La sees it as she rolls on to her hands and knees, then feels it as the invisible whiplash bond gouges deep into the ground, splitting the muck down to the underlying plate. CRACK The sound deafens her even through the HUD, punches the ground into her face, and tosses her ...
The horde is waiting for me in the stairwells of the Empire State Building, as ever. I rappel down past them like a ninja, nudging the occasional one with the muzzle of my AK47 when they lean a little too close. Boom, I imagine. The report would ring out and the recoil would sway me like a pendul...
NEW YORK It took him two days solid driving to reach New York. For six hours that first night he drove in silence, with all the windows rolled down and the high beams on, plunging alone into the dark. There wasn't a single electric light on anywhere, not in any of the tenement buildings in the l...
Ruins NEW LIFE D We strip off everything we can. Doe drops her cannon and accelerator, because they are too heavy. We slough off the tree-bark armor like a second skin. We drop QC parabolics and packs full of rations, our belts and most of our grapnels and cable, keeping only what candlewax we...
It burned across his skin like a blast furnace, spreading fast and cutting deep. In the darkness he dreamed of it reaching past him, back to the warmth of the girl on the beach who meant so much.He could not allow that. He would not.He swam without rest. So did they all. His body thinned but he a...