Chapter 4
X and Shortcut sat in the plane and studied the black box.
“I hope Brockway didn’t put up too much of a fight,” Shortcut said.
“Nothing I couldn’t handle. But he said something about an Android Winter.”
“Never heard of it.”
“He wasn’t making any sense. I couldn’t tell if he was serious or if it was a result of his chips malfunctioning.”
“At least Aruba’s back online.”
X looked out at the night sky where Aruba was twinkling on the horizon. He thought of Sparrow. “And safe.”
“I’m dying to know what’s in this box. Probably a bad virus.”
Shortcut squeezed two sides of the black box, revealing two small prongs. He hooked it up to a computer and watched as the box glowed gold and hummed. A shimmering wall of information appeared around the box, rotating like rings on a planet.
