The Ilium Obligation (A Matt Savage Adventure) Chapter 11

[seymoure]

Give Peace a Chance

 

“War does not determine who is right –

only who is left.”
      -Bertrand Russell

 

There are times I say stupid things.

But you probably knew that.

But it is always a misstep to say “They won’t surprise me now.”

As we crouched hearing footsteps stomping up the stairs, suddenly Rayleen waved to get our attention.

Outside the glass windows outside the office (on my side of the hallway) originated our surprise.

A helicopter came up from below.

It wasn’t a military chopper, something that I knew right away. I saw the “Rent the Ride of Your Life” sign on the side of the thing. It was the kind of thing people rented to do sight-seeing. But I doubted that the man in the seat next to the pilot was a tourist.

He had a gun trained on that pilot and with his other hand he was pulling out some kind of tube. I’m not much on munitions, but it didn’t look like a factory original.

Then he put something in the tube.

Quickly he shifted and pointed his gun at the window that was the empty office. He fired three rapid shots into the glass and followed that with targeting his tube at the same section of plate glass.

There was a minor explosion within the cab of the copter and the contents rocketed into the room.

“Run, Boss,” Hugo shouted, just as he had begun to fire down the stairs at the advancing men. “That’s a homemade grenade launcher!”

I really didn’t have time to react.

The explosive wave smacked me through the doorway I was guarding.

I tumbled down about a half story of floors, but pulled myself up in time to see myself surrounded by men wearing black from head to foot.

They were as heavily armed as anybody I had ever seen outside of a movie.

If I could have seen their faces, I would have bet that they were not smiling. I knew I wasn’t.

© C. Wayne Owens
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