America Falls (Book 2): On The Run by Medbury Scott

Author:Medbury, Scott [Medbury, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Published: 2018-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

15

To be honest, I am probably lucky he was drunk. He didn’t even twitch as I brought the rock down hard on the back of his neck. Just fell, as though boneless, to the snow-crusted ground. I stood over him, my chest heaving, but he didn’t move.

“Come help me,” I whispered.

“Nice work, Isaac,” said Luke, as he came around to me.

We each grabbed an arm and dragged the soldier to the rock garden and dumped him there.

“Check the back of the Hummer too, maybe there will be something useful in there,” I said to Luke, before scanning the street to make sure nobody was coming.

Indigo watched the bar door again – we all knew his buddies might come looking for the missing soldier at any moment. Luke rummaged in the back of the Hummer and a few moments later came back to us, carrying a long, sturdy wooden crate with Chinese characters on the side. With a grunt, he gently set down his heavy load and rushed back to the rear before closing the hatch and returning. This time, he was holding a length of what looked like rubber hose with some sort of pump attached to one end.

“Pay dirt in the trunk, Boss,” he whispered.

“What’s that?” I asked.

“Fuel siphon,” he said, holding up the hose. “We can drain the tanks of these babies dry. They won’t be following us any place.”

“How do you know that it’s for siphoning fuel?”

“It was in a box that said, ‘Fuel Siphon,’” he said, grinning.

“Wise-ass! How long will that take?”

“I don’t have a clue, man,” he said. “I guess in the neighborhood of five minutes a truck, give or take a few, depending on how much diesel is in the tanks. There are three of us, and I’d guess each Humvee has one of these in the back, so we could probably get all six done in about 10 or 15 minutes, if we all pitched in.”

“What’s in the box?” Indigo asked.

“Well, I don’t read Chinese, but if it’s what I think it is, it’s gonna come in real handy ...”

Like an excited kid on Christmas morning, he pulled a long hunting knife out of the pocket of his ski pants and began to jimmy the top off. Another time and place, I may have asked where he had gotten the knife, but I was on edge, worried that at any moment another soldier might come out, looking for their missing comrade.

The lid came off with a soft splintering sound and he brushed away the Styrofoam beads to reveal a compact rocket launcher and three shiny rockets.

“Yes!” Luke said triumphantly. “It’s a reusable launcher.”

He pulled the weapon out of the crate and hefted it before resting it against his shoulder as he flipped the sight open. “Pass me a grenade, please Indigo.”

“Grenade?”

“Yeah. They’re not really rockets, they’re self-propelled grenades.”

She handed him the grenade which just looked like a rocket without the fins to me. Once again, I was amazed at his knowledge of weapons he really should have no clue about.

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