Nova Academy: A Superhero & Supervillain Novel by Scott Olen Reid

Author:Scott Olen Reid [Reid, Scott Olen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Three Helmets Books
Published: 2017-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36

We decide to make the grab this coming weekend, which gives us three to four days to decide who on the private lab signup list will be the best one to take. Stopping by the student lab the next morning after our talk out in the woods, I make a list of all the people who have reserved the lab for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights anywhere from midnight to five AM. There is a little more risk of students still being in the building at midnight, and some early risers, but I want to make sure I find someone who, first and foremost, is wearing a hat and Carly can't scan them. Next, and most important, is how much of a fight I think they'll be able to put up, which is as much situational as individual. A guy using a grinder with hearing protection on, or who is head to foot in bulky protective gear because they're working in one of the private foundries, will be easier to sneak up on, but I don't want them to be a Class 3 or Class 4 no matter what they're wearing, or doing.

I go over the list and one name sticks out, "Hajiro Sukimaki." Hajiro is in my Engineering for Advanced Minds class and I've seen him trying to lift an eighty pound mounting bracket for a rocket motor during lab. He's definitely baseline strength as people were laughing at him trying to muscle that thing into place. He's also been wearing a hat to class for the past few weeks. I just need Carly to try and scan him, just in case he just happens to like hats.

The next day is Wednesday, one of the days I have my engineering class, and I have Carly standing behind one of the pillars outside the exit to the lab so she can give Hajiro a quick scan on the way out. The only thing she knows about him is he's a Japanese guy with a hat and always walks with his head down, which kind of precludes her seeing his face to know if he's Japanese or not. She'll figure it out.

When I come out, she falls in step with me, "He's blocked. Same feeling as all the others, only he didn't react when I scanned him."

"That's not surprising, the guy is pretty meek. I doubt he would have reacted if you smacked him in the head."

"He sounds perfect."

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