Snippet #944347

A flash of light appeared on the outskirts of Landium, which faded away to reveal a CHEsuit. Nicholas believed that he got lucky this time around to teleport into a forest (at least, he thought it was a forest) out of sight of everyone else, but Nick, being his worst critic, told himself that he was going to have to get into the sights of civilians sooner or later. Right now, since he was under cover, he might as well connect to the satellites. Using the helmet, he began a link establishment with the satellites of Venus. An easy task; not a lot happens on Venus compared to Mars and Earth, so the data should be smaller.

So, having nothing else to do, Nick looked around.

The specially made glass cockpit allowed clear vision of the shrubbery around him. It was by sheer coincidence that the helmet also protected the user's identity, which is something a young cadet pointed out (Nick treated them to lunch, afterwards), so the design hadn't changed much over the years. But the sense receptors had only gotten better. Nick reached out for the leaves on a palm tree and stroked them gently. This tree was young, he could tell. The leaves were fresh and full of life. Memories of his childhood rushed to his mind...

Oh, how he longed for those days again...

With a sigh, Nicholas forced himself out of his daydream when he discovered that the satellite synch was complete. He had clear access to the information in the satellite, so he would use these first to search for Gabriel. The human mind is an amazing computer, with so much processing power. Nick realised this, so he fed images into his mind at rapid speeds for about ten minutes. These images were footage security cameras, speed cameras and other cameras that the police use for surveillance on the streets and in buildings. Chemicals were also injected into the brain to relax it and prevent the stress of information overload. He went through all of the images until he found several taken recently of Gabriel. The credibility was a bit tentative, though: the clearest shot he could find was one taken five minutes ago. Where on Earth- Venus, sorry- would Gabriel be?

"Oh well," Nick muttered to himself, making sure to keep the external speakers off. "I'll just go there."

Hopefully, Nick would find him as he walked towards the intersection where the image was taken, about one and a quarter klicks from where he was now.