Authors: Rob May
Alien Disaster (26 page)
Hewson, Tank and Lucky had joined them. Tank and Lucky stood arm-in-arm. Hewson raised his hand in greeting. Brandon nodded, then turned his attention back to the bionoids. ‘Just one last thing to do,’ he said.
Brandon stretched his arm back, and then launched the missile into the setting sun. With his mind he followed it up above the clouds and towards the Soviet Union. He had five thousand kilometres to cover, through five time zones. But at hypersonic speed, the bionoids made it to Salisbury Plain in less than quarter of an hour. As they sped through the troposphere they left a trail of tiny bionoid satellites behind them, a chain to maintain the connection with Brandon’s mind. He guided the missile straight into the medical tent at the RAF base, and brought it to a dead stop, hovering above Kat’s still body.
The medical team didn’t even notice. They were silently watching the flatlined life support machine. They were in the process of turning off the equipment as Brandon let the bionoids disperse and enter Kat’s body. The medics left the tent in darkness, consoling each other with muted voices. Brandon had now lost all visual feedback; he could only work by feel, concentrating on willing the bionoids to repair Kat’s internal wounds, and to muster her body into generating blood.
At first it seemed like a hopeless task, but the bionoids knew what they were doing even if Brandon didn’t. His father and mother—he supposed he should just call her Sarah now—had spent their lives researching and developing the technology just for a time like this. Through the chain of bionoids that stretched halfway around the world, Brandon could feel Kat’s body responding, and the bionoids around her vocal chords carried the sound of her breathing back to him.
Brandon
felt
Kat sit up in bed.
He
heard
her call out his name.
Brandon Walker will return
in
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