Page 12 of Apocalypse
Conrad shook his head.“My dear, that was hardly an accident.He had a lot of secrets and he would have protected them with his life if he had to.Blowing the place up would have been his final plan. I do know he took a series of injections for a number of years and he was going to make himself into some kind of fighter.”He shook his head.“I didn’t think much of his idea as it had never been done successfully before that I am aware of but I hoped he wouldn’t get the chance to do it.’
“Oh, he did it, alright,” Faith assured him.“And not only to himself but a number of other people that never gave their consent to have it done to them.I was one of his victims.”
Conrad gasped.“His idea worked?He made super fighters?”
“He took men off the streets and gave him his serum for three years,” Faith explained.“It took their humanity away as he taught them how to fight and win any way they could.Those men became assassins and they didn’t even realize they were killing people.He took more than one group of homeless to make them his warriors and then there was me.I came to him broken and almost dead.His serum healed my bones and my cuts.Then he continued to give me the serum for seven fucking years.Now I’m a freak with no way back.I’ll never be the woman I once was and I have to live with that.But I won against him in a fair fight.I took his head off his shoulders and I don’t regret that.He was like a wild dog that needed to be put out of his misery and now his friends are going to continue his threat and we have to stop them before we lose the nation we grew up in.They are going to cause a famine and poison the water we need to survive.”
Conrad shook his head.“Oh no, they are not.Not if we can stop them.”
“And how do we do that?”Bastian asked him.“We’ve only been able to uncover a small portion of their plan.”
Conrad smiled.“And I can help you put the puzzle together.You see my brother and his friends divided and split this puzzle up, so no one person would have all the answers.I can help you do that.”
“How can you help us?”Bane wanted to know.
“Because my brother, in his infinite wisdom, always met his Horse-buddies at the compound where your friends found me.He would always throw me into the basement of the house I stayed in and they would speak about the steps to their plan.What they didn’t realize was that I was underneath them the whole time and I could hear every word they said.”He shook his head and said, “I guess he forgot that I remember everything I read or hear.They went over every step of their plan and how they figured they could survive the fall of the nation.”
Bane glared at him as he asked, “And why would you help us with this?”
“Because sir, this country is the best there is in the world!”Conrad exclaimed.“We may have our problems but we are free and we protect our own.There is no country on earth like America.How dare these bastards even think about trying this!Taking down the greatest democracy ever conceived.”
Bane took a step back then looked up at his dad.
Frank was grinning at him.
Bane nodded at him.“He’ll do.”
Chapter Six
Ahalf hour later,they had a shift change at the IT table.James, Rainey and Damon went to bed.Lionheart, Frank and Cane were now on the same trails as the previous shift.
Bane and Bastian sat down with coffee at a table in the main room.Bastian motioned for Conrad to come and sit with them.“Do you drink coffee?”Bastian asked him.
“I do, sir.Though I hardly got to have any very often.”
Bastian pushed a mug over and motioned to the tray with cream and sugar.
