Fighting to Survive by Rick Pine

Author:Rick Pine [Pine, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: action, crime, Science Fiction, adventure, Thriller, Dystopian, Sci-fi thriller
Publisher: White Lion Media LLC
Published: 2018-03-02T22:00:00+00:00

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Nicolas had been talking to the drivers for the last five minutes about the logistics. He’d given each one a numbered flash drive to plug into their navigation system. Each had a preplanned route that they must stick to, no matter what. Nicolas would travel in the cab with the driver who held the flash drive labeled “1”. Little Franky was with “2”, and Casey was with the last driver. Roy had agreed to follow behind Casey’s tanker as backup.

Casey’s attention was averted when he noticed the worker had finished disconnecting the tankers from the terminal’s filling stations. As the worker turned and walked away from the tankers he put his hand underneath the rear section of the tanker next to the wheel arch, before withdrawing his hand and continuing to walk away.

Casey burst through the group, pushing one of the drivers to the ground as he did, and accelerated to a full sprint towards the worker who was currently two-hundred feet away. The worker checked his shoulder one last time, only to see Casey closing the distance. He dropped his clipboard and papers and began to sprint away.

The worker was at full sprint in a matter of seconds and quickly changed direction, turning right into a maze of pipes. The pipes varied in size but ran parallel to each other.

Casey turned the corner to see him sprinting next to the rows of pipes. The man was fast, but somehow Casey was gradually catching him up. He’d thought about pulling his handgun out and taking a few shots, but he knew that anything over seventy-five feet would likely miss, even with his steady hand. Factor into that a moving target, and it would be practically impossible. The kind of feat only achieved in the movies. Knowing his luck he’d hit a pipe and blow the place up. It wasn’t something he’d risk, at least not today.

Casey was now just ten feet away. The fleeing worker looked over his shoulder to see Casey was now much closer than he’d have liked. To their right was a horizontal row of pipes just a few feet wide and at waist height. Above that was a second horizontal row at head height. Every ten or so feet was a support from the ground up to the top row, which held the two rows steady.

Casey felt his lungs burn, as they’d been running flat out for what seemed like an hour but in reality was only a minute.

The man timed his jump perfectly. Launching himself feet first, Fosbury Flop style, he jumped through the gap between the two rows of the pipes, just skimming the last pipe as he passed through to the other side, narrowly missing the next upright support. Before Casey could react, his momentum carried him several yards past the worker.

Casey came to a complete stop and turned to see the man getting up, now covered in dirt and dust from the floor. Casey’s maneuver to the other side of

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