The Iron Fist by Andy Briggs

Author:Andy Briggs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2016-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

Heavy combat boots clanked rhythmically as a group of special forces soldiers ran up the ramp of the three huge Chinook helicopters. Already the engines were spooling up, the spinning rotors blasting a heavy breeze on the troops below.

They were watched by Sergeant Wade. Nobody would have seen it through her cool professionalism, but ever since Eema had triggered the Inventory’s intruder alert, Wade had felt uneasy at the sheer scale of the assault.

A Chinese solider ran up to her and saluted smartly. These were not soldiers from one single country; they came from the elite ranks of every member state of the World Consortium. Their logo – an omega symbol with a lightning bolt through the centre – was on the side of the aircraft and repeated on their uniforms. Virtually nobody outside the World Consortium knew what the insignia meant, but it carried the greatest respect from those in the highest echelons of power.

Wade like to think of her unit as a covert United Nations, except they could pack a hammer blow when needed.

“Satellite reconnaissance of the area reveals enemy activity on the farm,” the soldier reported. “Whoever it is, it looks as if they’re expecting us.”

Wade thanked the soldier and turned her attention back to the aircraft as the heavy weaponry was loaded. The arms being piled into the helicopters were nothing as primitive as guns. Wade’s team had technology developed from the very best the Inventory had to offer. It was beyond next-generation.

With everybody and everything loaded, she jogged towards the lead Chinook and up the ramp. It began to close, the machine lifting from the runway, before she was even midway up.

Sergeant Wade wasn’t worried about the fight to come. She was more concerned about what was happening in the Inventory at that very moment. She was one of only six people who knew the truth of what was down there. And right now she knew everything hinged on the shoulders of one boy…

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