Sentinels: The Omega Superhero Book Three (Omega Superhero Series 3) by Darius Brasher

Author:Darius Brasher [Brasher, Darius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daba Publishing
Published: 2017-08-20T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

A short while later, I cautiously slowed to a stop high in the air above the sprawling property just outside of Astor City that contained Sentinels Mansion. I took stock. Sentinels Way, the road leading to the mansion, was directly below. The face of the mansion was lit up by spotlights so brightly that the four-story white edifice was hard to look at.

Nothing had happened since I had entered the mansion’s restricted airspace. In continuation of the nothing happening, the grounds in front of the mansion were completely quiet, devoid of all activity. Though the grounds were closed to the public now because it was nighttime and after touring hours, I had expected to see armed guards on patrol. However, the usually ever-present white and blue uniformed guards that made up the Sentinels’ security force were nowhere to be seen.

I had a force field up around myself, ready for any and everything. My mind was ready to lash out with my powers at the slightest hint of an attack. All my senses were at high alert. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I surveyed the complete and unbroken stillness below and around me. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. And it was not even the night before Christmas.

I was wrong before when I thought I was ready for anything. I was not ready for this, the complete absence of anything. The fact that nothing had happened since I entered Sentinels’ airspace unnerved me more than if missiles were being lobbed at me. Everyone who knew anything about the Sentinels knew that violation of their property’s restricted airspace was usually met with swift and blinding violence. Sentinels Mansion was said to be better defended than any other structure in the country except for the White House, whose defenses had been beefed up to make it perhaps the most secure building in the world after the Rogue Trident assassinated President Greenleaf a few years ago.

The last Rogue who had thought it was a good idea to mount an assault on Sentinels Mansion from the air had gotten a rude awakening. Almost a decade ago, Scimitar had been shot at by gun turrets, surface to air missiles, and lasers before he decided the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. He had retreated to lick his wounds and regrow the hair the lasers had singed off. The Sentinels had released online the footage of Scimitar being repulsed by the mansion’s defenses. A video was worth a thousand warnings. No one had dared to fly into the mansion’s airspace without permission since then. The Scimitar video was a very violent reminder to everyone that you encroached on the Sentinels’ property at your peril. It was rumored that even nuclear weapons protected Sentinels Mansion, but no one outside the Sentinels knew for sure. I always thought those rumors were baloney. Sentinels Mansion was way too close to Astor City for the team to risk setting off a nuclear blast.

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