CHAPTER FORTY ONE
“What?!” the engineer exclaimed.
“There’s a second one!” Maria shoved the stick forward, sending the submarine drone hurtling towards the new threat. “Another submersible drone, nearing the Queens side of the tunnel.” The freezing tingle returned to her spine. That was their plan—not one, but two drones. Take out each side of the tunnel and leave the people inside to die. She had no weapons left; the Parasite drone could not detach from the first submarine or else control would return to the Brotherhood, wherever they might be.
That’s not completely true, though. I do have a weapon. She had a submarine at her disposal.
“Bixby,” she said evenly, “I’m going to try to crash this drone into the other one.”
The engineer was silent for a moment. “That might work,” he murmu
