Major Feeding: A Piper & Payne Supernatural Thriller (Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Book 4) by John P. Logsdon & Christopher P. Young

Author:John P. Logsdon & Christopher P. Young [Logsdon, John P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crimson Myth Press
Published: 2018-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The roof above the helidrone opened slowly and we were soon drifting straight up into the night sky. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was using a kung fu grip to keep myself stuck on the top of that damn flying machine.

“Seems to be doing a decent job,” Pecker said as he hung over the edge like some insane skydiver. “Ah, Harvey’s at the controls.”

I felt an odd sense of relief at hearing that. Not that Harvey was much more competent than Leland, but sometimes a little bit could go a long way.

The craft jolted at that thought and I couldn’t help but release a small yelp.

Everyone looked at me.

“Fuck off,” I said, realizing that my skin was probably pretty pale at the moment. “Just not a fan of flying.”

“Better than suddenly not flying,” noted Pecker. “Don’t worry, baby. You’ll be fine.”

“Call me ‘baby’ again, Pecker,” I warned, “and I’ll personally kick your ass off this fucking thing.”

His reply was to wink at me.

Grrr.

Everything finally settled down and the ride became relatively smooth, which was fine until I noticed that the buildings were getting smaller and smaller. I knew we had to get up to a decent height so we could come down on top of the PPD building, but this was getting crazy.

And we were rising faster.

The air was getting thin.

“Pecker?”

“I know, I know,” he said, and then opened a broadcast connection. “Harvey, I think we’re high enough.”

“Yeah, about that,” he replied, “Leland…uh…accidentally flicked a switch and now I can’t control anything.”

Pecker smacked himself on the forehead.

“What?” I asked, fighting to keep from losing my cool.

He held up a finger at me. “Did that switch happen to have the letters ‘AP’ over it?”

“Yeah,” answered Harvey, “why?”

“Because that switch engages the autopilot,” Pecker said with a groan. “Tell Leland to not touch shit!”

“Yeah!” I added with a heavy dose of venom. “But now that he has,” I added, looking at our technician, “what exactly does that mean?”

Pecker’s demeanor was one of a goblin who held serious reservations about being near me at the moment. I could understand that, seeing that I was damn near ready to strangle his little ass. Having left Harvey and Leland to manage this was clearly stupid, and he knew it. To be fair, I hadn’t exactly put up a huge fight about it, but Pecker gave the final GO that it would be safe…sort of.

But here we were, getting higher up by the second, and we’d just learned that the guys on the ground had no control over the fucking thing.

“It means we’re going to be headed wherever the helidrone was last programmed to go.”

“And do we know where that may be?” I pressed.

He winced.

“Badlands.”

I just sat there staring at him.

My first inclination was to ask him why they’d been sending the drone out to the Badlands, but I honestly couldn’t have given two shits. The fact was that I rarely went to the Badlands. It wasn’t my jurisdiction. So what did

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