DOGE Supernatural Division (episode 6)
High Wizard Elron stared incredulously at his electric car manufacturing plant in California—or rather, what was left of it. Nearly all the buildings had been leveled the day before, and what little remained would have to be torn down. It was incomprehensible.
“Tell me again what happened,” he said to one of the managers who’d been on-site during the incident.
Jack, a middle-aged man with thinning brown hair, shook his head. “They’re saying it was likely an EF-4 tornado based on the damage, but we won’t know for sure until the experts finish their investigation.”
“Right.” Elron clenched his fists. “Since when has California ever had an EF-4?”
The manager cleared his throat. “Never, as far as I know.”
“Perhaps you should start from the beginning,” the wizard said, thinking something wasn’t right about this.
“It was the oddest thing. The weather forecast called for sunny skies, but storm clouds started rolling toward us in the late afternoon. Thunder and lightning got loud. Then, some guys ran inside, saying a tornado was heading straight for us. It moved really slowly, like it was crawling, so we were able to evacuate in time. As soon as everyone was out and far enough away, it got bigger and stronger just as it reached the plant. Then it stayed there for a few minutes, grinding down everything like a giant drill.”
Elron had spent enough time in tornado alley states to know that this was not traditional tornado behavior. They never “waited” for people to evacuate, and many people would have had to clear the numerous buildings for there to be no injuries or casualties.
He took a deep breath. “What happened next?”
“The tornado lifted back into the clouds, and about five minutes later, the storm was gone.”
The High Wizard noted most of the employee cars in the parking lot had no damage and those that did only had broken windows. “You said it took its time coming here. What other places in the area were damaged?
“None.” Jack shrugged. “Heard that it didn’t fully touch the ground until right before it struck this place.”
Now, that was too peculiar.
“But it managed to destroy the whole plant after avoiding everything else?” he asked, incredulously.
“Well…” the manager hedged. “There was one other odd thing.”
“Show me.”
Jack guided him around the piles of debris to another side of the ravaged facilities, and High Wizard Elron nearly stumbled as the “odd thing” came into view. Half a dozen nearly finished electric cars were stacked vertically on their backends like dominoes. They showed no signs of damage, and even their windows were intact. Considering all the debris scattered around them, that didn’t seem possible.
This was no natural disaster, and his insurance company would not cover the damage should it prove magic-related. This was going to cost him a fortune. Only one race of people he knew was powerful enough to pull this off and had the motive to do it. There happened to be a community of them living not far away in Santa Cruz. He needed to get his team together and formulate a plan before he visited them.
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