Fall of the Cities_Branching Out by Vance Huxley

Author:Vance Huxley [Huxley, Vance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Entrada Publishing
Published: 2016-09-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6:

Orchard Close Armoured Corps

The general sense of well-being after Guy Fawkes lasted all of nine days. A two-tone horn blaring out heralded Cooper arriving a lot faster than usual and without his guards on a quad. Harold ran to the gate to find out why without getting his stick first. Cooper jumped out of his motor, shouting as he ran up the access road. “Get Soldier Boy! We want fighters, lots of fighters.” He paused as he saw Harold. “How many fighters can you bring, and especially those f.. rifles and shooters, serious shooters. There’s a problem and Caddi is asking for help.”

“From me? Who has he upset?” Harold couldn’t work out who would attack Caddi and why the Hot Rods thought he’d help them.

“No you.. er, idiot. There’s GOFS and Geeks coming as well, and everyone is to bring rifles. Bring anything else that shoots, or do you fancy managing without the mart this winter?” Cooper couldn’t stand still, twitching with tension and the need to do something, anything, to release it.

Harold stared for a moment. The mart? “Crap no. Which… person is attacking the mart? The Ferdinands?”

“No, we’ve got every gang who uses our mart coming to stop an attack by a big mob from the south. They’ll run right over the mart guards, and then the bastard government will blow up the mart and starve us all like London. For f... blimey’s sake just get your people there and we’ll all get the details.” Cooper stopped twitching with an obvious effort. “Better not take a woman into the boss meeting, because not everyone will obey rules and might not take her seriously.” Cooper spoke carefully and very seriously for once. “We know your Emmy and Patty are dangerous but others won’t, OK? We don’t need a fight kicking off among ourselves.” He glanced over his shoulder. “The Geeks and GOFS will come through your traffic island, right?”

“It’s a neutral road. I’ll come in with them.” Harold wanted to see if the rest really were in on this, or if Caddi had come up with a way to pull the rifles and fighters out of Orchard Close. “Scat. I’ll be along with shooters and guns.”

“I’m gone. Come mob-handed. I mean it.” Cooper spun on his heel and ran back to his car, which his driver had already turned round. The modified Mini Cooper roared off up the road with the air horns blaring. Harold had already run into the guardhouse and picked up the phone.

“Faith, Hilda?”

“No, Veronica. I’m training.”

“Listen carefully, Veronica. We are not under attack but I want everyone willing to shoot with a gun or crossbow to come to the gate, quickly. Bring every weapon and as much ammunition as they can because we need them. If you can’t do that, ask Faith or Hilda to do it. Quick as you can.”

“All right Harold. I’ll ask Hilda. Anything else?”

“Put me through to Sharyn please, then get to it. Thanks.” The connection made the familiar clicking and although it seemed ages, Sharyn didn’t take long to pick up.

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