“Colonel!” Jayce calls out.
“Granger,
is that you?” the Colonel answers.
Knowing
that that the Colonel probably has a gun trained on the door, Jayce tells Stan
that they are going to open the door. Slowly,
Ty turns the door handle and pushes the door open. The unit finds the Colonel sitting on a couch
in his office with Tracy at his side in the dark. The light from the emergency lights in the
corridor expose the pistols both of them hold tightly in their laps.
“Captain,
I ordered you to complete your mission!”
“Is
this what I think this is?” Jayce asks.
The
Colonel solemnly nods as he looks down at the floor.
“There
isn’t much sense in trying to thwart an attack that is already happening. I did what I thought would be the next best
thing, protect our assets. We don’t have
much time, we need to go.” Jayce tells Colonel Wallace as they hear gun fire
erupt outside the building.
Jayce
orders Stan and Tracy to stay in the middle of the unit as they begin to make
their way back to the Stryker. They
approach the point where all of the corridors come together, and stop to
listen. It is quiet. Jessop glances down at his rifle
magazine. He only has a couple of rounds
left in his gun. Popping out the magazine,
he drops it. The magazine lands flat on
its side with a slap. Ty and Ben watch as two of the creatures stand up to the
sound of the magazine hitting the floor.
They signal for the unit to tuck back into the hall leading from the
Colonel’s office. The Colonel taps Jayce
on the shoulder. As the captain turns
his attention towards the Colonel, Stan points towards a fire exit. Jayce shakes his head no, then whispers that
the only safe exit is to go out the front door.
“It
isn’t safe, the Stryker is waiting on the front steps.”
They
hear the creatures running through the adjacent hall who then stop in the center
trying to locate their prey. Jayce and
his men stand in the shadows, poised. As
the creatures pan the room, it is evident by their animalistic growls they have
fixated on the group. Ben and Ty waste
no time as they quickly cut the creatures down.
Jayce turns to the Colonel and Sergeant,
informing them that they have weapons for them back at the vehicle.
They
slip stealthily back into the center and look down the other three corridors
leading away. Jayce motions to the group
to stop. It sounds as if several people are
running. Andre calls out for somebody to
answer. With no response, he, Paul, and
Patrick point to several grenades they have.
Jayce directs the three of them to throw two each down each
corridor. The three wait until they can
see movement, then pull the pins and throw the grenades. There is a clank of metal on the floor followed
by the flash of the explosion.
“Go!
Go! Go!” Jayce yells, as the group
begins to run towards the front of the building, where the Stryker waits.
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