EMERGENCE: Incursion by JT Sawyer

Author:JT Sawyer [Sawyer, JT]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-02-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Fifteen minutes later, the group arrived at the southeast entrance to the jail. Porter had walked point and could see six heavily armed men near the streetside entrance and another four walking on the lookout platform above. One was stationed in front of a .50 caliber machine gun that was mounted to the wall. A heavy odor of rotting flesh permeated the air, making him almost gasp. The gate and concrete walls were twenty feet high and triple wrapped with rows of razor wire attached to chain-link fencing skirting the upper edge. Tangled in the razor wire were hundreds of mangled drones, their bodies shredded, like their skin had been degloved. He almost didn’t recognize them as corpses they were so badly disfigured from their futile struggles, but the odor confirmed it.

Below the walls, the sidewalk was filled with waist-high razor wire that was eight feet deep and wound around the entire wall as far as Porter could see. The gate before him was made of heavy-gauge steel, and the humming sound indicated that there was an electric current running through the gate and the upper level of razor wire.

Porter thought back to some of the training exercises infiltrating high-security buildings he had done with Reisner and the rest of the team over the years, and knew that this place was well fortified. He just hoped the leadership inside was as solid.

“Halt and place your weapons on the ground then raise your arms,” said a bearded man in a guard’s uniform near the entrance. He had stepped out from behind a heavy metal door beside the gate. Two more guards flowed in next to him, their weapons fixed on Porter and the others. A second later, a woman in blue hospital scrubs emerged, carrying a medical kit.

Porter saw Reisner move up alongside him while Blake and Morgan remained a few feet behind. He knew Nash was two hundred yards back, concealed in a van, with his AR trained on the scene. The odds were stacked against them, but they had little choice if they were going to survive any longer in this city. He just hoped that they had a working radio inside to alert Ivins to their location.

The bearded guard approached them and patted down each man methodically, like he’d performed the act a thousand times before. He stepped back to the right, unslinging the Remington 870 shotgun from his shoulder and fixing the barrel on Porter’s chest. Porter watched the thirty-something woman approach, her honey-blond hair pulled back in a tight ponytail and her stern face affixed to his. She set down her med kit then removed a pen flashlight from her shirt pocket, flicking it on and blinding Porter as she gazed into his eyes, then at his nailbeds and skin color.

“Have you come across anyone who is infected or any of the parasitic creatures?” She moved over towards Reisner and did the same check.

“You mean in the past ten days or just last night?” he quipped.

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