The Brain Sucker by Glenn Wood

Author:Glenn Wood [Wood, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781925081213
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Published: 2012-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

Ten

Lester paced excitedly around his laboratory, dictaphone in his hand. Ancient texts lay open on his desk and his computer showed an internet page entitled “Weapons Modification”. The aluminium briefcase with Sophie’s tracer bug still attached (and unfortunately for Lester, unnoticed) sat in a corner of the room.

Another torpedo tube containing a freshly caught green blob of goodness dangled from the robotic arm at one end of the bench. A similarly shaped cylinder housing Rose’s golden globe sat in a moulded foam rubber box on the floor. Lester placed the dictaphone on the bench, carefully removed the cylinder containing the golden globe and walked to the opposite end of the bench. He picked up his energy weapon and clicked the cylinder into a modified chamber in the body of the weapon. The energy bolt would now pass directly through the golden globe as it discharged. He plugged in the weapon and restarted his dictaphone.

“Golden globe weapons test number one. Minimal power.”

Lester aimed the weapon at the green blob of goodness and fired. The blue energy bolt that shot from the barrel was now tinged with gold, and it passed through the tube and struck the blob with a fizzing crack. This time the tube remained undamaged, and the bolt met no resistance as it slammed into the body of the blob. With an animal-like shriek, the blob blackened then disintegrated, leaving behind nothing more than a wisp of smoke and a small pile of ash.

At 16 Hamstead Street on the other side of the city, Caine Wentworth sat bolt upright on the couch he’d been lounging on. He had a sudden desire to throw a rock through the neighbour’s window and then blame it on his brother. And with this thought came absolutely no guilt, conscience or morality at all. It was as if every last trace of goodness had been obliterated from his brain.

Lester let out a whoop of victory. He gabbled excitedly into his dictaphone.

“Success! Tube undamaged, goodness completely destroyed.” He examined the cylinder containing the golden globe. “Limited wastage of globe detected, but nothing significant.”

He paced the room, his brain churning. He continued to dictate. “By combining the golden globe with a massive energy blast, I should be able to send out a pulse that will destroy the goodness of every person in the country, perhaps even the world. Beginning construction of the bad bomb.”

Lester turned off his dictaphone and picked up his tools.

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