The Pandora Chronicles - Book 1 (A Scifi Adventure Thriller) by Attard Ryan

Author:Attard, Ryan [Attard, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-24T18:30:00+00:00

“Very impressive display, Solomon,” Briggs said. His voice echoed around the conference room.

They were back inside the first room Nick woke up in, although this time he noticed a few laptops and documents that hadn’t been there earlier.

“No one has managed to beat Excalibur for a long time. She’s considered Olympic-level good, you know,” Briggs continued. He tapped Excalibur, who was sitting next to him, on the shoulder as if she were his favorite child.

Excalibur winced, clearly uncomfortable with the sudden affection. It didn’t help that her pink-striped track suit jacket made her look more feminine than she was comfortable with.

“You managed to beat me, Sir,” she said.

Briggs waved her off. “Well, that was a few years ago. I’m just an old warhorse now.”

“Can we please get to the subject at hand?” Nick Solomon sat on the opposite side of the table with an ice pack pressed against his groin. It made his inner thighs feel cold and wet, and he hated that sensation.

Excalibur smiled evilly. “How’s your… situation?”

“Painful. You wanna see?”

“No, thank you. I like my eggs sunny-side-up, not beaten.”

“Hilarious,” he shot back.

“I certainly thought so.”

They glared at each other in silence until Briggs chimed in.

“So,” he said. “You must have some questions after all that.”

Nick placed the ice pack on the table. “Where do I even start? You abducted me, turned my world upside down, and now you’re trying to convince me that all the scary fairy tales of my childhood are real.”

Excalibur let out an aggressive scoff. “Oh, for God’s sake.” She leaned forwards. “Will you stop acting like a scared victim? You’re Select, one of the few people in the world who actually have a fighting chance. You knew from day one that you were special.”

“What do you mean, ‘fighting chance’?” he asked.

His question suddenly sobered up the room.

Nick looked from Excalibur to Briggs. “I thought this was about finding treasure and getting some fancy imaginary artifact? So, why am I the only one with a fighting chance?”

Briggs sighed and extracted a tablet. “A few years ago we got a huge financial boost from the government, from the President himself actually, after we showed him this,” he said, handing Nick the device.

“What am I looking at?” asked Nick. It looked like an electromagnetic photograph of space.

“A chart of our friendly neighborhood galaxy, courtesy of NASA,” the director replied. “See that weird trail at the center?”

Nick nodded.

“That’s an electromagnetic signature, a stronger version of the field emitted by the artifacts.”

Nick frowned at the picture, trying to connect the dots together. “And?”

“We think this is a trail that the aliens followed.”

“Oh, for chrissakes, not this again!” Nick dropped the tablet on the table and shook his head exasperatedly. “There are no aliens. All I see is a whole load of black.”

“It’s called ‘antimatter’,” Briggs replied. “Remains of stars, planets, et cetera.” His eyes were cold and hard, as if challenging Nick to question him.

Nick cocked his head, and glanced back at the picture on the tablet. “So, these guys are, what? World destroyers?”

“We’re not sure,” Excalibur said.

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