With the team captured, there wasn’t
much that Kit could do. Lee was being held at a prison in Virginia, while Kat
was clamped down in Virginia and Kit was under armed guard in Nevada. A rescue mission
seemed necessary but it broke all of Kat’s protocols to do so. The only thing
that she could do was to wait until something happened. For weeks, she scanned
for news reports so that her actions could be justified; but none came. As the
end of the year approached, Kat decided to do what everyone was doing; review
the year.
She‘d been looking at some news
reports of a newly elected Senator. Since she’d discovered that all cyborg
conversions could covertly blend into crowds of people with a simple headset;
she’d been scanning footage of all broadcasts to spot the headset’s design. It
had to be unique to the cyborg unit and a perfect match, and it also had to be
well hidden. She’d been checking out the senator’s profile. All his pictures
were taken parallel to the camera; and even his identity ones had his head
turned just enough to hide his ears. But this particular broadcast was filming
him on a street corner in front of a new store that he’d been asked to open. In
the background, a school bus had turned into the adjacent street, and as it
passed Kat freezed the image and magnified the reflection on the bus’s mirrors.
Gotcha.
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