Free Patriots & Tyrants (Rebels & Lies Trilogy Book 2) by Brian Cotton

handle. A light kick to the door from Steinner opened it.
    The team entered the
back door and there were no Agents around. They split up in their two teams.
Dexter and Krys went left with Buck; Kaspar and Steinner moved right. With his
MP-5 shouldered, Kaspar followed close behind Steinner. It was still before
dawn so the shift was smaller than it normally would be. It almost came as a
shock to Kaspar that they had not been ambushed, yet.
    They kept moving until
they got to the end of the hallway where they took a left and entered through
the last door on the right. Three Agents were caught by surprise when the two
rebels entered the lab. The Agents tried to get their shit together and went
for their weapons. A wave of cool, calculated bursts from the silenced weapons
put them down before they could. Kaspar moved past the bodies and went for the
computers. Steinner moved fast towards the machines which produced the new drug.
With a firm grip on the flash drive from his vest, Kaspar inserted it into the
USB drive. After that, he turned his attention to the door.
    Steinner moved fast
when the pressure was on. He was already halfway done when there was a
communication over their ears. Harvey was talking to Buck, trying to calm the
boy’s nerves over the radio. It made Kaspar want to vomit. The kid needed to grow
a pair and get the job done just like everyone else.
    The door opened. An
Agent walked in and was just as shocked as the others. He grabbed for his
pistol, but Kaspar blew him away with a three round burst to the chest, then
another burst to the face. What was left of the head made a loud thud on the
white tile floor. Steinner stood from the black boxes with the C4 assembled
properly. He set the timer for ten minutes then joined Kaspar by the door.
Kaspar walked over to the computer and snatched the flash drive from it.
Together, the two rebels moved out from the lab.
    Their pace was brisk
as they tried to keep their noise down. From the conversations over the radio
with father and son, it appeared the Buck was doing just fine. All of sudden,
there was silence and heavy breathing through the headphones. Then, the sound
became so loud that it caused Kaspar’s ears to ring. Gunfire. Steinner yelled
for them to move fast. Kaspar didn’t need the command, he was already well past
his partner. He ran through the circular lobby that Clarke warned about. He
didn’t take the time to sweep from left to right with his gun. Krys was in trouble.
    “We’re getting
ambushed here!” Dexter cried through the radio.
    “How the hell did that
happen?” Harvey demanded.
    “I don’t know! I…”
    As they ran, Kaspar
unscrewed the silencer from his MP-5. Not much use for it now and he never
liked the damned things anyway. They moved fast to the sounds of the loud
bursts of automatic fire.
    Just hold on, Krys,
Kaspar thought.
    Kaspar, in the lead,
turned the corner of the hallway. As soon as his body was exposed, a rapid
burst of automatic rounds were sent his way. He saw the Agent just before he
pulled the trigger and immediately moved back. Several of the rounds hit the
corner, causing pieces of the concrete wall to go flying in the air. Kaspar
held up his balled fist for Steinner to stop. Steinner obeyed and then turned
his back.
    “How’s Buck doing?”
Steinner demanded into his mouthpiece.
    “Not good!” Dexter
replied.
    Kaspar moved his head
slightly over the corner. When he heard the shots, he moved back as more
concrete chunks blew past him. Beside him, Steinner was standing in a poised
position to shot anything that approached. Kaspar then heard the footsteps of
the Agent around the corner moving in closer.
    Kaspar moved his MP-5
against the wall and pointed the barrel at the corner. Before the Agent got
there, the loud sound of a high caliber bullet breaking through a glass window
filled Kaspar’s ear. A swift moment later, he heard a body fall to the ground.
The Agent who had him pinned down was taken out by a