Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans

Author:Richard Paul Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink

Apparently, the Elgen had developed a new way to RESAT us without darts or boxes. “This just keeps getting better,” I mumbled.

McKenna dropped to her knees, then fell to her side on the asphalt, moaning and clutching her ribs. Three Taiwanese policemen walked up behind her and Welch.

“Cops!” Ostin said.

I’m pretty sure that Welch didn’t see the police as he stopped to help McKenna.

“They’re after them,” Ostin said. “We’ve got to help her.”

“We’re walking into RESATs,” Taylor said. “We’ll be worthless.”

“They won’t affect me,” Ostin said.

“I think I can do it,” I said. “I’m getting so electric. Go tell Ben to call Gervaso.”

“Okay.” As Taylor ran back toward our van, Gervaso and his group began moving toward Welch as well.

“Ian must have already spotted them,” Ostin said.

“We’ll need help,” I said. “Especially Jack’s and Gervaso’s. Let’s go.”

Ostin and I ran toward McKenna. When we were about twenty yards away from her, the back door of the food truck we were hiding behind slid open. More than a dozen Elgen guards jumped out the back.

“This way,” I said. We dropped to our hands and knees, and Ostin and I crawled under the truck toward McKenna.

“Déjà vu,” Ostin said. “Just like Peru.”

We stopped at the back of the truck just a few yards from the Elgen guards.

Then two other guards, one of them in the uniform of an EGG and wearing a mind helmet, walked up from a different direction. He took out a gun and held it to Welch’s head.

“Did you really think you could escape us?”

Welch said nothing.

The other Elgen guard was dressed in the uniform of a Zone Captain and also wore a mind helmet. He pointed a gun at McKenna. “Tell your friends to give themselves up.”

In spite of her pain McKenna said, “Tell them yourself, loser.”

The guard took a small control from his pocket and turned a knob. McKenna screamed out.

“I can make it worse,” he said.

Ostin started crawling forward.

“What are you doing?” I whispered.

“I’ve got to stop them.” He stood and ran toward them, waving his arms. “Stop it! Leave her alone.”

“That was stupid,” I said.

The guard, with an amused expression, pointed his gun at Ostin. “You must be Ostin.”

“Let her go!” Ostin shouted.

“This isn’t catch and release,” he said. “It’s finders keepers. Now kneel down next to her, or I’ll kill you both.”

“Yes, sir,” Ostin said as he knelt on the ground.

I watched the rest of our group slowly creep forward. I had no way to warn them about the RESATs.

“They’re coming, sir,” one of the guards said.

“We’ve got them covered,” the first guard replied.

That’s when I saw the full regiment of guards coming from outside the school grounds. There were at least a hundred of them. It was a trap, and we’d walked right into it.

When Gervaso’s group was within thirty yards all the electrics fell to their knees. I could feel a wave of RESAT wash over me, powerful enough to jolt me, like a slipped dental drill. But just for a second. It didn’t stop me.

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