The Maker's Metal by Waid Matt & King Dante

Author:Waid, Matt & King, Dante
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The rest of the hangar lights flickered on in my presence.

A small team of dockworkers unloaded a truck under Hughie and Eliot’s watchful eye. The auras in the room told me that there was a blend of excitement, fear, and genuine pride in the two heads of their respective departments.

They’d probably been working nonstop since I’d asked them to cook up a weapon.

The men carried down three different tool chests and a wire rack that held up a suit of armor. I fought to keep my jaw from dropping when I saw the sleek, dark lines of the outfit. It looked like something straight out of the future.

It even had a full-face helmet to keep my identity safe.

“You don’t do things by halves, do you?” Eliot called out.

“I wanted to get as much data as I could from him,” I replied.

“Are you sure that you weren’t doing it because you enjoyed it?” Hughie asked bluntly. “You were a little too showy, if you ask me. You should’ve put him down so we could take his carcass apart.”

“It occurred to me,” I told him. “But he could still fight, and you hadn’t showed up yet.”

The head of Biomed in R&D grimaced and shrugged.

“That’s true enough. But you shouldn’t have a problem the next time they show up.”

The men finished unpacking the truck, piled into it, and drove out without another word or a glance backward. They were well-paid and under a good number of NDAs not to discuss the occasional odd job around the Shipyard.

Hughie settled down on one of the cases, and Eliot gestured to the armor.

“So, what do you think?” he asked.

“I like the way it looks, but I’m pretty sure it’s not just a Halloween costume.”

“Well, you’d be right about that,” Eliot agreed.

He lifted the helmet off the rack and tossed it to me.

I caught the piece of armor and hefted it appreciatively in my hand. It felt lightweight enough, but I knew Eliot’s penchant for superior alloys. The engineer gave me an approving nod, and I fitted it over my head. The helmet felt a little loose until things tightened in the frame of it around my skull.

It felt like a second skin. Not armor.

A HUD came to life ahead of my eyes and locked onto Eliot. A green outline shimmered around his body and a small readout of his full name and other details appeared beside him. I checked Hughie with the same effect, and then I turned to look over the entirety of the hangar around me.

The sensors on the outside of the helmet fed me the details in the hangar in the most crisp resolution I’d ever seen. Some of the best imaging technology from Montague had been integrated into the helmet. I reached up to take it off.

An auxiliary sensor read my intentions, and the helmet smoothly unlatched.

The armor already felt like it was reading my mind.

Eliot beamed at me as I tucked the helmet under my arm with a grin on my face.

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