After the Shift: The Complete Series by Grace Hamilton

Author:Grace Hamilton [Hamilton, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-12T07:00:00+00:00

The plant room was humming with power. The Industrial Transformers that fed power from the wind turbines to the whole Greenhouse area, now that they had been taken off the city’s defunct main power grid, were ranked along a wall in a cavernous room in the basement section of Chase Tower.

Syd and Freeson watched the door for security as Nathan laid the charges. Rose had supplied them with detonators, batteries, and copper wire. Nathan had made four firebombs from gunpowder reclaimed from cartridges, all of them packed with gasoline-soaked wadding and shot. These had been packed into soup cans and drilled through the base to give access by copper wire to the embedded detonators. It would have been easier to use a block of C4 plastic explosives, but as Rose had said, “None o’dat in Trash Town, pretty boy; whatedder man got t’trade.”

Nathan worked quickly as he could to maintain his safety, gaffer-taping the innards of each of the four transformers as indicated by Dave on the schematics. He jimmied the doors open with a crash, and it made Freeson and Syd whip around from the door, guns raised.

“It’s okay. Watch the corridor!”

Once the four charges were in place, Nathan trailed the wire from the bases of the four cans to a plastic spur, screwing them in with his sweat-slicked fingers slipping on the handle of his screwdriver. Once fixed, he trailed the now single trigger wire out into the corridor and closed the door. Freeson and Syd moved to either side of him. Nathan held the two ends of the stripped wire in one hand and a nine-volt battery in the other.

“Tell him.”

Freeson operated the walky-talky. “Stryker, we’re about to go. You ready?”

“Yes. Ready,” came the crackled reply.

Nathan made contact. The boom from the plant room was much louder than he’d been expecting and the door was pushed out a couple of inches, hitting him painfully in the shoulder.

A second later, all of the lights went out. If he’d done his job correctly, that situation would have been replicated all over the Greenhouse.

He looked into the plant room. Through the haze of smoke and a gutter of flames, he could see that the transformers were all but destroyed. They wouldn’t be getting the power on from here any time soon. And with any luck, this blast wouldn’t just have taken out the Greenhouse’s lights and power, but also their ability to call back Harmsworth from his fool’s errand.

The cops they’d tied up in the corridor had had Maglites on the barrels of their MP4s, and Nathan and Freeson had appropriated them. Now, Nathan took point, with Syd slightly behind them with her flashlight.

They emerged from the service area onto what had been the main entrance concourse beneath Chase Tower. Two floors above was where Nathan had met with Brant on a fool’s errand of his own.

Nathan pulled out his map and spoke quickly. “Syd and Free, you go to the accommodations block here and see what you can do about springing Lucy and Donie.

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