iGuardian Mercury Rising – Rob Baddorf

It held something under a cloth. With thin smiles on their faces, they presented it like they were reluctantly offering a gift. A valuable treasure wasted on a criminal. Such fools. How little these professionals really knew about what was possible in medicine. About the advances of technology and biomechanics! As one doctor unveiled the cart’s contents, another rolled up Colvin’s empty sleeve. On the cart was an artificial arm. Made of nothing more than plastic and titanium.

Was this really the best that modern medicine could afford? The second doctor lifted it from the cart like a holy relic. It was nothing more than a joke. A toy for the ignorant. Like offering a hand calculator in the day of supercomputers! Colvin didn’t resist. He would play along. He knew how to be compliant. How to be a good little boy.

After all, he had done that with his father for the last ten years, hadn’t he? On the project that Colvin should have inherited. But who got the iGuardian instead? A nobody. A mysterious masked rider. Where had his father actually found the man to drive something that advanced? The best pilot out of Naval Aviation Schools Command? Or a decorated soldier with five tours in the Middle East?

Working together, the two doctors attached Colvin’s new artificial arm. With a few twists and turns, the arm clicked into place, firmly seated against the circular metal plate in his left arm. The doctors talked between themselves. They looked pleased. Let them enjoy their moment. Colvin offered a weak smile in return. He watched as they cleaned up and prepared to leave. The plan was working just as it should.

Whatever special-clearance military specialist now drove the iGuardian would soon regret it. Under enough pressure, the driver would give himself away. Colvin sat still. Silent. He only had to wait. Something Colvin did not relish. The door finally closed, leaving Colvin to himself again. He grabbed the artificial arm and wrenched it.

It disconnected. He had no time for something so useless. Taking aim, Colvin threw the arm across the room. Soaring through the air, it flopped about like a dead fish. Landing directly in the trash can. Half in, half out. Colvin needed to make room— For the improvements that were on their way! OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com A single bare lightbulb! I sighed. At last, something man-made again!

The iGuardian had motored underwater when the ceiling got too low. It even drove over rocky ground when the cave ceiling opened back up and a beach area appeared next to the river. And just when I was second-guessing going this far, I saw it. The bare lightbulb that hung over the entrance to a gaping drainage pipe.

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NINE. TEN. I was breathing hard now. I had just finished doing my last rep of leg exercises. Miss Ella had me putting more and more weight on my left leg, working on the hip muscles, constantly trying to build their strength. I set my leg back down, releasing the strap that held the weights.

“Nice work, sugar,” Miss Ella said. “You sure you don’t want to do one more?” I toweled the sweat off my face. After thirty-five minutes of hard exercise, I was hot and tired. Miss Ella always pushed me. Pushed me past what I would have pushed myself to do. For some reason, she always thought I could do more than I did.

But all the physical therapy drained me, and I was ready to move on. “No, thanks. I’m good.” “Child, you let me be the decider of whether or not you’re good. That’s what your insurance is paying me for. But I’ll give you a break. Just this once, I suppose,” Miss Ella said, stifling a smile. “But you are doing well. I’m proud of you.” I smiled. “Now, doesn’t that sound good?” Miss Ella added.

“Don’t they go down like medicine?” “What does?” “Those words, honey! Didn’t you ever want to hear them from your papa?” “Um,” I replied, glancing at Miss Ella. “I don’t know.” She was looking in my direction, but never did know exactly where I was.

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