The Americans: Apex Trilogy, Book 2 by Jake Bible

Author:Jake Bible
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781468040777
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2011-12-13T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“How close are you?” Alexander shouted.

“We’re right above you!” Styles called back over the com. “Stay put and I’ll drop the cage!”

Alex looked up into the twilight sky and waited for the cage to appear. In seconds a hole opened meters above and a BC cage quickly descended. Once next to him, he yanked open the door and stepped inside. “Bring me up!”

The cage lifted, but not before a contingent of guards spotted him and opened fire. Alex ducked down, trying to make himself as small a target as possible, but he felt one then two, three, four slugs rip into his legs and back. He cried out as the cage was sucked up into the BTT and the hole closed below, the sound of gunfire nearly muted completely.

“Jesus, Al! You’re bleeding like a fucking stuck pig!” Billy yelled, helping the prince from the cage.

“Yeah…bullets…will do that,” Alex struggled to say before collapsing into Billy’s arms.

“Styles!” Billy yelled. “Al’s hurt bad! I’ll do what I can, but we need to find Heather and the girls and get the fuck out of here!”

“That’s always been the plan!” Styles shouted back over the com. “I’ve got every sensor this thing has searching for them, but I’m coming up blank!”

Blank. The word triggered a thought in Billy’s overtaxed brain. “Blank! Look for the blank spot! Find the one place none of the sensors can penetrate! They’ll be there!”

“Good call, pardner,” Styles replied, immediately finding the dead spot in the sensor’s search. The Shop.

***

“She’s passed out again, Dr. Stilig,” Ms. Soslosky announced. “And her vital signs are weakening.”

“Weakening?” the Doctor asked, Heather’s liver in his hands for the fourth time that day. “Really?”

He set the slab of dark meat into a tray and stepped to the medical console, studying the information before him. “Hmmm, I wonder if as her body runs out of energy, the nanotech does also?”

“Should we let her rest?”

“No, no, we have too much work to do,” the Doctor answered coldly. “If she dies, she dies. We can try to resuscitate her at that point.”

“Won’t the Empress be upset?”

“When isn’t she upset?” the Doctor laughed as he cracked open Heather’s rib cage once more and began to remove her left lung. Again.

***

“Your man Zverev had better get this under control,” Mr. Plain growled. “If we lose the BTT then our plans will be severely set back.”

“Do not lecture me!” the Empress screamed. “I am the ruler of all of Russia and you are just a commoner! I will not be spoken to that way!”

“Get used to it, Your Highness,” Mr. Continental said. “What did you think was going to happen when we return Russia to its socialist hay day? Did you think you would keep your throne?”

“Of course! That was the plan, you idiot!” Natalya shrieked. “The people need a ruler! They need someone to lord over them and history has proven that commoners cannot do it effectively enough! They lose power eventually and the country, and the entire planet, devolves into chaos! The people need their Empress!”

The three men looked at each other gravely.

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