ONSET: My Enemy's Enemy by Glynn Stewart

Author:Glynn Stewart [Stewart, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

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The door to the third floor was a shattered ruin. Like the doors upstairs, it had been kicked in—and then it had been smashed to pieces by explosives.

The rest of the third floor looked like the aftermath of an apocalypse. A massive explosion had gone off at most a dozen feet from the stairwell, destroying floor and ceiling alike in a circular area of devastation that ended at the scorched concrete shell of the emergency stairs.

David judged distances carefully and jumped across the crater, landing precariously on the remaining floor as he looked around for Pell. The server chamber wall had been shattered by the explosions, debris and shrapnel having torn through the sensitive electronic equipment beyond.

Someone had followed up with grenades. Talon Security’s servers were a mess—and they weren’t the only ones. As David looked around, it was clear that most of the companies in the building had kept at least local support servers here, and they were all wrecked.

There’d been no precision, no planning to the destruction. A massive explosive charge had taken out the defenders and the walls, then at least one automatic grenade launcher had been used to finish the job. It had been a rushed job, a messy job.

And Pell and the squad of AP troopers who’d been guarding the floor were nowhere to be seen. David’s hearing and sight were far better than a regular human’s, but he couldn’t see infrared or anything else that would allow him to find his wounded or dead subordinates in the debris.

“Hellet, get up here,” he ordered. “Pell and the APs are somewhere in this debris. If they’re alive, we need to find them.”

“Understood,” she said crisply. “Things seem quiet down here.” She paused. “Narita didn’t make it,” she told him. “We’ve lost a lot of the AP troops.”

“Understood,” he echoed. “Stone, hold the line. Nobody else dies tonight.”

“Yes, sir.”

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