The Indestructibles (Book 3): The Entropy of Everything by Phillion Matthew

Author:Phillion, Matthew [Phillion, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction | Superheroes
Publisher: PFP
Published: 2015-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36:

Well enough to break it

Entropy Emily and Anachronism Annie drifted out of the sky in a bubble of float, a strange pair of travelers making their way across the night horizon.

Billy insisted on coming as well, but for subtlety and stealth's sake, they hadn't let him fly. Because Emily didn't appreciate his forcing his way onto the "away team," as she called it, she gave him his own bubble of float trailing a hundred meters back. He hung suspended in mid-air, arms folded across his chest, waiting for Emily to place him on the ground.

I could have flown here on my own, Billy thought.

And we would have lit up the sky, Dude said. This way we arrive unnoticed, without commotion.

A girl sporting neon blue hair and another with neon pink hair just flew across ten miles of sky, Dude, Billy thought. I wouldn't exactly call it a ninja maneuver.

Billy fell the last six feet, dropping out of the sky at the same time Emily and Annie landed gently on their feet. Emily looked back and laughed.

"Sorry! Forgot about you back there."

"No you didn't," Billy said.

They checked out the low-rise industrial building standing before them, part of a massive, now abandoned, business park just outside the City. An aging and poorly maintained sign, Futura Industries sprouted from overgrown and yellowed weeds.

"Wonder if Fry worked here?" Emily said.

"Keaton Bohr did," Annie said. "And if we're lucky, we'll be able to find some of his early research."

Annie tried the front door, but it was locked from the inside. Emily took a running start and kicked it.

The door held, knocking Emily onto the ground.

"I'll blast it open," Billy said.

"No," Annie said, pulling a strangely antiquated gun from her hip and firing. Green energy splashed against the lock, and the door creaked open.

"You have a gun?" Billy said.

"More like a . . . blaster," Annie said.

"It looks like something Jack Sparrow would use," Emily said.

"I'll take that as a compliment," Annie said. "C'mon."

The structure inside appeared as if it had been untouched for years. A few tipped over chairs, a ransacked lobby vending machine; otherwise, the building could have been preserved in a time capsule.

The trio ventured deeper into the bowels of the edifice, past an empty reception area. They encountered a few locked doors that were immediately dispatched by Annie's laser gun.

"So I've been meaning to ask," Emily said. They sauntered past offices with ordinary names printed on faux gold plates, past a sad little kitchen with years-old coffee still sitting in the pot resting on a dead burner. "What do all your tattoos mean?"

Annie smirked, then looked down at her bare arms, at the swirling patterns in infinite colors that traced all across her skin. "They mean a little bit of everything," she said.

"Doc has a lot of tattoos, too," Emily said. "But his do things. They're like, spells."

"Yeah, he has a different kind of ink than I do," Annie said.

"He told Jane and me about them once," Emily said. "Like one enables him to become fireproof, another makes sure he never loses his car keys.

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