Today’s excerpt is from Sedona
Chip, Book #9 of the Janitors Series.
Janitors take down four terrorists at a former al-Qaida camp in
Canada. Enjoy and have a great day.
m.j.
It
was midnight before the four terrorists arrived. The Janitors up at that time
were Jim, monitoring the sensor screen; Hector, in a sniper position; and Dan,
acting as lookout, a bit south of the camp.
The two crewmembers up were Goose and his son Chet. As it turned out, the terrorists had gotten
lost and came in from west of the camp.
Luckily they had no real experience in such matters and their headlights
broadcast their arrival in plenty of time for the Janitors to know they were
coming. Until they reached the runway,
their lights were bouncing up and down.
After reaching it, the lights steadied.
By
then, Jim had already muttered into his headset, “Whoever’s awake under the
netting, get Harry and Bruce up, please.
Hector, after they reach the runway and get near the plane, take their
vehicle out—engine first, then the lights so our vision goggles are a benefit
again. Dan, you hold firm where you’re
at, just in case these aren’t the guys we’re waiting on—or they aren’t
alone. I’m gonna hold firm also, to keep
an eye on the sensor screen.”
As
the vehicle—an SUV, as it turned out—neared the plane’s parking spot, Harry and
Bruce reported that they were up.
Jim
pointed. “Guys, run the opposite
direction of their vehicle, to get behind it.”
Neither
man replied, but both ducked under the netting on the opposite side of the
plane from the runway, and hurried west as the SUV drove east on the runway.
Hector,
who had replaced the anti-personnel rounds in his sniper rifle with
armor-piercing rounds, took careful aim and squeezed of a shot that went
through the radiator and tore into the vehicle’s engine. The engine shut down immediately and the
vehicle slowed, as Hector took out one headlight, then quickly the other one.
The
first shot Hector fired had made an awful racket as it tore the engine of the
SUV apart, so the terrorists knew they were under fire. The driver took a few seconds before he tried
to stop the vehicle. The terrorist in
the rear seat was much quicker. He
pushed his door open and rolled out of the still-moving SUV. When he righted himself, he ran in the
direction of the plane. Fortunately for
Goose, the man was carrying a gun. Goose
had no hesitation when he fired through the netting and hit the terrorist in
the throat. The terrorist died never
knowing he was running toward a plane.
His intent had been to reach the wooded area around it.
Meanwhile,
another of the terrorists had gotten out the other—right—side of the SUV and
Hector shot him in the chest. Since he
was still using armor-piercing rounds, the shot went right on through, without
killing him. He lived only a short time
longer, however, as Hector shot him again and killed him. While he fired those two shots, Harry and
Bruce approached the vehicle from the rear-left, just as the driver got
out. Both men fired and hit him. He was dead before he hit the ground.
The
last terrorist got out of the SUV with his hands raised. Harry looked at Bruce, Bruce looked at Harry
and shrugged just as Hector—now having changed back to anti-personnel
rounds—shot him in the temple. The round
exploded in his head and he fell to the ground.
He also had two more shots hit his head before he fell. Both Harry and Bruce had fired as well.
Jim
asked, “All down?”
Bruce
and Harry—who were by then standing near the SUV, three dead bodies, and could
see the fourth near the netting—both answered, “Yeah.”
Jim
headed toward them. “Dan, Hec, hold
firm. I’m gonna have a look.”
Jim
had put the monitoring gear for the sensors in one of the dune buggies and
drove it to a point between the SUV and the fourth dead terrorist. As he walked up to the terrorist Goose had
killed, he noted the shot to the throat and asked, “Who did this one?”
Goose,
who had come from under the netting and was standing near the dead body,
answered, “Me.”
“Nice
shooting.”
“Not
really. At fifteen feet, I was aiming at
his head.”
“He’s
dead, Goose. Thanks for the help.”
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