Crossover by Lucas Flint

Author:Lucas Flint [Flint, Lucas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, superhero
Publisher: Secret Identity Books
Published: 2018-06-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

An uncomfortable silence descended on the room. It was even more uncomfortable for Beams who, having never been to an IEA meeting before, wasn’t sure how he was supposed to behave. Given how ‘natives’ were not even supposed to be in HQ at all, Beams wondered if there were even established procedures for this sort of thing.

Beams looked at Mr. Space. Mr. Space looked every bit as shocked as the Commanders, maybe even more so, by this revelation.

“Commander Nova,” said another man, who seemed to be a light-skinned African-American man, “you don’t seriously believe that any of our brave and honorable agents—each one forced to swear a loyalty oath to the Agency before becoming a member—actually murdered Chief Nebula during the battle, do you?”

“It seems like the most logical explanation to me, Commander Sol,” said Commander Nova. “Our security is top notch. The Darzens are a technologically advanced species, but even they have never been able to successfully breach our security. It also explains why the locks on Chief Nebula’s doors were not broken. Chief Nebula was well-known for being a personable Chief, who often left her door open so visitors could come in and talk to her.”

“But we were in the middle of a battle,” said Commander Luna. “There’s no way Chief Nebula would have just let in anyone to her office during such a dangerous situation. And if she did, wouldn’t she have left a note in her visitor’s log?”

“According to her visitor’s log, her last visitor was Ronald, her assistant, who visited her office approximately three hours before the first Darzen stingers began their assault on the HQ,” said Commander Meteor, who was scrolling through a holographic display in front of him that seemed to display Chief Nebula’s visitor log. “He left about thirty minutes later to file the Chief Engineer’s status reports on HQ’s energy barriers for later study.”

“Ronald told me that Chief Nebula has no planned or scheduled meetings with anyone today,” Commander Nova said. “He told me that Chief Nebula was intending to spend the day finishing up some paperwork she had been putting off, at least before the Darzen attack. That, of course, changed, though she managed to get some paperwork done nonetheless.”

“Meaning the Chief had an unannounced visitor at some point between the beginning and ending of the attack,” said Commander Sol. “But the question is, who?”

“Impossible to say,” said Commander Nova. “But I hope it is clear that we have a traitor within our ranks, likely working with the Darzens to assassinate the Chief when everyone was distracted.”

“That explains why the Darzens retreated so soon,” said Commander Meteor. He pinched his fingers across the hologram and it vanished into thin air. “Yet I still find it troubling to believe that they would unleash such a devastating attack on us merely to serve as a distraction for this assassination.”

“Actually, it’s perfectly consistent with past Darzen war strategy,” said one of the unnamed Commanders, a woman with curly red hair. She seemed

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