AntiBio 2: The Control War by Bible Jake

Author:Bible, Jake [Bible, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2015-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

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Weapons are dispersed amongst the crowd of civvies as Nick, Buntu, and Maloch look on, helping those that need it.

“Mine collapses into a baton,” Buntu says as she flicks her wrist and her rifle shrinks almost instantly. “But yours do not. They are standard issue for training purposes and not considered assault class.”

“Way to boost their morale,” Nick says as he helps a woman adjust the sight on her rifle. “These are just as good as ours. When the static blast rips into a cootie, it still kills.”

“Is there a kick?” the woman asks Nick. “It always looks like there’s a kick on the vids.”

“No, there really isn’t a kick,” Nick says. “Those vids are made by people that don’t know how static rifles work. They’re just repeating the same old BS from back in the firearms days and gunpowder was used.”

“You ever used a rifle with gunpowder?” a man asks, pointing his rifle right at Nick.

Nick yanks the rifle out of the man’s hand and almost smacks him over the head with it. He takes a deep breath as Buntu laughs quietly.

“No, I’ve never fired a combustible weapon,” Nick says. “Those were before my day. Too hard to maintain ammunition. Static weapons only need a recharge and they are good to go.”

“You’re a GenWreck?” a young woman asks, staring at Nick with wide, admiring eyes. “You fight out in the Sicklands?”

“Yes,” Nick says. “But it looks like the Sicklands are here now.”

“How many people have you killed?” the young woman asks. “A hundred? A thousand?”

“A thousand? Are you kidding me?” Nick asks. He looks at Buntu. “Is she kidding me?”

“He hasn’t killed any people,” Buntu says. “Only cooties. Same with me.”

“Cooties are people,” Tanya says as she, Red, Ton, and Wallace walk up to them. “People trapped inside their sickness. But there is a way to free them.”

“Why bother?” Maloch asks, double checking a rifle before handing it to an older man. “They are pretty much animals.”

“That’s what I keep trying to tell her,” Wallace says. “But apparently she has some inside scientific intel that says otherwise.”

“It’s too detailed to get into now,” Tanya says. “But let me just say that the Strains weren’t entirely passive. Now with this new bacteria, any hint of passivity is gone. In short, the cooties, as you call them, have been hijacked by organisms that were designed to do exactly that.”

“Designed?” Nick asks.

“Not now,” Red says. “We’re going up top for a better look. It’s time to move out.”

“If we leave these people on their own, they’ll shoot their damn feet off,” Buntu says.

“That’s why my people will be handling the training and supervision from here on out,” Tanya says.

She nods her head towards several men and women that are busy climbing down from the catwalks that hang above the warehouse floor, their own weapons slung over their shoulders. When they get to the floor, they quickly crowd close to Tanya, their bodies rigid and ready.

“My people are trained for security in the Burn and throughout Caldicott City,” Tanya says.

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