Chapter Thirty-Four
Dorian
I was dressed and ready to start implementing the next part of my plan.
The main set of my crew was waiting in the large training room, horsing around until it was their turn to be set free.
“Time to cause a little trouble. Ajax, you and Monica head to the bridge. Let’s turn this island into a playground.” I gave him the word, and he grinned. Monica walked over to me and touched her hands to my face. Just as she leaned in to try and kiss me, I turned my head.
“Get out of here,” I gritted through my teeth and knocked her hand away from my skin.
She didn’t look one bit regretful as she turned around and walked off with Ajax.
“Roady, do your thing and start the system shutdown. I want it all out.” He got to work on his laptop, even though I knew he’d soon be moving to the large computer area I’d supplied him with.
Jesse was the host of Echo’s gift. He had been able to shift into any animal at will after much practice, and with his strength, I knew any in his path would fall. He was sitting on the ground meditating, and hadn’t looked at me since I walked in. That was fine, his time wasn’t now.
Ajax and Monica would take out the bridge, and then the true chaos would start.
I flashed to a nearby rooftop to watch them work. It was very early in the morning, and the bridge was empty.
A large boom reverberated through the air, and piece by piece, the only way onto the island fell into the freezing water.
Phase two started immediately after the bridge fell. All the lights started to go out in the city, block by block. Electricity was no more.
You’d be surprised how much chaos can be caused just by cutting off people from electricity. The majority of mankind didn’t know how to live without it—never had to fight to survive, or live off of the land like I had many years ago. It was time to take them back to those days.
The morning sun was just starting to crest over the mountain, and while police sirens and fire trucks were out in full force, and everyone trying to figure out what was happening, their efforts were futile.
Then I spotted it.
Light glaring in the sky from one section of the city.
I knew which one it was, and I had to give it up to them—I was impressed the kid had it in him.
AJ, the boy genius that Phillip had saved.
Roady and he would fight in the virtual world while the rest of us handled reality.
But for now, I would watch as humans destroyed themselves, as was their nature to do.
It wasn’t long before the governor levied a mandatory curfew. Police were driving slowly around the streets, speaking to people through their radio speakers.
Of course, people didn’t listen. They were in panic mode, which only intensified when word spread about the bridge being knocked out.
Looting, fighting, and fires were taking over.
I laughed. People loved to blame evil and bad deeds on the devil or some supernatural force, but really, it was all them. One little nudge and they did all the work themselves, damning them to whatever hell they were going to. I’d seen it all in my lifetime. Violence, greed…and when in pure desperation, they will do anything.
Kindness was harder to come by than the others, as everyone was so focused on themselves, unwilling to take the time to look up and be nice. To care for one another. Hell, I saw it plenty in the hospital. The elderly were dropped off and treated like old dogs who needed to be put down. The old became nuisances. Doctors being serial killers, and nurses being rapists and murderers. Or a doctor being the villain. Man didn’t care about man, so there was no reason to protect them when the threat was really the person standing next to them.
Over the course of a few hours, cities all over the world were having battles of their own. The men and women I’d recruited were free, doing as they wished. Roady had done his job well, infecting the main systems of government with a virus that would take them at least two hours to break. It would be just enough time.
I stood on top of Griffin Enterprises, the tallest tower in Seahill, and watched as the moon started to cross into the path of the sun.
Chapter Thirty-Five
Draco
