Doomsday Game by Gary Gibson

Author:Gary Gibson [Gary Gibson]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Randall

Alternate Delta Twenty-Five

‘Well,’ said Major Howes, after the ground had stopped rocking underfoot, ‘if that doesn’t make the place secure, nothing will.’

Randall stepped back from the building that housed one of the tunnels leading into the deep caverns as dust billowed up from its depths. The ground rumbled and shifted once again as another set of charges blew somewhere far below where they stood. Strange animals darted around the branches of the seaweed trees past the building entrance, frightened by all the noise and shaking. The moonlight gave the forest around them a sinister appearance, as if the trees were hulking beasts watching them silently.

‘Good riddance,’ said Fred Danks with a shiver. ‘Those damn caverns gave me the creeps.’

While they’d been laying charges all through the underground vaults, Danks had looked about ready to jump out of his own skin. It wasn’t just the darkness that made him nervous, Randall knew: it was the weird, alien quality of the silent machinery surrounding them, and the soft, otherworldly glow of the bacteria clinging to the roof of the caverns.

Randall waited until Danks looked his way, then tipped his torch up until it shone directly under his chin, turning his eyes into twin pools of black above an evil grin. ‘Just imagine all the ghoulies and beasties that’ll come crawling oot of the darkness now,’ he said, ‘just looking for a snack in a uniform.’

‘Just so you know,’ said Danks, his voice sour, ‘I am not above giving a man a busted lip for trying to put the wind up me.’

Randall grinned. ‘You know that’s a man-eating tree you’re standing under, right?’

Danks jerked violently away from the tree he’d been standing next to.

‘Stop harassing my men,’ Howes told Randall. ‘I think we can count this expedition a success. Nobody’s going back down into those caverns any time soon.’

‘I’ll just be glad never to see this alternate again,’ said Randall, turning towards the EV truck parked close by.

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