The Tyrant Skies: a Marvel: Untold Novel by David Annandale

Author:David Annandale [Annandale, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Superheroes, Marvel, Science Fiction, Media Tie-In
ISBN: 9781839081965
Publisher: Aconyte
Published: 2023-04-03T23:00:00+00:00

Madeleine Rhodes arrived at the monitoring station out of breath. She had run all the way from her quarters. She burst through the door, and a terrified Gates leapt out of his chair and retreated to the far side of the room. The red light reached out to her, its blinking sinking into her vision like a claw.

“Still nothing?” she asked Gates, hoping against hope that all had sorted itself in the last few minutes and she could climb down.

“Nothing,” Gates confirmed. “I tried calling again.”

Rhodes chewed her lip. Procedure called for her to send a flyover of drones, and a unit of guards. The drones weren’t a problem. She could dispatch them with a few keystrokes.

Or she should have been able to.

Rhodes frowned. “You haven’t sent any surveillance flights there, have you?”

“There was a scheduled flight supposed to go over about an hour ago.”

Rhodes checked the monitors. Those were the units she was trying to order. “Where are they?”

“I don’t know.”

They weren’t responding. They had gone as silent as the mines.

Rhodes called up their last transmissions. Their feeds appeared on the screens above the terminal. Empty landscapes went by in the bleached monochrome of night vision. Nothing unusual appeared. Then the images broke up and ended.

“Oh,” said Gates. “That’s not right, is it?”

Rhodes gave him a glare of contempt that shut him up. Soft man in a hard uniform, thinking he was something. He would never rise in the Red Skull’s army. Not like the truly hardened.

Only she didn’t feel hardened, not right now, and Gates was right. None of this was normal.

Rhodes called up another flight of drones and rerouted them to the mines. It would be another half-hour before they arrived. Sending actual personnel to the mines presented a problem. The guard unit posted there was the largest number in that region of Wolkenland. Those guards were the ones who would have been sent to deal with problems elsewhere. The mines going dark was not a contingency in the realm of the imaginable.

It had to be something stupid, simple, unimportant.

But meanwhile, the nearest guards would take even longer to reach the mines than the drones.

Rhodes hesitated over her options. She could wait until the new overflight told them something concrete. Or she could push the panic button before they knew anything at all.

She did not want to be seen to be the one who waited too long.

So she kicked the problem higher up the chain.

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