Chasing Time by Brandt Legg

Author:Brandt Legg [Legg, Brandt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-10T22:00:00+00:00

Tess didn’t have time to travel to Bunker W at Langley. She and Gatewood held the first ever CHAD meeting outside the secret CIA underground via video.

She sat in Secure, looking out at Mission Control, the large room buzzing with more urgency than it had ever operated under. The meters on the screen showed the level of encryption and protection meant no one could intercept her communications with Gatewood, but she didn’t really ever trust that. She knew too much. Today there’s no choice, she told herself.

“Who is the terrorist?” she asked as Gatewood came on screen. “Who is doing it? What is the weapon? Where is the target? And how do we stop it?”

“Good questions,” Gatewood said, his normal smugness completely absent.

“I keep asking myself those questions over and over.” Tess pointed to a wall of monitors. “It could be any of the cities. It might be impossible to narrow it down.”

“It seems DARPA has progressed farther than we thought on lasers,” Gatewood said, now appearing self-conscious.

“Do you have something?” Tess asked, pouncing on what she perceived to be a weakness, rare for the secretive HITE director.

“Possibly,” he admitted. “I have enough information to know, or, at least, to suggest that Skyenor was near the final phases of a substantial laser weapon.”

“Who else has it?”

He shook his head. “Tess, I believe they can destroy a city.”

She had never seen Gatewood look so pale, so threatened, almost defeated. It scared her. If the man who held the keys to the most advanced weapons and technology on the face of the earth was this worried, then it was even worse than the apocalypse she’d been imagining. “How would they deliver such a weapon?”

“I have a team working on it. I’m not certain, but it must involve space. My best and brightest tell me it is possible if there’s enough power.”

“Where would they get power like that?”

“Humans are good at producing power. There are plants all over the world, and there are extraordinary new technologies—mass battery, Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction, E-Cat, nanotubes, fusion, solar sails, expanded kilo power, and . . . ” His hesitation made her even more nervous.

“What?” she prompted.

“Nuclear power.”

She looked at him aghast. “Are you telling me they can deliver nuclear through laser?”

“Yes.”

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