Invasion: The complete three book set by J.F. Holmes

Author:J.F. Holmes [Holmes, J.F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cannon Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-10-14T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 67

If they had more time, Blake would have preferred they go up onto the roof of the one story building, blow a hole, and drop in. There wasn’t enough, though. There never was.

Tanchack was their demo expert, the skill that she brought to the team. She knew, from Cordell’s inside information, that the door itself was a no-go. Too thick, armored, and overlapping. No, it would have to be in through the wall, without too much backscatter. She paced off to the left, coming to a spot that she knew opened into a stairwell that headed downward. The team followed and started digging explosive out of their packs.

The red sticks of military grade dynamite had sat, vacuum sealed and locked in an airtight container, for twelve years, since before the invasion. Better than C4 for blowing a hole in concrete, and she chanted the formula under her breath as she lined the sticks up along the wall. “75% RDX, 15% TNT, 5% SAE 10 motor oil, and 5% cornstarch, 75% RDX, 15% TNT, 5% SAE 10 motor oil, and 5% cornstarch,” she muttered under her breath.

“Engineers are weird,” said Wood as the rest of the team pulled security.

“Pot, Kettle, Black,” answered Blake.

Tanchack hesitated, then added five more sticks, crimped in a blasting cap, and ran out a wire spool back to where a claymore detonator lay, outside the gate and around the wall. “OK, now we gotta tamp it. I need as many Wolverine bodies as I can get.”

They were used to her asking for weird things, and didn’t complain, though the bodies were starting to smell. When she had eight piled up on top of the explosives, the demo sergeant gave the OK. The team started to stack up in a line back from the breech site, preparing to enter the hole, but Tanchack waved them off. “I’m not sure how stable this stuff is; should be OK, but you should be away.”

“How far away, Jess?” asked Cordell.

“Like, I dunno, away away. Behind the outer wall, at least.”

Blake hesitated. “That kind defeats the purpose of the shock from the explosion.”

“Oh,” she laughed, “there’ll be plenty of shock, trust me. Just be glad there’s no rebar, or else this would be complicated.”

They moved back behind the wall, and Blake counted down with his fingers, holding them up for everyone to see. At “two”, Tanchack hit the clacker, and the ground shook in a deafening blast.

“I MIGHT HAVE USED TOO MUCH!” shouted Tanchack, but no one could hear her over the ringing in their ears.

The assault team ran around the corner of the wall, but stopped when pieces of concrete and Wolverine started raining down on them. Blake shoved them forward, and they ran towards where the corner of the building had been. Instead, there was a grey cloud of dust, making them all choke.

Switching to infrared on their NVG’s, the soldiers charged forward, stumbling into the crater where the base of the wall had been, and into the darkness, to be met with a hail of plasma fire.

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