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092 The Replacement
Victor never finished the sentence. A cough tore out of him and doubled him over the cables, and blood dripped from his lips onto the crystal.Jack dropped to one knee beside him. He pulled the handkerchief from his coat pocket and wiped his father's mouth, the way Ashley used to wipe his face when he was small.Then he unscrewed the small water flask at his belt and held it to Victor's lips."Drink, Dad. Slowly.""Tell me where Mom is."Victor swallowed a few mouthfuls. Some of the gray left his face."Let me tell you everything, from the start. You've earned that much."He let his head sag and closed his eyes."When we found Jill, we thought we could just take her home. We watched her from a distance for days, and your mother cried every night.""Then we got hold of the palace medical files and learned what you learned the hard way. The moment she got near the city border, the plasma core in her chest would start burning her alive."Jack's jaw clenched. He still remembered his siste
091 The Power Source
Jack kicked a twisted turret barrel out of his path. His burns still stung, but his strength had flooded back the moment the beams stopped.Vexler had left a junkyard behind the camouflage veil. Turrets lay torn off their mechanical arms, their barrels bent like straws, and cannons lay split open.The madman hadn't left a single gun standing. But the dome stood untouched.It towered over the ruins, smooth and gleaming. Vexler's stray railgun rounds lay flattened at its base.The earpiece crackled and Vandrake spoke up."My Lord. The chopper has picked up the King of Diamonds. He's unconscious, but he keeps mumbling that he can still fight.""Good. Keep him away from the guns until he heals, even if he begs.""Understood."Vandrake hesitated."My Lord, are you certain you don't want backup? Give the word and Springfield will have a full battalion over that dome within an hour.""No. This is personal, Vandrake. These are my parents who are in danger. I should have been the one coming in
090 Done for Today
Blue light blazed across the ruined lot in front of Morgana's dome.The beam held Jack by the chest. Crackling electricity crawled under his skin and clamped his jaw shut. A second beam lanced out of the dark and seared his shoulder. A third struck his thigh."Target struck. Increasing output."The turrets whirred down together and opened fire again. This time the bullets didn't bounce off. They sparked blue against his skin.Every round bit like a taser. Shocks jolted into him from every direction, and his muscles twitched uncontrollably across his arms and back.Jack gritted his teeth and kept walking. He had marched through gunfire his whole life."Target slowing. Full array engaged."Every emitter in the lot fired at once, and a cage of crisscrossing beams closed around him.His boots dragged through the dirt. Each step took more out of him than the last.Jack clenched his fist. In front of Brakus's army, that same fist had shaken the ground and split the asphalt.Now nothing happ
089 Heraclite
A cold wind rattled the broken shelter of the bus stop.Ashley didn't answer her son. She sat frozen on the bench and stared at the empty road ahead with glassy, unseeing eyes. Tears kept sliding down her cheeks, but she never blinked.Jack's chest tightened. He crossed the cracked pavement in three long strides and knelt in front of her."Mom, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you answering me?"Slowly, she turned her head.Up close, he barely recognized her. Dark shadows sank deep under her eyes. Lines he had never seen cut across her forehead.The woman who had cried happy tears at his wedding seemed to have aged years since then. She looked so sad and worn out that his throat closed up at the sight.Ashley's lips trembled for a moment."Jack. You're here."She barely whispered it, and fresh tears spilled down her face."I'm so sorry, sweetheart. This was a mistake. Don't come inside.""Inside where? What are you talking about? Where's Dad?""Your father… Victor… He…"Jack reached
088 Diabolic Indeed
The barricade in the old heart of Sparta City still blazed under the floodlights.Brakus clutched his bleeding hand to his chest and sneered at the young man in the oversized jacket."Your precious lord ran off and left you behind, clown. We'll deal with him later.""Jack Hardy won't be back to save you though. When I'm done with you, I'll tie you to my truck by your ankles and drag you through every street in Sparta.""Yeah, yeah, yeah," Vexler retorted, waving his arms as if trying to silence a class full of school children. "But my lesson comes first.""A lesson? From a clown on a scooter? What lesson would that be?"Vexler didn't answer immediately. He strolled back to his dead scooter, humming to himself. A long bundle wrapped in a gray cloth was strapped along its side."Captain, let me put a bullet in him!" a sergeant growled.Brakus raised his good hand to hold his men back. The clown had made a fool of him in front of the whole army, and he wanted to watch him beg first.Vexl
087 King of Diamonds
Floodlights blazed over the barricade in the old heart of Sparta City. Hundreds of fingers tightened on hundreds of triggers.Then an engine coughed somewhere behind the barricade.It wheezed, banged and sputtered like an old man choking on his soup. Every soldier jerked toward the noise. A few rifles swung away from Jack and pointed into the dark."Is that a lawnmower?" a soldier yelped.A battered scooter rattled out of the shadows. Its headlight blinked on and off, and black smoke puffed from its exhaust with every bang.The rider was a slender young man swimming in a jacket far too big for him. He wrestled with the handlebars while the scooter bucked under him.The engine gave one last ugly bang and died a few feet from Jack's Triumph motorcycle. The sheer contrast between the two vehicles was obvious.The young man hopped off and gave the seat a fond pat.Jack's lips twitched. Only one man in the world would ride into an army on a dying scooter.Brakus's cheeks puffed with rage.
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