Chapter 2 - Just Doing My Job
Walking into Mac's office always sucked, it was humid, and smelled like dirty socks, plus Mac was just mean. He'd always hated Tausha, well at least ever sense she had blown up that apartment building two years ago.
"Monroe! Where have you been all morning? We've been getting reports on bug activity for hours!" Mac liked to yell.
"Sorry, I had to have breakfast with my friend, she wanted to hear my story." Tausha began to explain.
Mac stood up from behind his desk and stomped over towards her. He always wore the same ugly blue sweater with the word "catch" across his chest, and his blond spiky hair would always bounce when he walked. He put up his right hand and pushed his finger under Tausha's collar bone. "You know the rules! Be on time! Now get ready, your heading to 9th Street." He yelled so loud into her face that her long, dark brown hair started swaying a little.
Tausha headed to the back room to start getting ready. She put on her black fingerless gloves, her combat suit, which was red with black designs on each side, and her red combat boots. She clipped the buckle from her swords sheath across her chest, and placed her gun in a strap on her right leg. To finish up she pulled her hair back into a ponytail and headed for the door.
Mac got in one last comment before she left the office. " Tausha! Keep it clean!"
"Later Mac." She said over her shoulder as she walked out.
She jumped into one of the company cars and headed to 9th Street. When she finally arrived it was obvious the aliens had been there. There was blood from dragged bodies leading towards a manhole in the street, and down into the sewer. The aliens had taken their victims down into the sewers, meaning there was probably a nest down there, and it was definitely time to get to work.
She began speaking aloud. "Blood's everywhere, and it's nice and fresh." She dipped her finger into some of the red blood and rubbed it between her finger and thumb. 'Looks like I'm going down into the sewers.' She pulled out her cell phone and called Mac. "Mac, get a clean up crew over here fast. There's blood everywhere. I'm going down into the sewer, I don't need back up. Over and out." She hung up the phone before Mac could get in a word.
Tausha looked down into the dark sewer and started to descend down the ladder. The smell of blood got thicker the further she climbed down. She could feel someone watching her the entire time. 'I might actually get to see my hero again.'
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Mac sat at his desk. "She better not do anything stupid." He picked up his phone and called the clean up crew. They would head over to 9th Street and start disposing of all the blood and anything that looked out of place. When he got off the phone with the clean up crew he gave a military man by the name of Travus a call. "Travus, it's Mac, you were right about the aliens, there seems to be a nest in the 9th Street sewer. I just wanted to know if there was a reason why you knew about them before all the people that started citing them did?"
"Mac, my friend, just call it intuition, but if I didn't know any better I'd think you were accusing me of something." Travus sounded a bit cocky.
"Of course not sir, I was just speaking without thinking, I apologize. I've sent my best agent to exterminate the bugs, they'll be taken care of." Mac assured Travus.
"We'll just have to see about that." Travus hung up the phone and smiled
Travus wasn't a high ranking soldier, but he had a lot of connections, and a lot of money. He was around 6ft tall and had shaggy, medium length, dark hair that tended to cover his evil eyes. He took pleasure in hurting people, and had a knack for extreme ideas for military weapons. His latest idea, setting aliens loose against the enemy. It was him that decided to let a few aliens loose in the sewer to test how they would react, and how long people could actually survive. He also wanted to see if Mac's agent actually had the skills to take on an entire alien nest.
End of Chapter 2
By Tausha Monroe - dahdtoudi
