Without Law 18 by Eric Vall (most difficult books to read .txt) 📗

“Now!” I exclaimed as I jumped up onto my knees and fired toward the other side of the water.

Tara, Paige, and Hammer popped up with their plasma guns and started to fire with me.

A split second later, Bailey popped up with her Barrett. Then she placed the barrel of the gun on the concrete barrier and lined up her shot.

At the same time, I heard the familiar thud of the grenade launcher as Anna fired toward the enemy soldiers.

Bailey’s Barrett let off a deafening crack as she fired a split second after Anna’s grenade hit the concrete wall in the same place it had before. The concrete crumbled down, and Paige, Tara, Hammer, and I continued to give them hell with our plasma weapons.

I wasn’t sure how many we managed to hit, but I saw at least one try to pop up, only to get blasted with the blue light from one of the plasma guns.

Bailey’s rifle cracked again, and Anna joined us in the fray of plasma.

“Lieutenant, come in!” the SEAL’s voice came over the radio.

Hammer made eye contact with me, and I could see the concern in his dark eyes.

He quickly reached for the walkie and brought it up to his mouth.

“What is it?” he asked into the microphone.

“We have company,” the voice said. “Three o’clock.”

My eyebrows pinched together as I glanced across the water. I continued to pull the trigger toward the concrete, but across the water I spotted the company the SEAL had referred to.

There were three NK soldiers on a makeshift raft headed toward the ship. It seemed they thought their buddies near the concrete barrier had distracted us enough that they could make it over to the ship unseen.

“Bailey!” I hollered.

“I’m on it!” the blonde assured me, and she adjusted the barrel of her gun so it was pointed toward the men in the poorly made raft.

I looked back over to the concrete to see another soldier pop their hand up in an attempt to get a shot off. The weapon was quickly shot out of their hand by one of the girls, and I heard a scream even from across the water. His entire hand was probably nothing more than a bloody, blackened stump from that blast.

Bailey’s rifle cracked, and I glanced over to the raft to see one soldier’s head practically vaporize from the impact of the .50 caliber bullet.

I quickly took aim in that direction and fired off several plasma blasts in a row. The soldier was dead instantly, and his lifeless body fell backward into the water with a loud splash.

Bailey’s rifle cracked at the same time, and the last guy on the makeshift raft fell forward into the water with a massive hole in his chest.

“Tav!” Hammer called, and I turned my attention back to the concrete area.

Two soldiers were attempting to flee back toward the city, but that only lined them up for our shots.

The girls, Hammer, and I blasted them heavily, and they tumbled forward on barely intact legs. Their backs were blackened from our blasts, and even from this distance I could see a small amount of smoke coming off of them.

Three on the boat, two fleeing, and at least one other one dead near the barrier. That seemed like all of them, but I waited a couple of minutes just to be sure.

“It looks like we’re clear,” I said finally.

“I was thinking so, too,” Hammer said, and he picked up the walkie. “We’re clear.”

“Roger that,” the SEAL on the other end sighed. “Thanks, Lieutenant.”

“Tell them to be on the lookout for any other soldiers,” I instructed. “And radio right away if they see any. We’re going to send some experienced sailors to get them back over to shore by us.”

“Oh, yeah,” Paige said, and her eyebrows pinched together. “Why are they over in this area, anyway? We brought the ship over by us yesterday.”

“I was having the men clean up the ship,” Hammer said. “I figured we didn’t want to be kicking dead bodies off right near our home.”

“Good call.” I nodded. “But from now on we get the ship back to our own port every night.”

“Of course,” Hammer agreed. “I apologize, I should have spoken to you about it.”

“You made the call you thought was best,” I told him. “And I can appreciate that. Besides, it was better we found out about those foot soldiers and took care of them before they could figure out a better plan than the one they had.”

“They probably weren’t even planning on attacking just yet,” Anna said. “Maybe they just saw the ship was here and decided to give it a try.”

“Based off their makeshift raft, I’d say that’s a safe bet,” I chuckled.

“It was just, like, some tied together pieces of wood,” Tara laughed. “They could have put a little more effort into it, don’t you think?”

“It was pretty pitiful,” Paige agreed.

“Let’s get the experienced sailors over here,” I said. “I think we’ve done all we can for the moment.”

“I appreciate you coming to the aid of my SEALs,” Hammer said. “I wasn’t expecting the foot soldiers to attack. I knew there were probably a few left behind, but I wouldn’t have guessed they’d have the balls to try and pull that off.”

“Like Anna said, they didn’t have anything left to lose.” I shrugged.

“And that only makes them more dangerous.” Hammer shook his head. “Hopefully that was the last of them.”

“Let’s hope so,” I agreed. “But plan for the opposite.”

“No wonder the Captain put you in charge,” Hammer laughed and clapped me on the shoulder.

Hammer, the girls, and I all piled back into the jeep and headed back toward camp.

“Tomorrow, I want everyone to spend some