Attack of the Yetis by Eric S Brown

Author:Eric S Brown [Brown, Eric S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2017-12-27T23:00:00+00:00

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Quinn clutched the rifle he carried in a white-knuckled grip. He wasn’t a combat soldier. All he could do was keep wondering how things had gone south so quickly. He had come to the mess hall because there didn’t seem to be anywhere else to go. Dobson had stayed in the comm. room to fight the monster that had entered the base there and Quinn had heard gunfire ringing out in its other sections as well. Guilt clawed at him, but he made the choice not to approach those areas anyway. Quinn hadn’t fired a rifle since Basic. The skills were ingrained into him on some level, but he had no desire to put them to the test in a life or death situation. He was a tech, for frags sake.

The gunfire had all died away and the base was eerily silent now. Quinn sat at the rear of the mess, keeping his rifle aimed at the only door that led in and out of it. He supposed he could have made an effort to barricade it, but there were, he hoped, other members of his unit and the science team out there who might come seeking shelter in the mess too. Quinn knew the copters from the Hobart were inbound. All he needed to do was stay alive until they reached the base and then he could leave the nightmare he was currently trapped in behind.

Aliens were real. He had just seen one in the comm. room with his own eyes. Quinn had always believed that there was life out there among the stars. It just made sense that mankind wasn’t alone in the universe. Somewhere out there, other forms of life surely had developed. The mathematical probability of it was a near certainty. Quinn had never given much thought to what that life might be like though. In general, he assumed that it wouldn’t be friendly to mankind, even if it was a peaceful species, after it saw how messed up planet Earth was. War, hunger, identity politics, and all the other horrors mankind inflicted upon itself was enough to convince any other intelligent race that humanity would be or become a threat to it. That much he believed without question. When he had been briefed on this mission, Quinn hadn’t taken any of it seriously. Not really. He figured it was just another op. One where he would freeze his butt off for a few days or weeks, be bored out of his mind, and eventually be nothing more than a memory and exaggerated stories that he told when he felt like bragging about his job. It had turned out to be so much more though. He had found out the hard way that aliens were indeed very real and just like he had suspected, weren’t big fans of the human race.

Quinn gnawed on a granola bar and knew he was stress eating. He wasn’t overweight or anything. Heck, he wasn’t even that health conscious. Quinn didn’t work out like the other guys.

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