The Project

The Project(candace baylor) Living in london after graduating college from Utah and building the skills of being a great scientist. Always ahead of my other classmates, creating my career when i was sixteen. With success from dealing with different companies, I finally build the biggest lab in the city.

Finishing up a letter to family back home about the adventure I've been having, but there was a rough start in the beginning. Now that I know the ends and outs of deserts, I'm going on my first real project.

The Paris museum of art and science gave the team and I a project to find new undiscoved things. I don't know when I'm coming back, but I know where I'm starting. It could take weeks or months and I will be writing again soon. When I'm out there, I'm hoping to find unknown creatures, or at least their skeletons, from thousands of years ago buried under the pyramids. Wish me luck; I'm leaving tonight when the clock strikes twelve, at midnight. Love Ezra.

Turning the lights off and setting the alarm. On my way out, grabbed another luggage of samples from the storage room. The sky was clear, gray, not a star in site, and the air was damp from the rain earlier. The lab truck was the last in the parking lot and the team was already waiting by the plane. After putting the letter in the mail box, I jumped quickly in the truck out of excitement. The roads were bizarre with a few cars on the high way. I was about a mile away, I could hear the boisterous roars of jet engines about take off and crowds of people saying goodbyes to loved ones as I got closer.

I parked around back in the garage with the rest of the lab trucks. Just as I thought the team was waiting and landing by the plane when I turned the corner. Holding my balance steady from the exerting great force of wind from the helicopters and planes around me, about to take off, leaving it uneven to walk. Showing my identification to the security and pasting through with a plethora of scientists going to study with the rest of us in Egypt. When finished loading up I went to greet the team and have a small meeting. "Did you make copies of the maps?" my partner Aaric asked, "I have them all in my bag and when we get to the lab I'll pass them out," I ensured him. We were now about three thousand feet high in the air when i took my seat. Only seeing black shadows of clouds passing.

Lightning strikes through the sky leaving everyone startled and shocked. Up ahead was a ball of death roaring through and out of the plane. Rain came pounding on the windows and wind making the plane go sideways. There is no way around, just to go through without landing because of the deep ocean underneath us. Silence grew for minutes only leaving pounds of rain getting softer. Worries lift their faces in relief only hoping deep inside that we didn't get fooled by the faded storm. Within seconds lightning strikes the front of the plane and the repeller catches on fire. Over the intercom a voice telling everyone to tighten their seat belts.

The repeller gave out slowly and the plane started crashing down beneath our eyes. Sitting in my seat praying that we will all be okay and hearing screams behind me, with papers flying. Suddenly remembering high school when my father was giving me pilot lessons, I quickly unbuckled and rushed to the front where the pilot was flying. He was passed out in his seat with a lady trying to wake him up.

I said quckly, "How long has he been out?" "ll passe guand la foudre barre tout happened sivite," she said with tears flowing down her face. "Do you speak english?" I asked and she looked at me in quandary. "siege et bugle maintenant," I commanded, remembering the french I learned from working in a few Paris company's. I picked up the mic. from the radio to contact other planes to give us help. A few responded and told me to look and see if there is any water underneath us. I looked and we were over hills of sand. I told the person over the radio when the plane went sideways and we started going faster down. The radio flew off the table making cords break.

Suddenly the plane was under a hill of sand making the light disappear and leaving it with a somber darkness. I scratched my arm on the pieces of glass from the shattered window and the woman had a minor injury on her head. I took off my jacket to wrap it around my arm to stop the bleeding. Then I ran back to find people with minor injuries and Aaric helping them. A couple minutes passed when the sound of helicopters flying above could be heard. Everyone went silent listening to them. When the light grew stronger again through the windows, we saw the rescuers through the windows digging the plane out.

The pilot woke up from a concussion and they were pulling us out from the windows. With all the questions of where we are? And how did they find us? they finally answered as we were all in the helicopters. They told us that we are in Egypt and how they tracked the plane when I turned on the radio. It took us about a half an hour to get to the hospital to take care of the wounds. It was more or less of a long process. They took Aaric and I to the lab with some others and some had to stay back a little longer.

Being the first one out the door with eagerness to see it and get started.
Looking around, only finding a pyramid, beside it was a sphinx, and the large town a few miles ahead. Aaric came beside me and went back to the pilot to ask if we were in the right place. A man came from the pyramid somewhere to greet us and motioned us over to follow him. We went to the pyramid and he put his hand on a scanner to open the stone door.

We went into a long hallway, then it became a deep stairway leading down underground. We were now back to a hallway and came to a stop at a metal door wih another scanner. We went in and had a tour. There are computers, web cams, mummy cases with a mummy in it opened, and a plethora of stuff I've never seen before. Artifacts lay across the tables we passed and pits of gold shined out of rocks.

Next we went to a long stairway that went in cycles to our rooms where we will be sleeping. The next day the others came and we all split up in groups. We looked at the maps and got on more helicopters to go to different places. Aaric and I were the last to leave. I circled the place on the map and we got dropped off at the top of a rocky mountain, only discovering fossils that we took back to the lab. We were about to end the day when some men we saw on a couple of lamas came motioning us and yelling from the top of the hill in a different language.

We went up and made it there before sunset. There was this huge deep hole in the ground. It was a bizarre stone almost shaped as a head with other stones and sand around it. The others come with big shovels and started to pull a lot out. The head-like stone was turned over and stuck by the clay like sand underneath. I pulled with one of the shovels and it was a skeleton. It had a pointed shape with cat like eyes, and had a human figure when we laid at all out on sheets. Then we carefully wrapped it up and went to the lab for testing.

We worked through the night to find that it lived two million years ago. I sent all the information to the lab in London and it was put in the museum. I received an award for saving the people on the plane and discovering something new out there. Now spending my last day in Egypt and planning a flight back home, hoping for it to be better than before.

By: Candace Baylor