Lore, Pittacus - Lorien 05 - The Revenge of Seven by Lore Pittacus

Author:Lore, Pittacus [Lore, Pittacus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘First contact was ten years ago,’ she says. ‘The Mogadorians claimed they were hunting fugitives.

They wanted to use our law-enforcement network, have free rein to move around the country, and in

exchange they’d provide us with weapons and technology. I was just out of the academy when all this

happened so I obviously wasn’t invited to any meetings with the aliens. I guess no one wanted to piss

them off or turn down weapons more powerful than any we’d ever seen, because our government

caved real quick. The director of the bureau himself was in on the negotiations. This was before he

got promoted. Might’ve been why he got promoted, in fact.’

‘Let me guess,’ I say, remembering the name from Mark’s website. ‘The old director was Bud

Sanderson. Now secretary of defense.’

Walker looks momentarily impressed. ‘Right. You connect the dots, you’ll find a lot of people who

negotiated with the Mogs ten years ago have done real well for themselves since.’

‘What about the president?’ Six asks.

‘That guy?’ Walker snorts. ‘Small fish. The ones who get elected, who give speeches on TV –

they’re just glorified celebrities. The real power’s with the people who get appointed, who work

behind the scenes. The ones you’ve never heard of. They’re who the Mogs wanted and that’s who

they’ve kept around.’

‘He’s still the president,’ Six counters. ‘Why doesn’t he do something?’

‘Because he’s kept in the dark,’ Walker says. ‘And anyway, the VP is a MogPro guy. When the

time comes, the president will either go along with the Mogs, or he’ll get removed.’

‘I’m sorry,’ I say, holding up my hands. ‘What the hell is MogPro?’

‘Mogadorian Progress,’ Walker explains. ‘It’s what they’re calling the, quote, intersection of our

two species, unquote.’

‘You know, if you ever want a second career, I know a website you could write for,’ I tell Walker

as I start paging through the documents in her file. There are specifications for Mogadorian blasters, transcripts of conversations between politicians, pictures of important-looking government guys

shaking hands with Mogs in officer uniforms. It’s the kind of document dump a site like They Walk

Among Us would kill for.

Actually, a lot of this stuff was already on Mark’s website. Could Walker have been the one

feeding him information?

‘So your boss sold out humanity for some upgraded weapons?’ Six asks, leaning over the back of

the couch to glare at Walker.

‘That sums it up. We weren’t the only country to sign up either,’ Walker continues, her tone bitter.

‘And they knew how to keep us on the hook, too. After the weapons, they started promising medical

advances. Genetic augmentation, they called it. Claimed they could cure everything from the flu to

cancer. They were basically promising immortality.’

I look up from the file, stopping at a picture of a soldier with a rolled-up sleeve, the veins on his

forearm blackened as if his blood had turned to soot.

‘How’s that working out?’ I ask, tapping the photo.

Walker cranes her neck to look at the picture, then locks eyes with me. ‘What you’re looking at is

one week’s withdrawal from Mogadorian genetic injections. That’s how it’s working out.’

I show the photo to Six and she shakes her head in disgust.

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