helium

The afternoon was a bit of a blur. The police had been called and the school was soon overrun by yellow jacketed scene of crime officers, forensics teams and the mass media clamouring to get a story to go with the bizarre events that unfolded just after lunchtime. Katie and Leanna had both spent the last hour and a half walking around in a daze, being questioned by serious looking men and comforted by well meaning policewomen; they were in shock, after all they had just witnessed a popular young maths teacher pump up like a balloon and explode like one too.

Haley nearly fell out of her chair when she heard the news. Micro Carbide Systems had introduced the first nanotech weight loss device, the same thing that she had been working on for rival company Integrated BioSystems. The past three years Haley had worked on the project with an elite staff of engineers, doctors, physicists, and nutritionists only to have the same project finished by MCS in less than a year. She smelled a rat.