Lackey Snippets

Avalanche - Snippet 35 "Please! No! Please, just no! No no no no!" Zachary lifted one foot, then brought it down savagely on the guard's helmet; the crunch was horrible, and John didn't want to think about whether it was the guard's helmet or his skull...or both. For a second, John saw the teen's face sag; his chest was heaving, and he didn't look like the unholy terror he had been moments ago, but like a scared kid who only wanted to wake up from a nightmare he was trapped in. Then Sera's fires flared, and he looked up, suddenly seeing them...

Avalanche - Snippet 34 By this time more of the guards had figured out they were being taken from behind.  They turned to face Sera, who had sheathed herself in flame and leapfrogged past John, her sword and spear so hot they were white-approaching-plasma.  The guards had ballistic shields, rated to withstand rifle fire.  If they had counted on those to protect them, they were sadly mistaken.  Sera sliced the tops off, and took out three of the tightly-packed guards with blows from the butt of her spear.  They went down like hammered...

Avalanche - Snippet 33 "Holy shit!" One of them tripped over his own feet and tumbled backwards, landing hard on his rear. The other, a woman, seemed to shrink in on herself for a moment as she backed up. Even so, she was the first to regain her composure, as the man was still crumpled in a ball on the floor, covering his head. "Thank Christ you two are here! He got out, and there's an attack on the Facility! You---you have to get him back in his cell, and fast!" "She's right! He's already killed the guards and the QRF, or near enough." The...

Avalanche - Snippet 32 "I do not like this, at all.  It is not unlike a theater set…and it is much too quiet.  I think this is a facade."  Her eyes were getting that flicker of gold in them that meant she was ramping up for combat. John still didn't feel anything through their combat-sense, though...it was throwing him off, because he had expected to be neck deep in whatever this place had to offer, by this point. They wouldn't have gotten such a strong reaction through the Futures if they didn't need to find Zach Marlowe now. "Let's...

Avalanche - Snippet 31 # They were flying relatively low; only about a thousand feet up or so. It was a slightly cool, damp 4 A.M., even this high up. John and Sera were flying over the Florida panhandle, as fast as they could manage. The sun hadn't yet broken over the horizon, but it would soon; John couldn't remember what sort of twilight they were in, now, whether it was nautical or civil or whatever. He liked working at night; between having NVGs or his enhanced sight, it was an edge against enemies, most of the time. Twilight would have...

Avalanche - Snippet 30 "Even so…"  Sera sighed.  "If we find she reverts, or will not change, or goes home again.  What would we do? Join with Belladonna and become a part of ECHO?" "That would be an option, I suppose. I love the blueberry to death, for everythin' that she's done for both of us an' everythin' she's doin' to keep the fight goin'...but ECHO in general just gives me a bad taste in my mouth. A lot of red tape for anythin', and way more government than I'm happy with. The CCCP is in this happy little place where we've got...

Avalanche - Snippet 29 I fretted that I didn't have the time to help find Johnny's mystery boy.  I needn't have worried.  As I was to come to realize, I had a righteous right hand now. Get Out Alive Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin John and Sera had been looking for weeks and weeks, and they still weren't any closer to finding Zach Marlowe, whoever and wherever he was. John could feel the pressure increasing on him, like a vice that someone was slowly tightening over his chest. Sera was more hopeful, but the same fear that he had was in the...

Avalanche - Snippet 28 They wrapped up the day as the sun was setting, battered and bruised. Still, it was a pleasant trip back to Atlanta for the pair of them. There was dinner waiting for them when they returned to CCCP HQ; while John would have preferred staying at his squat, the Commissar's orders were to keep everyone at base when they weren't deployed. It made sense for security and to be able to muster as many people as quickly as possible in the case of an attack, but John chafed at the requirement all the same. The one concession...