The Fate Of Nations: F.I.R.E. Team Alpha: Book One by Ray Chilensky

Author:Ray Chilensky [Chilensky, Ray]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw
Publisher: Ray P. Chilensky
Published: 2014-12-05T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Thankfully, the team had had no further encounters by the time the approached the planned rendezvous. When they were within half a mile of the rendezvous Carter used hand signals to halt his troops in small grouping of trees and indicated that they should gather around him. He looked at Sains. “What do you have?”

Sains close his eyes and extended his psychic senses. “I’ve got two people about seventy meters directly ahead; one male one female, just inside that stand of trees. Twelve more people directly ahead fifty meters behind them,” he said after several seconds.

“I see them”, Carter said. “That should be Renner and his people,” Carter said touching William’s shoulder. “Take your section into that drainage ditch,” he told Williams, pointing a ditch a few hundred feet to the team’s right. “Cover us while we do the meat-and-greet. Everyone remember that the only ones from the underground unit who know who we are, and what our final objective is, are Captain Renner and the local underground leader. Use call signs when the underground fighters are around. They don’t need to know our real names.”

Williams, McNamara, Sains and Nagura moved quickly to their position. Carter retrieved his infra-red beacon from a pocket on his tactical vest, directed at the two figures Sains had located and flashed it carefully in a predetermined pattern: one long flash followed by two short flashes, a ten second pause, and then another long flash. He waited for the equally specific response from Renner before leading Roth, Burgett, and DeFontain cautiously forward.

Just as they entered the small wooded area, a voice came from behind the one of the thicker trees. “Blueberry,” it said in clear, unaccented English.

“Cobbler,” Carter said in response.

A figure stepped into plane view. Carefully keeping his arms away from his body he approached Carter and his group. “Prowler?” the figured asked.

“Affirmative,” Carter said.

“Tony Renner,” the man said, extending his hand. Renner was average in stature thickly bearded and dressed a heavy utility shirt and jeans. He appeared, for all intents and purposes, as a local worker. His eyes though, even in the dark of night, were intense and full of purpose.

Carter accepted the handshake, “Good to meet you.”

Another figure stepped from behind a tree; it was petite and female. Dressed in a dark green turtle neck and jeans, her hair was short and dark. She was young; no older than twenty, but she carried herself with deliberation and resolve. She made no effort acknowledge Carter.

“This Lisa Mertens,” Renner said, speaking in French. “She’s the leader of the underground cell you’ll be working with.”

Carter judged her as someone with no patience for pleasantries. “Ma’am,” he said with a nod.

“It was you that freed my father?” Mertens asked, also in French.

“My team and I did, yes,” Carter replied also in French. Now that contact with the underground had been made, all conversation would be in French; one of the three dominant language of Belgium.

Mertens’ face brightened slightly. “He is well?” she asked.

“He’d been through hell,” Carter told her.

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