Return of Sky Ghost by Maloney Mack

Author:Maloney, Mack [Maloney, Mack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480406803
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-04-24T16:02:00+00:00

Seventeen

THEY RETURNED TO AREA 52 and after tracking down the security officer, were given the use of an office, a telephone, and a place to plug in the MVP for recharging.

Hunter lay sprawled on the couch in the small office. Its only window looked west, out away from the runways and the rest of the base, and into the mountains beyond. He was drinking coffee and watching the sunset as Y, seated behind an ancient oak desk, fiddled with the power-drained MVP.

A number of thoughts drifted through Hunter’s mind, as was his wont at the end of most long days. As the sun was going down, the desert was turning golden. His thoughts went backwards from there. Seeing all the strange planes at Bride Lake. The wild nights in Texas. Xwo mountain. The battle at Axaz. The Super Ascender. Sara.

His brain rewound itself, and then took a right turn. Stranger notions began streaming in. Eating bugs on the ground in the Peruvian jungle. Trying to stay invisible atop of Xwo. The strange feeling that night on the roof of the Happy Valley when his psyche had him staring off to the northeast. Then, earlier this very day in Dallas, and the strange fortune-teller.

Hunter laughed a bit to himself. It seemed like ten years ago now. It was strange: He could picture the psychic right down to her dimples and her deep brown eyes. But he could hardly recall what she had told in her prediction.

You will soon be very cold—he remembered that much intact. But that was hardly true. It was ninety-six degrees inside the office right now, even though the sun was going down and the huge windowframe air conditioner was blowing cold at full tilt.

What came after that? You will meet old friends again, she had said. Again Hunter chuckled. Not out here, he wouldn’t.

They will build something to come apart. What the hell did that mean?

Hunter frowned. What was the rest of it? Then you will be asked to …

“Holy shit …”

Y’s soft exclamation broke Hunter out of his trance. The MVP was repowered and reconnected. Their new orders were streaming in. Y was reading them—and swearing in amazement with each line.

“Son of a bitch,” he was mumbling. “Are they kidding?”

“Jessuzz, break it to me gently,” Hunter told him, staring now up at the ceiling, as if he was waiting for it to fall in on him at any moment.

“Well, first off,” Y began, “by a presidential order you have been officially designated a ‘secret weapon’ by the War Department.”

“You’re kidding …”

Y shook his head no.

“I’m quoting here: ‘A panel of the senior Psychic Evaluation Officers have recognized that for whatever reason, Major Hunter’s presence in a tactical or strategic situation will probably have an effect in the overall outcome.’ Therefore, Major you are valuable. Therefore, you are now a secret weapon. It also means you can be cleared for some of this.”

Hunter just shook his head and went back to staring at the ceiling.

“Point Two,” Y went on.

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