Guardian by Niall Teasdale

Author:Niall Teasdale
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ultrahumans, Superhero, superheroine, AI, aliens, alien, Adventure, action, Superheroes
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Part Three: Fallen Fortress

New Millennium City, MD, 2nd May 2015.

Brian Woodford closed his bedroom door behind him with a sigh. Saturday night and what was he doing? Going to bed early, that was what. He might have donned his ‘costume’ and gone out to fight crime, but he had promised Twilight… There would be no late-night activities for Zapf Bang!

It was as he reached for the light switch that he noticed how dark his room was. There was a full moon tonight, but no light came in through the window. Generally, he could see the shelves across the room – housing his comic collection – even with the lights out, but there was nothing there but shadows. Deep, dark shadows. It couldn’t be…

‘Aren’t you lucky I’m not one of the bad guys,’ Twilight said. The darkness shrank away to reveal the barely dressed woman hiding in them. ‘Situational awareness, young man. It’s not just for when you’re in costume.’

Brian’s eyes bulged a little and he felt his cheeks heating: Twilight was in his bedroom. ‘W-what are you doing here?’ She had kept her voice down, so he did the same. He wanted to shriek.

She appeared to ignore his flaming cheeks, but she wandered over to sit on the corner of his bed, crossing her legs. That just made it worse. ‘Two reasons. I’m proving a point. I can find out who just about anyone is. I know who you are. I know where you live.’

‘O-okay.’

‘However, since you haven’t been sneaking out at night to electrocute people, I wanted to keep you up to date on my progress with finding you a trainer. I talked to Doctor Ultimate–’

‘You talked to Doctor Ultimate about me?!’ That almost did come out as a squeak.

‘Yes, but also more generally. I’m hoping the Union can come up with something to help train young Ultras. Globally. Well, the Soviets have something and I’d imagine the Chinese do too, but catching Ultras young and training them might not just save lives – it might stop some of them going bad. Doctor Ultimate and his wife are looking into it. He’s great, but distracted. She’ll make sure he remembers to look at the problem occasionally and she knows when I said I’d get back to you.’

‘Uh, thanks for letting me know. Uh, would I be joining the UoU?’

‘No idea. Maybe they’ll come up with some sort of mentoring programme, though that might be tough to arrange. If they want to do in-house training, I’d imagine you’d need some sort of membership. I could see Hugh, uh, Doctor Ultimate, wanting that because it’ll probably give him a whole load of new Ultras he can run tests on.’ She grinned. ‘It’s not as bad as it sounds. And if anyone can come up with ways you might be able to use your power differently, it’s him.’

‘Okay. Um, how’s Cygnus? I saw the news about all the corruption in Washington and how someone tried to frame her.’

‘She’s good. Especially now Delphine isn’t staying with us.

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