Implacable by Mike Shepherd

Author:Mike Shepherd [Shepherd, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642110326
Publisher: Mike Shepherd
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

26

Vicky huddled with the company skipper, three platoon LTs and a couple of sergeants. The other sergeants were busy overseeing the movement of the freed hostages or bringing order back to platoons that had become pretty mixed up during the assault.

When the former redheaded hostage's stomach didn't so much rumble as growl, the captain offered the young woman a chocolate bar. She quickly attacked it and seemed unbothered when it mixed with the blood on her lips.

"There are a lot of hostages on the top floor, but only three pieces of shit. The battalion commander, the deputy commander, and the adjutant took that entire floor over for themselves and their . . . sex slaves. That's what we are. Sex slaves. They threatened to knock our front teeth out if we so much as touched their roots when they were jamming them down our throats. Ha. I got that one good."

"What can you tell us about that floor?" Vicky asked. "Are there guards?"

"Nope, no guards up there now. They don't like having the goons eyeing the naked boobs of their girls. About four hours ago, they ordered everyone down to these floors to guard them from here. All you people are supposed to be dead by now. That's what they figured would keep them safe. With all these other bastards already dead, I guess they kind of got it wrong."

"Sounds like it," Vicky said. "Captain, could one of your engineers put a snooper scope into the hall above our heads?"

He nodded at a sergeant who left at a jog. Soon, a small fire team with two engineers was silently working their way up the stairs.

Vicky opened her battle board again, and quickly found herself looking at a hall very much like the one she was standing in. Maybe it was a bit fancier.

Unlike this one, it was empty. Very empty.

"Captain," Vicky said, "if you would, please put together a platoon-size force with your best sharpshooters. Reinforce it with all the engineers you have and let's go kill us some high muckety-mucks.”

Two minutes later, Vicky strode along beside the captain as they moved upstairs. One four-man fire team slipped into the hall and took up prone fire positions covering the rest of the length of the hall. They were followed by another team that backed them up. Finally, two engineers slipped toward the first door.

While one slipped a snooper scope under the door, the other went to work with a lock pick. About the time the scope showed the living area empty, the door clicked open.

The backup fire team slipped inside, and soon there was a whispered call of, "Clear."

A squad moved forward to cover the hall while Vicky and the captain hurried through the open door and into the suite. It was larger than the ones downstairs. Thicker carpet. Wall paper with quaint country scenes on it. The furniture was soft cream leather. Definitely upscale.

The bed was badly rumpled and there was blood on the carpet in the bedroom. Vicky made a face at it.

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