Defender (The Vigilante Chronicles Book 6) by Natalie Grey & Michael Anderle

Author:Natalie Grey & Michael Anderle [Grey, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2018-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

As he had instructed it to do, Feword’s biosuit woke him in the middle of the night. A trickle of chemicals gradually brought him out of his sleep cycle and then pumped him up with a carefully mixed cocktail that would give him the energy of an adrenaline rush, but no shaking or nerves.

The suits of all the committee members and guards had similar mechanisms built in, meant to allow them to operate without error at unusual times. Rather than trusting the whims of a good night’s sleep, they could be alert and awake whenever the situation required it.

In this case, while the rest of the research facility was asleep.

Feword activated his suit controls and began to make his way carefully through the halls. He had been very thorough in his patrols over the last week, and he had reviewed many hours of security footage from the labs. He needed to make sure that he understood every automated security system that was in place.

So far, the scientists seemed to have been sincere when they’d said that they did not waste their time thinking about potential attacks. They did not seem to do even the most basic scans when they entered rooms, they did not make a point of checking the security feeds each day, and their logons to the computers were very simple. When they left the laboratories at night, they did not activate any motion sensors or other alarms.

Feword would need to speak to Grisor about this at the earliest opportunity. He was here for now, and that would be good enough, but whoever had designed the security protocols should be fired—or executed. They couldn’t allow anyone who knew about the facility to survive, after all.

And in the meantime, Feword would build new protocols and teach the scientists to use them.

But that was not the purpose of tonight’s excursion. Feword took the stairs down from the sleeping quarters, making sure to use the set on the far side of the building. The echoes of his steps could be more easily controlled than the sound of the elevators activating.

He did not want the scientists to wake up.

He had known for several days now that he would have to do this. Almost immediately after arrival, he had realized that the facility was short-staffed, and he knew that was not a mistake the committee would have made. They had deep pockets and did not hesitate to spend money in pursuit of their goals.

Which meant that part of the research team was missing.

Feword had not bothered Grisor with this news. Grisor trusted him implicitly to resolve issues, and Feword did not intend to tell him anything until the mystery was solved and fixed. He had his suspicions, in any case. The scientists had been so casual when they spoke of what would happen if someone broke in to attack them.

That must be because they had already survived an attack, Feword reasoned. And if they were not mentioning it to the guards, if they had hidden it from Grisor…well, what explained that?

A partial mutiny.

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