Cerberus: Kill Order by Andy Peloquin

Author:Andy Peloquin [Peloquin, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The crackling rat-a-tat-tat of light arms fire ripped through the calm quiet of Canyon View. The first of Nolan’s remote-controlled assault rifles emptied a quarter of its hundred-bullet extended clip into the windows of the condo’s first floor, southeast corner. Shards of skyscraper glass rained down onto the plainclothes officers out front of the building. Instantly, the IDF whipped out their guns and ran for cover.

Then Nolan triggered the second gun and the light machine gun loosed a barrage at the southwest corner. Bullets sprayed in a wildly erratic pattern that took out windows on the second and first floor, descending to rip through the veranda and turning the chairs, tables, and bar furniture into kindling and shattered metal. Just as Tanis had programmed the swiveling gun mount to do.

All this happened in the space of three seconds. The IDF responded in four. Whoever was driving the prisoner transport vans gunned the engines, and tires squealed as the two vans barreled down the ramp and into the underground parking garage. SWAT’s monstrous ARV followed hot on their heels, with the two IDF skimmer craft racing down after them. The five vehicles disappeared from view less than ten seconds after Nolan started the assault.

Now for the fun part!

“Switch on speakers,” Nolan said into his helmet. The voice command activated a light on the datapad, signaling he was patched into the sound system. This was how they sold the ruse.

“Bring me the snitch’s head!” he shouted. His voice boomed from the speakers set into the first rifle’s position southeast of the safe house. A quick press of a button on the datapad switched to the speaker on the southwest side. “Ten thousand credits to whoever puts a bullet in the rat bastard! Show him what happens to anyone who rolls on the Shadows!”

Another button, and the third gun barked out from the southwest. White-hot blaster bolts sizzled through the darkness, whining toward the IDF officers and punching into the street in front of the condo building’s front entrance.

The Doofs responded as they’d been trained to, ducking for cover behind their parked vehicles or finding shelter behind the ornamental concrete pillars in the building’s front lobby. Shouted orders mingled with cries of alarm and panic as the men and women defending the condo tried to return fire. The crack of handguns and the sizzling hiss of blasters joined the cacophony echoing through Canyon View, and blue-white plasma bolts lit up the night. Caught flat-footed by the sudden assault, they fired blind, desperate to take down their invisible enemy before a bullet or bolt took them down first.

Chaos reigned. This was where Nolan excelled. The tumult and anarchy of battle had always focused Nolan’s mind, sharpened his senses. He used the rush of adrenaline, the overwhelming barrage of sounds and sensations, twisted it to his benefit. Once the bullets and bolts started flying, his concentration sharpened to a razor’s edge.

He triggered the first rifle again but switched it to single-fire. That gun would

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