Bound For Glory (Sci-Fi Sizzlers) by Craig A. Falconer

Author:Craig A. Falconer [Falconer, Craig A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

7

I don’t want to count any chickens just yet, but I think Young Chad really has outsmarted one of our Station Commanders.

Boron hasn’t told Sturjo about our talk earlier. I know that for sure because Sturjo hasn’t mentioned it and Boron made up a reason to talk to me privately when it came time for our Control Room visit.

Between that talk and now, I’ve done some more last-minute flight training. Sturjo spent some of that time merrily recalling the embarrassment Boron and I heaped on poor Carl last night, and every passing minute with these Commanders really does further strengthen my resolve to bring them down.

Dad’s recollections of life on the original Exxolon base involve aliens with attitudes and behaviours so far from Sturjo and Boron — none more so than the apparently benevolent Emperor himself — that I’m growing surer and surer that power really has corrupted these two into what they’ve become.

If I can successfully deliver proof to other Anzorians of what’s happening here, particularly conditions in the prison cells but also the general treatment of human subjects within what we all still think is supposed to be some kind of research station, well, hopefully I can put an end to all of this.

Could other Station Commanders be worse? I doubt it, but you never know.

Could my dad’s memories be hazy, or could the Emperor have changed for the worse in the intervening decades? Maybe.

Could this whole plan take us out of the frying pan and into the fire? Who knows.

But I’ll tell you what I do know: I’m sick of living in a damn frying pan, and that’s not the life I want for my friends or my dad, either.

I don’t think I’m being cavalier to think this is worth a shot, because things here hardly seem worth preserving. I could strike out, no two ways about it, but I have to take this swing.

When we get close to the Control Room, Boron gives me the code so he doesn’t have to come into sight of the door. He wants to stay unseen, to make sure the alien traitor he’s expecting won’t see him.

My dad couldn’t save a few steps by giving me the code in a message because until now I’ve had no excusable reason to be in the Control Room, or even near it. He does, on the other hand, and his back-breaking janitorial work might just end up being our saving grace.

I enter the code and step into the Control Room, trying to act cool. The fact that Boron is going along with this without telling Sturjo makes me think no one is watching the security footage, or else the commanders would surely be alerted to such an unexpected entry as this.

There’s bound to be surveillance in here — there literally has to be — but if no one is watching it live then maybe I don’t really have all that much to worry about.

While still playing it cool, I look around with increasing urgency in a bid to find whatever kind of device contains the footage Dad is planning to give me.

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