Rogues: The Omega Superhero Book Four (Omega Superhero Series 4) by Darius Brasher

Author:Darius Brasher [Brasher, Darius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daba Publishing
Published: 2018-02-05T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

One Week and Several Days Ago

Jason Sydney lay in his bed in the medical ward of MetaHold. The country’s primary prison for housing Metahuman criminals was on Ellis and Liberty Islands in New York. The Statue of Liberty had been on Liberty Island before the Rogue Black Plague destroyed it decades ago. The islands through which millions of immigrants had once streamed into America with dreams of freedom and a better life now imprisoned hundreds of superpowered criminals with similar dreams of freedom and a better life.

Cute, Jason thought about the prison’s ironic location, not for the first time since he had been imprisoned here years ago. The government is not good at much, but it sure as hell excels at irony. Just look at the buzzwords it puts into laws’ names. Any time a bill has the word “freedom,” “liberty,” or “rights” in the name, that bill is for sure designed to take away freedom, liberty, and rights.

Jason had plenty of time to think about Orwellian doublespeak. Paralyzed from the neck down, he was unable to do too much else other than think. Reading, watching television, being occasionally chauffeured around the prison in a wheelchair, and thinking about better days were pretty much the extent of Jason’s activities. He could not even move enough to adjust his gray and white prison gown, which had somehow gotten bunched up so it exposed most of his gaunt legs.

Jason knew Bella would take care of his gown. Bella was his favorite prison nurse. She was in his room now, preparing to move his broken body to help him avoid getting bed sores. The voluptuous raven-haired woman always seemed to leave undone the top couple of buttons on her white uniform, permitting Jason a nice view of her ample cleavage when she bent over him. He was pretty sure she exposed herself on purpose because she felt sorry for him. It certainly was not because she was attracted to him. With his muscles atrophied from years of disuse, Jason looked like a Holocaust survivor. He felt like he was held together with bubble gum and baling wire.

And, of course, the miracles of modern medicine. The machines and electronics that kept him alive clicked, beeped, and whirred as Bella prepared to turn him. He could not even shit or take a piss without mechanical assistance. He was a far cry from the robust and powerful Metahuman assassin known as Iceburn that he had once been. As Iceburn, he had struck fear in the hearts of people when he appeared.

Even Jason’s fire and ice powers were gone, nullified by the field that permeated the medical ward and all the prisoners’ cells in the facility. After all this time without them, Jason still felt the absence of his powers, like a missing tooth his tongue kept probing for out of habit.

Bella turned. Jason got a quick glimpse of her overflowing pink bra through a gap in her uniform. Glee mixed with frustration in Jason. It was like looking at a delicious meal he would never be able to eat.

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