The Redwood Trilogy Box Set by Jaxon Reed

Author:Jaxon Reed [Reed, Jaxon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: edbok.com
Published: 2017-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

I flew downward in a spiral toward the point flashing on my visor. Several landed before me, and others came down shortly after I touched the ground. I unholstered my pistol and looked around, trying to get my bearings. We were in a jungle clearing, with knee-high grass. Trees and green leafy vegetation surrounded us. I couldn’t see the other two groups from the first RSTs, but cadets from our plane landed all around me.

In the distance, I heard the distinctive notes of a machine gun shooting on full auto.

Budabudabudabudabudabudabudabudabudabuda!

Budabudabudabudabudabudabudabudabudabuda!

Sergeant Sledge floated down last, landing in the clearing nearest the sound of gunfire.

“Proceed on foot! We’re playing mop up action today.”

Several audible groans.

“That sucks, Sarge!”

Andrea tromped through the grass to speak with Sledge.

“Why are we on mop up action? We’ve got the best fighters right here in this group! We should be leading the assault.”

“I don’t make the rules, Nancy, I just follow them. The rest of you Nancies follow me!”

We filed into line and jogged after him deeper into the vegetation, heading toward the sound of fighting.

Dee Dee jogged beside me. She said in a low voice, “Nancies?”

I hazarded a guess. “Negative Nancies?”

She nodded in agreement. “That must be it.”

-+-

The Corps offered formal military training, and jogging in formation through thick brush didn’t seem to bother the cadets. They were cohesive, like a well-oiled machine made of individual soldiers. They followed the sergeant without hesitation, and maintained a semblance of order while moving.

We six civilians tried to blend in as best we could, and the group seemed to take us under their wing. Literally. I noted cadets stayed to our left and right as well as behind and in front of us. We were surrounded, so to speak. Jacob noticed it, too.

When Andrea dropped back to us, he jogged up beside her.

“We’re being babysat.”

“What? What do you mean?”

He nodded in the general direction of our cover.

“No matter how slow or fast we go, we’re always in the middle of the group.”

“Don’t worry about it, Nancy! We’re the Vampire Detail.”

She ran faster and broke away from the conversation. Jacob looked over at me, saw that I’d been listening.

“That’s too bad,” he said. “I’d hoped to do some real fighting.”

“Give it time. You never know what’ll happen when things get messy.”

We found the fighting soon enough.

A few minutes later we broke into a much larger clearing. Up on a slight hill stood the entrance to a fenced-off compound. A guard with a machine gun in a watchtower fired down on a group of Aggies taking cover in a freshly-dug trench.

We left the trees and took cover in the trench with them, ducking down behind its protective berm. The machine gunner kept firing in our direction.

Budabudabudabuda!

Budabuda!

Everybody kept their heads down. Jason took his helmet off, put it on a stick he’d found and raised it above the edge of the dirt.

Budubudabuda!

The bullets knocked his helmet off the stick.

He frowned.

“Whose idea was it to give us maroon armor for a jungle mission?”

Several of us laughed.

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