Pedro Gonzales

By Burr Cook

This Novelette is a sequel to “The Hero”. It can also be read as a standalone story. The genre could best be described as Fantasy. It takes place mainly at the Winchester Laboratory Incorporated and returns to Yellowstone Park. The main character is the very mysterious “Pedro Gonzales”. Pedro is a drifter who turns out to be a computer whiz and saves the world from Armageddon brought about by the earth itself in retaliation for being choked by mans pollution. This story does contain scenes of psychotropic drug use in the form of Peyote cactus. The idea for the plot came from my son Burr Jr.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365552069

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Pedro Gonzales

Pedro Gonzales

Copyright 2016 Burr Cook

Introduction

This Novelette is a sequel to The Hero. It can also be read as a standalone story. The genre could best be described as Fantasy. It takes place mainly at the Winchester Laboratory Incorporated and returns to Yellowstone Park. The main character is the very mysterious Pedro Gonzales. Pedro is a drifter who turns out to be a computer whiz and saves the world from Armageddon brought about by the earth itself in retaliation for being choked by mans pollution. This story does contain scenes of psychotropic drug use in the form of Peyote cactus. The idea for the plot came from my son Burr Jr.

I

Life at Winchester Laboratory Inc. Hasn’t changed much in the three decades since Jane and Charles Winchester were recipients of Nobel Prizes for discovering an antidote for the Yellowstone Gas. The world wide crisis brought on by the gas’s effect on procreation has been corrected and worldwide birth rates are back to normal. The Winchester couple has retired and now lives in a bungalow on the shore of Seneca Lake and still own the house in town for winter months. Crime rates are down. During the years when world population was in decline Technical Progress slowed almost to none at all. Charles and Jane’s daughter Rosanne and her husband Brandon Cook are now running the business which is now a pharmaceutical company with several hundred employees still located in Geneva, New York on Seneca Lake.

A board meeting is in progress in the large conference room and since the important matters have been discussed the meeting has become an afternoon lunch with drinks and small talk. Brandon is speaking to the board OK folks that about concludes the agenda for now, how about we have some food and wine. Getting to know each other a little better won’t hurt. Since our business is doing so well I guess we’re working together fairly well. My wife Rosanne says she has nothing else to discuss. Our company has been submitting suggestions to the government on ways to halt global warming. Tyler, how would you like to give us a few words on the history of that project.

"Well, I’ll just do that. It’s my favorite subject. To start at the beginning, practically the whole world was interested in cooperating in the project prior to the arrival of the Yellowstone Gas. After the gas hit us we all forgot about it. While the world population was decreasing the carbon issue was forgotten. The global temperature went down considerably. Once the gas problem was solved technology began to increase again but everyone forgot about the climate change issue so it is now worse than ever. There are those that don’t believe it is manmade but for thinking individuals it is obviously connected to carbon emissions into