Wizard's War by Jacob Rennaker

Author:Jacob Rennaker [Rennaker, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epic, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi
Published: 2021-03-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

MY MIND WENT spinning. When it stopped, I saw a teenage girl getting torn out of a storage container and in tears. Then I saw all of my teammates in wrist restraints, heads hung low and shuffling down the white hallways of Sun Tzu prison while Colonel Patel’s laugh echoed after us. Talk about a waking nightmare.

I quickly shook the thought from my head. “So,” I said to Captain Reynaldo, “when you say that Peacekeeper leadership will be monitoring us closely, what exactly does that mean?”

The captain smiled faintly and from his pocket, he pulled four small, round objects that looked like buttons and approached me.

“GPS pins,” he said as he put them into my hand. “I’m going to need you to fasten these to your collars.”

It wasn’t going to be video surveillance, after all. I turned and looked to my teammates in relief— They were all just a shade more pale than usual, so I knew I wasn’t the only one who’d just been panicking. We fastened the GPS buttons to our fatigues as we exited the grocery store—which was a good thing, because we probably would have dropped them if we’d seen what was happening outside.

A dark armored transport with thick wheels was idling next to a team of soldiers, with the hovering pallet beside them. A bulky Peacekeeper soldier had just removed a metal crate and dropped it onto the ground with a thud. Kovac snarled and bounded toward the pallet on all fours. As a few of the startled soldiers raised their plasma rifles at him, Lopez, Rand, and I sprinted toward the Peackeepers, waving our arms and yelling, “Don’t shoot!”

Kovac skidded to a stop next to the pallet and stood to his full two-meter-plus height. The soldiers took their fingers off their triggers, but kept them aimed at Kovac, clearly confused.

Rand hurried over to the crate and said, “It’s sensitive equipment.”

The bulky soldier scowled and grabbed for the topmost container—the one with Dessie inside. Kovac snatched it out of his hands and set it very gently onto the ground. Hunching over it, he opened its top slightly and peeked inside before quickly closing it. He turned his head toward us, and when he nodded quickly, we let out a collective sigh of relief.

An imposing lieutenant in maroon fatigues and dark, greasy hair stepped down from the rear of the armored transport. He looked at Kovac, still hunched beside the long container, and then at us. Waving dismissively and speaking in a nasally British accent, he said, “We cannot possibly take that much cargo. You may bring two items at most.”

What was it with lieutenants and British accents? I looked to Rand, who was staring wide-eyed at his equipment and breathing heavily. This was practically an existential crisis for him, and I could almost see it tearing him apart inside. He looked from the long container on the ground to the rest of the containers on the pallet and back again. And again. We had to take the container with Dessie inside, but what else?

“Sir?” I said.

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