Reilly, Matthew - Hell Island by Reilly Matthew

Author:Reilly, Matthew [Reilly, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781439191330
Amazon: 1439191336
Barnesnoble: 1439191336
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2006-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

THE INSTANT the Tomcat fell off the edge, the canopy of the fighter blew open and the F-14’s two ejection seats shot up out of the plane.

The ejection seats—with Schofield and Bigfoot on them—rocketed up into the sky above the aircraft carrier while the Tomcat went in the opposite direction, the plane falling in a clumsy tumbling heap down the side of the boat and into the water, where it landed with a great splash and immediately began to sink.

Schofield and Bigfoot flew high into the air before they disengaged their flight seats and initiated the parachutes that were attached to their seatbelts.

As the two of them floated back down to the earth, they scanned the huge force of apes on the deck of the carrier. They looked like an army of ants swarming over the aft runway.

Then suddenly Hail Mary gunshots started to zing past Schofield’s head, tearing through his chute.

“Where to now?” Bigfoot asked over the UHF.

Schofield pursed his lips, thinking fast. His eyes fell on the chunky CH-53 Super Stallion in the center of the flight deck.

“It’s time to even the score a little. Follow me.”

He angled his gliding flight back toward the carrier, toward its mid-section.

Schofield touched down on the middle of the flight deck. Bigfoot landed a second after him, not far from the catapult launch controls.

The apes charged forward, roaring, firing, rampaging.

“Stay here,” Schofield ordered before racing across the open deck to the massive Super Stallion.

Hunched in the pouring rain, he did something near the front of the chopper out of Bigfoot’s sight before he came back around and charged into the chopper via its forward right-side door, slamming the door shut an instant before the gorillas arrived, banging on the side of the chopper, massing around it.

Inside the Super Stallion, Schofield hustled into the cockpit, shutting its door behind him, locking it.

Watching from the outside, taking cover behind the on-deck launch controls, Bigfoot was confused.

What was Schofield doing?

But then something even more confusing occurred.

The rear loading ramp of the Super Stallion folded open.

Naturally, the apes stormed it, fifty of them rushing inside, hungry for Schofield’s blood.

Bigfoot frowned. What on earth is he . . . ?

“Bigfoot!” Schofield’s voice said over the UHF. “After you do what I ask, get down to Casper’s door and find the others. I’ll meet you there.”

“Casper’s d—? Oh yeah, sure,” Bigfoot said. “But what do you want me to do now?”

“Simple. Initiate Catapult No. 1.”

“What—!”

At that moment, Schofield brought the rear loading ramp back up, closing it, trapping the fifty-odd apes that had gone inside.

It was then that Bigfoot saw what Schofield had done at the front of the chopper: via a tie-down chain, Schofield had attached the helicopter to the carrier’s No. 1 launch catapult.

“You have got to be kidding . . .” Bigfoot said.

“Uh, now please, Bigfoot. They’re about to break down the cockpit door.”

“Right.”

Bigfoot hit a switch on the launch console, igniting Catapult No. 1.

The Super Stallion hurtled down the length of the runway at a speed no helicopter had gone before.

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