Terradox Quadrilogy by Craig A. Falconer

Author:Craig A. Falconer [Falconer, Craig A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-30T06:00:00+00:00

fifty-five

From inside her rover, Holly had direct contact with both Grav’s rover and the Karrier’s control room.

She communicated primarily with Peter, who reported back on a safe journey despite some frightening moments when their VUV had to pass a guard at closer proximity than planned due to an inconveniently placed rock formation. Although this wasn’t planned, the VUV’s success in passing “way too close” to a guard without being noticed actually served to ease Holly’s mind.

A happy accident, she thought. More pieces falling into place.

“Hollywood,” Grav’s gruff voice suddenly interjected. “You are talking to Dimitar, who can see us, correct?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay. We are approaching the target guard and we are going to momentarily disable radio communications. We have to be silent as well as invisible.”

“I won’t talk,” Holly said.

“I know. But static, interference, anything like that… there is no sense in such a risk. Peter will reactivate the radio and tell you as soon as I disarm the target. Count to one hundred.”

The steady green light on Holly’s dashboard turned to a slowly flashing red, indicating a sudden disconnection.

Holly pressed the button to communicate with the Karrier’s control room and report this development to Dimitar, who in turn reported that Grav’s rover had stopped in the expected spot.

Everything so far had gone exactly as Grav laid out prior to leaving, so Holly followed his flippant advice of counting to one hundred. She tapped the screen to retune her radio to Grav’s rover and waited for the light to turn green.

It wouldn’t be long now until Grav successfully disarmed the target guard, leading to Peter doing the same thing shortly afterwards and then using his headset to report that Sakura had been found sneaking around on the surface. That part — the part when Sakura came in — was without doubt the riskiest of all, and Holly planned to be parked near the bunker before it came into action. For now, she was simply waiting for confirmation that the formality of stage one, Grav’s disarming of the first untrained guard, had passed without a hitch.

From there, David Boyce would hopefully leave the bunker to deal with Sakura and his accomplices would hopefully follow suit. Grav had hypothesised that those accomplices, when called to assist Boyce, might first split the hostages into two groups and order some of the coerced tourist guards to keep them in check, with their families’ lives on the line as the high price of disobedience. Grav expected the hostages to be split so that no guard would be pointing a weapon at a group which included his own family, and he expected those guards to reluctantly point their weapons at each other’s families in a desperate attempt to protect their own.

If only David Boyce or his two accomplices would leave to deal with Sakura, rather than all three, Holly wasn’t sure which scenario she would prefer. She felt highly confident of handling Boyce in a one-on-one situation, particularly given the presence of her C-Suit, but she knew that

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