Capshaw's First Command Read Free

“You’ll be court-martialed for this,” Captain Minnelli hissed slipping his weapon back in its holster. “We shoot traitors in time of war.”
                  “Then maybe I should have shot you,” Nathan replied lowering his rifle and turning to return back to the barricade. There was work to do and the last thing he needed to do was to spend time screwing around with this coward. “You should probably head back north sir, the barricades won’t hold much longer. It’d be horrible if something happened to you.”
                  It happened fast.
                  “Hacker, down!” Capshaw yelled.
                  Nathan whipped around to see the Captain unholstering his weapon once more. Nathan dropped to the hot cracked asphalt of the bridges road bed and leveled his rifle at Minnelli. He never had a chance to fire.
                  A single burst of rifle fire slammed into Captain Minnelli’s head. The man looked shocked as his brain matter was loosed from the opposite side of his skull and he crumpled across the top of the hummer.
                  Nathan looked to Lieutenant Capshaw and could see the smoke rising from the muzzle of his rifle. The man no longer looked like the fresh faced young officer he’d been when this started. Now he looked like a warrior.
                  “Sir,” Nathan said getting up from the ground. “Thanks for that.”
                  “That man was a piss poor officer before the dead started trying to eat us,” Capshaw said in way of an answer. “You’re worth a hundred of him.”
                  Nathan swelled with pride but said nothing.
                  “We need to move north, help me move this piece of shit so I can get to the command radio,” Brian ordered.
                  Nathan hurried over. His commanding officer needed a hand.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Now, Duluth City Hall, Basement
     
                  “This place doesn’t officially exist, it’s not part of the building’s underground blueprints hence the dedicated stairwell,” Riley said opening the heavy door at the bottom. “You haven’t seen anything like this outside of television and movies Major.”
                  The stairs had taken them down five flights and Brian was sure they were below any other part of the City Hall’s basement space. It all looked old and in poor repair as they descended. Then the door opened and cool white light flooded the landing and caused Brian to shield his eyes from the glare.
                  “What the fuck?” Capshaw whispered once his vision equalized.
                  “My thoughts exactly,” Riley said quietly.
                  “This looks like something out of Fallout,” Nathan said speaking for the first time since they’d entered the City Hall.
                  Brain looked at Riley and the two men broke out in laughter.             
                  “You’re not far off Hacker,” Riley said gesturing for the other two soldiers to enter the room. “I honestly never thought places like this existed.”
                  The room, despite the stained area where Brian assumed the station monitor had died, was antiseptically clean. The room was a combination compact living space and high tech computer station. There were several open doors in the room and Brian could see a bathroom and some storage rooms.
                  “Why’d she kill herself?” Nathan asked. “This place has enough supplies for years.”
                  “Is this equipment still operating?” he asked looking to Riley with a raised eyebrow. “If it’s not working this was a waste of time.”
                  “Yeah it’s working but most of it is so highly encrypted that we don’t even