Gen One by Amy Bartelloni

Author:Amy Bartelloni [Bartelloni, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

The team couldn’t leave on the rescue mission for a few more frustrating days. The prisoners who chose not to stay and fight had to be moved to safe houses where they would decide on their own whether to return to their old life. It was risky. They were fugitives, and sure to be looked for. But the pull of the past and family—even love—was too much for some people to walk away from. Delilah understood. She was walking into hell itself for similar reasons.

They left a few at a time, most by foot, some by boat. The star with the circle was chosen as the official symbol of the Human Coalition. Seeing it on a house would mean it was clear, at least until the Authority found out about the symbol. For now, though, the prisoners were scattered with only the picture of a star to guide them. It made Delilah feel a tiny bit better to feel Zane’s influence. He was holding on somewhere, she was sure of it, but they needed to leave soon.

Smoke, Shadow, Brute, and Gen poured over the latest intel looking for the best place to strike and combing over their plan when they got in to Authority City. They’d released some of the little bots, like Thor, on the other side of the river. Poor Thor himself didn’t make it, crushed in their getaway. They downloaded the remaining intel, but it was spotty and unreliable. Mostly they relied on old maps of the city, but the buildings had been upgraded and changed so much they had no idea what they were getting into. Their plan mostly came down to crossing the river and winging it.

“It’s a risk to take the electronics, even the signal scramblers.” Shadow leaned her tall frame over the map, which was laid out on one of the long tables in the meeting hall where they’d met after lunch. The map was a complicated architectural diagram, but the specs hadn’t been updated since the bots took over. Presumably, the same buildings were there, at least the large ones, just added on and improved in ways they didn’t know.

Smoke frowned. She’d piled her hair in a bun on her head, and ran a finger along the main road through the city, tracing a route to the shore. “We have to bring the scramblers, or they’ll nab us right away.”

“They’ll probably nab us anyway,” Brute added. He’d been playing the middle. If they brought the tech, it was in danger of falling into the bots’ hands. If they didn’t, they risked their own lives. But since technically they were going in as employees, they shouldn’t need it. At least, not until they needed to escape.

Smoke sighed. “From the top, then.” Brute was still in contact with Rank, who set the whole thing up. Rank had put out the word he had people looking for work. They knew Delilah’s identity, but they hadn’t traced her to Zane, or, if they did, Rank made the connection disappear.

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