Violent Horizons by Violent Horizons (epub)

Author:Violent Horizons (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2022-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

12: Bad Science

Pain shot through Silas’s side.

He jerked awake with a strangled cry. His eyes snapped down to the bloody metal fingers, curved into claws as they dug deep into his flesh.

Silas screamed against the pain. He wrenched away with a startled look into those blue eyes, but they weren’t blue anymore. They weren’t glowing. They were dark, empty circles sitting on a dark, empty face.

“What is happening?” Silas scrambled to his feet. He tossed a frantic look out of the cage to see Pelletier, Daniel, and a shadowy, twisted visage of Loc standing amongst the nightmarish swells of tentacles. “There’s something wrong! You have to help him!”

The metal man rose. He wasn’t talking. He was barely even emitting that electrical hum. None of the intelligence remained in those dark eyes, none of the emotion. Only the charge remained: the empty, obedient charge, like that hunk of metal and circuits was nothing more than a murderous vacuum cleaner.

The metal man lunged at him.

Silas screamed as he darted away. “Please!” he shouted at the humans. “Daniel, please help him!”

Pelletier chuckled and sent a mocking glance down at Daniel. Neither of them moved, but the twisted phantom Loc did. He approached the glass wall and pressed his clawed fingers to it as desperation shone in his amber eye.

“You’re not real,” Silas whined. “You have to be real to help.”

A swipe of claws raked across Silas’s chest. A wretched scream tore from his throat as he recoiled so hard, he crashed against the glass wall. He dropped hard to his side. Barely broke his fall in time and squirmed there with a groan as blood oozed from his wounds, making the ground slick and sticky.

A shadow cast over him. Silas gaped up into those dark eyes. “Stop,” he begged it. “It’s me! We’re friends!”

Its arm snapped to the side. And from that big, bulky shoulder, three long, glinting blades emerged to stab viciously into the air. It grabbed him by the throat. Silas tried to wrench away, but it was too strong. Its cold metal fingers dug into his flesh.

And the blades shot straight for his eyes.

Silas grabbed the electric charge in the air and with a snap of his fist, it popped into a burst of static. Sparks flew from the metal man’s seams and erupted with blackened smoke. Its whole body twitched as it crumpled like a doll to a heap on the floor.

Silas’s chest heaved. His fist still hovered in the air, closed tight. His wide, wild stare darted around the cell in case there was something else waiting to kill him.

“My God.” Pelletier’s voice lowered with hushed awe.

Silas snapped his attention to him. Both humans stood there unmoved and useless, with their jaws gaping and shock in their eyes.

“Danny,” Pelletier mumbled as he moved to the cage door. “Get it into the scanner.” He tentatively opened it with his stare locked on Silas, as if he were afraid.

Was he? What did that mean? Could Silas hurt him? Oh, how he wanted to hurt him.

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