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Bug Out! Atlantic Book 4, page 1
Bug Out!
Atlantic
Book 4
Defiance
Robert Boren
South Bay Press
Copyright © 2019 by Robert Boren.
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Bug Out! Atlantic Book 4/ Robert Boren. -- 1st ed.
For Don
“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
―Ayn Rand
Contents
Previously – in Bug Out! Atlantic Book 3
Blockade
Publishing
Rooftop Battle
Slaughter on Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey Park
Hit Squad
Sales
Manhattans
Parking Structure
Wrong Place
Crow’s Nest
Tools of the Trade
Armory
Escape to the North
Contraband
Embassy Attack
Defiance
Cast of Characters
Other Books by Robert Boren
Previously – in Bug Out! Atlantic Book 3
As book 3 opened, Captain Sturm arrived in Halifax, with orders to destroy the resistance in New York City. Commandant Dupont was his host, and the two had some bad history.
In New York City, the resistance team rescued Mayor Fine’s administration from the old City Hall bunker in lower Manhattan using their mole vehicles, bringing them to the New City Hall bunker and the newly fortified NYPD Precinct 25, north of Central Park, about fifteen minutes by mole travel from the main resistance bunker on 89th Street.
The Boston resistance team arrived back home, and began setting up for action.
Linda and John Clancy were in their new hideout with Salvatore, John getting back into his writing quickly, Linda fretting about the situation with Craig and Pat. Salvatore provided secure cell phones, and Linda got Pat on the phone. Their conversation was touchy, Pat blaming them for Craig’s arrest.
Penko was getting stir crazy in the bunker, and wanted to get out to start the coffee shop back up and to re-connect with Juan Ruiz, the IT person at the UN that he talked to before the harbor bombing.
Captain Sturm had a phone call with Daan Mertins about his actions and priorities. It was heated but friendly. Daan suggested Sturm not do his usual terror tactics with women in Manhattan until Mayor Fine and his administration were taken out, suggesting that he could play with some of Dupont’s employees if he wanted some fun. Sturm took that as an invitation, talking to Dupont after the phone call, finding out which of the young women working for him should be off-limits.
Henry was in his bookstore, talking to Todd, Justin, and Tyra when a young student radical with braided hair came in asking to put a PSA poster about the Social Scoring system in his window. Henry agreed, calling her young lady, which offended her. When Todd laughed, she asked for his name. Henry told them the martial law regulations didn’t allow her to harass his customers. Todd told her off, saying she had no more rights than he did, and if she didn’t like his attitude, she could go get a police officer. She stomped out in a huff, back in a few minutes with an officer, who realized her complaint was stupid and told her to get lost.
Chief Harvey was settling into Precinct 25, having a conversation with Deputy Chief Tim. They discussed rounding up the “building captains” who were running surveillance on hate-speech violators before the bombing. Chief Harvey ordered Tim to arrest all the people doing surveillance. As they were finishing their conversation, Yvette Waters, the fired Police Commissioner arrived at the front door with her thugs, demanding to take over the NYPD after her “illegal” firing by Mayor Fine. When she didn’t get her way, her thugs became violent, pulling weapons, the police killing them and arresting Yvette. She was taken inside to the Precinct 25 jail. The MVS video didn’t show the thugs holding guns, but the video cameras on the front of Precinct 25 showed it clearly. Chief Harvey backed up the video so he could use it when the media started their propaganda about NYPD killing unarmed protesters.
Penko left the bunker for the coffee shop, meeting Sydney there to re-open it. He planned to go visit UN Headquarters as well, but the entrance had been fortified, and everyone was being searched. Penko decided to wait.
Sturm went after the two young women Dupont had asked him to leave alone, finding both willing to engage. The girls liked him so much that they pressured Sturm to take them to Manhattan.
Henry was in his bookstore when the braided girl showed up with a bunch of big male students, and they proceeded to shove books onto the floor. Henry called 911 and reported the attack while it was going on, the attendant telling him the police wouldn’t come because his store had been labeled politically subversive. Henry argued with the kids, the rancor escalating quickly, the young men yanking him over his counter and onto the floor when Todd and Justin showed up with guns, chasing them away. As the thugs left in a van, Jacob and Sunshine followed them in their hybrids. Justin and Todd joined them, following the van into an alley, where two other vehicles and a bunch of armed radicals were waiting. Jacob and Sunshine opened fire with their lasers and railguns, killing most of the radicals, Todd and Justin waiting on the other side of the alley to kill the survivors as they attempted to flee.
Mayor Fine held a press conference. He insisted that it be broadcast live and uncut, the press resisting but giving in when he threatened to pull their press credentials. He did battle with the reporters, using facts and logic to get his points across, also showing the precinct 25 video of the thugs pointing guns at the police before they were killed. The rest of the press conference was tense, accusations coming from reporters, Mayor Fine showing them how and why they were wrong.
