Rising Sun by David Macinnis Gill

Author:David Macinnis Gill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The Warren

ANNOS MARTIS 238. 2. 3. 18:29

I open up with my armalite, spraying the đibui with a full clip of ammo. My aim is low—not trying to kill any of them. Just trying to force them back and provide cover.

They return fire. Their bullets ping off my suit, and they start chanting something. I buy enough time for my crew to take cover behind the corner shack, which suits me fine.

I pop the ammo clip and replace it with a new one, tapping it on my helmet to set the mechanism. “What now?” I ask Aziz when I join then.

“We find another way to the EZ!” the chief yells. “Follow me!”

But we’ve gone no more than fifty meters when the mud in front of us explodes.

Gunfire.

From above us, on a watchtower built around a rusted-out telemetry relay tower. The Razor stands atop the tower, straddling the railing, battle rifle on his hip, a bloody gash on his forehead.

“Here! Pursue them, my brothers!” he booms through a makeshift megaphone. “Bring my love back to me!”

His love? Does he mean Charlotte, the susie he kidnapped? “Wait a minute,” I say, and start doing some quick math.

“Do not hurt yourself,” Mimi says.

“Was that your attempt at humor?”

“Sarcasm.”

“Not bad.” I laugh. “For a rookie.”

Shouts and caterwauling behind us. The đibui are coming. It’ll take less than ten seconds for them to sprint down that main path and turn the corner.

We’re stuck.

“Durango, delay the wobblies!” Aziz points to the tower. “Sidewinder, take him out!”

A quick round is Vienne’s reply. She plants a bullet in the Razor’s chest. The force of the shot knocks him back over the railing.

His finger convulses on the trigger, and the gun empties as he falls backward.

I meet the horde at the corner. For a micron of time, the đibui are transfixed by the gunfire. Then, as if the Bishop himself had snapped his fingers, they charge—screaming—firing—whooping and overrunning my position.

The Tenets forbid killing innocents, and while they’re armed to the teeth and willing to kill me or worse, they don’t look like soldiers. They just look starved.

Down on one knee, I aim for the leaders.

Pop-pop-pop! Pop-pop-pop! Pop-pop-pop!

I fire three-round bursts over their heads.

A warning.

It’s the only one you’re going to get, I think.

“Retreat! Get out of there!” Aziz swings Charlotte onto his broad shoulder. “Sarge! Cover Durango! Vienne! Take point! Let’s move!”

Vienne sprints toward the hill, then cuts right down a wide alley, then left out of sight. I follow Aziz and Pinch, keeping an eye open for Sarge, who is laying down fire, then sprinting to cover.

At the next position, I hang back, protecting Sarge’s retreat down the alley.

“Pretty boy! What’re you doin’?” he yells as a đibui with a sawed-off shotgun rounds the corner of a shack and takes aim.

“Covering your ass!” I pick off the wobblie with a shot to the shoulder. He screams and falls into the mud.

Sarge takes position next to me. “Aziz said for me to cover the retreat!”

“I’m covering you covering the retreat!” I yell, and lift my visor.

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