Counterattack by Sigmund Brouwer

Author:Sigmund Brouwer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781414367170
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 2

I woke up seeing the world around me through my own eyes, not the video lenses of a robot. The jolt had disconnected me from the robot body. I now sat in my wheelchair, nowhere near the death-training warehouse or the robot body that had just been delivering information to my brain. The bot-pack was still plugged in to my spine.

What I saw was another windowless room, filled with large, clear cylinders that contained a dark jelly. Two of these 23 cylinders were empty except for the dark jelly. But each of the other cylinders held one kid about my age, with the dark jelly holding them in place. Wires and tubes ran from the ceiling down into the jelly cylinders, connecting to the skulls and arms of each kid. Other tubes removed their body wastes. Only their heads appeared above the jelly. Although their eyes and ears were covered with contoured wax, these kids weren’t dead. Only unconscious to the activities around them in this room.

All of them were trapped. Permanently. In 24-hour-a-day life-support systems.

These were the kids running the soldier robots. The kids who had been ordered to kill, kill, kill!

“Stun rod,” I said. My words came out as a croak. And my head hurt like it had been sent spinning with a whack from the blunt edge of an ax. I didn’t even want to think about how many other times I’d been shocked out of robot contact. Rawling McTigre, my friend on Mars and the director of the Mars Project, had promised that low-level shocks like this wouldn’t do any permanent damage.

“Stun rod?” Two anxious faces peered down at me.

“Stun rod.” Because I’d been born on Mars and had recently arrived on Earth, I could only guess from memories of all the DVD-gigaroms I’d watched growing up there. “I’m pretty sure that’s what happened. He zapped me with a stun rod.”

“He? Tyce, who is this ‘he’ who zapped you?” This question came from the man’s face closest to me. It was still out of focus since my head had not stopped its spinning sensation. But I had just traveled with this man for four days. Nate. Nicknamed Wild Man by his platoon buddies in the Combat Force of the World United Federation. I knew what his face would look like when my vision cleared.

“He. Big he. Mean he. That’s all I know about he.” I grinned at Nate, even though the extra movement hurt my face. “Am I making sense yet?”

“Why were you zapped? What was happening … ?” The other face belonged to General Jeb McNamee. Cannon.

“What was happening on the other side?” I finished for Cannon. One of the top-ranking generals in the Combat Force, he was on this secret mission with us.

Even though the general was up-to-date with all military technology, robot control seemed completely new to him. I think he was still trying to grasp the concept—and its potential. It was almost like he was still in disbelief that my brain

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