ALICE

Chapter 67: GO

Chapter 67: GO

 Alice’s heart shot to her mouth when she heard a car door slam in the square below. She kicked Redd and Angel, and then started crawling towards the slit. She took her position, to the right of Redd’s rifle. Angel came in to the left, and Redd slid on his front, right into the rifle. Angel raised his binoculars and began to talk.

 “Looks like the target is in the urban camo jeep coming in from the left. Don’t take the shot yet.”

 Redd nodded, and quickly downed another pill. Alice pointed her VoidGun into the street, as the car door opened. Alice never got used to seeing ZERO, so she still gasped when the blonde woman stepped out into the open air. Redd took his finger off of the main metal of the gun and slid into the trigger guard.

“Light, don’t fire yet. Wait for her to stand still. She’s a good three hundred feet out.”

 Redd nodded.

 The woman walked into the center of the square, meeting a man in a beautifully made suit that was just a little bit dusty. ZERO shook his hand, all the while keeping the other one on her Desert Eagle. They had a brief exchange, before she drew the huge handcannon and pointed it to his head. Redd gritted his teeth, cracked his knuckle, adjusted his sight, allowed Angel to tell him to take the shot, and then fired the weapon.

 The sound was huge and Alice winced as her ears began to ring. From the distance she was from, all she could see was a blood spatter and then ZERO hitting the ground.

 “Good. Good let’s go.”

 Alice watched as both sides, Native scattered to cover and LSF began firing, mowing down the Natives in a brutal preemptive strike. The natives fought back, AK-47 fire ringing through the square.

 The man who’s life Redd had saved, the one in the suit, paused for a moment and then launched his foot to ZERO’s face in a brutal curbstomp, and then he ran for cover, drawing a small handgun from his jacket and firing blindly behind him.

 Redd bit his lip as he began to crawl out of the low area. Alice turned to him.

 “Why are you going?!”

 Almost on cue, a helicopter hovered in front of the slit, LSF branded. There was a pause, and then Redd spoke.

 “That’s why.”

 Alice’s blood ran with adrenaline as she grabbed the VoidGun and fired most of her magazine into the helicopter. One of two pilots splayed back in his chair, blood spattered over his co-pilot who was still kicking. Alice began to crawl out as fast as she could, using all of her training to move abnormally fast. When she was out she started running, and got to the wide end where Angel was. He had jumped down from the windows to an external fire escape, with a metal grate floor and railings. He was clipping three ropes to the railing.

 Alice jumped out of the window, rolling when she hit the metal. Redd was holding his pistol, aiming down the stairs in case of LSF coming up for the vantage point. When Angel was done he clipped a carabineer to the back of his vest, stood on top of the railing, and jumped, doing a beautiful dive, Goldeneye style, that would have gotten him at least a 9.4 score under different circumstances. When he reached about halfway down the side of the building, he managed to hit the wall, turn himself around and invert, going into a rappel.

 Alice felt more scared then she ever had, as she allowed Redd to clip a carabineer to her vest and ease her up onto the railing. Alice’s eyes glazed over as she jumped.

 The cold air whipped across her bare arms as she plummeted down. Her glasses flew off her face, moving to the left at terminal velocity. Alice tried to hit the wall to get into a rappelling position, but then something awful happened.

 Alice’s rope snapped.