Prometheus Ascends (The Great Insurrection Book 6) by David Beers & Michael Anderle

Author:David Beers & Michael Anderle [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

“You couldn’t have given us a better ship?” Ares asked Monk once they’d escaped the planet’s atmosphere. “All that tech, and you left us with this?”

“What you come with is what you leave with. What we gave you is possibly worth more than all the ships in the universe, combined.” Monk was staring at one of the ship’s panels, looking out at space. Ares imagined it was the first time the creature had ever been off his home planet. He was giving the machine a hard time, but in reality, he didn’t hold any ill will toward it.

“I’m not seeing any enemies coming for us, Monk. You sure you aren’t just a bit paranoid?”

The machine didn’t turn to look at him as he spoke. “They’re coming. We weren’t fast enough. They’re already flocking to the planet, and soon they’ll be on us as well.”

Ares didn’t like the sound of that. He turned to Veena with an eyebrow raised.

She only shrugged and shook her head, saying nothing. She continued to watch her scans.

“So far I’m right, Monk, but I’ll play along. Do they know we have the algorithm?” Ares still found it hard to believe that such a thing was in his mind, yet any time he doubted it, he had only to close his eyes and feel it.

“I wasn’t programmed with the ability to read minds,” the robot shot back.

“You know what I mean. Why are they coming for us? That doesn’t make sense, given the myth.”

Monk still didn’t look at him but peered at the starlit panel as if he could see the coming enemies. “Just because the algorithm didn’t spread, it doesn’t mean the rumor of it didn’t. Rumors spread like the wind, and people spread at nearly the same pace. An algorithm such as the one you came looking for would be a valuable rumor and would probably spread even faster.”

Ares again turned to Veena, but she was staring at the panels as well, her eyes glazed as if she weren’t hearing them. Ares was trying to get the logic of their situation laid out so he could understand it since if Monk was right, there wouldn’t be much time for understanding later.

Veena’s question had little to do with the logic behind everything, though, or at least the logic that didn’t directly concern her.

“Why did I see my parents?” Her eyes kept that glazed look. “What was the point of that?”

Monk turned then, his human-like head the only part of his body that moved. “We had to understand you. The human species is more defined by their parental units than any other species we’ve come across. Your entire lives are molded by what your parents do and say, sometimes to greatness and other times to sorrow. Oftentimes, the two are combined.”

“Why did I see them, then?”

Ares couldn’t tell if there were tears in Veena’s eyes, but he thought maybe there were. He hadn’t seen her cry ever, not in all they’d experienced together, yet now…

Monk rolled back from the screen a bit, then straightened so he faced the ship’s captain.

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