DIRE : SEED (The Dire Saga Book 2) by Andrew Seiple

Author:Andrew Seiple
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-03-26T17:00:00+00:00

--Excerpt from a wiretapped conversation with Kiefer, leader of Die Kriegers, the East Coast's largest human supremacist organization

My armor was not built for speed. The best I could do was around fifty miles per hour, and that was with a good tailwind behind me. This gave me plenty of time to read each damage report thoroughly as it came in, and fume over the loss.

The worst part was the lack of visual feed. They’d been smart enough to take out the outside cameras first, and the inside feed didn’t have much more than a shadowed figure rushing in through the side door, catching a taser dart from the grid and dropping. Someone dragged him back, then a few more came in more cautiously with weapons out, and got dropped by a directional screamer. Then there were billowing clouds of smoke everywhere. I hadn’t put smoke in any of my defenses, so that was something the invaders had brought. Not good. That would interfere with some of the defenses.

I wove through the skyscrapers of downtown, well under the airships in their set flight paths above me. It was dark and I had no light on me, but there were people on the streets below even at this hour, and some of them doubtless saw me. I didn’t care. I had too much invested in my lair, I’d spent months building the damn thing up, and now I’d have to move the irreplaceable components.

If there was one silver lining to this, it was that Tomorrow Force and Crusader were both out of town. They were some of the main sky watchers for the city, and they would have been on me in a heartbeat if they’d been around.

I winced as a red wall of damage reports rolled up my HUD. Something had taken out the networks in the Lair’s west wall. Something that caused a lot of massive damage, all at once. The kaiju? I ground my teeth. I didn’t want to face the thing now, not on my own turf. Giant monsters and collateral damage went together like heroes and self-righteousness.

As the central part of Whaler’s Wharf passed underneath me and my neighborhood came into view, I surveyed the plume of smoke rising up into the sky from my property and groaned. No, there was no way to hide this. It’d be a hurried salvage and reclamation for sure.

But that would come later. For now? Vengeance.

I brought myself to a stop, cape swirling in the downdraft as I circled around the front of the building, and...

Okay, that was not what I expected. A motley mix of muscle cars, trucks, and SUV’s were pulled up in a half-circle around the rear of the Lair. Most of them were green, or had green as a primary color, and about thirty bald people wearing camo or some variation of it were crouched around the facility, watching it burn. Most of the western wall was rubble, and part of the smoke rising up was actually dust, thrown up by what looked to be the aftermath of several good-sized explosions.

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