XGeneration (Book 4): Pressure Drop by Magnarella Brad

Author:Magnarella, Brad [Magnarella, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction | Superheroes | Supervillains
Published: 2015-02-09T05:00:00+00:00

20

Thirteenth Street High

Junior Parking Lot

9:40 p.m.

“Do you see him?” Scott asked.

Janis’s fingers hooked through the cold diamonds in the fence behind her as she shook her head. “Just students, teachers, and a couple of our surveillance folks. I can’t even feel him.”

“So it’s plan B, then?” he asked.

Janis looked from Scott’s blazing lenses to the bonfire, a log-crammed affair whose flames were still growing in the center of the dirt parking lot. The night cap to Thirteenth Street High’s annual homecoming celebration. Only minutes before, an effigy of the opponent’s mascot—a giant bobcat—had been hurled into the flames to the screaming delight of the thousand-odd students in the parking lot.

“When isn’t it plan B with us?” she asked. “You’re taking the bigger risk, though. It’s your call.”

Scott bounced his back against the fence in thought. Janis scanned the crowd once more. She and Scott had reasoned that if Mr. Shine had chaperoned the spring dance, he might reprise his role for homecoming night. In the confusion of the crowd, Scott would be able to talk to him while Janis used her abilities to give them “psychic cover.” But there was no Mr. Shine.

Her gaze came back around to Scott, who had stopped bouncing. He pushed up his glasses. “Let’s do it. I’m not sure when we’ll get another chance. How many on surveillance tonight?”

“Just two,” Janis said. “The Axelrods.”

“How much time can you give me?”

“This shindig only goes for another hour. Just as we’re gonna need the crowd to get you out of here, we’re gonna need them to get you back in.”

Scott started to set the timer on his watch, but Janis cleared her throat.

“Oh, right.” He removed the Champions-issued watch behind his back and nudged up against her. Janis felt the watch being slipped into the pocket of her hooded sweatshirt. “For safekeeping,” he whispered.

“For non-monitoring, you mean.”

Scott lifted the backpack he’d set beside his feet and slung one of the straps over his shoulder. “Listen, if you can’t come, no worries. I contracted Wayne to build me a hand-held laser for just in case.” He patted the bulk of his pack. “Sort of like Iron Man’s.”

She gave him a kiss. “You may not see me, but I’ll be there.”

Scott smiled crookedly, then set his sights on the gate that led up to the school. “All right, just tell me when.”

Janis shifted her focus to the energetic plane, the one that supported the physical world. She created a blur around Scott. To anyone’s eyes, he would become hard to see, a blind spot in their vision. It was a technique Agent Steel was having her employ more and more in their simulations.

When, she thought toward him.

Scott slipped off, his backpack bouncing against his jacket. Janis descended into the crowd of students, the fire like hot breath against her cheeks. She stood behind and to the right of a young man who would pass for Scott from a distance. The Axelrods’ attention followed her. On the far side of the bonfire, a rigged-up sound system blared “The Heat is On.

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