Spatial Distortion: Origins of Supers: Book Six by D. L. Harrison

Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The shield was immune to just about anything short of an orbital strike. After it was up and running, I felt almost like myself again.

Once that was done, I headed to Mars for the second time. Mostly because the United States had no jurisdiction there, and it was on another planet. I didn’t want to be a citizen there or anything, but a little research had revealed they had furnished house rentals by the month, for long term vacationers to the red planet. I picked one up for six months, with a ten-ounce gold bar worth twelve thousand dollars.

I could’ve just had all the little things teleported inside of my superhero device’s engineering room, and then made myself scarce when the government came to the house with a warrant. But I couldn’t do it. It was bad enough the ship storage warehouse was in there with seven starship bases, I couldn’t put absolutely everything in one basket, even if most of it would have other backups elsewhere, no matter how safe that really would be.

So I had a Martian home now, and six months should be plenty long enough to suffice for my needs. If agents showed up at the door, Isis had orders to teleport herself, and all my tech out of my bedroom and into our Mars apartment. I had a security system and scanner installed, so a precision teleport was guaranteed from house to house, even on different planets.

Six months was more than enough, because one way or another I’d own my own living planet by then. I loved the U.S., it was a great place, good honest people, but I’d screwed myself by exposing my talents to a corrupt upper hierarchy in the government with true power, that weren’t voted into office. Those that didn’t have to stand exposed before the American people. They held their positions long-term, and made deals, bribes, and likely committed crimes to stay in place.

They were in control, and I was a wild card they couldn’t control or tolerate. The sooner I’d moved on the better, I could still sell my non-tactical stuff there and around the rest of the Earth. The tactical systems… well I could sell those on my planet if I decided to.

That wasn’t the average American’s fault, or even the fault of the politicians who truly were honest in my day and age. It was… the bureaucracy, that lived in the darkness, under rocks and inside cracks. Simply put, the old adage, which is a truism, power corrupts. Even more so when that power is hidden from plain view. Humans after all, are at their worst when they believe they can’t be seen and that they can hide from responsibility.

Then I went back to my life. I kind of expected them to come, any minute, constantly, for a whole week. It was taking so long for them to come back, that I’d even started to wonder if I was wrong. Not completely wrong, of course, but that I’d become too paranoid.

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