Star Cat Forever_A Science Fiction & Fantasy Adventure by Andrew Mackay

Author:Andrew Mackay [Mackay, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chrome Valley Books
Published: 2018-12-23T07:00:00+00:00

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Back at Perimeter Zee, Sierra watched the live feed from her drone hover in the palm of her hand.

A mercenary swung the barrel at the lens.

“Hey, get back here,” she spat as the others watched, anxiously. “Goddamn it.”

“You’re not gonna blow the van, are you?” Siyam asked.

“IT’S NOT A THINLY VEILED THREAT,” she screamed into the air and pointed at Suttle in the blue van.

“You.”

“What?”

“Press the button. Do it.”

Remy punched the air with excitement, “Yeah, do it. Blow the bastards up.”

“What if Jelly and Hughes are in the training facility, though?” Siyam asked. “You’re not seriously contemplating calling Sheck’s bluff, are you?”

Sierra lowered her hand and sighed at the top of her lungs.

“I don’t think it is worth the risk,” Roman suggested.

“Think, damn it, think,” Sierra muttered. “If they were genuinely in the building, would Maar risk the van going off? Would he?”

“Probably. He’s a madman,” Remy said.

Suttle ran his finger over the button and made eyes at Sierra, “We have twenty seconds left to prove we’re not fooling around.”

Sierra faced a peculiar dilemma.

Her eyes ran to the live footage in her palm. The Research Center’s walls shattered amid dozens of USARIC mercenaries firing at the entrance.

The alarms and commotion funneling out of her wrist from the scene were hard to ignore

“We need to move, and fast,” Siyam said. “We can’t not blow the place up and then do nothing. God knows what they’ll do to Anderson and Hughes. We have no choice.”

“We have no choice,” Sierra repeated under her breath. “We have no choice. We’ve gone past the point of no return.”

Suttle waved his gloved hand around to get Sierra’s attention. The blinking button begged to be pressed.

“It’s now or never, Sierra?”

Sierra took a lungful of air and thumped the side of the blue van, “Damn it. Damn it. It wasn’t supposed to go down like this. We could have just taken her and Hughes and drove off. Do these assholes want war, or what?”

“That’s a dangerous questions to ask,” Suttle said. “Five seconds.”

She turned her attention to Lydia in the back of the blue van. The girl’s eyes looked deeply troubled.

Suttle slid his finger over the button on his glove, “Three seconds. Two, one—”

“—No, wait. Don’t press it,” Sierra said. “Christ, I’m gonna regret this.”

She ran between the mack truck and Amelia’s gray van and held out her arms.

“Listen up, everyone. Change of plan. We can’t blow the van. We can’t take the risk.”

The Misfits in the back of Amelia’s van groaned with disappointment, as did Remy.

“Ugh, cowardly yanks,” the boy snorted.

Sierra ignored his remark and continued, “Plan B is worse. We’re going in and taking her ourselves.”

“Woohooo!” everyone yelled.

“Are you ready to die for what you believe in?”

“YEAH,” came the response from the troops inside.

Suttle lowered his hand and didn’t join in the merriment.

Amelia screamed and thumped the steering wheel, “Let’s do it.”

Suttle and Amelia fired up their vans’ engines.

VROOOOOOOOOM — VROOOOOOOOOM.

“Hold tight, Lydia,” Suttle said. “Things are about to get—”

“—No, for God’s sake. What do you think you’re doing?” Sierra yelled.

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