The Pilgrim Strain by C.P. Edgar

Author:C.P. Edgar [Edgar, C.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Science Fiction | Infected
Published: 2017-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

Rainer sat there in the front passenger seat of the Toyota trying to digest the words he had just heard. He and Kef had made the drive without incident and had moved to a staging area located about a kilometer south of Helechek and Daggan’s overwatch position. They had parked the trucks in a slight depression in the rolling fields and had been monitoring the situation developing over the radio network.

The original plan had been to move north to the extraction location on the eastern border of the refugee camp then circle east and then south on the far side of the ridge to pick up Chek and Daggan on their way out.

Rainer was trying to calm himself. The anger was boiling within and he was having a hard time controlling it. He knew without a doubt that Brewster was playing him for a fool and had put his team in mortal jeopardy, twice. He mind was jumping ahead; mentally playing out the revenge he wanted to enact on the man but he knew he needed to focus on the situation at hand first. He decided to punch the dashboard once just the same.

“What’s the play boss?” Kef asked. He was standing outside on Rainer’s side of the truck. He was fully dressed out including plate carrier and helmet with NVGs. Rainer appreciated Kef’s ability to understand the importance of calm professionalism.

“First, we’re going to get our guys out, then we’re going to find and waste that fuck Brewster.”

“Roger that.”

Way off in the distance coming from the direction of the camp, they could clearly hear gunshots echoing. It wasn’t sustained like a pitched gun battle but intermittent. Kef made the observation, “Sounds one way.”

“Yeah.” Rainer activated the radio, “Sierra One, are you seeing what we are hearing?”

“Roger Top. All kinds of craziness going on in that camp. The clinic, where Toad and Juliet are, is in full riot. North of that location we are seeing muzzle flashes and a mob of people running toward the flashes, not away. Something is on fire way off on the other side of the camp, but we can only barely pick that up. We’re tracking our guys on the Virgins using the system beacons and it looks like they are headed away from the primary extraction point, over.” Daggan was sounding off loud and clear. Rainer imagined that he and Chek were amped up with all the action stirring in the area.

“Ok, we’re coming to you to pull you guys out. Be ready and on the backside of the overwatch in two-five mikes, how copy?” Rainer said making sure Kef was in on the plan too.

“Roger, packing up. Two-five mikes for a pick up. We going in Top?”

“Looks like it. We’ll brief you guys and hot swap your weapons when we get back to this staging area, out.”

Rainer jumped out of the passenger seat of the Toyota uncovering his Virgin as he did so. He needed to set a new series of GPS waypoints for a direct route to the eastern slope of the ridge where Chek and Daggan were located.

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