Everything Falls Apart by Micah B. Edwards

Author:Micah B. Edwards [Edwards, Micah B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Superheroes | Supervillains
Published: 2017-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

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“Absolutely not,” says Doc Simmons.

“What? Why not?” I demand. The doc laughs in surprise.

“Why won't I just give you some sedatives? It's against the rules, it's against my judgment, and it's against common sense,” says the doc, ticking the reasons off on her fingers.

“But we need them to get Brian back!”

“Even granting the validity of that statement, which I do not, what exactly is your plan for using them?”

“Well, um,” I say, having not actually gotten that far in the process, “I figured I'd just inject him. But I guess maybe if he saw the needle coming, he could dissolve it. Do you have, like, a trank gun?”

Simmons laughs again. “Yes, Dan. I have a tranquilizer gun in my laboratory, for all of those times that an experiment gets loose and I have to hunt it down in the air ducts.”

“Fine, but can you –”

“No. The hospital does not have a trank gun. It is not the sort of thing we would ever need or use.”

“Okay, okay. Um, how big are syringes? In diameter, I mean?”

“Dan. I will give you the sedatives you want right now –” my excitement must be evident on my face, because the doc lifts an admonishing finger “– if you can tell me, honestly, that you are not currently thinking of making a blowgun.”

“I, ah. Might have been,” I admit.

“This is why my answer is no,” says Simmons. “If you give chemicals to untrained idiots, you end up with untrained idiots full of chemicals. And you have no one to blame but yourself.”

“How much training can it possibly take to stick a syringe in someone?” I protest. The doc's cold stare stops me in my tracks.

“You don't even know how much you don't know. No. I will under no circumstances send you out with a load of sedatives, a lack of a plan and a deathwish,” says the doc, unlocking a cabinet and removing several boxes and bottles.

“Then what are you doing?” I ask in confusion, as she begins placing supplies into a messenger bag.

“I happen to like Brian. He's a good worker, he's intelligent, and I'd like to see him back unharmed. So I'm coming with you.”

“But we don't even know where we're going yet!”

“Actually,” says Regina, “I think I have an idea. I thought of someplace.”

The doc and I turn to look at Regina expectantly, and she continues. “Brian's into urban exploration. You know, poking around abandoned places? He's always showing me pictures of forgotten amusement parks and empty factories and things like that.

“Anyway, there's a place near here – remember Stonefield Mall?”

“Sure, the big place that opened up on the east end of town like a decade ago,” I say.

“Opened up and then closed down all within about a year, yeah. It was supposed to be this big revitalization project, only none of the stores ever really moved in and the whole thing folded almost as soon as it started.”

“Well, the supporting infrastructure wasn't there,” I say. “You can't just

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