The Cure, стр. 17
Tallulah walked out the door without so much as a goodbye to her father and kept walking. Walking past the stores, past the armory, past the dormitories, past the mess hall and into the female shower area which was currently unoccupied. She opened one of the shower cubicles and put her hand on the wall holding back the sickness rising from her stomach. She reached into the waistband of her jeans and pulled out the vial and held it up in front of her eyes.
‘So, you are the apocalypse,’ she said and began to cry.
Chapter Eight
Tonight was the night and everyone was nervous. Logan had spent the last two days listening to the plans of the President and his assembly room cohorts and knew exactly what was happening and when. His hope was that after the guards they planned to knock out were replaced, they would realize the group had left the base straight away. However, instead of coming to the assumption that something was occurring with the plan to distribute the toxin, they would be more concerned that the children had left the facility.
At 1.00 am most of the team had assembled in Logan’s room and were discussing last minute plans when Faye walked into the room with Zack Stoker, a boy from Danny’s dormitory. In all honesty Danny couldn’t stand the guy. Zack was blonde haired and looked like he’d been chiseled out of granite. Smug and pretentious he thought he was better than everyone else. Back in the day he would’ve been an all-star quarterback, but here and now he was just a good looking nobody who wanted to be a somebody.
‘What’s going on?’ Logan said.
‘It’s Jay,’ Faye said on the verge of tears, ‘He’s slipped and fractured his skull. Zack found him and told me. I panicked. I didn’t know what to do. I told Zack everything and he’s agreed to help,’ said Faye.
Logan didn’t like this at all, but at this point he knew options were limited. He needed the manpower and as paranoid as this made him, he knew that now Zack knew their plans there was no leaving him behind.
‘What actually happened? Is Jay going to be ok?’ said Logan
Zack stepped forward grinning. ‘I was walking past his parents living quarters when I heard a noise. I went to investigate and found Jay lying in the middle of the room, guns and ammunition everywhere. Thought he’d done himself in at first. Then realized he must’ve have slipped or something. There was blood all over the kitchen floor. Of course, the guns got me thinking something was going on, so I bagged them up, stashed them, then called the medical team. They said he’s critical but stable. No idea when, or if, he might wake up. Bad news for him but good news for you. I get to help you ‘save the world’ and you get an all-American hero on your side.’
Faye punched him weakly on the arm and then looked at him in awe forgetting her friend who was lying in the base hospital.
‘You were the only one there?’ said Logan.
‘Yeah man, like I said. I got the guns,’ he winked at Logan. There was no going back now.
‘Looks like you’re in then. Faye, get Zack up to speed. Firstly, though I need to talk you all through Danny’s part in the plan. We don’t know what’s going to happen and I can’t take the chance that something happens to me out there, so you all need to be aware of Plan B. If we don’t get to the Professor in time or if he can’t make an antidote it’s down to Danny.’ He looked at Danny. ‘Danny will take one of the military motorbikes to the reservoir and wait there for our signal. If we fail then either me, or one of you, will contact Danny through the walkie talkie and he will blow the reservoir foundations. In theory this will cut off water supply to the territories it flows too, and the toxin will have no way of travelling through the water system.’ He stopped and picked up something from the table beside him and handed it to Danny. ‘This explosive trigger is rigged so that once you press it the explosive is live. Once you remove your finger from the trigger the charges will explode. Now the most important part. There is only one pressure point in the reservoir according to the blueprints which will blow the whole place and it’s at the most central point of the dam. Even more importantly you cannot release the trigger within one hundred meters of the explosives, or you’ll be caught up in the blast. Do you understand?’
‘Let’s see,’ Danny mused. ‘Travel across a country I’ve not seen in years on a motorbike I don’t really know how to ride, plant a bomb in the heart of a water reservoir potentially infested with android technology and make sure I get out of there before it either blows me up or I get drowned? I get the gist Bro.’
‘That’s about it Danny boy,’ said Logan. ‘Are we ready guys?’
They nodded quietly.
Logan picked up a gun from the table and handed it barrel first to Zack ‘Ever fired a gun?’
The base was quiet with everyone asleep in their rooms or dorms. The only people working through the night were either the lab technicians or the military. There were security cameras, but they hadn’t been switched on in years. There was no need. So, getting to the base exit was the easy part. Faye and Danny were the sharpshooters and lined up the tranquilizer guns at the two guards who were in the right place at the right time. So far so good. Logan counted down quietly ‘Three, Two, One, fire’ and the