Annihilation Series - Complete Omnibus: Darwin Project, Body Shop, Natural Born, and I President by John Hindmarsh

Author:John Hindmarsh [Hindmarsh, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Three senior members of the American Eagles, when they heard the news of the failed attack on Pepper Mountain, had quickly set up a meeting to discuss their strategy. Christian Edwards who represented New York State, one of the largest brownshirt groups, took control, at least for this discussion.

“It was an outright disaster,” he said, after the two other men had settled in their chairs around the small table.

They were in New York and were using a medium-size conference room provided, for a fee, by one of the general hotel chains. The room and facilities were basic. The table held a jug of water, glasses, a container of tissues, and nothing else.

“You have details?” The questioner was Bishop Lee Simpson, head of the American Eagles Seminary. The third member was Gabriel Laduke, representing Florida State. The three men had formed a small power group in an attempt to manage what they viewed as the chaotic activities of their leader, George Flocke.

“Some. Flocke set up a raid on Euler’s Pepper Mountain base. He accepted Russian assistance—ten men, all Spetsnaz GRU. Some weeks ago, they entered the country as tourists without declaring their military background. Flocke added forty brownshirts from his own unit. On top of that he armed the team with automatic weapons, mortars, and Javelin missiles. He used our aircraft to fly them into the mountain range where they set up a base near Pepper Mountain. After that the story is confusing. Apparently, teams were tasked with climbing the mountain in order to penetrate Euler’s base. From what I’ve been able to gather, the bots defended themselves with admirable effectiveness. While I don’t know what costs Euler incurred, I understand Flocke’s team suffered substantial losses. The count I have is horrifying. Five Russians were killed along with thirty-four of our men. Two Russians suffered life-threatening injuries, as did five of our people. The remainder—three Russians and one of our men—were relatively unscathed. All are now being held somewhere by a military black operation. We can’t find the survivors, we don’t know what’s happening to them, and we haven’t identified who is holding them.”

“Bloody disastrous decision making. Is Flocke trying to wreck our organization?” Laduke was furious.

Simpson was silent, attempting to absorb the details. At last he asked, “Are you certain of your information?” He poured himself a glass of water. He stared at the nearly full glass for twenty seconds or so and then took a sip. He wiped his lips with a paper tissue.

“I’m certain we suffered a significant defeat at the hands of the bots. Of course, I’m not certain of the details—I’ve told you the best I’ve been able to gather, at a considerable cost.”

“What was the fool thinking?” Laduke knew his question was rhetorical.

Simpson answered anyway. “I suspect he wasn’t thinking. He’s being driven by anger.”

“All right. What are we going to do about this?” Edwards tabled the real question.

“Do you have any idea what action the authorities are taking?” Laduke asked.

Edwards ran his hands through his hair.

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