Gagged: The Conclusion (The Clipped Saga Book 3) by Devon McCormack

Author:Devon McCormack [McCormack, Devon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-12-15T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

In a stolen van, Kid, Treycore, and Aerysn made their way to the meet-point Aerysn’s contact had provided. Aerysn sat behind the wheel, his foot like lead on the gas. Kid sat beside him, and Treycore in the back. Aerysn changed the station on the radio, settling on some news network.

“Oh, God,” Kid said. “Great. A couple days of NPR, and we’ll be right as rain.”

Treycore chuckled, and Kid enjoyed that he was able to get him to smile after everything they’d been through.

One of the announcers on the station said, “Right now, we’re talking to people who have been dealing with the current pest situation. Witnesses have sighted these wolf-like creatures in various parts of California, Washington State, and Nevada. Sightings have also been made in British Columbia, and less than thirty minutes ago, unconfirmed reports have sprung up in various parts of South America. People in these areas are advised to seek shelter if they encounter one or several of these unidentified animals. They are known to be extremely hostile and carnivorous. There have been reports of hundreds in a horde. Scientists are still speculating on the creatures’ origins and rapid increase in numbers.”

Kid couldn’t believe what he was hearing. It was one thing when he was trapped in another realm and seeing crazy shit, but to be on Earth, surrounded by a world that looked so familiar, it was bizarre to think it was becoming unrecognizable to him as well.

“Fuck,” Aerysn said.

“What are they?” Kid asked.

“Christ’s babies. Well, drones really. The Christ was designed to breed these monsters that would wipe out humanity.”

“How the fuck could you possibly know that?” Treycore snapped from the back.

“I told you, we are the most secretive operation of the Leader’s Allies. We know what’s going on better than anyone else. This isn’t grade-school intel I’m passing along to you. They’re beasts, destroyers, here for one purpose: to wipe out mankind. That thing can populate the world in hundreds of thousands of these. It creates them through sacs—eggs really—that it lays one by one. And it will keep doing that until there are so many of these things that eventually they will be the only thing left in the world.”

“Good fucking God,” Kid said. “So there are all these man-eating monsters running around?”

“Exactly. And as you can surely imagine, they’re some fierce motherfuckers. That’s why it’s so important for us to destroy the Christ. I was hoping we would have more time than this, but clearly, we don’t. If the sightings are international, Janka must have found a way to transport eggs to different locations, where they can hatch and unleash their reign of terror. I figure he did that to keep anyone from being able to locate this tower where the Christ’s nest is located. To keep anyone from being able to determine the source and come to destroy it.”

“Clever bastard,” Treycore said.

“Janka hasn’t gotten to this point by being foolish. He’s been calculating, plotting this, clearly for a very long time.

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