Page 48 (1/2)

"One minute, elevation at four hundred feet"

"It will virtually knock LA back into the Dark Ages" Archer stared at the large screen "You’re about to see history be ain, but the kind of history that can never be rewritten"

"You can’t do this," I said

Kat was shaking her head "You can’t There’re people there who need electricity--there are innocent people, and their whole way of life is about to be ended You can’t--"

"It’s obviously too late," Nancy snapped, dark eyes firing "This is our only option to stop them For there even to be a tomorrohere mankind is safe"

I openeddown from twenty seconds, and there wasn’t any way to stop this It was happening, right in front of us

Moving closer to Kat, I continued to rivetthe freeway, trying to exit the city There could be Luxen in those cars, good ones and bad ones There could be humans with heart conditions There were also hospitals somewhere on that screen, people whose next breath would never come

And then it happened

Kat sht caused the ie on the screen to wobble for alooked as it had seconds before, except none of the carsmoved, actually, and

The entire city had gone dark

13

{ Katy }

Ohto fall over

I couldn’t tearOf course not Millions of people in LA were currently stunned And out of theain? Hundreds? Thousands? I couldn’t believe what I’d just witnessed

A voice crackled over the radio, declaring a successful drop of the EMP bolad they hadn’t, because I was sure either Dae sprayed in our face

"We’ll be initiating a scan for any electrical pulses," thedown earlier announced "Two minutes and I should have the data"

General Eaton nodded "Thank you"