The Rising Sun: Episode 3 Read online

Evander found it slightly difficult to find his voice again, and break the stunned silence.

  “It was him…” he said in a whisper, looking around the room at the other two high council members and the policemen. “It was the one who had blown up the cruiser, and attacked the Mech laboratory!”

  The police officers had no knowledge of this, but the video of the gruesome eyeless creature kidnapping Derigor was enough to stun them senseless.

  The video had showed the pale faced, eyeless man slipping into the room hours back, and waiting … And when Derigor had arrived, the madman had knocked him out, taken his body and had coolly walked off.

  Evander fought back the choking sensation slowly building within him. This can’t be!

  Feeling everything spin around him, He reached for a chair nearby and sunk to it.

  As the speechless silence descended over the room again, a voice of one of the police officers, suddenly alive with excitement, called:

  “Master Evander, there’s something amazing we’ve got here!”

  Evander, along with everyone else in the room, turned to look at the officer at the far end of the room. He was stooped over something on the floor that he was blocking from view. Turning around with a beaming smile, he announced: “Whoever that lunatic was, he sure is going to regret coming here and attacking Derigor.”

  Feeling a spark of curious thrill, Evander rose and walked towards the man, as did the rest of the people in the room.

  “Why’s that?” asked one of them.

  The man scooped up whatever he had been bent over, and waved it before them.

  It was a z-com.

  “He left his z-com!” exclaimed the man, getting to his feet. “The mystic probably dropped it on his way! Now, through this z-com, we can-”

  “Know all his contacts and get far more details through it!” finished Evander, whose panic had been instantly replaced by delight and excitement.

  The man hurried forward and handed the mystic’s z-com to Evander. Feeling all else erased from sight, Evander pressed a button on the z-com. A holo screen leaped out over the air above it.

  Evander frowned, reading the words displayed on the screen … The holographic screen hovering over the mystic’s z-com had the words:

  ‘GENTLEMEN, THIS IS HOW HOT IT GETS IN HELL.’

  The rest of the crowd gathered behind him had fallen to a puzzled silence.

  “What does that -”

  Before the policeman could finish the sentence, the bomb that Zardin had implanted in this room went off … the entire structure was ripped apart by a bellowing blast of orange. The fire raced outwards, tearing through the walls, floor, ceiling, frying everything in its way … And the entire place was left in flaming smithereens.

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