The light from the teleport faded leaving the Shades
in a dark command Center. Gordon had his glasses in his hand and was the first
to realize something wasn’t right. “ Technarious?” He called out to the empty
room.
Kelly took her glasses off and looked around the
destroyed room. “What happened here?” She asked.
“Something very bad.” The voice from the teleport
message replied from under one of the blinking consoles. The voice belonged to
a guy who looked to a decade or two older than the Shades. He crawled out from under
the console with a set of silver sunglasses that had light beaming from the
lenses in one hand, and a multi tool in his other hand. The shades took a weary
step backwards which did not go unnoticed. “Before you kids get physical, my
name is Mark, I’m the transition Shade.” He held up the glasses as evidence.
“Transition Shade?” Dante asked.
“The member of the last group that drew the short straw and remains available
to handle any issues that might arise before Technarious and Lumarion are able
to assemble a new team.” Warren guessed.
Mark Pointed at Warren. “Got it in one.” He confirmed.
“My Shade designation is Liquid Silver.. Sorry we had to meet like this.” He
waved at the destroyed command center. The light from his glasses ran over
Lumarion’s wall which was shattered in several places.
“What happened here?”
Sonya asked.
Mark tested a few of the
buttons on the console he had been under and got no reaction. “Isn’t it
obvious?” He asked. “Someone broke in and ransacked the place. I haven’t been
able to bring up anything other than the teleporter and that fried after I
brought you guys in. Technarious and Lumarion are gone, although they were able
to set off an alarm for me before they left or were taken.
Kelly stepped forward. “How
are we supposed to find them? She asked. "Blinding light is destroyed, I’m
shocked out glasses were able to safely teleport us honestly.
Mark looked at Lumarion’s
shattered wall. “Look, I’m not going to lie, this isn’t the best situation in
the world, but the best thing we can do right now is solve one problem at a
time. First things first we have to get some sort of functionality in the
command center back online. Then we can recompile Blinding Light and start looking for any clues or trails that Tenchnarious or Lumarion may have left.” Mark
explained.
Gordon nodded. “We
literally have no better option than to trust you, but I swear if you are lying
to us I will make it my life’s mission to hunt you down and end you.” Gordon
stated with no bravado. “How can I help” He finished.
Mark smiled. “I think we’re
going to get a long just fine.” Lets start by assessing the total state of the
damage here so we know how much work we have ahead of us.” He decided.
