Breaking News by C B Archer

Author:C B Archer [Archer, C B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

There were police, Bennies, and the Army everywhere. They were crawling all over the main floor, looking through Don’s apartment, the hallway, and Chet’s apartment, which had been taken over as a base of operations for the GOOD GUYs and was now off limits. So much for this being the ‘Neutral Zone’ where no one interfered.

I now had Chet signed up to sleep on my couch, and Calamity already sleeping beside it. I’d call that significantly interfering with my life.

I couldn’t search Don’s place, but there were still many places to search. Starting with…

I scowled at my arch-nemesis. This was it. Our dramatic final battle. But this time, I had come prepared.

I pressed the elevator call button, but didn’t use a wrench, or a pen, or a pencil, oh no. That was exactly what it was expecting me to do. I knew it had plans to still get me even if I used such an extension. It was too crafty an adversary to fall for that cheap trick. I grinned at it. It stared back.

“A Shocker Talent can’t defeat another Shocker Talent unless I use my own greatest weakness against you. Eat vulcanized rubber, fiend!”

With one swift motion, I lifted up my leg and executed a spinning back-kick on the button, pressing it in with the toe of my sneaker. Pow! The elevator dinged. I had done it. I had called the elevator and not been shocked. I had finally won.

“Not so high and mighty now are you?!” I cackled evilly at my defeated opponent. Yes, I had been a Bennie before becoming a news anchor, but that didn’t mean that I hadn’t practiced an evil laugh in the mirror, just in case.

The elevator doors opened and I was finally their queen.

“Hmmm…”, I tapped my lips with my finger. “What do we have here?”

The panel to the elevator was missing a screw that it was not missing earlier this morning. I wiggled the panel a little and it lifted up in my hands. Don. Don had been in here. He had jury rigged the elevator to go up to the roof and the sixth floor and—

Ding!

The elevator had been called to the first floor and started to move down. That floor was filled with people on the hunt for Don, I was trapped in here and I panicked. How could I possibly escape? I only had a few seconds and—

Oh right. I can fly. I flew through the never-actually-had-anything-covering-it-in-the first-place part of the escape hatch and lightly settled on the top of the car. The door dinged open. Bennies.

“Hey, look at that access panel. It is all tricked out with Electronics Talent junk.” Awesome Man noted.

“How did we miss that the first time?” The Hotness replied.

The Hotness and Awesome Man? They were named members of the Liberty Gang. What were those two doing here working on some nameless henchman level of quest? This had to be higher up than I had suspected. It wasn’t like they were going to be demoted to henchperson without the entire city finding out.

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