The Forgotten Colony

by J.B. Ryder

as well as external commands sent from Earth or Prescott.

Nicolas Carver had shut down the cryobay.

Carver had known that cryo was their only way to survive. Quinton had told him, clear as day.

"You still think it's just a coincidence? That less than a day after this, he shut the cryobay down? He knew what he was doing! He was killing them!" Ryker shot out of his seat.

Carver had tried to kill Zach the same way he had with Ryker. To erase him from society, so whatever secrets were on the Gateway would stay there.

But Zach's warped sense of morality couldn't just let bygones be bygones. Instead, he wanted Carver dead. What an arrogant asshole.

Psychopath

It was as if someone had cursed them.

Zach could feel something off in Carver's voice, the unexpected warmth of his words. Carver wasn't one to layer on the compliments. "What do you want from me, Carver?"

"Who are you to decide what's in everyone's best interest?"

There was always another way.

Not always

"Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, every single time, for my entire goddamned life." He looked at Mabel. "And you're telling me it's working?"