Assignment Zero: An Overworld Chronicles Story by John Corwin

Author:John Corwin [Corwin, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Raven House
Published: 2016-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

I sneaked back out of the warehouse and met Jack across the road.

He checked his watch. "You were in there for two and a half hours. I was beginning to think you'd been caught."

"Where are the others?" I asked.

Jack touched his pendant. "ETA?"

Michael answered. "Ten minutes."

"Almost here," Jack said. "What did you find out?"

"Maybe I should wait until Michael gets back so I don't have to repeat myself." I wondered what was going on behind his serious gaze. Was he hurt? Angry?

"I saw a semi-truck drive onto the property." His voice didn't betray any emotion. "The lock on the back definitely wasn't standard issue."

I looked back at the building and wondered who those kidnapped people were. "Whatever is going on in there is bigger than I thought." I was about to tell him what I'd seen when Michael and the others emerged from an alley a couple of blocks away. Jack and I met them halfway and led them out of sight of the road so it wouldn't look suspicious to anyone coming from the warehouse.

I told them what I'd seen and what I suspected. "I think Saline plans to mass-produce some kind of super potion that turns noms into supers."

"What about the prisoners?" Sanchez asked. "We can't leave those people there."

"Yeah," Tasha said. "I say we bust in and kick some ass."

Andrews shook his head. "Not a good idea. We're outnumbered."

Michael stared in silence for a moment. "Were the prisoners noms?"

I closed my eyes and imagined them coming off the truck. "They were well dressed, haughty looking. They could have been vampires, but it seems more likely Rogers needs noms for testing the potion."

"Guinea pigs," Jack said. He leaned against the brick wall. "I'll notify Commander Borathen. He can send a task squad to bag and tag." Michael's eyes darted to me. Jack noticed. "Or is there some reason I shouldn't tell him?"

Michael shrugged. "I don't see why not."

There was no reason to keep this to ourselves. I'd tracked these people down because of Meredith's case. A case closed by the Synod. It wouldn't look good on my part, but I was willing to take whatever punishment was necessary to get these people behind bars. We didn't have the manpower, but Commander Borathen did.

Jack tapped his pendant. "Unit four reporting to base."

"Go ahead, unit four," the dispatcher replied.

"We've got a nest that needs cleaning." Jack checked the street and gave them the address.

"Unit four, be advised that address is a blue zone," the dispatcher replied a moment later. "Checking for more information."

"Blue zone?" Andrews looked back and forth between Jack and Michael. "What does that mean?"

"It means it's under the direct control of a supernatural nation." Michael frowned. "It means it's off limits."

"They can't keep out Templars," Sanchez said. "Elyssa saw people in chains being led inside!"

"We have to go through proper channels." Jack ran a hand through his short hair. "We can't just barge in."

"Which nation owns it?" Tasha asked.

"I'd bet my right arm it's vampires," Polinski said.

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