Story Title: "Trail of Blood"
Days after the events in Cybernaut #1, Chet Edwards recieves a message from his new contact in the mysterious Black Box vigilante spy ring. The Cybernaut has caused quite a stir with his recent dust-up and is advised to stay low, but remain in the area. He is directed to meet a shadowy operative from the Black Box vigilante intel network who have arranged for Chet to join a special fellowship studying astronomy (and secretly UFOs) at Ivy University. This group is a clandestine Black Box "cell"-- and ostensibly, they're good-guys.
Chet goes to the meeting in disguise. They meet near the University, give code phrases to confirm IDs, and then exchange bits of information, Chet's intuition tells him that something is wrong and he notices the contact has minute traces of blood on him that only his supersenses could detect. Chet realizes that this is not the man whom he was directed to meet, but the imposter realizes just as quickly that the jig is up.
A running gun fight ensues, culminating in the imposter hitting a detonator which, he reveals, has started a countdown on a bomb somewhere on Ivy University's campus. Cybernaut is able to track the bomb's location with his machine senses and uses his bionic speed and technical savvy to disarm it. The imposter manages to escape. The police determine an Ivy University professor (the real contact) is missing. Chet is left to ponder who infiltrated his network and how/why this was done. He has reason to suspect the imposter to have been the martial arst assassin Alpha, operating for one of the League of Assassins factions. He remains in Ivy Town to investigate further.
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