Heroes by David Leadbeater

Author:David Leadbeater [Leadbeater, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

The great march began on Mission Street and crossed the Oakland Bay Bridge. By the end of the first day they were 200,000 strong. Most were military personnel and carried their own rations, but the civilians that joined were told to find backpacks and bring enough food and water for seven days. The military commanders knew they were fighting to avert the end of the world and accepted every man, woman and Uber that wanted to join. They knew other countries and cities were beset, fallen and in terrible turmoil. Vienna and the United Kingdom, Paris and Northern Ireland; all were fighting tooth and nail for their very existence.

Ken, Felicia and Milo were privy to it all. They saw reports flashing in on tablets and other devices. Some were Kinkade originated, others from brave people in the skies, and unmanned drones. From Aegis they knew that the Devil had made base in Las Vegas and, from Aegis, they knew it was the best and hardest place on the planet to strike.

“Bastard’s surrounding himself with entire armies,” one of the commanders said. “Our 200,000 won’t penetrate that.”

Ken thought about the twelve jet fighters they had hidden in Nevada, the tanks and the patrol vehicles with machine guns and grenade launchers. “We have a shit ton of firepower, sir, with more coming every day.”

The army marched as hard as it was able. The word was put out to underground rebels, to hidden knots of fighters, to those that waited and planned in their basements and their attics, that the last great army of the world was on the march and they planned to take back their planet.

They followed interstates where cars sprawled in haphazard array. Humans lay dead on the road, dragged out by demons and murdered. Humans were dead inside the cars. They were fallen where they had run along the median or the grass verges. Soon, the army diverted its course to quieter roads.

They threaded through the majesty of Yosemite National Park. The nights on the road had been cool so far, cool and noisy. Ken found himself bedding down with Felicia on one side and Milo on the other. It wasn’t the best bedfellow combination he’d ever imagined.

“Any news from the other Chosen?” Felicia asked, running fingers through her blond hair to give it at least a semblance of orderliness.

Ken shook his head. “I’m not sure if they even know we’re back. I don’t know who’s alive. It seems they attacked the Devil in Vegas and lost. They’re massing.”

“Massing?” Milo was dividing their rations.

“Making an army. Asking as many military and civilian people as possible to join them. And they’re waiting for us to arrive.”

“Ah crap,” Milo said, peering into the MRE tins he’d opened. “We got the four dicks of death.”

Ken’s eyes widened. “Say what now?”

Milo showed them the tins, filled with an unappealing mound of four beef links and beans. Even the fading light did nothing to hide the unappetizing food. “Marines call them that due to their appearance and foul taste.

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