First Light: Book one of the Torus Saga by Berg Michael

Author:Berg, Michael [Berg, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-13T18:30:00+00:00

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Ryan had calmly told the others to pack the gear they would need for the trip ahead. He had been alerted to the Agent’s presence via a monitor device installed in a tree three miles before the turn off to the track leading up to the cabin. Now they were all ready and waiting as he warmed up the three snowmobiles in the machinery shed. “Follow me as we go, don’t do anything else. I have an escape route out of this area in case of a security situation. John, stash the tech gear on my machine. You are going to be cramped, but these mobiles will take three each despite being designed only for two. I will ride alone with the gear.”

“Where will we go? There is a lot of wilderness about these parts.” John asked.

“Don’t worry, I can get us out. That vehicle will not be able to follow us through the trees so we have an advantage.”

“Are you sure it won’t?”

“Fairly sure. We are going to wind through some pretty rugged terrain.”

“What about when the snow runs out? This summer storm is probably not dumping at lower elevations.”

“If we can get safely out of here, I have a vehicle we can use. Just follow.” He boarded his own machine and the others crowded onto the remaining two.

“What about our tracks?” John said above the hum of the electric snowmobile engines.

“A risk we are going to have to take. Nothing I can do about that other than to hope the snowfall continues and covers them, but don’t count on it. Anyway, that vehicle could be equipped with tracking hardware locking onto the remnant signal from the power source these mobiles have. At best we can really only buy a little time whilst whoever it is looks around here before finding nothing and deciding to use it. Let’s go!”

They all powered up and sped out of the machinery shed. Tree trunks dashed by barely visible as they kept the headlights at low radiance. The others followed Ryan on a hair raising high-speed trip through the forest with snow spraying behind them, kicked up by the snowmobile tracks. After a ten-minute ride, Ryan stopped and the others drew up alongside. “They are at the cabin now,’ he said pointing to a readout on the dashboard of his machine. “I set up a detector as we left. OK, let’s keep going, time is of the essence.” They all powered up and were off again as before at high speed. Suddenly an explosion could be heard, accompanied by a brief flash from the direction of the cabin. They all stopped again.

“A fusion detonator I put in the workshop. Anything we left behind will be melted into one big lump. I could not risk anything back there. It will take them days to analyse it and then their results will be insufficient to get an accurate view of what we were working on. Let’s hope whoever it was that came visiting was also inside.

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