EMP Retaliation (Dark New World, Book 6) - An EMP Survival Story by J.J. Holden & Henry Gene Foster

Author:J.J. Holden & Henry Gene Foster [Holden, J.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-07-03T06:00:00+00:00

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0715 HOURS - ZERO DAY +380

CHOONY WIPED SWEAT from his brow and handed Jaz a loaded rifle, taking the empty one from her to reload. She had started with just her own rifle, but when the chaos started yesterday, spare rifles and ammo became easy to find. A chance to sleep for even twenty minutes, on the other hand, was nowhere to be found.

“Dammit, Choony, I can’t see straight to shoot straight. I’m doing the one-eye thing, I’m so tanked.”

Choony nodded. He knew she meant that she was exhausted, not drunk. Right now, he’d have rather enjoyed getting drunk… being anywhere but here would be an improvement. “Let it go. Your body is tired because it is tired. You are awake because you choose that over death.”

Jaz handed another rifle back to him, retrieving the one he had just reloaded. “My shoulder is killing me. It wasn’t healed all the way. This shit,” she said over the din of firing her rifle, “is totally not fair.”

Choony shrugged. She was right, of course. “The world has no fairness in it. Accept this or suffer in resistance, but nothing changes either way. You remain tired and hurt, or dead. To your right!”

Jaz swung the barrel right and fired just as a man stepped from behind a car with a grenade in hand. He fell, and a second later the grenade went off. Another man flew from behind the car as well, propelled by the blast.

“I wonder how Nestor is doing,” Jaz shouted over her rifle fire. “You see where he went after the airport got overrun?”

“No. He may still live but either way, we’ll have to pull back soon. His Night Ghosts killed the tanks, but there are still infantry.”

There was a lull in the shooting just as Jaz exchanged weapons once again, and in the sudden quiet, Choony heard the unmistakable sound of heavy gunfire coming from the distant auditorium. “Jaz, our left flank’s about to get overrun. We must fall back.” His voice was calm and even, a counterpoint to Jaz’s adrenaline-filled ragged voice.

“Shit. It’s not fair, Choony. We lost too many people to walk away from this school.”

“I recommend running, not walking. I’m sure the dead will not mind.”

Jaz shouted an angry, wordless bark toward the invaders. They answered with renewed gunfire.

“If we stay here, we’ll get flanked next.”

Jaz’s face flashed with anger. “Goddammit, Choony. Fine, grab the damn ammo pouches and let’s pull back.”

Choony understood her reckless anger. Wild thunderstorm that she was, of course pulling back made her angry. She resisted the idea, so it caused her great pain. “Let it go, Jaz. And let us go. Now!”

She and Choony sprinted toward the classroom’s back wall, where the door promised life for a little longer. Bullets peppered the walls randomly around them, knocking more bits of cement away, but they made it through the door and turned left, away from the flanking attack. They followed the wall into an open hallway intersection, then bolted right.

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