No Fail (Blood and Armor Book 2) by Bill Fawcett & Casey Moores

Author:Bill Fawcett & Casey Moores [Fawcett, Bill & Moores, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theogony Books
Published: 2024-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11: Morning, 8 September, Year 10

Iranian Military Facility

East of Dezful

Iran

0630

It didn’t take long to assess that only three of the bunkers had seen any recent activity. While Captain Zarei organized the defense against the inevitable Iranian response, Nisti coordinated the assaults on the munitions bunkers. The sun was now well above the horizon, and Nisti feared Force Barzani was more exposed with every second. They needed to clear the bunkers fast, but not at the expense of caution.

An eerie stillness pervaded the area. Birds did not fly, rats did not scurry, and no holes were dug into the berms around the bunkers. Nature, at least, seemed to give the bunkers a wide berth. Nisti had little doubt she would find what they were looking for in at least one of them, if not all three.

She planned to assault them one at a time, assigning teams to maintain a perimeter around the ones they weren’t ready to attack. Confident the other two were secure, she ordered a thermic lance team to cut their way into the first bunker. The nine-foot rods were bulky and unwieldy. Several times during the march, Nisti had wondered if there wasn’t a better, more convenient method to force entry into the bunkers. Roger Tang had explained the lances were far more effective and precise than demolitions. Still, Nisti wasn’t convinced. Surely, demolitions would’ve been faster.

The blinding light of the thermic lances bloomed as they cut straight through the thick cement around the vault door. The acrid scent of the rods burning at forty-five hundred degrees Celsius cleared Nisti’s sinuses but also gave her a touch of nausea. She fought the urge to back away as they worked, choosing instead to be close when they finally cut through.

In a few short minutes, the lances had cut a massive hole around the vault door. With the assault team in place and ready, herself included, she ordered a quartet of GOGs to push the door inward, and it landed inside with a loud crash. GOG soldiers tossed two grenades and the assault team waited for them to detonate.

Three seconds after they went off, she charged into the hole, firing blind bursts as she went. Infrared showed no targets. After the initial rush, she and the others slowed to better examine the entryway. They’d planned to maintain a fast, brutal pace to engage and neutralize the enemy if they’d encountered resistance before a proper defense could be organized.

However, this bunker had no defenders. With every step, she feared they were walking deeper into an ambush, but the various spectrums in her HUD showed no signs of life. Slowly and cautiously, they methodically descended the metal stairwells, covering each other, searching for hiding spots, but finding none.

No ambush ever came.

The first bunker was empty.

It was, however, filled with radiological hazard signs. There were two small offices that showed signs of recent use—food trash in a receptacle, empty teacups, and stacks of recently written status reports. The lowest level had another vault door, but it was hanging open.

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