Valor's Stand (Children of Valor Book 5) by Kal Spriggs

Author:Kal Spriggs [Spriggs, Kal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sutek Press
Published: 2019-03-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: Somebody Went And Broke Harmony

My ears rung and the world spun a bit as I sat up, brushing off shards of broken glass and picking a few jagged pieces out of my armor where they'd stuck.

“Status?” I croaked to Sergeant Arnold.

“Uh...” He took a long moment to answer. “First Squad,” he said, his voice sounding dull, “report.”

I listened as they reported in, no serious injuries.

“Second Squad?” I asked.

Ashiri answered me, her voice a bit shaky. “Two minor injuries, slices and cuts from glass. The, uh, Guard Army sentries took most of it.”

I hadn't looked that way. When I did, I wished that I hadn't. The Guard Army sentries had moved over in front of the big glass windows to see what was happening. When the explosion had blasted the windows in, they'd taken the brunt of a shock-wave of shards of glass.

“Status of the primaries?” I asked

“We're fine,” the Admiral replied.

“Sergeant Arnold, move out,” I snapped.

“Elevator's down,” he said, his voice still dull. Either he was having a hard time with being blown up or he was concussed, I guessed.

“Divert to the stairwell,” I ordered. “Move out.”

We broke into a jog, hurrying down the corridor. I bowled over a dazed civilian who'd come out of a store or office to see what had happened. I didn't have time to apologize, I just knocked him down and kept running.

The two squads followed. We had thirty floors to climb and now that the ringing in my ears had died down a bit, I could hear the roar of the mob. I didn't want to know what had happened to them in the blast. What I'd seen of the Headquarters building... the blast must have blown out every window for kilometers. Experiencing it from close range, within that crowd, it must have killed hundreds of them.

But they'd just seen the Guard Army Peacekeepers laid low and from the sounds of things, they were angry and out for blood.

Best that we're not here to be their targets.

We rushed up the stairs, taking them two at a time. I lost count of the floors, relying on my implant to let me know when to stop as we went up and up. Sergeant Arnold seemed to come back to himself after four or five stories, snapping out commands to the squad, establishing security as we went past doors and branching corridors.

At last, my legs feeling wobbly and my breath coming in gasps, we came out on the thirtieth floor. Two of the squad led the way out into the corridor and right into a group of armed men.

They weren't wearing uniforms and they'd been looking out the shattered windows, shooting down at people on the ground level, I'd guess. As the rest of the squad piled through the doors, the men and women looked up, surprise evident on their faces.

I started to shout for them to drop their weapons even as I realized that there wasn't time. Whether they were civilians shooting at the mob or terrorists shooting at Guard Army, they were about to turn their weapons on us.

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