Vanguard: The Complete Second Season: A Superhero Serial (Vanguard: The Collected Seasons Book 2) by Percival Constantine

Author:Percival Constantine [Constantine, Percival]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: superhero teams, superhero, action, science fiction, sci-fi, superheroes, adventure
Publisher: Percival Constantine
Published: 2016-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

Lee finished the conversation with one final line. “Because I know all about you, Gunsmith. You and the rest of Vanguard.”

“Who is this?” asked the man on the other end of the call.

Lee hit a button on the keyboard and the call ended. He smiled as he sat back in the chair. He’d passed on the information to Gunsmith, just as Thorne had told him to, and with any luck Vanguard’s former leader would cause Callus some headaches. And Lee had to admit feeling a bit of satisfaction at playing the role of a secret informant. Made him feel like a real spy.

The sound of the door opening to the ready room brought the technopath out of his thoughts. He sat up straight and stood, meeting Zenith halfway.

“You said it’s ready?” asked Zenith.

Lee nodded. “But I have to ask again. Are you sure about this? You’ve gotten pretty used to Lucent’s powers, plus it must be nice being able to change into a regular, human body whenever you want. And transferring your consciousness into another robot means we run the risk of Lucent waking up and stirring up trouble.”

“We’ve been over this, my friend. Stripping Lucent of the ability to live his own life would be wrong. I cannot in good conscience stay in his body. I need to find one of my own.”

“And if he gets out?”

“We stopped him once, we’ll do it again,” said Zenith.

“Yeah, back when Vanguard was still together,” muttered Lee. “Okay c’mon, let’s see what we can do.”

Lee and Zenith left the ready room and journeyed through the connecting tunnel to the main area of the base, a converted ICBM silo. One of the floors housed a laboratory that had once belonged to Dr. Howard McCabe. Since Vanguard was disbanded, Lee had taken it over as his own personal workshop. His major project over the past several months was attempting to reconstruct Zenith’s robotic body, repair it from the damage caused in the battle with Lucent, and figure out just how to transfer the artificial intelligence into it.

The body lay motionless on a gurney. Zenith walked to its side, staring down at his former shell. It felt a bit surreal to look down at his own face like this. Lee sidled up next to him.

“You ready?”

Zenith gave a nod. “I hope so.”

“You sure you know what to do?”

Zenith placed his hand on the robot’s chest. “Originally, Lucent tore me from my body by draining the power source. Over the past few months, I’ve been practicing transferring energy from my body into electronics. I imagine the same principle would work here.”

Azure energy surrounded Zenith’s body, making his skin slightly translucent. Energy coursed through his body, channeled into his hand and directed right into the robotic body. Zenith pushed all the energy within his own body into the robot shell and one by one, the LED lights all over the metallic construct hummed with a blue glow.

Lee watched the body with a smile on his face. But then he saw the strained look on Zenith’s face.

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