Days of Boom: Chapter 9

Joseph Mierek

IX

Pax Romna

"Joe...Joe... Joe wake up!" Someone whispered. I sat up with a start Nolan was sitting across from me annoyed and tired. "Your turn to take watch." He yawned then passed out. I stood up and Angel leaped down from the luggage rack onto my shoulder. I quietly slid the door open and shut it behind me.

I pulled the cell phone out that I had taken from the Burning Sun leader back at the train station. I had disarmed the "present" they had dropped off right after I had arrived and excused my self from the others. The bomb was simple enough to find the cell phone beeped I got close to it...disarming it was another story.

The bomb was inside a metal suitcase and thankfully it wasn't a nuke. I had no idea how to stop it from exploding and there was five minutes left on the clock. Dan could've disarmed it in seconds but he had a bad knife injury from some ninja's (which seemed a little sad considering I had taken out nine fully armed members without a scratch, but I didn't say that to his face).

So instead of sitting there playing "cut the blue wire" I did the next best thing. I slipped out a window and flew a good distance into the air. I hurled the bomb as high as I could and called down a lightning bolt. The lightning struck the bomb and caused a massive explosion. Thankfully I was high enough where no one would've gotten hurt. I rejoined my teamand thankfully no one noticed the boom.

I began looking through the phone and was shocked to see how much information it contained; locations of their bases, members names, and a few plans they must've been working on. I read a section that said "Top Secret" now when someone puts a title like that on you have to look. I was about to open it when suddenly the screen went blank and the phone started to smoke. I dropped it and it blew up like a cherry bomb.

"Son of Hera!" I yelled and kicked the wall in frustration.