Aberrant: The Hollywood Experience

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James and Jerry took the two people they had rescued from the dam away to find a clinic or at least a safe place for them to rest and recover. 
Leaving Nadia and Stephanie in the cold blustery rain. They checked their phones and found that the internet was going wild with evets around the world: 
“...In the wake of the Galatea’s explosion, freak accidents and catastrophes are erupting all around the world…”
“...earthquake, at least 4.0 on the Richter scale, rocked Denver…”
“...series of explosions on the streets of New York City, including one threatening a school bus…”
“...European Union has declared an multinational state of emergency…”
“...India is blaming Pakistani militias for the sudden flood of the Ganges, which has washed away…”
“...teenager was unable to be moved, remaining electrically charged for 20 minutes, despite paramedics’ attempts to ground the electrical charge.”
“...onlookers referred to as the Silver Dragon of the Yantze River was seen stopping a dangerous surge of water…”
“The Aeon Society reached out to the Secretary General of the United Nations to offer its resources and support in relation to the current crisis.”
Final Broadcast Audio of the Galatea: 24th March 2025
Flight Engineer Alyssa Carson (FE): “...Commad, we’re experiencing a technical issue, please stand by.”
Ground Control Engineer Ernest Collins (GCE): “This is Ground Control, what kind of technical issues?”
FE: “Electrical Issues. Lights aren’t functioning properly… diagnostic seems to indicate some sort of…”
GCE: “Come in, Galatea. Can you read me?”
[3 seconds static]
FE: “...the signs are…”
GCE: “Message unclear, Please repeat.”
FE: “We read you. Command. This isn’t… [Static]... Command system failure seems to indicate a core shielding breach. We…”
GCE: “God! Galatea, please run the reactor eject sequence!”
FE: “Jesus! Command, we’re gonna… Please tell our Kids we…”
[Signal Lost]
Older man giving an o the street interview in a TV clip shot against a montage of cell-phone images of the events described:
“The TVs in the store windows had just started up with the ews breaks, talking about the Galatea. I can remember the 2023 New Shepherd explosion, and I was just thinking `Oh my God, not again - Not another crew of astronauts lost,` and then that’s when I heard this screeching behind me. I turned around and there was this school bus all smashing across the median and slamming into cars. Fire was coming out of the windows and everything, and the driver actually shot up out of the roof into the air. I don’t remember seeing him come down.”
“The flames were getting bigger, started to shoot all over the place, and we could see that the kids couldn’t get out. I was screaming for somebody to do something when the first truck got on the scene. The firemen started moving people back out of the way, trying to get there, and the poor kids were just screaming, and that’s when it happened.”
“The fire just shot straight up and out of the windows and twisted up together like a braid, and then it shot down at this one fireman and hit him right square in the chest. His helmet blew off and he took a couple of steps back, but he didn’t fall over. And that first just kept on shooting up out of the bus and pouring in to him until the bus didn’t have any fire in it left at all. And the fireman, he was down on one knee, holding his head, and he looked like he was on fire - but I looked twice, and the fire was just soaked on up in to his body like he was a sponge, ad the asphalt around him was turning all red, and I swear he sank down into the melted road!”
“In response to these unprecedented events, the United States raises their alert status to DEFCON 3 for the first time since 2001.”
Not knowing what to do next, Nadia ran upstream to the hotel where they were staying previously. Fortunately it seemed that it was high enough up from the river to have avoided the worst of the damage. However the staff were piling up sandbags outside and the whole area was under about 20cm of water with the rain still pouring. 
As they seemed to have everything in hand, Stephanie instead contacted the Neptune foundation, but she didn't want to give away too much, so she just requested a ride back to the base in Belize. Jake picked up the phone and arranged a taxi to take them to the nearby Yichang Sanxia Airport, where they caught a flight to Beijing to LA where there was a bit more of a layover before finally arriving at Belize City International Airport 
Visit Neptune, reveal that they are Novas 
Dr Dantas reveals that Talents exist and that Jake is one of them, 
Get a medical checkup with Dr Brown 
Nadia gets a fan who mentions Operah is looking to interview one of the newly emerged super-humans. Call up the studio 
Phone Stephanie's sister and talk about meeting in New York 
Nadia calls her parents and tells them not to worry. 
Head to LA where Derek, an excutive from Harpo Inc asked for a demo. 
Nadia gave the demo quite well 
Did hair and makeup, Stephanie got them dates with a cameraman that evening at a fancy restaurant 
Interview starts with Nadia showing off her speed and crashing in to boxes at the studio. 
She picks the name "Nova" as a description for people like her. 
Reassures viewers that "We're all just people." 
There's some concern that Novas could be dangerous with a video showing a skinhead attacking somebody with their powers, but Nadia largely glosses over the threat they pose. 
Comes out with her public name which matches her YouTube channel as "Nad-O" or "Tornado" and the show both pays her well and gives her YouTube channel some exposure. 
They have a nice night on the town. 
They fly to NYC where Stephanie meets Nan. When they hug Nadia cures her sisters lingering injury and they are joyfully enthusiastic. 
Informed that there will be a meeting in Ethiopia of Novas sponsored by the Aeon Society. 
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