No Planet for Good Men: A Sheriff Duke Story (Forgotten Fallout Book 1) by M.R. Forbes

Author:M.R. Forbes [Forbes, M.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Eastwood was still in Haven, so Hayden wound up with a black stallion Bale had named Zorro, after an old superhero who dressed in black and wore a black mask. Hayden didn’t know the reference or where the stable manager had gotten it, but it seemed to fit.

He had taken the last two hours to get properly outfitted for the journey. After a short visit with his daughter, he had headed to the armory in the law office on the floor above the research lab to gather his equipment. A suit of Space Marine Tactical Combat Armor went under his long duster, with a pair of ammo belts crossing one another from his shoulders and a third across his waist, along with his standard revolvers. He was tempted to bring a plasma rifle, but he didn’t want to draw too much attention or make himself a target. The odds of him crossing that much of the landscape without running into anyone with limited morals were low.

He did bring a third handgun. A laser pistol, silent, invisible, and deadly. They only had three of them in the entirety of the UWT. The weapons were some of the last produced by the USSF before the planet was abandoned, their production limited and their batteries even harder to come by. Carrying it caused him to reconsider the plasma. The laser pistol was practically priceless. He decided against it a second time. The gun was also much more comfortable to conceal in a shoulder holster beneath his duster.

Deputy Kisha and Bale had also loaded Zorro with a pair of saddlebags filled with food bars and MREs. Road rations. The only other thing they packed was a medium-range transmitter. Used at the top of the mountains, it would allow him to call for emergency pickup in the helicopter from within the machine’s range.

“What happened to Nat?” Hayden asked on arrival, looking for his wife. They had split at the lift to the tower’s sublevels. She had said she had something for him.

“I’m here,” she said, rushing in behind him. She was holding something in her hand. “Sorry, you mentioned the journal earlier, and I couldn’t resist taking a peek at the symbol.”

“Does it mean anything to you?”

“Not yet. My guess is that it's alien writing.”

“Mine too. Maybe it means ‘hunger?’”

“Because it was written underneath? It’s not safe to assume.”

“Pozz. I expect you’ll have it all figured out by the time I get back.”

“Don’t get your hopes up. I told you it could take awhile.”

“For a normal person, maybe. Not for my super-genius wife.”

“Shut up.”

They both laughed. Then Natalia held out the object in her hand.

Hayden glanced down at it. “Sunglasses?”

“Sort of. Not exactly.” She turned them over, showing him a small bulge at the back of each arm and a thin wire leading to each of the lenses. “I broke down a tactical helmet for parts. CPU is here.” She tapped the bulge on the left side. “Battery here.” She tapped the bulge on the right side.

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