Legend of the Sword (In Her Name, Book 2) by Michael R. Hicks

Author:Michael R. Hicks [Hicks, Michael R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael R. Hicks
Published: 2010-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Even though everything appeared to be calm and orderly, every hair on the back of Grishin’s neck was at stiff attention, screaming that there was something wrong. Here he was with a brigade of troops deployed in a hasty defensive perimeter around a gigantic concrete apron, painted to blend in with the forest, that easily accommodated all of his assault boats at one time, exchanging pleasantries with the man who claimed to be the commandant of the facility. A storage facility, yes, the man, a brigadier, had told him.

“But not for nuclear weapons,” the brigadier said, laughing, as if Grishin was mad to even think such a thing.

Grishin had sent the special teams, men and women trained in disarming nuclear weapons, into the gigantic tunnel, accompanied by an entire battalion of Marines. He could have sent a smaller escort, but he had plenty of troops and had no idea how big the complex was. He intended, however, that if they ran into any trouble, they would be able to defend themselves.

He had arranged the rest of his Marines around the inside of the huge wall. He had been sorely tempted to take over the walls and the security positions there, but without any sign of resistance from the “host” military, he under very strict orders to avoid provoking them without cause.

Fuck, he thought savagely. There is something wrong here, but—

“Colonel!” one of his men cried, pointing toward the tunnel entrance. The door, a gigantic plug of hardened steel that was easily three meters thick, was closing. The Marines inside would be cut off, trapped.

“Brigadier,” he said, turning to the alleged commandant, “what is the meaning of this?”

“My apologies, colonel,” the man said calmly as he drew his sidearm with one hand and with the other casually rolled a hand grenade onto the ground in the midst of Grishin’s nearby staff. Unbelievably, he made no attempt to escape.

“Alarm!” Grishin screamed as he knocked the Russian officer’s gun arm to the side, then stabbed his right hand, fingers held rigid like a knife, into the brigadier’s throat, crushing his larynx. Grishin grabbed him by the collar and web gear, and with a desperate prayer and a massive heave, threw the gagging Russian to the ground on top of the grenade just before it exploded. His body didn’t absorb the full force of the explosion, for two of the staff officers were riddled with shrapnel and killed instantly. But Grishin’s quick reflexes had saved the lives of the others. For the moment.

In those few seconds, bedlam erupted around the facility. The formerly peaceful Russian soldiers atop the massive wall turned inward and opened fire on the Marines, who were now caught out in the open with nowhere to hide across hectares of bare concrete. A volley of hypervelocity missiles lanced out, almost too fast to follow with the unaided eye, from points along the wall, obliterating most of the assault boats on the ground in massive fireballs. Two boats actually managed to

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