Free What Zombies Fear (Book 2): The Maxists by Kirk Allmond

you to drop by, I trust we won’t need to repeat the last visit?”
     
    “ Tookes, I have intel.” Frye said without a hint of red slashes in his aura.
     
    “ Are you going to share all of it? Or are you holding something back? I don’t really trust you, Colonel.”
     
    “ Yesterday evening I got a coded radio message from the pentagon. There are one hundred fifty civilians and fifty military personnel being held prisoner by infected at the Department of Defense building in Germantown, MD. It’s about two hours from here. Among the civilians is a research scientist from the CDC that has an idea about how to make us immune to the infection.”
     
    “ How many are holding them?” I asked.
     
    “ At least two hundred infected. Our scout got back at daylight. He reported ten smart ones, including two that can fly.”
     
    “ What kind of weapons do they have? What can you tell me about the DOD building?”
     
    “ Standard military issue, assault rifles, a couple of fifty’s, body armor. I’m unsure of their ammunition status, but there was a depot there before the outbreak. Germantown was the scene of some pretty serious fighting, the marines made their last stand there. They may have tapped into that ammunition depot.”
     
    “ These supers, specifically the flying ones, do they have any other powers that we know? I assume they’re fast, all of them seem to be faster than normal humans.” I asked.
     
    “ I have no intel on their abilities other than that they can fly.”
     
    “ What am I to do with them once they are free?” I asked. I couldn’t take two hundred more people in our settlement just yet, but I didn’t really want Frye to know that.
     
    “ They’re to be relocated to my facility. There are also two other goals to the mission. Doctor Jerry Roberts is the CDC expert. He says the supers took his research; we’d really like to have that data. Secondly, if you can recover the ammunition in that depot, I’ll give you half of it as payment for services rendered.”
     
    “ I’ll do it, but I’m keeping everything I can recover. Whatever it is, vehicles, ammunition, equipment, whatever I recover is mine. I’ll deliver the soldiers and civilians to you.”
     
    “ Tookes, that’s property of the US military.” Flashes of purple invaded his aura, purple tended to mean someone was ready to fight, or was feeling very strongly about something. I started watching for shadows to shoot out of Frye.
     
    “ That’s the price. You need us to do this for you, or you wouldn’t have come at all. If you want me to save these people for you, it has to benefit me.” I said. I would have done it just to save the humans being held. But if I could benefit from it as well, then that’s even better.”
     
    “ Alright. When can you leave?” asked Frye “I’ll need to let my contacts know when you’re going to be there so they can lend support.”
     
    “ Frye, condition two of my agreement. If I see any of your men, I am going to shoot them.”
     
    “ Tookes, you’re going to need help. Even with your abilities, you can’t take on this many.”
     
    “ If I need help, it’ll come from my own men.”
     
    “ Ok, but I think you’re making a mistake. I’ll order my men to stand down.”
     
    “ We’ll leave tonight Colonel. I’ll have your men back to you within 48 hours,” I said.
     
    “ Let’s go get ready,” I said to my own team. “It appears we’re not going to get the day off.”
     

Chapter 7
Renee
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    The mood was somber sitting around the dining room table. Questions were flying and I had no answers.
     
    John asked, “Tookes, why are we doing this?”
     
    “ I don’t know. It’s the right thing to do.”
     
    Marshall was next to ask, “Vic, how are we going to get them back to Culpeper?”
     
    “ I’m thinking Buses.”
     
    Leo chimed in, “Victor, how are we going to pull this off? Ten supers, four of us.”
     
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