Temple by Matthew Reilly

Author:Matthew Reilly [Reilly, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Just in time to see one of the two remaining Nazi Pibbers swing in behind him and launch a torpedo from its sidemounted pod. The torpedo splashed into the water, shot forward under the surface. Doogie gunned it. The two Rigid Raiders were now speeding along on either side of him, off the tips of his wings, boxing him in. ‘Shit,’ Doogie said. ‘Shit, shit, shit.’ The torpedo closed in. He pushed the Goose’s throttle forward. The little seaplane shot across the water, surrounded by enemy vessels on no fewer than four sides: by the two Rigid Raiders on both of its flanks, by the Pibber a hundred yards astern of it, and by the black Mosquito attack chopper shooting through the air above it. Doogie looked about himself desperately.While his little plane struggled to maintain its pace, the two Rigid Raiders sped alongside him easily, their supercharged engines roaring, their crews seeming to take a perverse kind of pleasure in watching him struggle. ‘Don’t smile too soon, you fascist assholes,’ Doogie said aloud. ‘It’s not over yet.’ The torpedo was within twenty yards of his tail now. Doogie pushed the throttle as far forward as it would goFifteen yards, and he hit eighty knots. Ten ninety. Five a hundred. Doogie could see the Nazis on the Rigid Raiders laughing at him as he desperately attempted to outrun the torpedo in his hopelessly outdated Goose. Two yards a hundred and ten. Top speed. The torpedo slid underneath the Goose. ‘No!’ Doogie yelled. ‘Come on, baby! Do it for me!’ The Goose shot across the river’s surface. The Nazis laughed. Doogie swore. And then suddenly, gloriously, the little Goose didwhat no one except Doogie thought it was still capable of doing. It lifted off the surface. It only lifted slightly off the river’s rushing surface, maybe a foot or two at the most, but it was enough. With its initial target lost, the torpedo in the water immediately began searching for another. It found it in the Rigid Raider to Doogie’s right. No sooner had the Goose lifted off the surface than that Rigid Raider was blasted out of the water by the shocking detonation of the torpedo. The Goose touched back down again, kicking up a shower of spray behind it. The Mosquito above it saw what had happened and powered forward, ahead of the Goose, turning laterally in the air as it did so, so that it nowflew backwards in front of the speeding seaplane, unleashing a savage burst of gunfire at it. Doogie ducked under the dashboard. ‘Damn choppers,’ he yelled. ‘Let’s see how you like this!’ And with that he hauled his steering yoke hard to the left. The Goose banked sharply, the tip of its pontoonless left wing touching the surface again, cutting across the path of the surviving Rigid Raider. The skipper of the Rigid Raider didn’t react fast enough. Like a missile shooting up into the sky, the Rigid Raider lifted completely out of the water as it rushed up the steeply slanted wings of the seaplane.

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