Chapter One
Jianne Theevin put her headset on as the Guardians of Cadar took off to attend to a bank robbery two cities over.
“This is Dispatch online. Confirm contact.” She brought up the screens that were linked to the bodysuits the Guardians wore.
She could see what they saw and hopefully see the factor that would enable them to bring a swift end to the conflict.
“Rock confirmed.”
“Echo confirmed.”
“Cyber confirmed.”
Jianne grinned. “Thank you. Local cameras are up. You are going into a hot situation. There are hostages, the local constabulary suffered a devastating explosion, and there are wounded in triage situations that can’t be moved until the weapons fire is over. Go in, drop the attackers and get those peacekeepers to safety.”
Echo chuckled. “Fine. Find us the magic spot, and we will go to it.”
“Only if you keep Rock from taking my live feed into the lav again. There are some things a girl doesn’t need to see before she has her morning caf.” She shuddered at the memory of the tri-split penis that had filled her screens.
Rock chortled. “You should have looked away.”
“Oh, you are funny. Land on the building with the blue triangle.” She snorted. The laugh was that she wore a cybernetic implant where her right eye should have been. She couldn’t look away when the feed was being sent directly to her brain.
A fistfight with a Yinshin noblewoman had sent her to Janial. Her instinct to choose the right place at the wrong time sent her into a prison riot, and her eye had been the casualty.
She didn’t regret it. Blocking the clawed strike had saved the life of a timid young thing who was released the next day. That young woman was the daughter of the governor of Cadar.
The people of Cadar were soft and pale pink, their hair resembled candyfloss. Their temperaments were placid, but they lived on a rich world, which made them targets for more aggressive races. The Guardians were here to offer them a measure of defense.
After the injury at Janial, she had been released and given all the treatment that the Nyal Imperium could offer. Her eye had been replaced with a cybernetic enhancement, and she had been offered this prime position as dispatcher for the Cadar Guardians. Despite the Guardians being on a rotation, she was given Cadar citizenship and allowed to anchor herself to the world in any way she saw fit.
Jianne chose to make herself useful, and she kept a private residence, whose location was unknown even to the Guardians. The walls of her home were lined with monitors, and she had routes into all of the Cadar surveillance cameras around the globe. It brought a new spectrum to working from home.
Whistling silently to herself, she checked and double-checked the feeds while the Guardians settled on the building she had pointed out.
“Dispatch, have you identified the factor?”
Jianne looked through her feeds, and when one person began to glow brightly, she nodded, though no one could see her. “A woman in a blue work dress. Keep her alive and this will all end well.”
She could hear Echo looking through the data. “What about the child or the pregnant female?”
Jianne was firm. “The woman in the blue dress. Save her and this all goes smoothly. Let her die and everything goes to hell.”
Cyber cleared her throat. “Understood, Dispatch. Keep us posted for any shifts in the factor.”
“Will do, Guardians. Go get them.”
Jianne watched the battle from the safety of her home. It was kind of sad. This was the final assignment that these Guardians would execute on Cadar. The new Guardians would be arriving in two days.
The woman in blue was extricated safely, and once she was safe, Echo reflected all weaponry back on the hostage takers. They dropped to the ground one at a time.
Jianne breathed a sigh of relief when everyone was accounted for and her people were on their way back to their home.
“This is Dispatch. File your reports
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