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25.58% Legend of the Seven / Chapter 22: Chapter 20 - Moon’s Hellfire?

Chapter 22: Chapter 20 - Moon’s Hellfire?

September 6, 2017

2:43 am, Cancun, Mexico

Wave stares at the full moon, her piercing blue eyes silently pleading for help from the heavens. She could hear the sea far off in the distance. Its waves reassuring her, or so she imagined.

"What happens to us after?" Isabela asks, her query drawing Wave out of her thoughts.

"I will contact a friend of mine." Wave answers turning back to face the crowd with Isabela in front, "She runs a really big aid organization so she should be able to help y'all out."

"What about your government?" Maria asks as she hugs her son, Alejandro.

"We are Americans." Wave responds with a smile and wink, "But we never said we were sent by the American government."

"But-" Mariah and Serena protest in a bit of confusion.

"Just consider us a group of concerned Americans with deadly skills." Wave interrupts then stops, "Who will disappear after this is all-"

Wave's eyes widen as they lock on the barn doors. A big black man carrying a charred body on his broad shoulders walks out. Even from this distance, Wave knows there can only be one corpse Quake would carry with such respect. Her smile disappears. Her worst fear is here.

A few seconds ago...

"Almost up, Chief." Quake says in between heaves, "Hang on."

Step-by-step Quake ascends the stairs. On his powerful shoulders rests the unconscious and horribly burned leader of Team Six. Fire.

"Here we are." Quake says in a giant puff.

Quake steadies himself then kicks the door open. He exits into the abandoned barn. He makes his way to the barndoor with full moonlight streaming through. A crowd awaits just a few meters out. Quake's solemn brown eyes scan the crowd, suddenly...

"NOOOOOO!!!" Wave shouts as she races towards Quake.

Quake makes his way through the parting crowd. He gently lays down Fire.

"He's unconscious." Quake explains.

Wave kneels in front of Fire. No part of his body is spared from the flames. His melted flesh charred in black patches. The visceral aroma of cooked human muscle assaults the air, forcing those in the crowd, not already doing so in shock, to cover their mouths with their hands. Sounds of gasps and prayers permeate.

"Those animals must pay!" Wave shouts.

"Abyss is already ahead of you." Quake responds with a sigh.

"Dear God!" Serena remarks. She and Mariah are standing right behind Wave looking at Fire.

A moment passes as whispers ripples through the crowd at the sight of a burned corpse. Isabela stares intensely as if contemplating a deeper significance.

"What are those?" Alejandro suddenly asks, pointing up at the night sky.

Quake looks up, squinting his eyes then widening them in shock. 4 objects with trailing smoke are rapidly descending.

"Missiles!" Quake shouts in obvious shock.

"Run!" Wave shouts, "Away from the barn!"

Panic ensues as the crowd starts running. Quake quickly scoops up Fire in his arms then dashes ahead. Wave right behind him.

"GET DOWN!" Quake shouts as he falls over Fire in a protective embrace. Wave covers Quake.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The ground violently shakes. The four blasts combine into a fireball. The expanding horizontal heatwave rapidly turning into a rising vertical plume of smoke. Dust and debris litter the air.

"Oh god!" Wave says, looking at the complete fiery rubble which used to be the barn.

"NO!" Quake shouts as he looks up and back at the barn door which is now a smoldering crater.


Chapter 23: Chapter 21 - Out of the Pit?

September 6, 2017

2:43 am, Cancun, Mexico

"Can you stop it?" Aviator asks.

"It is an automated process and..." Spectrum responds in while furiously typing, "Remote too."

"We are being watched." Shade adds.

The team looks at the little camera quietly sitting on the desk attached to the computer. Spectrum swiftly uses the butt of his gun to smash the camera's lens.

"Drone's weapon system will be compromised within 2 minutes." Spectrum says, "And I can't stop it from here."

"Let's go then!" Aviator says.

"Not enough time to get to the surface." Spectrum says.

"Tunnels." Shade says.

"They have tunnels?" Aviator asks.

Shade nods.

"They'll have to do" Aviator says, "Only choose vital intel."

Aviator quickly selects a handful of documents with boldened titles from his pile of papers. Shade does the same. Spectrum quickly retrieves the hard drive of the communication system.

"Lead the way." Spectrum says.

With Shade in the lead, the team races out of the office and the room into the hallway. They turn to the opposite end of the stairwell, which is further down the hall. In seconds, they arrive at the elevator. Right beside is an unmarked door. Shade pushes open the door, revealing a room with a dirt floor and hanging lightbulbs. In the room are two holes in opposite directions. One looks like a bottomless tunnel heading straight down. The other is a rising incline chute with lights. Rail tracks line both. There is a spacious rail car occupying the tracks of the upward tunnel.

Spectrum walks to the nearby controls, activating the rail car, while the rest of the team sits in.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The entire complex starts shaking. Spectrum jumps in just as the rail car climbs upwards. The tunnel behind the team begins collapsing but the rail car faithfully ascends. Within a minute, the team is brought up to a well-lit room.

"That was close!" Spectrum says getting out of the rail car, "Seems like we are in a basement."

Aviator rises, helping Shade rise as well then dusting the loose earth off her before dusting himself off too. Spectrum shakes loose dirt that had fallen on him as well.

"Let's move." Aviator says, grabbing the hard drives and papers they had snagged from the now destroyed underground facility.

Spectrum, handgun in front, leads the team out. The team climbs a set of stairs. They arrive at the door. Inspecting the door, Spectrum realizes it is a false wall. He leads the team thru.

"This is the house beside the barn." Spectrum says as he recognizes the furniture and some of the corpses they encounter. After all, he had been the one to kill them.

Soon, they are on the main floor's exit. With a nod, Spectrum opens the door carefully. In the distance, he sees a mob standing in front of the smoky crater that was a barn just a few seconds prior. Spectrum scans the crowd for Quake and Wave when suddenly he hears a shout above the commotion.

"NO! NO! NO!" Quake shouts.

"Over here!" Spectrum shouts, waving his arms in the air.

Everyone turns to the trio that had emerged silently, completely unharmed. Spectrum, Aviator, and Shade make their way through the masses. They reconnect with Quake and Wave who are standing over Fire.

"But how?" Quake asks.

"Tunnels!" Wave answers with relief.

Shade nods.

"Our bird was compromised from the start." Aviator says in a low voice.

Quake's and Wave eyes widen.

"How's the Chief?" Spectrum asks.

"The Old Man is still out." Wave answers solemnly then asks, "Did you radio out?"

"The attack was imminent before I could." Spectrum says.

Suddenly, the unmistakable sound belonging to the twirling blades of helicopters getting closer steers everyone's eyes up into the night sky.


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