Chapter 7 - The Blast at Pier 42"What are they doing?! Take them!" Sterling roared, realizing what was happening.
The mercenaries leveled their rifles, but it was already too late.
I turned the dial on my homemade bio-monitor to maximum overdrive. The tiny LED screen flashed violently from green to blinding red. The internal circuit board roared with an intense, high-frequency hum that vibrated straight through my teeth.
3... 2... 1...
BOOM!
It wasn't an explosion of fire, but an invisible wall of pure kinetic energy and electromagnetic force.
A blinding dome of blue light erupted from my small device, expanding outward in a massive shockwave. Every headlight on the Apex SUVs exploded into sparks. The mercenaries' high-tech rifles short-circuited, sparking furiously and throwing the men off their feet. Sterling was knocked backward onto the cold pavement, his high-tech earpiece bursting into smoke.
The dock plunged into pitch darkness as the power grid along the pier went dead.
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"Go! Get on the boat!" Dr. Hart screamed, grabbing my arm and pulling me up the gangplank just as the vessel's backup diesel engines roared to life.
The boat severed its mooring lines and pushed out into the dark, churning waters of the Hudson River, leaving Sterling and his ruined army behind in the fog.
