BAMF: Broken Arrow Mercenary Force: Books 1-3 Omnibus by Rick Partlow

Author:Rick Partlow [Partlow, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-05T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“What the fuck is going on here?”

Roach wanted to snap at Jenny for violating communications protocol in a combat situation, but she didn’t. First and foremost because the woman had probably forgotten more about combat than one Rachel Mata would ever know, and second because…well, it was a damn good question.

Washington DC was a nightmare landscape even at night. Especially at night, with no lights to hint at habitation or any remnant of humanity left behind in what had once been the center of the world. Oh, there were people down there. She could see them on thermal, could see guttering cessfires squeezed between buildings, furtive shapes dashing this way and that as if they were afraid of being stalked by predators.

And maybe they are. Not all predators run on four legs.

In the sea of darkness, an island of light stood out, the beacon of malevolent arrogance that had once been the home of the President of the United States. She took it on faith that the man occupying it now was malevolent because he’d kidnapped her friend, but such an auspicious display of power and resources was definitely arrogant. He was inviting someone to attack and here they were…but they were not the first.

It was obvious on thermal even from four kilometers away, a three-ring circus of mech thrusters and gunfire and the detonation of missile warheads. Roach could see the explosions without the aid of thermal optics, yellow blossoms of fire across the sky from the south and east of the White House.

“What’s goin’ on,” Fuller said, in formation to her right, “is that the show’s already started and we’re late.”

“Do we abort?” Jenny wondered. “We should abort, right? I mean, there ain’t gonna’ be no taking them by surprise when they’re already in the middle of a fight. We’ll be lucky if we don’t have both sides shooting at us at once, whoever the sides are in this shit.”

“We’re not going to abort,” Roach said firmly. “This is a distraction and we’re going to take advantage of it.”

She took ten seconds to scan the sensor readouts overlaid on the map in her HUD, getting an idea of the dispersal of forces, and she came to a decision right about the time Jenny got impatient.

“You awake in there, girly?” the older woman wondered.

“The action’s all on the South Lawn,” Roach observed. “I think that’s where they’re concentrating their defenses and I know it’s where the attack is focusing.”

“That don’t mean they wouldn’t notice us trying to sneak in the back,” Fuller objected in advance of what he expected her to say.

“They’d notice our mechs,” she agreed. “Jenny, you know how to switch your mech over to remotely piloted vehicle mode?”

“I could do it with my eyes closed.”

“Good. Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re heading straight down New York Avenue, but we’re going to ground-level and slow to a patrol walk. Then Jenny, you and I are going to set our mechs to RPV mode. FOG, you’re going to slave Jenny’s mech to yours.

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