Peacekeeper by Farren Doug

Author:Farren, Doug [Farren, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: Doug Farren
Published: 2013-10-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 27

The image spun as Thanis quickly withdrew the camera. With a speed that only a cybernetic limb could match, she replaced the camera with the business end of a miniature rocket launcher. Two seconds after spotting the camera, the guard was startled when hundreds of little rockets suddenly emerged from the hole in the concrete. Like a swarm of angry bees, they flew around him and headed through the open door, each of them spewing a tiny stream of gas. The guard reached for his radio but collapsed to the floor before he could key the microphone.

Sorbith reacted just as fast. The shield generator sprang to life surrounding the entire building with a silvery sphere of energy isolating it from the outside world. Thanis waited until the rocket launcher had emptied its magazine then backed away from the wall. Grabbing a large sheet of prepositioned duralloy she climbed up on the sled and held it up like a giant Roman shield.

“Triggering the charges!” he informed the others.

Tom flattened himself against the wall of the tunnel a moment before the explosives detonated. The suit registered the impact of several large chunks of concrete as well as innumerable pieces of smaller debris. The dust was so thick that Tom had to resort to short-range radar in order to navigate. As soon as he was able, he squeezed by the skid and followed the rest of the Peacekeepers into the building. He wasn’t surprised to find that despite the presence of the shield, which effectively isolated the entire building from the outside world, the lights were still on.

The tiny missiles Thanis had released were rapidly spreading a quick-acting sleeping gas throughout the building. As the resident expert in communications, Tom’s assigned target was the room containing the communications link with Mojave station. He ran past the door barely registering that it was now lying on the floor about two meters from where it had once hung on its hinges. Hunching down to keep himself from banging his head into the ceiling, he ran down the hallway.

His suit continuously scanned the area looking for threats. Tom passed another downed guard, leaping over him after the suit confirmed he was no longer conscious. Alarm bells began sounding as he approached his target; a black door set into the concrete wall. His suit’s tactical display informed him that it was made of two-centimeter thick duralloy. The walls on either side were made of reinforced concrete lined with another half-centimeter of armor. Time was his enemy; every second he waited gave the people inside time to destroy the data he was after.

Tom ran through his list of options. He could burn through the armor but that would take far too long. He could blow the door with a small bomb but that would most likely incinerate any evidence inside the room. The handle wasn’t strong enough to pull the door off its hinges and there wasn’t any place for him to gain enough leverage to force the door open.

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