ULTIMATE WARRIORS by unknow

Author:unknow
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-07T07:02:35+00:00

Chapter Two

Thursday, 12:13 a.m.

Two days, twenty-three hours, forty-seven minutes, and counting...

Clark couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen Captain Marvelous looking so grim.

In his long and illustrious career as CEO of Heroes Incorporated, the Captain had faced down more no-win situations than a marriage counselor. He excelled at snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. His keen mind and unerring instinct invariably chose just the right superhero to neutralize each dire threat that came across the hotline.

Clark shifted in his seat, trying to catch the faint breeze wafting from the overhead vent. When you crammed twenty-seven muscle-bound superheroes--and a few superheroines--into a small conference room, you tended to overload the air conditioning system. Too bad the ready room was three levels underground. Clark would have emptied his bank account for an open window. A little air freshener wouldn’t come amiss, either.

Bruce Wynn sat right up front, of course, shooting the room’s testosterone level right off the scale. As far as Clark was concerned, the guy didn’t even belong in HI. Bruce didn’t have any real superpowers. He was all cash, flash, and gadgets. Without his fortune and his technology, he’d be just another pretty face in the unemployment line.

Clark unzipped his laptop case and eased open his computer. He was HI’s official secretary, partly because he was the only superhero in the organization capable of stringing words into coherent sentences, and partly because his specialized psychic superpowers made it easy for him to take notes. He sent a burst of mental energy into the computer, causing the hard disk to whir in response. Bruce looked over, as if the sound irritated him.

Captain Marvelous took his position at the podium. Clark sat up straighter in his seat and gave HI’s fearless leader his full attention.

"Thank you all for arriving at such short notice," the Captain said. "I won’t beat around the bush, because frankly, we haven’t much time. Our operatives in the field have just uncovered a DP of massive proportions."

Clark and the entire assembly of superheroes gave a collective gasp. DP was superhero slang for "Diabolical Plot." DP’s were perpetrated by EMG’s, or "Evil Maniacal Geniuses." Clark shook his head. You just never knew when an EMG would snap. When one did, it wasn’t pretty.

Captain Marvelous cleared his throat. "According to my sources, Lex Loser’s tenuous hold on sanity has finally crumbled. He’s retreated to a secret underground lair to detonate a computerized neutron bomb. He intends to kill the entire population of Earth--without damaging its resources. After the explosion, he’ll live in luxury, attended by an army of robotic servants." The Captain exhaled heavily. "The bomb is set to go off Saturday at midnight."

A buzz of horror zapped back and forth across the room. Lex Loser was an EMG capable of perpetrating the worst atrocities, but this DP far surpassed any evil he’d previously conceived. Clark concentrated on thought-streaming his notes onto the computer even as his blood turned to ice in his veins.

Back in the last row, young Peter Parkington jumped up so quickly he almost dropped his camera.

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