Chapter 1

In an undisclosed location somewhere in Arlington, VA, a teenage boy with brown hair and blue eyes raced across the rooftops of the city. The boy was a free runner, moving with acrobatic agility he launched himself off the roof of one building and landed with a dull thump on the balcony outside his own bedroom.

Straightening up the boy calmly opened the sliding glass door in front of him and walked into his bedroom. No sooner was he in his room that a 9 year old girl with long straight light blonde hair and bright blue-gray eyes came bouncing into the room.

"Jason," she said, "You promised mom you'd take me to a movie, remember." Jason smiled,

"I remember, sis, just let me get a shower." He said.

45 minutes later…

Jason and his little sister Jenna were both on his motorcycle headed toward the local movie theater.

"What movie do you want to see?" He said, over the helmet radio, Jenna was about to answer when she and her brother noticed a black SUV pull in behind them and their radio signal being interrupted.

"Pull in to the Car garage, coming up on your right," Said a man's voice. At the sound of the voice Jason visibly relaxed and the look on his face changed from concern to annoyance.

"Was that who I think it was?" said Jenna, a note of annoyance in her voice as well.

Jason nodded,

"The one and only agent Avery Campbell," He said turning into the car garage. Pulling down into the underground part of the garage, Jason stopped his bike in the middle of the cavernous empty room, put the kickstand down, and half leaned half sat on the seat with Jenna as they watched the SUV's pull around and park in front of him.

A man about Jason's size got out of the lead SUV and walked toward them. He looked like the stereotypical spy in a trench coat and fedora.

"Well, Well, Well," said Jenna, "If it isn't our favorite spook."

"Jason and Jenna Mathis," he said, "your country needs you. The fate of the free world rests on your decision_,"

"AVERY," Jason interrupted loudly while at the same time pinching the bridge of his nose, "for once in your life will you skip the recruitment speech and just tell us what's going on."

"Fine," said Avery, the trench coated ego maniac was obviously a little insulted that Jason had cut him off in the middle of a speech he had obviously rehearsed.

Swallowing his pride Avery went on. He pulled out a tablet and punched something up then handed it to Jason who watched while Jenna looked over his shoulder. The video clip that was playing showed some scientists testing what appeared to be some sort of energy weapon. A beam shot out of what appeared to be some sort of laser bazooka apparatus one of the men was holding toward a decommissioned, derelict sub that was floating in the water. The beam hit the derelict there was a bright flash of white light and the sub was vaporized.

Jason gave a low whistle and Jenna slowly shook her head hardly daring to believe that what she had just seen was real.

"What you're looking at is classified footage of Project: Gilgamesh," said Avery

"That is one seriously powerful weapon," said Jason.

"That's the portable version on its lowest power setting," said Avery, "There were also plans to build one the size of an artillery piece."

"Were," said Jenna.

"Yeah," said Avery, "After the brass saw that clip you just watched they decided these neutron weapons were two powerful. They ordered the project scrapped and the blueprints for the weapons destroyed."

"Where do I come in?" said Jason

"Last week," said Avery, "a known gun runner named Frost sent out a notice in the black market that he has a working neutron beam for sale. The only way that he could have a working beam is if he somehow got his hands on the schematics for the micro neutron reactor core that makes the whole thing work."

"You mean without the Core thingy this thing is just a glorified flashlight?" said Jenna

"Exactly," said Avery, "I need you two to go to Welkerville and get into the mainframe of Donald Davenport."

"What's this Davenport got to do with all this?" Jenna asked

"He's the one who invented the Core thingy," said Avery, " he's overly sentimental about his inventions and we suspect that he didn't destroy his schematics he just hid them away somewhere in his mainframe because he was cocky enough to think that his system couldn't be hacked."

"Again, why do you need us?" said Jason

"Well first your sister is a computer prodigy, not to mention one of the best hackers alive."

"And second?" Jason prodded motioning for Avery to get on with it.

"Second," Avery paused long enough to bring up the pictures of two teenage boys and girl, "We need your special abilities to get your sister past Davenport's security system and these three. Their names are Adam, Bree, and Chase, three of Davenports four children, the three children who happen to be bionic.

Adams chief ability is strength, his weakness is that he's not too bright. Bree's chief ability is speed, but I've seen you move, Jason, with your light-speed capability you can keep up with her easily. her main weakness is that she's easily distracted. Chase's main abilities are force-fields and a super high level of intelligence. His main weakness is that like Davenport he gets a little over confident sometimes."

"This could be tricky," said Jason, "It'll take more than just speed to get by them."

"I'd suggest you get to Davenport through Bree," said Avery, "You're a good looking guy, Jason, and Bree is boy crazy. You could play up to her and use her to get into her house." Jason scratched his head nervously.

Jenna smiled.

"Avery," she said, "If you knew my brother, as well as you think you do, you would know that he's a hopelessly nice guy and would be too uncomfortable with using a girl and hurting her like that. He's not one to play with a person's feelings."

"Yeah well in this job we sometime have to do unpleasant things," said Avery, "It may come down to you having to sacrifice this girl's feelings for the good of the world?!"

TBC

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