Healers by Munson Brad & Recht Z.A

Author:Munson, Brad & Recht, Z.A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2016-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

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The modified container car – Forrest’s hideous “payload” – burst like a rotten fruit when it hit the ground, just as it had been designed to do. The orange walls bowed and then split, and the once-human creatures inside flew and rolled and tumbled out, driven in all directions by the force of the impact.

Stone was too far away to hear any bones breaking or limbs tearing free, but even if he’d been closer, it wouldn’t have mattered to him. These were no longer humans; they were a threat to humanity now, and injury wasn’t an issue.

The planners had assumed that nine out of ten of the sprinters they had harvested from the outskirts of Butte, Montana would survive the drop. They were sure the sound of the gunfire from both the defenders and Stone’s team would be more than enough to attract their attention, even mere moments after they hit the ground.

Almost instinctively, all gunfire from both sides shifted to the sprinters. The sprinters began to fall, stumble, spin away as they were hit, but it wasn’t nearly enough. For every one that slammed into the grass, twitching and hissing, two more came closer.

Exactly as Stone had expected.

He jumped to his feet and shouted, “Go, go, GO!” into his comm unit. The rest of the team jumped and ran with him, pounding across the wide, vacant courtyard as fast as they could go, taking advantage of every second of diversion the sprinters had provided.

Stone saw one of his men go down in spite of it all, more than one round striking him center mass and effectively exploding his chest. Stone didn’t stop. He couldn’t. He could only return fire as he ran and saw another soldier spin away, screaming thinly as he hit the wall of the Center and bounced away, spraying blood. Then they were there, up the low steps, close to the entryway, arriving just moments before the sprinters themselves surged onto the landing and overwhelmed the defenders.

There were four of his men left – Stone and three others, including Allen. Stone ripped open the glass door and bellowed at his men to get in, get in. Two of them made it.

Allen refused to go. He backed towards the open door, still firing at the sprinters, hosing them down as they ran straight for him. “You first!” he shouted to Stone as he swept gunfire across the infected one more time. “Go!”

Stone wanted to argue, wanted to pull him in by the collar, but he could see that Allen had made the decision already, and there simply wasn’t time. He spun, firing himself, bringing down two sprinters that were far too close, then lunged through the open door.

Allen kicked it shut from the outside. The thick glass was clear, unfrosted, and Stone had to watch as Allen put his back against the door, shouting, “Block it! BLOCK IT!” as he fired until he ran dry. Then he swung the weapon like a bludgeon, and when it broke in his hands he fell, silently, finally, as the sprinters clawed and tore him to pieces.

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