False Profit by Chris Nuttall

Author:Chris Nuttall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-07-17T09:02:17+00:00

”Mow them down,” he shouted. The alien infantry that had survived the destruction of their armoured comrade were trying to escape; the humans refused to allow them to run and hide. One by one, they were wiped out…and green blood splattered all over the ground. “Don’t let them get away!”

Silence fell, broken only by the rumble of artillery in the distance as both sides slammed away at each other. He saw the strange lights of alien lasers passing through the smoky sky, targeting human aircraft and missiles, perhaps even shells as they passed towards the enemy positions. The cloud over the destroyed city was starting to fade as the wind blew it out to sea; he could only hope that it wasn’t as radioactive as it had looked. Had the bomb been clean, or utterly dirty? There was no way to know…

“Shit,” Kit said grimly, as three more enemy tanks appeared, heading directly towards them. They fired as one, hurling high explosive shells towards their position, blasting part of the line into chunks of debris and shattered lives. “Sir, I think it’s time to retreat; we have no more launchers.”

“Fuck that, we just got here,” Damiani snapped. He reached down into one of their storage points and recovered an entire belt of grenades, designed for antitank work. “You get everyone else back down the escape route and let me handle this.”

They’d taken the precaution of preparing an escape route if they needed it, an escape down a storm drain into a gully and back towards the second part of the defence line, which had been dug in around Stafford itself. Kit shouted orders, sending the others scurrying for cover; the aliens moved in pursuit, missing Damiani crouching in the shadows. He hoped that they wouldn’t send in infantry; did they know that the company had no more antitank weapons? If they didn’t, they would push forward with the tanks first…

A tank appeared and he hurled the belt of grenades, before jumping back and running for his life. There was a colossal explosion and the tank disintergrated, sending chunks of flaming wreckage everywhere; the aliens had to have been shocked by the sudden violence. They were shooting almost at random, bullets and shells flying everywhere; he kept his head down as he reached the storm drain and pulled himself down it as if the devil himself was after him. The tunnel was dark and silent, with only a trickle of running water; he silently thanked God that there was only a little water flowing through the tunnel. If the aliens saw him before it was too late…

He felt his heart beating as he forced himself towards the glow of light in the distance, the thin circle of light that became a bigger circle, and then one large enough to allow him to escape. Kit was there waiting for him, along with two heavy machine gunners; the aliens didn’t seem to have found the entrance.

Kit looked up at him. “Destroy it, Sarge?”

Damiani nodded.

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