The Suns of Liberty (Book 2): Revolution by Lowell Michael Ivan

Author:Lowell, Michael Ivan [Lowell, Michael Ivan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Superheroes
Publisher: Michael Ivan Lowell
Published: 2013-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 35

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

CHINATOWN

Two Council Guardsmen slipped through light fog and banged on the door of a small shop. The sun would be setting within the hour. The dimming light danced off the petite windows. Inside, the shop owners—an elderly couple—huddled in the dark, trying not to be seen. The old man adjusted a bandage that clung to his badly bruised eye. His assailants were back demanding more cash in exchange for protection.

“Open the fucking door!” the bigger of the two spat at them. As the ranking Guardsman, he was clearly in charge.

There was no response from inside.

“They probably don’t even speak English,” his partner sneered.

“I'll kick the goddamn thing—” The ranking Guard’s words were cut short by a dark figure that blinked into his peripheral vision. Someone concealed in shadow, hands on hips, one hundred feet away. Just looking at them, not moving. A defiant silhouette.

People knew better than to hang around and watch Council Guard at work. The days of shooting a cell phone video of the Guard were long since over. Unless you didn’t mind getting your nose kicked in.

“Hey, you!” the big one yelled to the figure.

“Yeah, come over here,” the other said.

But the stranger disappeared around the corner.

“Might as well come out. If we have to come get you, it won't be pleasant.”

Suddenly the stranger reappeared. This time they could see the figure clearly. It was a woman. She wore a shiny, rounded, black glider's helmet that came to a point in the back; the face shield was bright blue. She began to walk toward the two with a confidence that unnerved them both.

“Hey! Stop right there! Put your hands out where we can see 'em,” the ranking Guard said.

What happened next took them completely by surprise.

The girl stopped. A thunderous blue energy erupted from below her. She launched off her feet. Rocketed straight at them. The blast knocked them backwards. Seismologists at San Francisco State, some twelve miles away, would register her launch as a minor seismic event on the Richter scale. The two men fought to regain their footing. They did so and looked up. She came into the light from the streetlamps as bright-blue bracelets she wore on her arms lit up. A brilliant beam of sapphire energy exploded out of each set of rings. Both men took a blast to the chest that slammed them to the ground.

That was the last thing they saw.

Sophia Linh eased up on her boot “propulsors” by simply thinking about it—neural transmitters really were cool—and landed ten yards beyond the two sprawled Guardsmen. Thirty-two years old, a former head engineer and astronaut at NASA. She was slim, Asian-American, and dressed in a black leather reinforced flight suit. The helmet's bullet and crash-proof blue face shield not only smartly matched the color of her energy ring bracelets, it also concealed her identity like a one-way mirror. Only her mouth and chin were visible. She thought it was a pretty cool disguise. She was a local legend that had risen to fame in the wake of the Revolution.

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