Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom by Bradley W. Schenck

Author:Bradley W. Schenck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

SATURDAY, 8:22 AM

Nola and Rusty had agreed to go first to Dash and Rusty’s apartment building. Rusty, no doubt, was going to continue to try to reach the League President and Harry Roy, whoever that was. Nola thought that it must have something to do with the operator robot upstairs.

All Nola herself wanted was to see Dash in the flesh, to make sure he was all right and, she hoped, to get a somewhat more coherent account of what had happened to him: an explanation that was a little bit less concerned with how desperately heroic he had looked and how really, really brave he had been while Pitt had done his worst.

Since Dash’s apartment was on the ground floor Rusty and Nola practically walked into it as soon as they’d entered the building. Rusty waited obligingly while Nola rang the bell, tapped on the door, and thought for a moment before she knocked quite loudly. After that she had to admit that Dash wasn’t at home.

They turned toward the stairs. Standing just behind them they found Evan and Evvie Campbell with an oddly familiar robot, so small that it could perch on Evan’s shoulder, and a strange man with an ink-stained pocket on his chest and a terrified expression on his face.

“You’d better surrender,” Evvie said. “We know what you did and we have come to make you pay.”

Nola looked at Rusty. He was looking at the tiny robot: its chest-mounted cannon whined and spun its barrels.

Rusty put his hands in the air. She gave him a considering look and followed his eyes to the minuscule cannon. “Really?” she asked.

Rusty nodded with such certainty that she looked back down at Evvie and said, “Uh, we surrender, then.”

The two children and their prisoners stepped through the hall door, down into the dimness of the basement.

“Is this about the zombies?” Nola asked.

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