Tracy McCain and Dan Dannon struggled to get the New York state government restarted. They were still having problems with remnants of Romano’s staff trying to run the state. Tracy decided to send in the State Police to arrest them.
Craig Smetana was still in prison, writing articles and handing them to a phony prison guard working for Salvatore, the articles published under other names “in the spirit of Craig Smetana” on social media, all of them going viral.
Kay and Dan Dannon were in their hotel room, watching TV coverage of the battle at Romano Headquarters. The New York State Police defeated the Romano staffers and were putting them into paddy wagons when a group of commandos arrived, attacking them, killing most in a hurry, Captain Sturm walking onto the scene, killing a surrendered State Police officer with a pistol shot to the head. Dan Dannon recognized Sturm and called Tracy McCain, telling her to flee immediately. Then he grabbed his M4 and checked outside their room, machine gun fire hitting his door. Dannon chased down and killed the commandos, then told Kay they had to leave right away. She told him about her skill with pistols, so he gave her his Glock and they left, fighting their way out of the building, pausing to pick up two FN machine guns and some paperwork from a UN Van in the parking structure. They headed for Manhattan, where Dannon planned to attack Sturm.
Mayor Fine and Chief Harvey were discussing Sturm’s attack on the State Police when Jared called. He told them about new toys he was sending, the hybrid vehicles being piloted in Boston, and some new drones. He sent video of the hybrids in action, which Mayor Fine showed to his staff.
The public wasn’t responding quickly enough on registration for the social scoring system in Pennsylvania, so Mateo decided to make some examples of people. People who hadn’t signed up were selectively punished by withholding credit, shutting down cellphones, and shutting down newer cars with remote-access capability.
Captain Sturm was sitting in Tracy McCain’s office, having failed to kill her after the attack on the New York State Police. Daan Mertins called him, saying that the EU High Command and the UN had agreed to send 750,000 UN Peacekeepers to the upper Atlantic states right away. After the phone call, the two girls from Dupont’s organization walked in.
Dan Dannon and Kay were on their way to Manhattan after the attacks in Albany. Tracy called, telling them that she escaped and was headed to Mayor Fine’s bunker. Dannon told her of his plan to wait for Sturm to attack New City Hall, and then go after him personally. Tracy admitted she now believed the UN was the enemy, and said she’d try to get Mateo arrested for his actions. Dannon told her Mateo was still in Geneva hiding out.
Tracy called Mayor Fine, telling him that she and Dannon were on the way. The Mayor told her to go to Penn Station and call him for pickup.
The hybrids and falcon drones arrived at the main bunker in Manhattan, Cary and Hector getting to work on them righ t away. The team was trained on the new hardware. Meanwhile, outside New City Hall and Precinct 25, armed citizens were converging, vowing to protect Mayor Fine’s administration against the attack they all knew was coming.
Tracy McCain arrived safely at Penn Station and was picked up by a mole vehicle, taken to the New City Hall bunker.
Cary and Hector set up the falcon drones on the roofs of the building over the main bunker, New City Hall, and Precinct 25.
When Sturm was finished playing with the two young women from Dupont’s organization, he killed them, and ordered his second-in-command to ship them to Dupont’s base.
Henry’s bookstore was attacked with a rock through the window as he slept upstairs. He grabbed his shotgun and went down to the door, catching a student, who apologized, saying Professor Alonzo of Harvard put him up to it. They struck up a conversation. The student’s name was Jay Green. He agreed to tip off Henry about any planned raids the dirty professor was ordering.
John Clancy finished his book manuscript. When he came out of his writing room, Linda told him that Pat was talking to her again, and that she was going to visit Craig in prison.
Albena was monitoring facial recognition stats in the MVS and saw an uptick in UN Peacekeeper sightings.
Rico and Duffy were almost finished building Blockbuster II, to replace their original urban tank, destroyed in the battle for Penn Station. They’d heard about the coming action at New City Hall and planned to go attack the enemy there. Kenny, leader of another resistance group, came over and suggested they leave the battles to his group, and continue to construct more Blockbusters. Rico and Duffy agreed. Kenny said he’d have two more vehicles to them later that day.
Albena noticed that the UN Peacekeepers showing up in the uptick were different people than the individuals she’d captured in the facial recognition program before, and discussed it with the leadership team, including Tracy McCain. As they were talking, the MVS video cameras went dark all over the city. Jace called Cary and Hector down to investigate. Cary knew which building the master controls were housed, and Albena used the MVS history she’d been saving to look at the outside of that building, Jace and the other commandos looking too, saying it was a bad place to assault. Then Cary asked if the system was down or just the cameras. Albena told him she still had access to the portal. Cary suggested he go outside New City Hall with a voltmeter and check a camera that was nearby, to see if there was current going to it. Jace agreed, as long as he and a few commandos could go with Cary to protect him. Hector stayed inside to run the drones, just in case. Cary and Jace’s team were ambushed by commandos outside, Hector diving a falcon drone into their midst and firing missiles, allowing Jace and his team to turn the tables, citizens rushing in to help. Cary found that the power to the camera was indeed turned off.
