The Tide Book 8: Devil to Pay by Anthony J. Melchiorri

Author:Anthony J. Melchiorri
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: post-apocalypse, genetic engineering, zombies
Publisher: Thunderbird Media
Published: 2018-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

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Meredith leaned forward in the seat of the Unimog transport truck. The diesel engine let out a beastly growl when she pressed the pedal to the floor. The noise was undercut by an unhealthy grinding. When Dom had said they needed a way out of this place, her mind had been drawn back to the military museum and the truck that had once entertained tourists. Now the vehicle would be doing something a hell of a lot more important than lugging sightseers around for a couple of Euros.

“There is the gate!” Andris said, perched in the passenger seat beside her.

“And there are our friends,” Meredith muttered. Four Goliaths were charging across the courtyard. She squinted to see Bravo team firing at the beasts. A large group of people who appeared to be in various stages of becoming Hybrids crouched just inside the entrance to one of the prison wings. To her right, she saw Dom and Miguel leading another batch of scared-looking Hybrids to join up with Bravo.

She chinned her comms. “I’m here!”

Bullets crashed into the truck, sounding like a terrible hailstorm. At the same time, FGL Hybrids along the roofs of the prison began to descend.

“They do not know what is coming for them,” Andris said.

Meredith aimed the truck at the nearest Goliath. “Brace yourself.”

The truck slammed into the beast. The Goliath stumbled. It wasn’t dead—not even close. The truck’s hood was dented, and a spider web of fracture lines traced through the glass, but they were still moving. She pushed the truck onward, racing up to the next set of Goliaths.

“Andris?” she asked simply.

“With pleasure,” he replied.

As they passed the first Goliath, he tossed a grenade at its feet. The explosion went off a second after they surged ahead of the beast. A cloud of rock and dirt sprayed up around the Goliath’s feet, and the beast went down, bloody cracks tracing up its armor. Its legs were a mangled mass of glistening bone and blood. Somehow the thing was still alive and dragged itself forward using its claws, blood trickling between its tusks.

Andris lobbed another grenade at the third Goliath. The throw was off, and the explosion peppered the monster with shrapnel but didn’t bring it down. Wounds wept crimson across the beast’s side as it charged through the cloud of dirt toward them.

The beast pushed against Alpha and Bravo’s gunfire as if it were fighting against nothing more than a windy rainstorm. Meredith rammed the truck hard into the back of the giant. The monster toppled, crashing into the ground face-first.

The sudden stop sent her forward. Her ribs smashed against the wheel, and Andris slammed against the dashboard. Glass shattered and fell away in so many crystalline shards over the truck’s cab. A long moan dribbled out of the Goliath’s mouth as the beast started to push itself up.

“Alpha, Bravo,” Meredith yelled. “Load up. We’re getting you the hell out of here!” Then, to Andris, “Cover them.”

He nodded, even as blood trickled from a cut in his scalp, and bailed out the passenger side of the truck.

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