Free Chronicles of the Supers (Book 1): Born From Darkness (The Story of Max) by Jeremy Williams Page B

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paranoid. And it iritated Max endlessly. She needed a way to get
information and she needed it fast. But so far she couldn't think of
any way to get any info. So instead she filed his public information
on a folder on her computer and went on to find other targets who
were easier to find.
    She
began searching again and found another target within minutes. This
one was quite a bit further away than the last few had been and she
would almost certainly need some form of transportation. Her top
speed, that she'd been able to measure, was only around 60 miles per
hour. At that rate it would take 3 hours just to arrive at the
location if she followed established public roads. Meaning she needed
a faster way to get there.
    Of
course she didn't have a car. And couldn't afford one. Her town had a
bus stop but that was only for local transportation. If she ran in a
straight line and didn't get lost, a huge assumption, then she could
be there in roughly 2.5 hours. As she considered her options she
decided that she would just have to run and pray that she didn't get
lost.
    She
decided to set out that night despite the fact that it was a Sunday.
She had school tomorrow morning and really wanted to get some sleep.
But she decided that her vengeance was more important. Plus being
unpredictable would make it harder for the police to trace her trail.
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    Max was sprinting as fast as she could through some underbrush. But
she had to be careful. One power she noted was missing from her
repetoire was invulnerability. She would still be cut easily by
things like the underbrush she was running through. Though she had
super healing to make up for it, so she was pushing faster than she
would have normally dared already.
    She was only about 15 seconds out from her destination if she had run
in the correct direction. While that was a really big if, she'd
managed to orient herself using several roads in the area. The
possibility of her being lost was certainly much smaller. Especially
since she also had a map of the area she'd printed and compass to
help her navigate.
    She slowed down at the map when she saw a clearing ahead. If her
guess was accurate, that clearing was the compound she had planned to
infiltrate. As she came near she saw a very large 3 story plantation
style home.
    'Yep, this is it.' Max thought to herself.
    The house was painted white and was very lavish, with a porch that
wrapped all the way around the first floor. The third story seemed a
little out of place to Max's eyes, but she couldn't figure out why.
Perhaps it was a new addition to the home or something like that.
    Max looked around and surveyed everything she could see. She would
need a way in that was quiet and quick. On this side the home had
lights on the porch, so she would have a hard time getting in. But
she slowly circled around to the other side, taking care to stay
hidden in the underbrush along the way, so she could fully scope out
the place before planning on how to get in.
    On the back of the house Max lucked out and found a stealthy way in.
There was a pickup truck parked close to the house and the lights on
this side where being blocked by it. She could climb up on the pickup
and reach the roof over the porch and from there get inside the house
through a window.
    Quickly making up her mind, Max sprinted across the ground, taking
care to stay in the shadows. When she reached the pickup she
scrambled on top of it and stepped across to the roof. From there she
squatted down and awkwardly squat-walked across the roof to a nearby
window. She looked inside and found that the room appeared to be
deserted. After getting a thorough look she tried the window but
found it was locked.
    She blew out a silent, frustrated breath and moved to the next.
Methodically, she tried 3 more windows and found they were all
locked. The 5 th window though was unlocked, allowing Max
to sneak into the unoccupied room. She opened the door on the other
side and found the hallway