Jaak called a meeting in a new hideout Jared had provided, in the Civic Center of Boston. He asked that the team go there and park their hybrids in the underground garage below the building, in wide mode so they wouldn’t attract attention.
The UN and EU High Command planned to put a French woman named Isadore in the New York Governor’s office. Tracy McCain and Mayor Fine were standing in the way, so she was very concerned about the action in front of New City Hall, where falcon drones, armed citizens, and resistance commandos killed a number of Sturm’s commandos. During their conversation she mentioned that Islamists were being brought in to terrorize citizens in Manhattan.
The Boston team arrived at their new headquarters. Jaak gave each member a new thin satellite phone, and Henry told them about Jay Green and the raids. Professor Alonzo was planning an attack on an unarmed resistance group, and deadly violence was approved by the dirty professor. The Boston team began planning to intervene, kill all of Professor Alonzo’s operatives, but let Alonzo himself escape. He was a good source of intel for Jay Green.
Dusk settled over Manhattan. Cary and Hector flew drones above the buildings across the street from New City Hall and NYPD Headquarters at Precinct 25, seeing the enemy’s preparation for zip lines. They called Jace and the leadership over right away. The social media team let citizens know what was brewing. The falcon drones perched and watched as night closed around the city.
Cary and Hector found documentation about the MVS system, upgraded after Super Storm Sandy for better redundancy. It was possible to re-route power on specific groups of cameras. They sent the URL for the utility. It required the admin password, which Albena had. She briefly activated the sector around New City Hall and saw thousands of commandos hiding a block away, waiting to attack.
The enemy commandos launched the zip lines, which anchored onto the New City Hall and NYPD Headquarters buildings, then sent over the first batch, the SWAT team waiting for them. Albena monitored the MVS system, watching for the ground forces to hit the street below. When they did, the countermeasures of the buildings were turned on, and the drones were launched. Citizens rushed into the battle, but they were outnumbered by the enemy commandos at first. More citizens were arriving, though, and soon Blockbuster II was in the street, giving the enemy a hard time.
Jace saw that the countermeasures didn’t cover the front door of New City Hall well enough, and suggested that his team get out there on the hybrids to attack the commandos trying to break in. They were in the main bunker, and had to drive the hybrids across part of Central Park to get to New City Hall, arriving and opening fire, joining the citizens in the battle.
Captain Sturm and Major Sims watched as their commandos were getting beaten below. Sturm called a retreat, telling Sims to make sure the five-thousand commandos they had in reserve did not engage, so they could fight another day. Sims gave the orders, and then he and Sturm fled the building, attacked by drones as they left. Sims was killed by a drone missile to the head, Sturm getting into a building but wounded in the side. Two drones followed him into the room he was in, Cary and Hector trying to set Sturm up. They allowed Sturm to kill one drone, and made the other play dead, hoping Sturm would pick it up and take it with him. He did, escaping into a subway station. The drone he carried still had five live missiles on board, and Cary could track and detonate it.
The convoy of commando trucks fleeing from New City Hall were going south on 117th Street, Albena following them on the MVS. Citizens already knew, and were communicating on social media. The crew of Blockbuster II heard and rushed towards a spot where there was gonna be a pinch point, planning to blow up the first truck, thus trapping the others. Their plan worked, a grenade from Blockbuster II taking out the front tires and suspension of the lead truck, which went out of control and crashed into a building, sitting crosswise across the street, blocking the other trucks in as citizens, the Blockbuster, and the hybrids opened fire. The five thousand enemy commandos never had a chance.
Sturm was directed to a temporary safehouse, set up in a storage unit building. A doctor was there to patch up his wounds, as a tech started looking at the drone. Dan Dannon and Kay had followed him there, sitting outside the building, waiting for Sturm to come outside again.
In Boston, Professor Alonzo’s target changed from the non-violent political group to the Trinity Life Church, which was in hot water after protesting a series of talks at elementary schools by Trans activists. The enemy operatives arrived, killing security guards and parishioners, rounding up most of the people into a large pavilion building, which they intended to burn. Jacob and his team arrived in their hybrids, killing the enemy thugs and freeing the parishioners.
Dupont received the bodies of the two young women Captain Sturm had murdered. He vowed to get back at Sturm.
Captain Sturm arrived at UN Headquarters. Deputy UN Secretary-General Sanchez met him, bringing him to his office for a meeting as the techs took the falcon drone into a basement lab. Sanchez came off as angry at Sturm in the beginning, but the two got along better after talking. Sanchez provided status on the UN re-enforcements and the Islamists, and then challenged him about the two women he killed and shipped to Dupont. Sanchez surprised Sturm by telling him to have Dupont killed. He also said that a former partner of Sturm’s, Major Krieg, was coming in to replace Major Sims. They finished their chat and then headed for the main conference room for a meeting with Isadore, who had just arrived. As they were walking, the falcon drone in the lab blew up, killing everybody nearby.
