The Recovery Agent Novels & Stories

"Shit. It’s a virus. The drive was compromised." My senior, a sharp-eyed woman named Agent Reed, turned toward him, her voice sharp. "Can you recover it?" Cyber’s fingers didn’t stop moving. He tried different commands, but the screen continued flickering erratically. The shrill alarm persisted. "The good news is I used my personal laptop," he said quickly. "So it did not get into the agency’s main system. If this had infected the servers, the whole agency could have been compromised. But recovering the video? That is a fifty-fifty chance."

He immediately got back to business, and Reena had to wonder if the hand on her throat was her imagination afterall. “Yeah, and?” Reena asked, and his eyes narrowed, before he answered regardless. “And it states here that you are a thief.” He continued, and Reena scoffed before she could stop it, halting him in his tracks. “An agent, specialized in the art of recovering and extraction.” She corrected sassily, and the brief silence that followed was the only warning she got before the little crystal on his desk flew past her head and exploded to smithereens right beside her ear.

“Did you forget that we can reach you any time?” “No. But I didn’t think they would let me go” “They didn’t; luckily we initiated your clinical death program and they assumed you were dead and we collected your corpse in time to revive you” “Thank you Doctor. I need to contact Agent 34 urgently. I have the information” “There is no rush. You need to rest and recover first. You are a very valuable member to this task force. We can’t afford to lose you. This is the order.” The initial 10 minutes was making the subject comfortable and taking him back through his memories to a happy place.

The damage to the bond between them and their wolves was ongoing and the recovery timeline was unclear. Nyxara had sat with each of them individually in the three days since the formal meeting and was building a specific treatment protocol from the counter-agent synthesis framework that she believed could address the bond damage.Believed, not confirmed.But believed with the precision of someone who had spent thirty years learning the difference between the two words.I sat in on the third recovery session.

"Sent to your inbox at two forty. Flagged the sections where his stated position contradicts his fund's actual movement over the last quarter." "Good." Silence. He didn't turn around. She waited. She'd learned to wait. "The Singapore data," he said. "Recovery is at ninety-two percent. The missing eight percent is recoverable but it's going to take until next week." "Do you need me to communicate anything to the affected teams?" "Nathan is handling it." Silence again. She had her pen in her hand, notebook open, nothing left to write. He hadn't turned around. Whatever he'd called her in for, the work portion of it had apparently concluded and something else was happening now, something in the

"This is our world. We fought for it." "And you won a graveyard," Henderson replied, stepping closer. The air around him didn't shimmer with static; it smelled of sterile plastic and old books. "The planet Earth is no longer a 'Sovereign Habitat.' It is now a **Recovery Asset**. My job is to assess the remaining value of the 'Biological Units'—that’s you and your friends—and determine how to liquidate the wreckage to pay back the shareholders who are currently orbiting Mars in the 'Freedom' shuttle."

"Don't be scared. I'm here, and I found a great healer for you. She'll make your wound heal better and faster." He gently stroked my hair, trying to comfort me. Slowly, he fell asleep while I stayed awake, looking at the ceiling and crying silently. I was saying goodbye to him in my heart. The next morning, a phone call woke Adam up. "Is Healer Amy here?" He picked up the phone. "Hold on, I'll be right there." He reassured me as he got dressed, his eyes shining with excitement I had never seen before. "Ella, the healer's here. I'll go set things up, and she'll come over to treat your wound later!

Two men stood outside — suits, earpieces, no smiles. He opened it halfway. “Can I help you?” One of the agents held up a badge. “Mr. Reed, Ms. Pierce — we’re with the Bureau. There’s something you need to see.” Jason exchanged a look with Bella. “What is it?” The agent hesitated. “We recovered something from Voss’s private vault. A document.” “What kind of document?” “A name,” the man said quietly. “Someone Voss was taking orders from.” Jason’s chest went tight. “Show me.”

Any antagonists? Reynolds, pale and trembling on his cot, forced his eyes open. He fumbled for the rugged laptop Petrova had placed nearby. His fingers, clumsy with pain and drugs, stabbed at the keys. **<< M-monitor… readings… before… >>** He pulled up the mirrored feed archives from the Aerie medical bay, scrolling frantically to Silas’s torture session. **<< Th-there! Neural inhibitor… counter-agent… Thorne… mentioned… Beta-7 agonist… reverse… >>** He pointed a shaking finger at a chemical formula briefly displayed on Thorne’s monitor.

he said, “they’ll send everything they’ve got.” Ava stood from the chair, her breath shaky but solid. Fire lit behind her eyes now. There was no fear left in her. “Let them,” she said. “I want them to see me coming.” Somewhere inside a fortified compound, alarms flashed. A countdown began: CORE ACCESS: 73% RECOVERED. TERMINATE HOST BEFORE COMPLETION. An agent picked up a headset, nodded, and spoke one word: “Send Subject 03.”