Time Patrol: Black Tuesday by Bob Mayer

Author:Bob Mayer [Mayer, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781503946637
Goodreads: 25169908
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2015-08-24T12:00:00+00:00

Andes Mountains, Argentina, 1972. 29 October

Moms saw the Yeti an hour into her guard shift. To the north, about four hundred yards away, a large bulky figure was briefly silhouetted along a ridgeline. She brought the M14 up, wishing she had a night vision scope, wishing she weren’t so cold, wishing that she didn’t wish.

It was moving northwest, occasionally bending over, as if sniffing. It didn’t appear as if Correa’s rounds or her machete cut had done any significant damage. As it came down off the ridgeline, it disappeared, melding into the dark background of the terrain. She nudged Correa.

He was awake in an instant, making her wonder if he’d ever been asleep.

“Yes?”

“Yeti,” Moms said.

“Coming this way?”

“Not yet. Moving that way.” She pointed.

“Not toward the wreckage,” Correa said. “So that is good.”

“It looked like it was bending over and sniffing. Didn’t look wounded.”

“It might not be,” Correa said, and Moms understood right away that she’d made an assumption; one Nada would have chided her for. Correa said the obvious. “Might be a second one.” He was silent for a few moments. “The beast must know where the wreckage is. So, like us, it is waiting. Scouting the area.”

“If Yeti are the only things to come through the gate from the Shadow,” Moms said, “they might be here to stop us.”

Correa chuckled. “Stop us from doing what? We are not certain why we are here. No. They have a plan. And you are right; there might be something, or someone, else who came through. We must be on guard.”

“How do you know of this monster?” Moms asked. She was still keeping watch, quartering the area around them.

Correa looked surprised at her question. “It is part of the lore of the Time Patrol. Many legends and myths throughout history have their basis in reality. We too often dismiss such things because they are beyond our ability to comprehend their existence. For most, our mind is limited to our world, our time. In the Patrol, we know there is so much more.

“When gates are opened on our planet, in our timeline, strange things come through. Most regular people dismiss these sightings because they are very rare and the”—he seemed to search for a word—“presence of the species is not enough to make it believable that they are sustainable. But that is because they are not sustained on our planet. Furthermore, some of these creatures seem so strange that they could not have developed naturally. And that is correct; they did not.”

Moms had seen, and battled, many strange things in her time in the Nightstalkers. “Will our guns take it down if we put enough rounds into it?”

“I hope so,” Correa said. “I have seen the like once before, but did not engage it. The Shadow uses genetically engineered creatures to do its bidding.”

“Like the kraken,” Moms said, remembering what Neeley had reported encountering en route to the Bermuda Triangle gate. “One of my team ran into one near the Bermuda Triangle.”

“I have heard of that creature, but have not seen it,” Correa said.

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