Dr. Katherine Collins worked on a new antitoxin for the war effort.

  A team of White Coats materialized.

  “Katherine, this is your chance. Come with us …”

  Katherine vanished with them.

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  Madame President, there’s been another kidnapping by ‘The White Coats.’

  “I don’t get it. What’s their plan?”

  “Well, ma’am, after they built that impenetrable Martian base, they developed a teleportation technology.”

  “That doesn’t explain their end game.”

  “Oh, about that, ma’am, we’ve hacked a recent communication mentioning they’re planning to establish a colony of sovereign scientists, free of political or ideological influence, more powerful than any nation on Earth.”