Boneyards & Badlands: The Complete FTW Series by Hobbes Morgan

Author:Hobbes, Morgan [Hobbes, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

23 - Elevator

“Echo, can you hear me?” Kara’s voice drifts through my subconscious. “Echo? Wake up.”

Reality returns and hits me full force. My head pounds and my ears ring to the point of almost deafening me.

“Where are we? Are we safe?” I ask Kara.

“Right where we were. The elevator jammed in the explosion, we’re still in the lab.”

“What about Reed and Jameson?”

“Their cylinders are gone so I’m guessing it worked.”

I struggle to get up. Kara puts a hand under my left shoulder to help me and a stabbing pain radiates out from it.

I scream, making Kara flinch. She presses against my shoulder which throbs even harder.

“I think it’s broken,” I say, shuffling my backside until I’m in a rough sitting position.

Kara grabs the bottom of her shirt and uses her teeth to tear into the fabric. Once she’s got it started, she rips it around until she’s left with a large strip.

“Hold your arm like this,” she says, moving my arm so it rests against my stomach.

She then wraps the strip of fabric under my arm and ties it off behind my neck, taking the weight off my broken shoulder.

“I only just got it fixed from the bullet hole,” I say to relieve some tension.

Kara double-checks the knot of the sling.

“It’s not much, but it should help.”

“It’s fine,” I reply. “I can already feel it’s helping the pain.”

“Let’s get you on your feet and out of here. I don’t know how damaged the elevator is so we should get out of it.”

She helps me to my feet and we shamble out of the elevator and into the lab. There’s glass and metal debris spread everywhere.

The cloning cylinders are barely recognizable as two lumps of steel mounted to the floor.

On the wall to our left something has blown straight through it and exposed the previously sealed-off garbage chute.

“I guess that’s our way out then,” Kara says, looking at the hole in the wall.

I remember back to the last time I came rocketing out of the bottom of the chute and my shoulder throbs, anticipating the jarring halt it’ll come to.

Kara supports me under my good arm and we pick our way through the debris to the garbage chute.

The edges of the hole are twisted, pointy bits of metal. Kara bangs them down as best as she can to make them safe.

“You first,” I say to her.

“No, you’ll need my help to get in.”

I shake my head.

“You have to. If we land like we did last time, you could cannon right into my shoulder. It’s safer this way.”

She’s reluctant but agrees when she sees my logic.

“Send this down after me,” Kara says handing me the bag we brought with us.

It’s much lighter without the two lumps of explosives inside of it. The metal brick from the subway glints back at me, it’s about the only thing left in the bag now. I sling it over my good arm and look back at Kara.

“Be safe,” I say as she perches on the side of the chute.

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