I hadn’t slept for even a minute, especially after my therapy session, and certainly looked the part; the darkness around my bloodshot eyes must have told at least some of the story. I exchanged nods and awkward smiles with everyone as they trudged up the boarding ramp, except for Brynja, who bre...
I’m not sure that I was accustomed to seeing people die, though I’d seen enough of that in one day to last me a lifetime. Despite what pandering politicians spout on Sunday morning talk shows, video games do not desensitize the younger generation to violence. If pretending to shoot someone with a...
Dawson asked, reaching forward to flip switches on the jet’s dash. Sitting next to him in the cockpit I pulled the belt across my lap and clicked it into place. “Aye aye, captain.” I gave him an exaggerated salute and he laughed uncontrollably. “Is ...
Registering each of us and climbing aboard would take minutes – three, maybe four. Optimistically, we had ninety seconds before the Fudō bots were on the ground, slicing away at everything that moved. I loaded a shell into my grenade launcher and saw Peyton crossing herself, slowly moving her han...
Plan B burned through their bloodstreams at an accelerated rate; like a blast of nitrous oxide to a high performance engine, the experimental blue serum provided a much-needed turbo boost, triggering them to manifest with more power than they’d ever experienced before – but not without a cost. Th...