one thing led to the other. When she found she was pregnant she wanted to raise Bette alone, but unaccountably Melvin knew she was carrying his child, and he convinced her to married him. I don’t have to tell you, the shock that it was for Kristen and Louise”

Phyllis: “wow…, I didn’t know?”

Sharon: “well…, is that the transporter?”

Phyllis: “oh, yes, we better hurry up”

Old Los Angeles ruins, 11:50 p.m. the same day–Restricted Zone

Louise is working on the instruments and Tasha is approaching.

Louise: “did you rest something, Tasha?”

Tasha: “yes, I did, now is your turn”

Louise: “I can’t, I have to try something”

Tasha: “Is there anything I could do, you must be very tired”

Louise: “how about coffee and some food”

Tasha: “I could do that, but honestly I feel useless in this mission”

Louise: “Don’t be discouraged, I’ll teach you”

Tasha: “Thanks, I’ll bring the food”

Louise is working now in the appeaser thinking ‘if I could cancel the magnetic fields around the vessel, we may contact Arroyo Park, let’s check the position of those fields’

Tasha: “Here is the food and coffee”

Louise: “thanks”

Tasha: “what are you doing?”

Louise: “we need to regain contact with Arroyo Park, and what is blocking us are the small magnetic fields surrounding the vessel, I will try to neutralize each of them with the appeaser and see if we could do it”

Louise keeps working on the instruments while showing the cadet how they work; after one hour her efforts pay off and one by one the small magnetic fields surrounding the vessel are neutralized, and the transmission with Arroyo Park is resumed.

New Pasadena, 1:15 a.m. Sunday, January 23, 2056–Arroyo Park Cyber observatory border with Old Los Angeles ruins

Louise: “Control room, can you hear me?”