Sidekick the bomb

  “He really is my brother,” Cole said. “He flew me here in a glider. He’s coming to take us to Abram Trench’s penthouse. If we can get Constance, we’re going to lure Roxie outside the city and blow her up. Do you know how to work the harmony bomb?”

  “Know how to work it?” Sidekick asked. “Cole, I am the harmony bomb.”

  Cole just stared. “What?”

  “It’s inside of me,” Sidekick said. “Part of me. I can’t set it off myself. Nova has to hit me with a massive amount of power.”

  “That’s the plan,” Nova said.

  “You’ll be destroyed,” Cole said, suddenly hating the plan.

  “Who wouldn’t want to go out like that?” Sidekick asked. “Saving the city in a blaze of glory? Taking out an evil supercomputer? It doesn’t get any better!”

  Cole didn’t trust himself to speak.

  “Sidekick will save all his data before he goes,” Googol said. “He does it routinely. We can rebuild him, with all elements of his personality intact.”

  “Oh,” Cole said, feeling better.

  “That kind of reduces the nobility a little,” Sidekick muttered to Googol.

  “I thought it might help Cole’s peace of mind,” Googol replied.

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