SEAL Team 666 by Weston Ochse

Author:Weston Ochse [Ochse, Weston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Thomas Dunne
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

33

IMPERIAL BEACH. PIRATES’ CAVE.

A heavy stench of unwashed bodies and saltwater rot filled the air. The room was more or less what Surrey had prepared them for. It had been water-carved from the rock, which even now wept moisture. The ground was concrete, but had been covered with so much dirt and detritus that it was a mottling of grunge atop the concrete gray. There’d been rows of cots along one wall that had been hastily shoved to the back of the room. The strangest thing about their view into the room was that they didn’t see anyone. Walker couldn’t even make out the homunculus that he’d spotted just a few seconds ago, which meant that there must be more to the room than they were seeing.

Laws saw it first. “Look. See the darkness there … and there.”

Walker discerned it the moment Laws pointed it out. Twin ovals of darkness in the far wall that could be cave openings, large recesses, or deeper caverns. But seeing into either of them was impossible. Then he had an idea.

“Wait for me,” he whispered. Then he stood, grabbed a broken chair leg, and began to hammer at the overhead lights. The ICE agents, Agent Stephens, and Surrey covered their heads and moved out of the way.

Soon they were in darkness, the only light leaking from the door at the top of the stairs and the red ChemLights dangling in the other room. It would have to do.

“Laws, ever play video games?” Walker asked. The view of the room and the cave openings was considerably lighter, but he still couldn’t make out any figures.

“Uh, yeah. Does Super Mario Brothers count?”

“Dude. My mother plays that,” Yaya said.

“Do you listen to Tears for Fears too?” Ruiz stage-whispered.

“Does Spandau Ballet count?”

“For God’s sake,” Walker laughed softly. “Then you get to take the MP5. Activate your laser targeter; I got an idea.”

Laws handed the tablet to Walker, who immediately switched it to infrared. On the tablet screen, the walls of the room turned purple. The edges of the cave openings turned yellow, sliding through the spectrum toward a dark green, then went to black. Shapes appeared as mottled orange and red. Where there were none before, Walker now counted six. They seemed to be huddled behind darker objects, which by their shapes could have been boxes, televisions, or engine blocks … anything as long as it was square.

“Laws, see if you can aim the MP5 into the room.”

“I can’t see what I’m aiming at.”

“But I can. Just aim and I’ll adjust your fire. You’re my joystick.”

Ruiz snickered over the MBITR.

Laws did as he was told, angling the weapon awkwardly so that he couldn’t see where he was aiming. Suddenly a line of raw red laser energy pierced the infrared darkness, spearing a dark wall toward the rear of the room.

“Shift aim left, slowly track until I say stop.”

Walker watched the screen as the line of light shifted from the wall toward one of the openings containing several orange-hued figures.

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