The God Experiment

Chapter No.51. Interlude.

Chapter No.51. Interlude.

Surprisingly, the superheroes were not called upon to save anyone or anything. They were enjoying a hiatus of sorts. Janet went back to her job as a Credit Union manager. James and Sylvia spent their time enjoying the summer weather while Robert stayed at home and did the chores. Having plenty of time, he decided to make improvements to the house. The trouble with that was he didn't know how his wife would react to them.

Of course, when she arrived home, she immediately noticed the changes. "What did you do to the kitchen?"

"I decided it needed a bit of rearranging and some newer appliances."

She squinted at him. "I won't know where anything is."

"Hey, I don't mind doing the cooking. You're the breadwinner."

She gave him a smirk. "You are incorrigible!"

"I've been called worse."

James and Sylvia appeared. "What's up?" James asked.

"You should be aware of us everywhere we are at any time," Robert retorted.

"I was just being facetious."

The landline phone rang, and Janet answered it and held it out for her husband, He took it and after a brief conversation, he handed it back for her to hang up,

"NASA has a mission for us."

"Didn't the magnetic field trick work?" James said.

"No, this is something new."

"I'm ready!" his son said.

The superheroes appeared in the JPL mission room and found Jason and a tall, thin woman with gray hair waiting for them.

"This is Jill Fabio, our Space Telescope project administrator," Jason said, gesturing to Jill.

Jill stared at the superheroes for a moment before saying anything, "The Space Telescope has found a possible habitable planet orbiting a G-class star like our Sun, but it's fifty light years away from us."

"Distance isn't a problem as long as we can visualize it," Robert said.

"Well, there's a large Jupiter planet orbiting that star in the habitable zone. We believe that it has a large Earth-sized moon orbiting it that could support life. In fact, we've found that its atmosphere contains oxygen, which is a sign of life."

"I assume that you want us to go there and check it out," Robert said.

"Are you able to do that?" she asked.

"I don't see why we couldn't."

"This particular star is older than our Sun. It could be entering a sub-giant stage, but we don't really know that for sure."

"Is that a threat to life on the moon?"

"It could be. The star is 90% more luminous than our Sun."

"Okay, we'll go check it out," Robert said before he and his cohorts vanished.

Jill turned to Jason. "Are they for real?"

"Yes, they are, and we have no idea what they're capable of."

She just shook her head.

The superheroes materialized near a large Jupiter-like planet orbiting a bright G2-class star, one that was brighter than the Sun.

"Look at that!" James said, pointing to a Earth-sized moon orbiting the gas giant. "It looks like it has a decent atmosphere; although, It's very cloudy."