Operation Cobalt – A Military Science Fiction Thriller: The Biogenesis War Files by L. L. Richman

Author:L. L. Richman [Richman, L. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Sierra Twelve

Maintenance tunnels

“Sonofa—!” Jack broke into a sprint.

Micah didn’t bother to ask; he just followed as the other man went barreling down the tunnel passage.

The intelligence officer swerved suddenly, taking a hard left down a cross corridor. Micah did the same, his hand slapping against the bulkhead’s surface to redirect his momentum as he went.

{What just happened?}

{Fool girl just took out one of the patrols, but she didn’t block their communications first. Those jackasses in control know she’s on the loose.}

Micah turned Jack’s words over in his head as the Marine increased his speed.

{That doesn’t sound like something your whiz kid would miss.}

{Oh, she tried. She thought increasing the interference in that area would do the trick. It almost worked. But the fact that it’s concentrated only at the spot—}

Micah abruptly understood. {That’s a dead giveaway.}

{Yeah,} agreed Jack. {She’s not used to thinking things through tactically. I let the RF interference ride, since she’s already outed herself, but we need to secure those two before someone is sent to retrieve them, and undoes all her work.}

Jack pulled to a stop in front of a closed access door, lifting a fisted hand in silent warning. {Let me confirm the cameras are off.}

After a beat, he nodded. Sliding the door open far enough to launch a surveillance microdrone, Jack brought his weapon up into its ready position and palmed the door.

It slid open to reveal two slumped figures. One was cuffed; the other was not.

{Where’s the girl?} asked Micah.

{Running scared, probably. I’m surprised we didn’t bump into her on our way here.} Jack stopped in front of the unsecured man, took a knee, and felt for a pulse. {Dead. The other?} he jerked his chin to indicate the man Micah knelt beside.

{Tagged and bagged. Don’t ask me what she used to secure him; I’ve never seen it before, and it just gave me a helluva shock when I brushed my fingers against it.}

Jack bent down to inspect the device. {Huh. Never seen one of those used to cuff a guy.}

{What is it?}

Jack stood, hefting the dead body. {Shock-lock. Used to keep meddling thieves from stealing mainframe cores. Avoid touching it and you’ll be fine.}

{Easy for you to say,} Micah grumbled, but he hooked his hands under the man’s armpits and dragged him into the tunnels.

Jack indicated a supply closet up ahead, and they dumped both bodies inside.

Micah stepped back, staring down at the two SS men. {Any idea how she did it?}

Jack chuckled audibly. {Yeah. She disabled automatic access control, and forced them to use the palmpad to open the doors. Then she bypassed the pad’s safeties and shocked the hell out of the one you carried. I’m no medic, but from the looks of it, she followed it with a point-blank directed energy shot. He’ll be out for a while.}

Micah indicated the dead body. {And this guy?}

Jack shook his head. {No idea. Likely the weapon she stole was set to deliver a killing strike. I’m guessing she either didn’t know, or didn’t have the time to check before having to defend herself.

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