Wonder Heroes 4.0 by Ahlquist Steve

Author:Ahlquist, Steve [Ahlquist, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Superhero, Adventure, apocalyptic, amazing, Cross-Genre
ISBN: 9781628520019
Publisher: JukePop
Published: 2014-04-14T07:00:00+00:00

Walter Watanabe woke up in his lab at five in the morning. He had fallen asleep in an uncomfortable chair, and stretched his back cautiously. He checked his watch and noted that he had been asleep for twenty minutes. Walter checked the progress on the project he had been working on long into the night. A robotic arm was carefully placing artificial gems, one after another, into the chamber of an energy displacement weapon. The weapon was then test fired and the burned out gem removed and evaluated automatically. All the tests so far were negative; no gem seemed to have the perfect mix of qualities necessary for the weapon to approximate the power and precision of a Wonder Gauntlet.

Walter stretched his arms, audibly cracked the joints in his neck and rose from his chair. He left the lab and took the elevator to the fifty-fifth floor, where he maintained his dojo. The elevator opened and revealed Master Kim, a Korean martial artist Walter had hired to instruct him in the finer points of GiCheon, a relatively obscure open handed combat system. Kim had two coffees in hand.

“No, thank you, Master Kim,” said Walter to the proffered coffee, “I avoid stimulants.”

Master Kim smiled and drank deeply from his cup. In heavily accented Japanese the Korean man said, “It’s from your commissary. Very good coffee. I’m useless in the morning without it.”

It was five past five. “Shall we proceed?” asked Walter; he disliked wasting time.

Master Kim was being paid very well for his time here, so he was disposed to humor Mr. Watanabe’s eccentricities. After some quick formalities Master Kim began his instruction.

Two hours later Walter Watanabe exited the elevator at the top floor of his building he had designed, the tallest in Tokyo. He was showered and wearing an Armani suit, smiling politely at the workers that staffed his office. Breakfast awaited him at his desk; he checked his stock price and his email as he ate. At quarter past seven he began his meetings.

Walter’s people knew that the meetings had to be kept short, and information had to be delivered in as quick and concise a form as possible. He was a very generous employer who demanded a lot from his people and usually got it.

A middle aged man stood nearby reading off a computer pad. The man had once worked for Walter’s father, and Walter knew him to be extremely loyal, if unimaginative. “Trejo Industrial says that the specifications for the servos you ordered are too exacting for their equipment, sir. They’re projecting a 65% failure rate.”

Walter frowned. “I designed their equipment, they’re not using it right. The failure rate should be closer to 20%.” Walter spun his seat around and looked out the window.

“I told them that sir.”

Walter rubbed his eyes and sighed. “Very well. Buy Trejo Industrial, fire the board, and get some of our people on site to oversee manufacturing. We’ll shoot for 5% failure and settle for 10.”

“Yes, sir.” The man left Walter’s office,

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