City of Shadows by Declan Finn

Author:Declan Finn [Finn, Declan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silver Empire
Published: 2019-04-05T22:00:00+00:00

12

Fury of the Storm

I didn’t say anything for a moment. I looked from one side to the other. He had a lot of cops. I didn’t know what they were doing here in the first place.

“On what charge?” I asked calmly.

Shaw smiled. “Lord and Lady Fowler swore out a complaint against you. They’ve stated that you two stole explosives from the Fowler munitions company.”

I blinked and looked at Pearson. “Can you imagine what we would do with explosives? I don’t think I want to blow up anything in London yet.”

Pearson leaned over and said, “The A0406. It’s terrible. Unless you prefer highways. Then it’s the M25.”

I nodded sagely, rolling with the joke.

Shaw wasn’t laughing. “We figure that you two are here to start a false flag terrorist attack to start a war. Again. Because that’s what you Americans do, don’t you? Investigating a lead about a threat to New York is just a cover, isn’t it? What are you really? CIA?”

All humor drained out of the situation. Given his supposition and reinforcements, this wasn’t the way he would go after a terrorist suspect.

Funny, if he was going to arrest us, you’d think he’d have had his men encircle us first so we couldn’t run.

Then I realized that he wanted us to run. Half of his men were carrying guns, specially rolled out and issued just for us.

We were apparently so inconvenient to the city of London, someone wanted us dead…or maybe just me. It took me a moment to process this. Shaw must have read my face because he smiled. While I couldn’t read his mind, I had the strong impression that if we went quietly, there would be an accident for at least one of us in holding.

If he wants us to run, let’s give it to him. God, any ideas what I should be doing now? I’m figuring levitation would get us out the door, at least. Bi-location for a distraction?

Time slowed for me. Reality warped a little as my vision began to split. I was going to bi-locate.

Time to put on a show. “Are you sure that I’m here? Are you sure that I’m not over there?”

That’s when two duplicates appeared behind the gathering of police officers.

Both of my duplicates grabbed the sidearms out of the holsters. I crashed both of them into the crowd, holding the stolen guns up into the air and firing repeatedly into the domed glass ceiling overhead. They emptied their magazines into the air. Then the duplicates faded out of existence, making everyone in the crowd of cops to whirl around for two people who technically never existed.

Shaw turned his head towards the gunshots and reached for his gun. Too late, he realized he was in trouble. He turned back to me, but too late. My left hand clamped down on his gun arm. My right drove a cross into his face. Shaw’s head snapped back. As he fell, I came back with his 9mm Glock 26. I took the ten rounds and ran with it.

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