Deadworld: A Tom Cutters Afterlife Novella by A.A. Allsop

Author:A.A. Allsop [Allsop, A.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A.A. Allsop Books LLC
Published: 2018-01-09T23:00:00+00:00

Three minutes later, the image from that screen still burned into his mind, Cutters and two tactical ready and rescue teams were on their way. To his annoyance, but not his surprise, Agent Fettin all but bulldozed him over to get into the Hummer with him. Cutters was actually surprised that she hadn’t pulled her gun on him when he made a perfunctory objection to her coming. Just because she’d fit her nice ass into some appropriate clothes did not mean she knew how to handle herself in a storm or handle… the thing attacking the men.

“So what’s up, boss?” Axe asked from the front seat.

Cutters was jolted out of his reverie and nodded. “Yes. Right. We have four men confirmed missing and possibly two others,” he said without preamble. “Clover and Jackson, Kramer and Grimrey, and a distress signal just came a short while ago from the last position of Agent Fettin’s men.” He nodded his head at the agent strapped in beside him.

The men were silent and serious in their return stares, their bodies moving only with the steady rocking of the vehicle. Fleet, who was driving, did not look back at him, even in the mirror, but Cutters knew from his rigid posture that he was listening with rapt attention.

“We have evidence that something attacked the agent’s vehicle. That is where we are heading first. It is the only lead we have. The thing that attacked—”

“That we suspect attacked,” Agent Fettin amended.

“The thing that attacked the vehicle,” Cutters repeated pointedly, “was able to block the distress signal. The two men who disappeared before I took this job did so without a trace, and so did Cloverfield and Jackson. We think this thing, or a buddy of it, was injured by Helena. The docs said that massive amounts of dark blood were sucked up instead of oil, messing up something inside her. They think that blood plus some electrical disturbance caused the explosion.”

“What did it?” asked a man named Tim James, known as “Two Names” by most who knew him well.

“Not positive. I’ve never dealt with a creature that moves with this level of stealth before.” Cutters pulled a piece of paper from his back pocket and unfolded it. He passed it to Smith, who was sitting to his left, and indicated he should pass it around.

“Looks huge,” Bonson Smith said before passing the paper to Axe, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

“How big do snakes get when they aren’t reincarnated young?” Axe asked, handing the paper over to Gary Timer.

Ken Summers accepted the paper and said, “They can tower over buildings when left alone for thousands of years, in open spaces and with plenty of food, but the signal disruption…”

“I suspect,” Cutters said, “it might be a rare species of land eel.”

“Can we rule out sabotage?” Fleet asked from the driver’s seat.

Agent Fettin opened her mouth, but Cutters answered, “We cannot. Creatures can be swift, stealthy, and fast, but I have never seen one that moved without leaving any kind of evidence behind.

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