The Technopath: A Powers, Masks and Capes Universe Novelette by Tao Wong

Author:Tao Wong [Wong, Tao]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-17T05:00:00+00:00

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I had to move fast, now that I’d made my presence known. I strolled into the lab where its gleaming white walls reflected the harsh fluorescent lights above, the entire lab at least sixty feet across and another fifty feet long. The simple steel tables and the various top-of-the-line scientific equipment were laid out in patterns I’d become long familiar with. We had everything really, from mass spectrometers and powerful electron microscopes to the special 3D printers for biological and metal material, all of which worked on a molecular scale. It saves us a ton of time, being able to build our nanites directly in the lab. Off to one side, separated from the rest of the lab by a big, tempered glass window was the storage area. Within the reinforced metal and glass storage units were where we contained my research.

The Mordant Mark 11 nanites were already packed for transportation in a few days. They’d take the Master nanites and the research I’d done and show it all to the government, the military. Take my research and make it just another damn weapon.

There were half a dozen personnel within the labs, all of them known to me. None of them were Powers though, since we weren’t that common. Yet. Of course, if you believed in the Travis Theorem of Exponential Power Growth, you’d probably be underlining that yet.

In either case, every single one of the employees shrunk away from me. Ever since the uprising, people have been worried about Powers. Even those who, like me, don’t have a violent Power are something to be feared. As if we were all maniacs that could burn people to the ground with a single glance.

Of course, their reaction might also be because there were a pair of slumped guards in the doorway and I was holding one of the guns.

Either, or.

I waved them away as I strolled over to the storage door and placed my hands on it. I could’ve done without touching it, but physical contact has always provided a little bit more oomph for my Power. Accessing the door controls was a simple matter, and even if they had the best security systems in play, my ability didn’t just transit through tech and electricity. In the last few years, I’d learnt I could physically manipulate the matter within tech pieces to some extent. Nowhere near what Joey could do, but within the normal functioning aspects of a machine, I could alter it.

It took just about a second before the door hissed open and at that point, Leo finally decided he had enough. He’d always had a chip on his shoulder, being the only black scientist on the team. He always had to be better, smarter, harder working than everyone else. And if he had a Power, he probably would have been the lead. He really was that good. But, without one, no matter how hard he worked, no matter how smart he was, he would always be beneath me.

He strode right up, and even ignored the gun I pointed at him.

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