Invasion: Uprising by DC Alden

Author:DC Alden [Alden, DC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Double Tap Press
Published: 2020-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

NO TALKING! NO RUNNING! SAFETIES ON!

Waiting soldiers checked their unit designations, then directed them onwards. The tunnel twisted to the left, and Eddie saw a red torchlight waving ahead. A wide ladder descended from the darkness above and Eddie followed Mac as he pulled himself up it. At the top, waiting soldiers manhandled them to one side. Eddie found himself in a sizeable basement room, with pipes running across the ceiling. The hole he’d just climbed out of was a jagged gash in the concrete floor, and he watched the rest of the section clambering out of the storm drains below.

‘Keep moving.’

Eddie followed Mac out into the corridor and up a narrow flight of stairs. Then they were crossing a large, high-ceilinged corporate office space that looked like it had been mothballed since the invasion. The windows were boarded up, and the furniture piled against one wall was covered with dust sheets. Stacked in the centre of the room were hundreds of boxes of ammunition and crates of supplies. The OC held them until Nine Platoon had assembled, and then he sent them down another corridor towards a large, heavy door. They lined up along the wall and took a knee.

‘This is it,’ Steve whispered. ‘We stick together, okay?’

‘Zip it,’ Mac said over his shoulder.

Eddie looked behind him, saw Digger wink beneath his helmet. He turned back, held his M27 a little tighter.

The dark knot of soldiers gathered at the door were watching a small TV feed. After a few seconds, one of them broke away and waved Mac forward. Eddie was on his feet and moving right behind him.

The door to the outside world was thrown open, and a cold, damp wind barrelled along the corridor. Eddie glimpsed a narrow alleyway, the rain falling between the dark, damp buildings. Mac ducked left into the rain. Eddie gave him a count of three and then he was moving too.

The alleyway was long and dark, but there was enough ambient light from the street ahead to operate safely. He hurried to the end where Mac knelt in the shadows. Eddie saw shops across the street, the light poles shining brightly, the rain gusting through them, falling on a row of parked cars. Normality was his first impression of the scene. That was about to change.

He heard more boots behind him, then Digger’s hand slapped his shoulder. Three Section were ready and waiting.

Mac turned around, the rain dripping off his helmet, his painted face grinning.

‘Time to go to work,’ he whispered, and then he was up and running.

Eddie followed, his heart beating fast, his eyes watching the road, the pavements, the windows above, praying that the thousands of British troops now moving quietly into position across the deserted streets of Newcastle city centre would pass unnoticed.

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