Snafu by Chris Lowry

Author:Chris Lowry [Lowry, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Ozarks Media
Published: 2019-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

“Shit!” Boyd yelped as he pitched forward on the ground.

Hammer held up the others.

“Tripped,” the soldier said as he held up a thin flagpole with a fabric triangle on the end. “The fuck is this?”

“Golf hole,” said Snow. “My dad used to play.”

Norman searched their surroundings.

“We’re not far off the LZ. That pilot knew her shit.”

Hammer glanced at a watch strapped to his wrist.

“We’re pushing it if we don’t find Toi soon.”

“Start there,” Archie pointed.

They looked in the direction he had indicated and saw a large chute flapping in the wind, half of it wrapped around a palm tree.

“Move,” Hammer ordered as they double timed to explore.

“Looks like he came in hot,” said Norman.

“No body though,” Archie pointed out.

The lines to the chute were tangled in the fronds, whipping in the breeze off the ocean.

Boyd grabbed one of the lines and felt the tip with his fingers.

“Cut,” he announced.

“He’s around,” said Hammer. “Spread out.”

He kept close to Archie as they searched the dark landscape.

Archie could hear the men around him as they fumbled through the long, unkempt grass. He wondered about snakes in California.

They had to have them, right?

Bears, he was sure about. Those were on the state flag, or what used to be the state flag.

Snakes though, he couldn’t remember.

He took a breath and let it out.

Here he was worried about snakes and Toi walked away from the group.

Archie slowed.

The man had it figured out and just waited for a window of opportunity to open up.

When it did, he disappeared.

Took the detonators with him, which put the mission in jeopardy, and Archie figured that meant they didn’t have to die.

He glanced in the direction where Norman and Hammer marched through the brush, eyes searching the dark.

They weren’t focused on him.

He could do it, he thought, as he slowed more.

Just a few more steps.

His foot couldn’t feel the ground and he pitched forward.

Archie had time to let out a startled gasp before something slithered around his face and clamped down on his mouth.

Another snake grabbed his wrists and yanked them behind his back, and burned his skin as they started to bite him.

He twisted and bucked, rolled to the side and swung with both elbows. He tried to dislodge the giant python crushing him, the stinky skin burning his nose as he struggled to breath.

Hot breath exploded across his ear as his elbow connected.

He heard the snake moan and loosen its grip on him.

Did snake’s moan?

Archie fought harder.

He twisted around, punched and shoved.

It felt like the snake was wearing denim.

The moment the realization hit him that it wasn’t a snake, Hammer yanked the person off him and slammed the long haired bearded man into the opposite side of the sand trap.

He trained a gun on the man the attacker as the others slid over the top of the pit and scrambled to a stop in the crusty sand.

“Alright Captain?” Hammer kept his eyes locked on the bearded man.

Archie coughed.

“Check him,” Hammer motioned to Boyd.

The soldier bent next to Archie, who waved him away and struggled to stand up.

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