True Dark by Niall Teasdale

Author:Niall Teasdale
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ultrahumans, Magic, Sci-Fi, AI, alien, Science Fiction, artificial intelligence, action, Superhero, Superheroes, Adventure
Published: 2018-08-02T22:00:00+00:00

Part Five: Politico

New Millennium City, MD, 23rd January 2016.

The snow was up to about twenty inches and New Millennium City was, to a reasonable degree, shut down. The O was not running. Starblaze International had been closed down for the last day. It was hardly out of the ordinary: most of the north-eastern part of the United States was in the same shape. There were tornados hitting the Gulf Coast and snow in the southern states hitting record levels. One of the upsides, as far as June was concerned, was that Captain Freedom was in Pennsylvania helping to handle a pileup near Bedford. There had been a few conspiracy theories suggesting that an Ultra with weather-control powers was responsible, but the meteorologists were quite sure that the blizzard was down to natural, if freakish, conditions.

New Millennium City’s Ultras were out in force, though one of them was not in costume. Jacob had finally received his new Frostburn suit, but he was out on the streets in jeans and a sweater, plus his heaviest pair of boots: the cold was absolutely his element, and no one would mistake him for a normal with glowing, blue eyes. He was working with Astraea to bring in supplies to shops which had been almost totally looted of food and other basics when the blizzard warning had gone out. She would drop him off at a shop or mall and he would clear the snow from the delivery doors while she flew back for pallets of supplies. He would then carry the pallet into the building while she went back for another.

June was perfectly happy flying around in her skimpy costume: she could stand up to the cold of space. Various news channels had sent out reporters – idiots as far as June was concerned – to the supply centres, so Astraea was getting seen by the public for the first time. Well, there had been a couple of blurry, dark photographs before, but now she was really out in the open and the news crews were trying to get as much video of her as possible. Okay, so she was an attractive blonde in a mask and a semi-transparent costume, flying around in a blizzard. That might have drawn attention anyway.

Cygnus and Svetilo were out trying to keep roads open for the emergency services. Svetilo was grumbling a little because she also had a new costume to show off, but she did not have Jacob’s tolerance to the cold. She was wearing her new jumpsuit, but she was wearing a thick coat over it, along with a woolly hat and a thick scarf. Zoe had, apparently, insisted. Mostly, what Cygnus and Svetilo were doing involved moving vehicles which had become stuck or been abandoned, but Cygnus was also flying snowploughs between locations in the city which needed immediate attention.

‘Gah! Can’t they see I’m working here?’ June sounded exasperated, even over the radio.

‘Camera crews?’ Cygnus asked. She was two hundred feet above north-west Uptown, flying a snowplough toward Deale Harbour.

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