Amped: A Kid Sensation Companion Novel by Kevin Hardman

Author:Kevin Hardman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781937666354
Publisher: I&H Recherche Publishing
Published: 2016-07-21T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

I filled my companions in on my conversation with Mrs. Gutierrez as we drove to Locke Infinite (or rather, the lot where we’d parked the last time). Smokey gave me a sympathetic glance when I mentioned Mary Jones’ attitude towards her baby, but he didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to dwell on it anyway; we were about to head back into Locke Infinite, and I needed to get my game face on, not spend time fretting about how a woman who may or may not have been my mother had treated her unborn child.

Getting inside the storage facility was essentially a repeat of our antics from a few nights before. From hiding our clothes by the tree to shutting off the power to slipping into the vault wearing our stealth suits and night vision goggles, it was as if some celestial being had hit the “Replay” button on a cosmic remote. In short, within just a few minutes of entering the place, we had returned the data tape to the box we’d found it in and were on our way out. We were just about to exit the building when something akin to an air raid siren sounded from outside for about ten seconds.

Hand on the door, Smokey turned to me and Li in alarm. “What the hell was that?”

“Judging from the decibel range and the sound wave produced, I would surmise it was an air horn,” Li said.

Even with the goggles on, Smokey appeared confused. “Why would anybody be sounding an air horn at this place?”

“Because the security system is down!” I whispered fiercely. When Smokey still didn’t seem to understand, I hissed, “It’s a makeshift alarm, you idiot! They know someone’s here! We gotta go!”

As if to give credence to my words, we heard footsteps coming from the nearby interior, and a second later, the wandering beams of flashlights came into view.

Taking the initiative, I pushed the door open and dashed outside. Smokey, remembering his role on this mission, immediately began blanketing the area, surrounding us with mist. (As far as I knew, all the cameras were still off, but it didn’t hurt to take extra precautions.)

I was about to start running towards the tree where our street clothes were hidden when I felt a couple of familiar bioelectric fields nearby. Looking in their direction, I heard a grunt of pain and saw a man in the uniform of a security guard flop onto the frost-covered ground about twenty feet from us. Lying next to him was another fellow – unconscious – dressed in a similar uniform, as well as a couple of flashlights and, presumably, the air horn we’d just heard.

Standing over the unconscious guards were two people I knew – the sources of the bioelectric fields I had recognized a few seconds earlier: Whipcord and Smiley.

They were dressed somewhat similar to us, although they wore black bodysuits that probably didn’t have a stealth design (and made them look more like burglars). From the way

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