Trials: The Omega Superhero Book Two (Omega Superhero Series 2) by Darius Brasher

Author:Darius Brasher [Brasher, Darius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daba Publishing
Published: 2017-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

“All right everybody, huddle around and listen up,” Hitler’s Youth said at the beginning of my third test of the Trials’ scenarios phase.

We seven Hero candidates all hurried to cluster around him. If Hitler’s Youth wasn’t the king of the douchebags, he certainly was douchebag aristocracy. Despite that, Neha and I hastened to gather around him like the five other candidates did. We didn’t want to be left out.

Even though I didn’t like him, I understood why people tended to listen to Hitler’s Youth. With his tall, strong body, rugged jaw, and flashing blue eyes, he looked like a Hollywood casting director’s idea of what a Hero was supposed to look like. That, plus the fact he was assertive and he had natural charisma—as much as I hated to admit that last part—made it hard to not do as he asked.

Hitler’s Youth said, “Like it said, Overlord has given us forty minutes to find and deactivate the bomb hidden in this mall. If we don’t, we fail the test. Plus, hundreds will be killed or injured.”

Even I couldn’t fault Hitler’s Youth for adding the people being injured or killed part as an afterthought. This wasn’t a real mall, of course. The Guild would never endanger a bunch of civilians by planting a real bomb in an actual mall. We were in one of the Guild’s holosuites in the Trials’ complex. Other than us candidates, everything around us was merely a cunningly wrought, high-tech combination of photons, tractor beams, and force fields. Beyond knowing that, I was too technologically challenged to understand exactly how the holosuite worked. It seemed like magic, though I knew it wasn’t.

You never would have known we were merely in a holosuite based on the sights and sounds around us. We had just walked from outside the mall where it was sunny, hot, and muggy, to inside the mall where it was cool and temperature-controlled. According to the mall directory we had just consulted by the entrance, the mall had three stories and lots of high-end stores. Thanks to a star labeled “You are here” on the directory, we knew we were on the first floor. It looked, felt, and sounded like we were really in a big city’s shopping mall. The mall was busy, with plenty of people laden with shopping bags bustling by. There was a steady hum of conversations and music playing softly over the mall’s loudspeakers. There was even a faint whiff of odors from the mall’s food court.

Floating overhead near the mall’s high domed ceiling was an Overlord node. A green-glowing countdown indicating thirty-nine minutes and counting was below it. It gave me flashbacks of my time on Hephaestus days before. I still had bandages on both my left buttock and my right arm where worms had shot through them. Otherwise, I felt much better than I had when I first returned to Earth Sigma. Though the Guild doctor who had treated me didn’t have Metahuman healing powers the way Doctor Hippocrates did, he knew he stuff and had done a good job stitching me up.

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