Jurassic Dead Box Set by Rick Chesler & David Sakmyster

Author:Rick Chesler & David Sakmyster [Chesler, Rick & Sakmyster, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Horror
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2016-10-23T06:00:00+00:00

20.

In the air over Washington, D.C.

Major Remington descended in formation—or what was left of his formation. Starting with six jets in the air, they were down to three. Two crashed into the Atlantic and the third slammed into one of those damned pterodactyls in mid-air, taking out both.

“Three bogies ahead!” Remington shouted, locking the targeting on one. Strafing the bird’s head with machine gun fire worked well, but so would a heat-seeking Sidewinder down its throat. Blow off its arm-like wings and it would still live, but it was going nowhere, biting no one and dropping no more payloads.

These things… He shook his head and regained his composure as his colleagues opened fire on the targets.

Damn, they were nimble. The winged reptiles arcing out of the way just in time, their hides taking some damage but not much as they rolled, ducked and split directions effortlessly. It was like trying to swat a fly in mid-air; they knew where the attack was coming from and expertly tilted just far enough out of the way.

“AIM-9s!” Remington called to the other pilots. “Take ‘em down with heat-seekers!”

If we can lock on long enough, that is. His target lock was lost already, before he could fire. He zipped over a smoking section of Fairfax and passed within visual of Reagan International Airport—where he heard all planes had been rerouted to the country’s interior, to places like Iowa or Mississippi. The streets all along the way, and wherever he could see, seemed peaceful from this level, but as soon as he dipped lower, chaos ruled.

Roads congested and bottlenecked, cars abandoned and blocking any further traffic. Some bodies lying about on the streets or lawns, but mostly…those killed had gotten back up, enlisted in the service of the opposition, minds no longer their own. Great hordes swelled into even ranks and marched with purpose, zone by zone, looking like a colony of ants from this height. Ants with a collective hive mind, serving a central authority figure, branching this way and that, racing through neighborhoods, breaking through windows, rooting out panicked and screaming residents.

Everything here was compromised, and Remington wondered how long it could be until he received an order to start firing upon the city itself? Or would they just call their forces back and send in the bigger guns from carriers at sea, or from NORAD itself?

He banked around again and ascended, mercifully giving his eyes a break and a clear view of the peaceful sky above, but only for a moment and then it was over, back to scanning for targets.

“Where the hell are they?”

“Broke formation and fled,” radioed one of his colleagues in the air. “Looks like they’re weaving around and going low, dive-bombing?”

“No more payloads,” said the third pilot. “I’ve got a visual and I’m in pursuit. Looks like they’re heading toward Pennsylvania Avenue.”

“Shit,” Remington spat. “Take them out, first chance! I’m right behind you, and—look out!”

“Wha-?” The pilot couldn’t get another syllable out as a black streaking shape hurtled up from a copse of trees.

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