The Cyber Chronicles 03: The Core by T C Southwell

Author:T C Southwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: nuclear holocaust, ghouls, combat, cybernetic organisms, aliens, mutants, epic battles, Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: T C Southwell
Published: 2011-11-25T13:48:52+00:00

Dena shrieked and clutched her ears as a massive sound wave hit them with a thunderous boom, rocking the cart. The donkeys brayed, their ears flattened as they struggled against the harness, pulling at each other and going nowhere. Tassin writhed, straining at her bonds. Flux-reality twitched and went wild. Tassin closed her eyes to block out the swirling madness of lurid skies mixed with airborne landscapes, sea and snow raging through jungles and deserts. Wind tore at them as the temperature swung madly from hot to cold and back. Rain splattered down, followed by a second of intense heat, then hail pelted them with frigid balls of ice, vanishing moments later.

The child screamed again, and Tassin opened her eyes. A creature was torn from a Flux-reality and warped beyond belief, its mouth open in a soundless scream of pain and terror. For a moment its agonised eyes met hers, then it disintegrated into a mangled mass of meat and bones. The roaring gong-drone hammered at her ears, and the cart bucked and rocked as the ground twisted and heaved. The donkeys brayed and struggled as the raging madness pelted them with every conceivable kind of weather and a few that no one had ever encountered before.

"Dena! Untie me!" Tassin yelled, twisting to look at the huddled child.

Dena sobbed, scrambled over to her and tugged the knots undone, tears streaking her grimy cheeks. Tassin winced at the horror around them and hugged the child. Dena buried her face in Tassin's midriff, her arms tight about her waist. Another creature appeared in the chaos, rolling and thrashing as it went through a series of hideous mutations, then it was torn apart in a spray of blood. The gong-drone lessened, and Tassin leant close to the child.

"Dena! I have to find Sabre! I must help him!"

"No! Don't leave me!" Dena wailed, raising white-ringed eyes.

"I have to help him! You'll be safe here."

"No!" Dena shrieked as Tassin tried to pry her arms away.

She gripped the girl's shoulders and shook her. "Stop it! You must be brave!"

Dena's eyes flitted to the flickering chaos. "What if you don't come back?"

"I will. Stay here and keep the donkeys calm."

Tassin disentangled herself from the shaking child and jumped down. Checking her weapons, she loped in the direction Sabre had gone, her heart pounding. The ground shifted, making her stumble. Branches whipped her, sea water splashed her, and the wind tore at her like a living thing. She rebounded off a tree that appeared and vanished before her, twisting into a smeared desert. Her chin throbbed as she stumbled on, tripped over rocks and splashed through streams that flowed through the air. A galleon sailed past above her, its sails in rags, its crew howling its terror to the wind. She encountered a kneeling zombie, its shrivelled face agape to scream in terrified agony as its decayed hands clawed at its shredding body.

Chaos reigned. Stones pelted her, sand stung her, and branches clawed at her like wooden hands. Tatters of pink mist swirled around her, and the sky glowed lurid red.

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