"Weather or not" a double drabble story- Chapter 27 (the story is winding down, but not quite yet)

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Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4 Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8
Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15
Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22
Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26

The equipment and body were brought back to headquarters for examination.

The man, identified as Wilbur Wiggins, had been a member of Columbia University’s Physics department, having recently lost his research funding and his job.

It would seem the weather control device was supposed to be his payback, though UNCLE would never know for sure.

Searching his home; no manifesto or paperwork that would clarify his reason for doing what he’d done was found. His schematics for the machine were missing.

The device had been damaged by the storm with many parts rusting over rather quickly.  It would take months to disassemble and clean it, for what purpose other than to see how it worked.

The ability to control the weather seemed like it would be beneficial to mankind, but it was discovered that when Wiggins made it rain in New York, it caused sudden drought conditions elsewhere.

“It would seem,” Waverly concluded,” that he was in essence ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ by using his machine.”

It was decided to lock the device away unrepaired in the UNCLE archives, there with the innumerable other creations that in the wrong hands could threaten the safety of mankind and the world.

Chapter 28- the conclusion

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

A more reasonable and sympathetic Thrush than most. The 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' is good.

And unrepaired is definitely a good idea.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, but he's not Thrush, and merely a disgruntled ex-employee of a university who wanted to show them 'what for', for getting rid of him.!

Thanks for the comment! Still not done yet....almost!

[threecee.livejournal.com]

Good story!(This is the end, right? You've been successfully stringing us along with one twist or cliff-hanger after the other ...)

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Nope still the end...(chuckle) But it's almost there. Tomorrow is the ending! Thanks for hanging in there!

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

I like the whole 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' idea. Very clever.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah the idea made the device even more dangers, and better Thrush doesn't get their hands on it.