LEVIATHAN

Everett and Virginia were frantically looking for the command bypass on the main auxiliary control panel. Alexandria was sitting in her chair in the control suite and trying to explain to Everett what he was looking for just as they both heard Leviathan sound her diving alarm. A few moments later, she felt her stomach leap as the giant ship slipped beneath the surface.

“Leviathan is starting to make a run for the sea,” she said. The only good news thus far was that Tyler’s men hadn’t discovered them in the auxiliary control suite—yet.

Everett let out a whoop when he finally found what he was looking for. He quickly threw a switch, and the holographic controls lit up, coming to life with a myriad of colors.

For the first time in weeks, a true and meaningful smile crossed the red lips of Alexandria Heirthall.

She now had access to her element—the brain of Leviathan.

Heirthall smiled at Virginia as she once more took her place in the elevated command chair and turned on the holographic controls for her personal hologram. It failed to illuminate.

“They have cut power to my command hologram, but I will still give Tyler and Alvera the ride of their lives,” she said as she reached into a compartment on the side of the command chair and removed a small case. “Captain, get to control and assist Colonel Collins. Kill Tyler and Alvera, and anyone else you can. Without Tyler and the yeoman, the rest won’t launch. I’ll do my best to keep Leviathan under the ice.”

Everett started to turn when Alexandria stopped him, taking his arm. It seemed the captain had regained some of her strength and determination.

“I will sink her … if I have to.”

“Understood.”

Everett left the control suite. If he had lingered, he would have beheld a new Heirthall.

Alexandria Heirthall had chosen a side—her human side. Virginia smiled at her friend, then strapped herself into her seat.