Humanity's Champion: Union of Stars: Book One by D. L. Harrison

Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The idea that I’d become world-news the previous night had been an understatement. I’d underestimated my story worthiness by quite a bit. We were back home after breakfast, and we were watching the news coverage. It was apparent I was the biggest news story on all seven colony worlds for the western coalition, and probably Earth and the other colonies as well, though there was no way to verify that.

They were constantly running video of my rescues, and even started to replay the leaked video from the station of two weeks ago, a story that had regained some traction with my latest stunt. It was almost embarrassing.

I wasn’t sure who wanted to get their hands on me more, the journalists greedy for the breaking story of the century, or the government who had no control over the power and potential threat I represented.

The speculation on it was far and wide. Including government coverups and testing of new top-secret technologies, including new shield technology, anti-gravity, and energy weapons. Some even speculated I wasn’t human at all, and I was simply a man shaped android chassis carrying and powering all that new technology.

Another theory was that I was a brilliant independent inventor testing out my own technologies, since the government would never reveal such secret advances merely to save a few lives.

Then there were even a few people that stated with bizarre certainty that I had to be an alien living among humans, that had decided to help out during the tragedy of the spaceport’s explosion. Strangely enough, that crazy hypothesis was closest to the truth, and the most laughed at one as well.

Not even one person suggested biologically based superpowers, never mind ones gifted by an alien race. Though, I still wasn’t sure what the price was for that gift. So far, they’d seemed helpful, but there was the matter of violating my mind and body without consent to give them to me in the first place. Also, the self-destruct they’d built into my cells, and not knowing if I had full control of it all in truth including my actions, which continued to be two of my major stressors.

It was all a bit surreal, all of it, but the press was a big part of that feeling. I’d started to accept the rest, at least the parts of it I understood and was sure of.

“So, I have a plan to come in and out without being seen. The next time something like this comes up?”

It was a statement, but I was also testing the waters to see if her newfound support hadn’t flown in the face of this morning’s challenges. I still wouldn’t be looking for trouble, or patrolling for lawbreakers like in some comic book, but I would respond to emergency situations if I could make the difference between life and death.

She said, “Go on.”

After I explained the tunnel idea in detail, she replied, “That sounds good to me. I’d appreciate a heads up before you go haring off on a mission though, just in case your recklessness exceeds your power.

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