Supers - Ex Heroes 5 by Jamie Hawke

Author:Jamie Hawke [Hawke, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Double Down Press
Published: 2019-01-12T07:00:00+00:00

12

Sam opened a door to the room, one that slid out from what had seemed a wall moments before. She had just made it to the door before I managed, “Excuse me. ‘See’ if we can escape?”

“What, you thought you’d find me and we’d be able to waltz right out of here?” Sam chuckled. “Maybe the world back there has become too easy, but in my day, that’s not how it was.”

“Your day…?” Twitch frowned, but on checking over one of her pink screens, her eyes went wide. “Oh, wow… you’re old.”

“Hey now.” Sam motioned us forward. “You coming?”

We all shared a look of concern, but then went with her, stepping out into a ship with long halls. As we walked, we passed a training room with weapons, weights, and mats.

“I was born a long time ago,” Sam explained, “but this—whatever this is—acts as a sort of time bubble, meaning I’m really not much older than any of you, if at all. That said,” she paused to nod at Andromida, “our kind live quite long lives, as you’d have seen with Hadrian. I’m only half, so…”

“Oh, me too,” Andromida said.

“Yeah?”

“He’s my dad, but my mom was this Tier One super, good with fertility and all that.”

Sam smiled at that. “Sweet. My mom was a human, I mean, a normal Earther, I guess you’d say. But man, she was in no way ‘normal.’ The most badass Marine you’d ever meet, no contest.”

Her smile faltered, eyes moving off, staring into the distance. Of course, her mom would be long dead by now, if my understanding of Sam was accurate.

Trying to get back to our predicament, I asked, “And this whole escape plan?”

“Right.” Sam straightened up, ready to take command. “To keep the rift closed, I had to ensure safeties were put in place, in case I turned.”

“Turned?” Shimmer asked.

“Yeah, like if the enemy happened to take over my brain and use me for evil. That kind of stuff.”

“And to be clear… how do we know that isn’t the case right now?” Charm asked.

Sam chuckled. “Same way I know you all are really sent by Hadrian, and on my side.”

“Which is?”

“Faith. Hope. Dumb blindness…” Sam shrugged. “Maybe it’s that I want it to be true, because being stuck here for hundreds of years—even if it’s really seemed like much less—is driving me insane.”

“Right….” Charm turned to me and mouthed, ‘already there,’ which caused me to snicker, considering who was calling whom insane.

“You’ll just leave the place unguarded then?” Gale asked.

“The energy shield will remain,” Sam explained. “But from what you’ve said, it hasn’t been perfect. Let’s fix that. You… have a way to return? Once we escape, I mean?”

Andromida raised a finger. “That would be on me.”

“Great, then let’s see what we can do here, shall we?” She led us to the docking port, where we were able to open an airlock from her ship to ours. “Stay close, right? And… have you ever fought a dragon before?”

“I’ve kind of been a dragon,” I said, trying to process her question.

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