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Chapter Twenty-Nine

Lilith

I stayed underwater as much as I could, but I had to see where I was going, so I brought my head up enough that only my eyes were out of the water. I needed a spot where I could be out of the water to get out gadget number one out of the bag.

My head turned to both sides, looking for a rock or something.

Bingo.

An old tree up to my left was big and had one branch that was low enough for me to grab and pull myself up.  I could do what I needed from the branch before hitting the sand.

I was a little heavier than normal, with the water soaking me, but I made it up on to the branch. Quickly, I looked around to make sure my little pull-up hadn’t been noticed by anyone.

So far, so good.

After grabbing the signal disrupter, I stood on the branch, ready to make my run to the fort.  It looked to be about thirty yards away from my current spot, but that wouldn’t be an issue. It takes ten seconds to run from one end of the football field to the other; I didn’t even have half that distance to run. Once I got there, I would figure out my next move to get to a computer in the system.

“Go time,” I whispered to the wind and threw the little round piece of technology to a small black post that was sticking out of the sand. I figured it was where one of the laser sets were coming from, so it was the perfect spot.

I jumped down, and sped away as fast as my feet would push me. My hands gripped another low branch to swing my body over a big stump that was lying on the ground in my way. The block wall of the fort was getting closer, and I looked around to see if anyone was standing near it before making my best point of entry.

Obviously the front door was out of the question.

Then I spotted it. By the west side of the fort, the lookout tower was right next to a tall pine tree. Seriously, they needed a bad guy manual that stated to not have a bunch of trees around your base for people to climb and use to their advantage to attack.

A smile fell on my lips as I crept to the big-ass tree.

The pine was harder to climb than the one by the water, but I did it without falling down the long way to the ground.

“This is boring.” One of the guards who held onto his shiny black gun spoke to the other, who was looking in the opposite direction than the one who spoke.

“Shouldn’t have pissed the boss off by saying what you did. You wouldn’t have gotten sentry duty.” The taller guard looked at the one who complained and rolled his eyes.

Interesting men.

“Yeah, well, I still think the plan to get that hero society out into the limelight with that school fire was stupid, it only gave them more power. People love them,” the complainer grumbled, but what he said made my head tilt to the side in confusion.

“That right there is why you are up here. Don’t question the boss. He knows shit we don’t.”

The two men were silent, but then started talking about football. I tucked away the new information I heard for later and crashed their party.

“Shit!” one said as he saw me, but he didn’t even have time to raise his gun before I had my foot to his temple. His head hit the wall then crumpled to the floor. The other man had his gun up, but he too wasn’t fast enough, and after a few well-placed chops to the neck, he joined his friend.  I was going to try not to kill too many people. They might see the error of their ways, like I did after their boss was gone.

Two men down, for now.

Slowly, I descended the stairs from the tower and looked around for my next move. Beyond the wall that housed the lookout towers, there was a two-story building inside. Not overly large, but I could see some mad scientist stuff going on in it. The whole place was over a couple hundred years old, and had that creepy vibe to it.

A few men were scattered in the grass doing various morning routines. Some were working out, and some were just talking. I counted about fifteen of them. They would need to be gone if we were going to get inside the buildings.

One man was walking along the wall in my direction, so I went down to my hands and the balls of my feet, moving like a crouching tiger across the stone floor to the other side. I probably only had one more minute left if that guy walked up to check on the other men.

I needed to be quick with my next decision.

Guess it was time to shake things up. As long as I did my job to get connected to the system, their focus on me would only help the others get inside.

Figuring now was the best time, I walked down the stairs to ground level and then strutted straight into the grassy area. No one had noticed me yet, and I was curious if they even would.