For Every Action - The Quantum Mechanic Series Book I

The following excerpt is from the online edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Dated April 9th of 2031, the day after the bridges attack.

All 7 SEVERED!

823 confirmed dead,

153 injured,

78 missing

Cincinnati’s bridges destroyed simultaneously in terrorist attack.

Louisville, Memphis, Vicksburg, and Baton Rouge also struck. Emergency crews have resumed their recovery and cleanup efforts at the scene of the 7:37AM blasts that collapsed the bridges on Wednesday morning.

Authorities in Cincinnati lowered the number of confirmed initial fatalities to eight hundred and twenty-three from the initial estimate of nine hundred yesterday, but said they expect the number to change as search efforts continue along the swiftly moving Ohio River.

Doctors at UC Medical Center confirmed this morning that an additional one hundred and fifty-three people were severely injured. Thirty-two of the most seriously hurt died during rescue operations, in transport, or during treatment at local hospitals. Those not killed in the explosion were presumed to be fatally wounded in the fall to the water and wreckage below.

Most experts currently believe that the bridges were destroyed with high grade explosives most commonly used by the military. It is unknown how those responsible for these horrific acts were able to obtain these materials.

One hundred and thirty-five people were transported to area hospitals including seventy-four to UC. Sixty-two of those had life-threatening injuries, six were listed in satisfactory condition and two were treated and released.

Among those injured who were treated at UC Hospital was the young girl who was dramatically saved from the Brent Spence Bridge. Witnesses at the scene report that her masked rescuer leaped over the four-hundred-foot gap between the Kentucky shoreline and the central section of the Brent Spence Bridge. While initial reports were dismissed as a hoax, video taken by multiple people and nearby traffic cameras appear to confirm the story. When the central section of finally collapsed three minutes later, the man who wore a black cloth over his face simply vanished while plummeting towards the river with the girl in his arms. Many reported seeing a blinding flash of light, and hearing a sound like a gunshot from a high caliber weapon at the same time.

Daniel Jacobs was in the parking lot of the UC Medical Center and reports seeing the man reappear near the Emergency Room entrance at almost exactly the same time that cameras show him disappearing. According to him “All of a sudden out of nowhere there was this lightning came down behind the delivery truck that’s usually parked over by the dock wall. Like three or four streaks of lightning all at once and they hit at the same place. It was so bright you couldn’t look at it. Then the truck jumped like something hit it really hard from the other side and slid like six feet over. The tires left these long black streaks and for a second I thought it was gonna tip over. But then it came back down and bounced a couple times.”

“A second later this guy came staggering out from back there. He was wearing a black hood or something and carrying a little girl. At first I thought he was hurt because he was covered in blood. But he seemed OK, just so busted out he could barely stand up. It was the girl that was hurt real bad. Her one leg was broken and twisted so bad you could see the bones. The other one was just gone. Like, chopped off at the knee. He carried her inside and came back out alone a few seconds later.”

“That’s when Jackson, the orderly that usually works the emergency room, came out and tried to call him back. When the guy kept going he ran behind the truck to try to catch him and came out of the other side looking all confused. I think I heard the truck blow a tire then and that guy - well he just... disappeared.”

(See page 2 report by Oliver Wilde - Have we just witnessed the world’s first superhero?)

Both doctors and UC administration refused to comment on how the young victim arrived at the hospital, the exact nature of her injuries, her treatment and condition, or why the US Army has assumed control of her care. President and CEO of University of Cincinnati Medical Center - Diane Foss confirmed by NetCast that the girl had been transported out by military helicopter at.

According to Foss, UC staff and administration were not given any information about her destination or why the military became involved.

--The Associated Press contributed to this report.