Page 67 of Beta Team-The Saviors: Part two
“Guys, Tyler’s tracker is moving, and it’s moving fast,” Nolan cuts in. Nolan clicks some keys on his keyboard, and Tyler’s beacon starts flashing on Ari’s app.
Gavin sits forward. “He’s running.”
“Nolan, I need to see exactly where he’s going,” Ari responds.
The screen shrinks several times until we are basically watching Tyler running for his life in real time. We watch him go into the wooded area and stop before he’s running again.
And then it just disappears.
“What the fuck just happened?” I ask, feeling my heartrate skyrocket. Gavin sucks in a breath, and I reach over to grab his hand. He squeezes my fingers, and I can feel him shaking.
“I don’t know,” Nolan answers, clicking like crazy. “It’s just…gone.”
Tivon steps harder on the gas as we listen to Nolan trying like hell to bring the tracker back. Tivon swerves onto an old access road and screeches to halt. “Warehouse is over there,” he says, pointing to our right. “We go on foot. Shoot without question.”
We pile out of the car, pulling our masks on. We start running toward the cover of trees, and Tivon holds his hand up for us to stop. He motions to me and Gavin to move to the other side. Once we’re in place, we start moving again on opposite sides to surround whatever area we can. Something rubs my elbow, and I spin, just to see our masks staring back at us. Axel nods his head and we start moving again.
“Cole,” Axel whispers. “Are you in place?”
“Ready,” Cole answers. “On your word.”
“Cole is set up on top of the warehouse across from them in a sniper perch,” Axel explains.
“How the fuck did you get here so fast?” I ask.
“We let Sean drive,” Cole responds.That explains it.Sean drives like a crazy person.
Tivon holds up his hand again and we come to a stop. Several guards are milling around the grounds, and some are disappearing into the woods. My guess is to look for Tyler. That's at least good news. If they’re looking for him, that means he’s still alive, and he got away. But what the fuck happened to his tracker?
“Cole, you’re up,” Tivon says, and we all get into position.
It doesn’t take long before bodies start dropping. We scale the fence as fast as we can, and when we drop to the other side we’re moving, taking out anyone who gets in our fucking way. We gain access to the warehouse, and it’s eerily silent.
“You think they were all outside?” Gavin asks.
“They were,” a voice answers from the ether, causing all of us to try to find the source. “I’m not there, and neither is your friend. He ran, but I don’t know what happened after that. I don’t have eyes outside yet.”
“Who the fuck are you?” Ari asks.
“Cryptic.”
“You motherfucker,” I growl.
“Listen, I explained all this to your friend. I don’t have time to explain it again. There’s more people on the way, and you have minutes before you’re surrounded. Go back out the way you came, and go around the side of the building. That’s the way he went.”
“Sean took out the ones in the woods,” Cole supplies.
“Let’s go,” Tivon commands, and we all follow him from the warehouse. Did Cryptic help Tyler like he helped us? Or is he setting us up again? What the hell is going on? We go back over the fence again, but this time on the back side of the property. “Fan out and find him.”
“Tyler!” I call out and hear several more do the same. Stealth is already out, and as far as we know, everyone is dead. “TYLER!” I look in every place that he could possibly hide, and each place that comes up empty makes my heart sink deeper. What if someone had already grabbed him?
“It’s clear my way,” Sean says. “I’m moving back to the west side.”
“Same here,” Axel replies. “I don’t see shit.”
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.Tyler, where the hell are you?
“Meet back at the fence. We need to regroup,” Tivon instructs, and I want to argue, but I know he’s right. There’s too much ground to cover here. I work my way back, and they’re already waiting. Tivon pushes his mask to the top of his head. “We’re running out of time before we have company. Axel, can you and your team wait for them to arrive? Give them a nice warm welcome.”
