The God Experiment

Chapter No.6. Accidents.

Chapter No.6. Accidents.

Janet and Robert, along with James, were traveling home from an evening out at the local Olive Garden. While driving along route 8, Robert saw something that made his heart rate jump. A speeding tourist bus had ventured off the highway and had flipped over in a culvert. A fire had erupted, and it was obvious that people were trapped.

"Pull over," Robert demanded.

Janet pulled off on the berm and Robert jumped out of the car and raced to the scene of the accident. He immediately made the fire go out and then ripped the top passenger side door at the front of the bus off of its hinges, a feat that only a strong man could do. Since the bus was lying on its driver's side, he had to drop down into the bus through the passenger opening, He immediately noted that the driver was dead. He also smelled alcohol, a probable cause for the accident.

Robert began a swift assessment of the condition of the fifty teenagers and two adults in the bus. Some were dead, others were severely injured, while others were screaming. He began repairing those that were injured before resurrecting those that were killed. By the time he had done all that, other men had arrived and began pulling passengers out of the bus. Emergency vehicles arrived and began trying to make sense out of what had happened.

They found Robert inside the bus helping teenagers to the front door.

"Are you part of this group?" a rescue official asked.

"No, my wife and I were driving behind the bus and saw it swerve off the road flip into the culvert. I think the driver had been drinking."

The man helped Robert climb out of the bus. Robert waited until the police and rescue personnel were busy before he returned to his car and climbed in.

"Turn around and get out of here," he told his wife.

His wife wasted no time in doing so. As they moved away from the accident scene, she turned to him. "Why did the bus swerve off the road like that?"

"The driver had been drinking. I had to resurrect several of them and repair the others."

"The officials are going to be confused by how this accident didn't result in deaths and serious injuries."

"What they don't know won't hurt them."

The next day, Robert saw that photos and videos had been taken at the accident scene and at least one of them showed him with the journalist account citing him as being an unsung hero.

"Shit!" he spewed as he threw the paper down.

"What's wrong?" his wife asked, her face twisted with concern.

"Someone got a shot of me at the scene and labeled me as being an unsung hero."

"I suppose you should have assumed that it would happen. An accident of this magnitude was certain to attract the media. The good news is that you don't have any recent photos that were taken with facial recognition software-controlled cameras."

What about my military id?"

"I don't think they used facial recognition back then. Fortunately, a physical search through military records would be time consuming, so you're safe for now."

Robert rubbed his jaw. "I have an idea. Let's go to Vegas for a few weeks."

She squinted at him. "Why Vegas?"

"It's a good place to merge into the crowd, so to speak."

"Are you going to just teleport us there?"