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telescope’s panel to display the coordinates on the lens. He memorized the
coordinates where his own laser was striking and released his finger from the
trigger. He quickly jotted down the coordinates in his small notebook that he
had placed on the table nearby.
        Then he flipped through his notebook
and came across a page where he had written down the numerical code for planet
Bravo and entered it in the telescope panel and watched the large telescope –
five meters long and one meter diameter – slowly turn itself and stop. He
looked through the eyepiece and saw planet Bravo, then he entered the
geographical coordinates for Regional Star Commander’s headquarters and after
the telescope turned a bit and locked in place he saw a garden in his view.
        Silencer smiled and sat back. Now he
just had to wait for his target to arrive.
     
        Remus got out of the airship along with
SPASI detective Rockvyk and looked ahead at the red gate flanked by red walls
on either side that curved around at some distance. There were soldiers dressed
in the Starfire Army uniform of Red & Black standing outside the gate
holding laser guns and a few more soldiers stood on the wall along with what he
recognized as anti-aircraft laser batteries. They walked towards the gate
accompanied by the four guards.
        “Chief Detective Rockvyk,” he said and
showed his badge to a soldier who nodded and waved him in.
        The red gate was opened by a machine
inside the walls and they strolled in when Remus asked, “They don’t scan or
verify your badge?”
        “They know me,” Rockvyk laughed, “I
come and go so often that this is practically my second office.”
        Remus looked ahead and saw a huge red
palace with intricate carvings on its walls that was the headquarters and the
residence of Starfire Empire’s regional commander. On either side of the door
just behind the walls were trees and soldiers stood in a line in front of the
trees. Soldiers also stood outside the walls of the palace that were surrounded
by lush green gardens interrupted by rows of red, violet and orange roses.
There was a path made of white stone that led to the front door of the palace
from the red gate but the grounds on either side were empty.
        The six of them started walking the
hundred meter distance to the palace door.
     
        Silencer was watching Remus, Rockvyk
and SPASI’s guards’ leisurely stroll through the eyepiece of the telescope and
steadied his finger on his laser gun’s trigger. He had centered the coordinates
that he had marked on the telescope’s lens right in the middle of the path to
the palace. He had turned up the switch on his gun to ‘maximum energy’
position. On this setting his laser gun would be discharged in ten seconds but
Silencer knew that the victim needed only one second of exposure before he
dropped dead.
        He waited with bated breath as Remus
walked ever closer to his target spot.
        Two more seconds and he would pull the
trigger.
        Suddenly a spark flashed in his eye and
he pulled himself back.
        WHAT?
        He looked through the eyepiece again
and saw green laser raining down on the palace gardens but bouncing off of some
invisible field a hundred feet in the air and the contact of the laser with the
invisible shield gave off sparks.
        “WHO THE FUCK is this amateur?!!”
Silencer yelled.
        On the ground, Rockvyk and SPASI guards
surrounded Remus and rushed him to the palace door. The soldiers came out
running towards them to offer protection and escorted the company inside the
palace.
        Some sod bastard of an amateur had
fucked up his job, Silencer was fuming. Someone stupid enough not to know about
the invisible shield surrounding important buildings made of the electromagnetic
field carrying millions of nanoparticles of mirror-like material that reflected
away concentrated light such as laser. He had been given tech. specs of the
field