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ground. “It’s the only way, Everett. He’ll only leave us alone when he has it, and until then more innocent people will die.”
    Blackler nodded. “She’s a smart girl, a lot like her father. Too bad her father didn’t want to play by my rules.” He sighed dramatically. “Can’t say I’ll miss the doddering old do-gooder.” He stared at her, his gaze burning a hole behind her eyes. “He wouldn’t give me the code even to save your life, Samantha. Too bad, too, you turned out to be such a lovely girl.”
    She gritted her teeth and refused to take the bait about her father. Whatever he had felt for her, it didn’t matter now. What mattered now was saving Everett and Alex. But if she gave him the code, would he use it to annihilate Everett? Did she even have a choice? With a lift of her chin she indicated Alex. “Let him go.”
    “Code first.”
    She crossed her arms. “No. I can’t access it by myself.” She tapped her head with a forefinger. “It’s locked deep in here.”
    Blackler shoved Alex toward the monitor screen and aimed the pistol at her. She saw Everett tense beside her. She had no doubt he’d protect her from harm.
    “But if I die, it erases.”
    Blackler rolled his eyes and sighed. “Of course it does.”
    “So, let’s do this. I’ll get on the table….” She hoisted herself on the table and lay down slowly, making sure the gun remained pointed only at her. “And you can run the program and extract the code again,” she said to Alex. “Since you didn’t keep the information the first time and we might not remember it correctly.”
    Alex’s eyes lit up as he caught her drift. He moved to the monitor and began hitting keys.
    Everett, faithful as a loyal dog stayed right by her side, but the light had gone out of his eyes. She felt bad about deceiving him and decided it might be better mechanoids didn’t know how to lie. But if she tipped her hand now, they’d all be sunk.
    The computer beeped and Blackler walked around to view the monitor. He shoved Alex aside and read the screen. “Romeo Delta 29 Alpha Alpha 30. That’s it?”
    Alex nodded and looked defeated. The man was a natural actor.
    Being a mechanoid, Everett couldn’t quite hide his surprised reaction. His eyebrows raised, but he said nothing. He remained poised by her side on high alert.
    A wide, evil grin spread across Blackler’s face. “Finally. I always suspected Gold had created a failsafe. Thank you for giving it to me,” he said to Sam, lowering the pistol. He glared at Everett. “Prepare to experience death as only a mechanoid can know it. Prepare to enter mechanoid hell.”
    Everett shot her a confused look. Was he worried Blackler would spot the error in the code, or that the code wouldn’t work at all?
    Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Alex’s focus shift to Blackler’s gun. If he could grab it, the three of them might have a chance at overpowering the evil mechanoid. She caught Everett’s gaze and directed it toward Alex. He stiffened, but whether he understood or not, she couldn’t tell. She hoped his mega-tech brain included a subtlety interpretation routine.
    Blackler opened a flap in his arm, took out a tiny keypad and punched in the code. A terrible sizzle and crack of electricity sounded and billowy grey smoke blew out his eye and ear sockets. Dark, thick blood flowed out his nose. Blackler let out a guttural scream and grabbed for the desk. The gun fell to the floor and Alex scooped it up, training the weapon on their mutual enemy.
    Sam took a step back from the horrific scene in front of her. In all her years living with her father, she’d never, ever, witnessed a mechanoid death before and Blackler’s scream of pain had cut right through her soul. Good God, did they all have feelings? Did they all feel pain? How had she not known this? Suddenly the mechanoids around her seemed all too human. Father was right. I should have believed him .
    Blackler reared back and hissed as his