Vossoff and Nimmitz by Adam-Troy Castro

Author:Adam-Troy Castro [Castro, Adam-Troy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-936535-38-5
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Published: 2002-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

The tall imposing figure that posed in the center of the room, with the medal-laden Space Ranger uniform and the majestic red cape incessantly flapping from the robotic mini-fans that had always hovered around him just to provide just the precise degree of wind power needed to always render him perfectly photogenic, was indeed the gallant and indomitable Lash Justice, Sentinel of the Spaceways, scourge of evil and other living things. Back in the halcyon days of yore, when Vossoff and Nimmitz were still an active if not particularly thriving partnership, wanted on ten thousand worlds for their various criminal acts against the health and well-being of society at large. Justice had been the most-feared lawman in the universe … and not just by the criminals he hunted, since Justice was the kind of guy capable of arresting the entire population of an advanced civilization just because the planet bearing it orbited its sun faster than his personal interpretation of the local speed limit.

“So that’s what this is all about!.” cried Vossoff. “A fascist control freak obsessed with the preservation of the status quo at the expense of individual criminal achievement. Well, glory in your victory while you can. Nebula … before your much-prized victory turns to ashes in your mouth!”

Nimmitz said, “Eeeyewww. What an image.”

Justice’s head, which was hard to consider a head — it being closer to a cinderblock with eyes — swiveled to one side on an overly muscular neck that in motion bunched and corded like a burlap sack stuffed with ferrets. He fixed his pitiless gaze on Vossoff: “Do you actually think I went to all this trouble, just to arrest you?”

“Who else? There’s nobody else here worth arresting! “

Nimmitz said: “Hey!”

Justice’s laugh sounded like a great granite cliff crumbling to pieces beneath a bombardment of hail. “Nobody wants you, fool. Nobody ever wanted you. As far as the various law-enforcement agencies of the universe are concerned, you and your ex-partner here were never anything more than a useful public-relations tool, who we permitted to run free and constantly get in trouble because you fail at everything you try and therefore bolster the myth that crime does not pay.”

Nimmitz said, “Uh, Mister Justice? I don’t know if you’ve checked your file on me recently, but crime paid for me. I’m married to the richest, most beautiful woman in the galaxy, who has made me the sole beneficiary of her will.”

“Her taste,” Justice sniffed, “is not the kind of crime I’m talking about.”

“Hey!” Nimmitz protested.

Justice waggled a finger so muscular that it flexed and bulged alarmingly about the knuckles. “For your information. Mister Nimmitz, I did not waste three-quarters of the annual budget of the Space Patrol retrieving your ex-partner from munchkin land, and kidnapping you from your conjugal suite, because of any misguided belief that either one of you is any kind of serious threat to anybody. No; I went after you because, hard as it may be to believe, you hold the key to neutralizing the current single greatest threat to life as we know it.

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