Vissarion by T G Ayer

Author:T G Ayer [Ayer, T G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Infinite Ink Books
Published: 2018-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Max and the team moved like shadows down a long catwalk that overlooked the portion of the refinery that Aurelia had claimed was where the explosions had originated.

When the team reached the location, Max was horrified to find that the pressure had reached past the danger level. The team studied the schematics and scanned the room. Up above them on the left wall was an office that overlooked the control room. Max sent two of his team up to check the room, then sent two more out of the main hall to investigate why the place was empty.

Before the two even reached the door, Max heard Marcus’s voice on the overhead speaker system. “We have to get the hell out of here. This thing’s gonna blow. The facility was evacuated thirty minutes ago.”

There was a short pause while Max wondered how long they had.

The speaker screeched, and Marcus’s voice echoed around the team. “T minus twenty minutes and three seconds.”

Before he could say the word, the entire team turned as one and began to evacuate. Marcus and his partner rappelled back down to the ground floor and brought up the rear.

“Aurelia was right to say we needed to move now,” muttered Max as they raced along the corridors. Red lights flashed, and alarms rang announcing the countdown to detonation.

“Something went wrong inside there, Max. It wasn’t an accident. They did something deliberately, or maybe pushed things too far.”

“And they managed to evacuate early enough to get out of the danger zone.”

“Did they evacuate the towns?”

“Not that I saw. There were no public announcements or even a notice to the nearby towns to flee the blast radius.”

Max’s jaw hurt at the thought that the bastards had left thousands of innocent people to die.

The team burst into the daylight out of the tunnel entrance, but not one of them paused to take a breath. They ran for the hillside and scrambled up the steep incline, racing for the two black bullet-proof army issue four-wheel-drives. Tires skidded, and doors slammed, and the vehicles took off. All heads turned to watch through the back windows.

Behind them the explosion rocked the refinery, the blast sending a gigantic ball of flame into the air. Vibrations rippled along the ground and through the air, lifting both vehicles off the ground at least two yards before dropping them back down.

Neither vehicle slowed even though they skidded as their tires hit solid ground. They drove along the back of a small village where the vented pipelines spewed fire and gas into the air. Clouds of poisonous smoke covered the town. The screams of the villagers echoed through the air, and out of the darkness, a figure came running.

Flames covered the boy and Max acted out of instinct, without a thought to his own safety. He shoved open the door and flung himself out, landing on the ground and rolling over into a crouch. He raced for the child, throwing the boy onto the ground and rolling him in the dirt to put out the flames.

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