Helix: Episode 8 (Kill Switch) by Nathan M Farrugia

Author:Nathan M Farrugia [Farrugia, Nathan M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anomaly Press
Published: 2020-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Underground, Praha 1

Purity knew they were coming. They had to move now.

As soon as Aviary pressed down on the implant in the palm of her hand—disabling nearby Purity carbines—Olesya stepped out from behind the train in her new Purity uniform and armor.

Warning lights in the access tunnel throbbed red, painting the soldiers crimson, and through the orange visor of her Purity helmet, everything around Olesya—from the carriages loaded with cargo to the tunnel’s curved ceiling—became an even more vivid red.

She rushed alongside the carriages, firing her suppressed Balerinka and dropping two soldiers.

‘Spear lockdown!’ Aviary yelled.

Ahead of them, the blast door was closing.

They had a lot of ground to cover.

Between the red pulses, the tunnel was dark, except for the brief tongues of fire as the Purity guards returned shots. In front of Olesya, a soldier emerged from behind cover. He abandoned his now-disabled carbine and drew his pistol, but she was already on top of him, twisting the weapon in his grasp and turning his wrist back into his arm. She fired his own pistol into his neck, then kept moving along the tunnel wall.

A short distance behind her, Marina ran with Aviary. They both wore full Purity combat gear, including helmets and hard body armor over their usual liquid armor. Somewhere on the other side of the tunnel, Andrey was pushing up too, his suppressed gunfire sounding like he was ahead of her.

Another soldier emerged from cover at the end of a carriage. Olesya let her Balerinka hang on its sling, she drew her knife and kicked behind the soldier’s legs, before driving the blade behind the woman’s collarbone. She withdrew the blade and the soldier collapsed, her blood dark in the red light.

A moment later, Andrey raced past.

Keep moving.

Just past the next train, the steel blast door was lowering quickly. Sprinting on the rocky ground beside the track, Olesya crossed the last section of tunnel. There were still more soldiers, and they hadn’t noticed her until—

A pulse of red splashed over her, silhouetting her against the train.

They turned their weapons on her. She had to be careful of their carbines—this far down the tunnel, they would’ve been out of range of Aviary’s disabling signal.

One of the soldiers slumped, his head rolling across his chest. Andrey appeared on Olesya’s left again, taking aim at another soldier.

A crack of gunfire, and Andrey went down. Olesya moved past him, saw the shooter and fired a burst into his visor. There was another, but he withdrew from sight.

Olesya hauled Andrey out of the line of fire, kneeling for just a second to check his wounds. No blood on his body, nothing on his face. His head wobbled a bit, but he was conscious and staring at her, and he still gripped his weapon.

‘Go!’ he yelled.

She checked the corner first. No visible targets.

The blast door ahead was now three-quarters down.

She needed Andrey on his feet and through that blast door. She needed all of them through that blast door—but at the very least Aviary had to make it through.

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