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“I don’t think I like where you’re going with this.”
“That’s because it’s nowhere good,” I replied. “We’re in a bit of a FUBAR situation. We need to find the bomber, and we know he’s close by. But it’s going to take time to locate him in this mess. Since non-essential personnel are being cleared from the area, we can assume that whoever puts up a fight and refuses to leave is a good suspect.”
“Unless he’s working on the inside,” Thumper replied.
“Yeah, there’s that, but I don’t want to go there yet.”
“So, in what way are we FUBAR?”
This was the part I didn’t want to tell him. “It occurred to me?—”
“Actually, it was me,” Slider interrupted.
He shrugged off my glare as if it meant nothing.
“I’m just saying, it was me that put this together. This old noggin isn’t just sitting up here for nothing,” he said, tapping the side of his head.
“Anyway, it’s possible that your bomb is the distraction for this bomb.”
“You already said that,” he responded. “How is that Slider’s idea?”
“That’s not the part he thought of. Strictly speaking, if that bomb is the distraction, it stands to reason that if we find out what the target of this device is, yours might still go off.”
“And you can’t be in two places at once,” he concluded.
“Ooh, I can do it,” FNG cut in. “I’m all over this. “
“No, you’re not touching a damn thing,” I said urgently. “We can’t make a move until we know more.”
“But it could blow in the meantime,” FNG said. “We don’t even know how long we have. We could be blown to smithereens in a matter of seconds. I say we just disable this bomb and take our chances with that one.”
“Negative,” I said into comms. “We don’t know yet what will happen if you disarm that weapon!”
“It’s simple,” FNG said. “I just cut the red wire. It’s always the red wire?—”
“Don’t touch it!” Thumper shouted.
I heard a scuffle, lots of cursing, and FNG’s chuckle. This wasn’t good. I sent Cap a distress signal, hoping he would get his ass over to FNG before he blew us all up.
“I got this!” FNG shouted. “What’s the worst that could happen?”
“Don’t fucking touch?—”
“Oops.”
I stood there waiting for an update on what was happening. My mind swirled with all the worst case scenarios that could happen if he cut that wire. I turned to Slider with a grim expression. We had to clear the building now.
45
FNG
“Oops?That’s all you have to say?” Thumper shouted at me.
“I didn’t mean to cut the red wire! You shoved me,” I argued.
“I was trying to push you out of the way before you killed us all!”
“I could have just dismantled it and?—”
