The Devils Of Harvard

Chapter Seventy Seven

Nathanial Winters

Term was over a lot faster after the incident with Scarlett, I hadn't seen or heard from her in months, and I was left with a face of a girl I had memories of but also the truth that she was better not knowing me at all. That was the sacrifice I was willing to make, to put everyone else's safety before my own.

I'd spent nineteen years attempting to figure out who I was supposed to be, who I would become, and what I was supposed to be like, I'd figured that all out now I was my friends protector, and even if none of them ever saw that, or knew about it I'd still do it.

That principle was also what led to me sitting in a ballistic proof chamber that I'd asked to be constructed in the Voulge Industries building. I was surrounded by tools, wrenches, and ratchets, screwdrivers, welding equipment, and all kinds of metal shaping devices.

I personally wanted to make a prototype for what Voulge would be creating so this was an entire engineering area. A place where I could tinker and create whatever I wanted for the sake of military usage.

The two thousand pound warhead thirty feet away said as much.

The mechanism had been made much like a shotgun shell where once it made impact the pieces behind it would be pushed up and use the gasous pressure to send micro fusion cells the size of a small marble that were capable of destroying an entire car. Granted I didn't test that, I just made a smaller fifty pound warhead and used a rocket launcher to shoot it at a scrap pile alone with cement walls.

I also may have ignored government policy to some degree since hollow point bullets are illegal in war but I still made a missile that did roughly the same thing. Markings made them distinguishable at the testing stage, especially since I had incendiary warheads and those would light the entire room on fire if ignited.

No wonder Arilynn hated when I left New York to go to the Massachusetts border.

I also may have used this trip as an excuse to get her a small gift, that was both special but not too momentous since it was the seventh month of us being together. That specific thing sat inside a small silver box with black ribbon on my desk across the room, which was also the only neat space in the entire room. Everything else was chaotically organized.

As I set the final ball in place I moved the next layer onto the warhead, and then one after that until I set the actual main explosive piece in place which I had to use one of the ceiling cranes to do so before the whole component was fastened to a bunch of white straps before it was raised and moved to another table before I walked back over to the desk where my plans for all this stuff was and where I'd have to construct the engine for this missile, along with find a way to test it in a safe environment.

Leaving that for another day I collect the box, and leave towards the exit before leaving the room and walking away towards the parking lot whilst I heard the four bolts in the door close and only would open when another person of appropriate status put their thumb to the scanner panel by the door.

As I walked down the hallway that looked out onto the lake that had been purified to the point that a thin haze was all that covered the fact that in that same lake was over fifty different predatory fish that I had purposely asked to live in there as a way of making sure people didn't step into the lake.

Getting to the door that would lead me back into the main building away from all of the ballistic construction bays I pulled out the key to my Aston Martin Vanquish and walked out of the facility.

Crossing the lot towards my car I unlocked the vehicle and slipped into the front seat before sending a message to Arilynn telling her when I would be home off of estimation though I sped when needed.