Battle Earth VIII (Book 8) by Thomas Nick S

Author:Thomas, Nick S. [Thomas, Nick S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Swordworks
Published: 2013-08-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Taylor awoke to a hammering on his door, causing him to leap from his bed and grab his sidearm. He rushed to the door wearing nothing but his underwear and saw Eli readying her rifle.

"Who is it?" he shouted.

"Silva!"

Taylor ripped open the door and thrust his pistol out in the face of the Sergeant Major.

"Whoa, whoa, it really is me," he complained.

Taylor looked around suspiciously outside the door before lowering his pistol.

"What is it?"

"It worked!" he said excitedly.

"What d'ya mean?"

"A Marine regiment has departed the United States to pledge allegiance to you personally, and more are sure to follow. The government hasn't been able to stop them!"

Taylor rubbed his eyes, trying to work out if he was dreaming.

"All right, give me a minute. I'll be with you shortly."

He shut the door and reached for his clothes.

"If the President wasn't pissed enough with you before, he certainly will be now," said Parker.

"So what? My job isn't to make friends and kiss ass. It's to win this war through whatever means necessary."

"Job? Are you being paid?"

He shook his head.

"Okay, it's my duty, my calling, whatever you want to call it. Hardly a time to worry about money."

"No, not when your head can get removed from your shoulders at any moment from even those close to you."

"What are you saying?"

"You need to be careful, Mitch. You may be making a lot of friends right now, but probably just as many enemies."

"Well then, you'll have to have my back, won't you?"

"Always."

He pulled on his boots and was out the door, leaving her still getting dressed.

"Way to go, Colonel!"

It was a passing soldier he'd never seen before in his life. He nodded in acknowledgement and continued on when he caught sight of a few objects in the sky. They appeared to be drones. He jumped to the nearest wall for cover and then peered around for a better look. They were drones all right, but they appeared to carry no weapons and were hovering over a drill square a hundred metres away. Out of curiosity, he made his way towards them, despite being naturally suspicious.

He took a bend and found Reiter and a few of his team standing around a pile of equipment. Acosta stood watching them. The Private noticed his arrival and beckoned for him to come forward.

"They've done it, built my idea."

Taylor looked down to see a typical Reitech rifle on a table. It appeared to be nothing out of the ordinary.

"Does it work?"

"Initial tests have been positive. We do not have any operational combat drones, so we use video surveillance models instead. The results should be near identical. Would you like to do the honours, Colonel? " Reiter answered.

"What do I do?"

"That rifle you see there is exactly as it would appear. Initially, we developed a concept weapon from the revolving launchers used in the first war, but we are well aware the carrying of additional weaponry is not ideal simply to deal with a particular target. So we redesigned the projectile so that it could be used in the current Reitech rifle.

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