A New World [7] Takedown by John O'Brien

Author:John O'Brien [O'Brien, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1484884957
Amazon: B00CKWNRA6
Published: 2013-04-28T05:00:00+00:00

Act of Courage

“If anyone is out there and can hear this, we need help!”

The radio call is hushed as it exits from the cockpit speaker but startles me awake nonetheless.

“Sir?” the soldier on watch in the cockpit says.

“I heard it and I’m up,” I reply, climbing out of my sleeping bag into the chilled air.

“Shall I wake the others?” he asks.

“Let’s wait and see what’s up first,” I answer.

I step across the steel deck feeling the cold seep through my socks. The night is still filled with night runners prowling the ramp; some exiting while others emerge from between the hangars. I hope there isn’t a problem with anyone in the other aircraft parked along the ramp adjacent to us. If there is, with the number of night runners out, there really won’t be much that we can do to assist.

“Jack, this is Tim. Did you catch that?” I hear over the radio.

“Yeah. I caught that. I’m about to try and make contact. Any idea of who it might be?”

“Not a clue,” he answers.

“Okay. I’ll call you back if I find out anything,” I say and switch the radio to transmit over the emergency channel.

I’m guessing the call must have come over that frequency. It will transmit over all UHF or VHF channels depending on the type of radio. That’s really the only way we could have heard the call unless they happened to be on our frequency.

“Calling on UHF guard, this is Captain Walker. I hear you loud and clear. State the nature of your emergency,” I call.

“Sir, Sergeant Reynolds here. We’re holed up in a school and close to being overrun by these night demons,” Reynolds replies.

“Can you hold out until morning?” I ask.

“Doubtful, sir. We held them off last night, but they’ve broken through some of our defenses and we don’t have unlimited ammo,” she answers.

Sporadic gunfire echoes in the background of her transmission.

“Okay, Reynolds, how many do you have with you and what’s your location?” I ask, knowing we’ll be hard pressed to offer any help.

It’s night and the ramp is teeming with night runners. We’d be lucky to get ten feet if we managed to get out at all. We could get into the Stryker, but that would mean opening up the aircraft. I’m not keen on coming back and having to clear it of any night runners that decided to stay. Gunfire in aircraft tends to put holes in the side, along with taking out hydraulic, electric, and other equipment necessary for the 130 to leave the ground. That would effectively strand us here.

“I have six other troops and eleven kids of varying ages. We’re in a large school to the southwest of a town called El Dorado…in Kansas,” she answers.

“Kids! You have kids with you?”

“Yes, sir. There are eleven of them left. They are, um, were from a deaf school nearby,” she answers.

“A deaf school? They’re deaf?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Do you have an exact location?” I ask.

“I think the GPS still has some juice left. Standby.

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