The Mission: A New Earth Novella by MJ McGriff

Author:MJ McGriff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub

Run.

That was all I could do. I didn’t know where Verona was when she let go of me. I just ran, covering my head as splinters of trees flew in the air from the shooting. I ran to the truck, yelling at Phoenix, who was running alone into the woods. Two of our three guards were slumped over the side, the last one still shooting. Flo cowered on the floor in a fetal position, her scream lost in the noise. Thomas was beside her, his stomach filled with blood.

I shook my scared best friend. She looked up and hugged me so tight. “Oh my goodness, I thought they shot you!” She looked beside her and cried harder. “Thomas! They shot Thomas!”

Though his eyes were closed he still was breathing.

“We have to get you both out of here—”

“Phoenix! Oh my goodness, she left us!”

I grabbed Flo’s face. “But I’m here. Grab a hold of Thomas and let’s get him out of here.”

I grabbed his arm and put it around my shoulder. Flo took his legs and helped me pull him off the truck bed. Once he was down she jumped off and grabbed his other arm. “Go straight and don’t stop until I say so!” I said, and Flo nodded.

We walked as fast as we could away from the gunfire into the woods, leaving the sound of energy blasts and hover engines behind us. Thomas was getting too heavy to maintain the pace, so I chose the nearest tree, and we placed him up against the tree trunk.

“You stay here with him,” I said, and Flo grabbed my hand.

“You said you weren’t leaving me here,” she cried.

I looked back and saw Oliver’s vehicles peeling out. There were dead bodies on both sides of that clearing. I just hoped none of them was my dad. “I have to make sure my dad’s okay.” I snatched my arm away and ran back. Each side was shooting the other, bodies dropping to the ground, including one a few feet in front of me. I didn’t know what I was going to do, but grabbing that man’s gun just made sense at the time. I charged it and got ready to point it but didn’t know at whom. I couldn’t shoot the officers. It didn’t feel right to shoot Oliver’s men, who were already trying to flee. I just had to make all this stop. I looked up and saw that tree limb and got a crazy idea.

I aimed my gun at that large branch and emptied the rest of the clip into it. It moaned and then it cracked off, sailing through the sky until it landed hard between the fighting sides. The officers stopped shooting to jump out of the way. Oliver’s men took advantage and ran for their lives. I walked out of the trees, my gun at the ready just in case anyone aimed at me. Then I saw Oliver. Instead of getting onto his getaway vehicle, he was jumping off of it.

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