Birth of Heavy Metal Boxed Set by Michael Todd & Michael Anderle

Author:Michael Todd & Michael Anderle [Todd, Michael & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642023237
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-07-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Seven

It took most of the day to reach the JLTVs, and after a quick discussion, Kennedy said that they had enough space in one vehicle to carry the rest of their squad out, so Sal signed off to take the extra one to transport them back to the Staging Area. They had little resistance since they carried some very valuable cargo.

Sal had to listen during the whole ride back to what Kennedy thought of him for calling Shuri cargo.

When they arrived and had to declare what they had found, Shuri was the talk of the commandant’s office. A location to keep live animals had been set up when the Staging Area had first been built, but the problem with actually acquiring live animals had left the place to fall into disrepair over the year and a half since then. It took considerable time for them to register her since the company officials tried to make the argument that since Shuri had been recovered on their company’s time, she should belong to them.

Sal responded by advising them that Heavy Metal now waived the financial compensation for all teams sent in on the fact-recovering mission.

The lawyer left in a huff when he realized that he’d been out-lawyered by a twenty-two-year-old doctoral candidate.

In the meantime, they were told that it would take a few hours before the holding locations could be prepared to host any live animals, and Sal asked if he could break away early. They didn’t need three people to keep an eye on Shuri, who had been given a bottle of warm milk and a small cage to rest in. The furball had obviously had a long day and was fast asleep in fifteen minutes.

Kennedy agreed, and Sal headed on home. He’d told her that he would work on whitepapers, but the fact that he picked up the shards that Courtney had collected from the leg armor revealed that he had lied.

Neither Courtney nor Kennedy complained, though, as they sat in silence and waited for someone to come to tell them where they could take Shuri to spend the night.

“You know,” Monroe said softly, “Shuri doesn’t need two people to stick around with her either.”

Madigan looked up from where she performed some repairs of her own on a piece of her armor.

“What are you talking about?” she asked and set both the piece and her tools down.

“Well, I wanted to head over to talk to Sal about the piece of armor we recovered,” Courtney said. “Plus some…other things.”

Kennedy immediately grinned. “Hey now, I want to talk to him about Shuri…and other stuff too.”

“But you brought Shuri back,” Courtney argued. “She’s bonded to you and—yeah, I know, that’s bullshit. I couldn’t even finish that sentence.”

Kennedy grinned. “So how do we decide this? Rock, paper, scissors?”

Monroe thought about it for a few seconds and finally nodded. “Sure. Best two out of three?”

Madigan nodded, and they raised their hands. Courtney won the first one with paper beats rock, but the other woman quickly took the next two with a rock and scissors win in succession.

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