They had crept about as close as they figured possible before the radio call to Sprout. Now it was just down to the doing.
“Alright, so…” Kara shifted things around in her lap some. “We hit the perimeter, you hit the targets to the right, I lob the bird bombs into the guys off to the left, we keep pushing forward up past the outbuildings up to where the two SUVs and trailers are next to the house. I pull us in between the SUVs and the house. You engage any of the guys on the left who stick their heads up after I bird bombed them coming in. While you keep them busy, I start slinging the med bags, and our war gear bags if we aren’t taking too much fire.”
Heidi’s voice was fighting the rain and the wind as she replied.
“As soon as you get the stuff we are taking in out of the truck and to the door, I’ll drop the gun down to you. I’ll hop down and in we go.”
Kara didn’t say anything back to Heidi. Instead, she let off the brake and started to pick up speed. She had the stubby shotgun across her body, the muzzle resting on the windowsill. She was focusing hard on the route.
“I’ll ripplefire on your first bang, Heidi”
Moments later a hellacious ripping sound accompanied by a blinding flash appeared in the edge of her vision. Kara started pumping the bird bombs off to the left, starting with the farthest point they were worried about and worked her way closer as they went.
Meanwhile Heidi was sending two or three second bursts from the MG3 at the guard positions off to the right. Each burst was twenty to thirty rounds poured into the target area. The muzzle blast looked six feet long and a foot across, blinding and horrifying, especially to those who have never found themselves on the receiving end of real machine gun fire.
Heidi couldn’t tell if she had killed all the ones she was shooting at or not. The important part was they were not shooting back at them right now. She was more worried about suppressing, terrorizing and maybe even driving them away. She heard Kara’s handiwork detonating behind her. To someone who didn’t know any better, it would sound like an artillery barrage.
Kara finished dumping the twelve-gauge bird bombs and could now focus on the driving. She had to keep her movements smooth, both because of the overloaded handling and she couldn’t risk jostling Heidi off target.
Heidi pushed back the right side of the perimeter as they went through. She swung around to start working the left side with another belt as they started their left turn to swing between the SUVs and the house.
As Kara slid behind the black white and grey splotchy SUVs and trailers, she realized they were almost completely concealed by the SUVs and the pod things on their roofs. Just before she hopped out of the driver’s seat, she keyed the radio one last time.
“Sprout! Open the ****ing door! We got luggage to move.”
Kara ran around the front of the Suburban. She whipped open the passenger doors and started grabbing bags and slinging them towards the back door to the house. She was glad to be on this side of the Suburban. The concussion from Heidi’s machine gun was brutal!
Kara grabbed the next thing she knew they needed. Heidi had used some webbing to lash together several ammo cans into two bundles. Damn! They were heavy! She turned towards the house and saw a woman in the open doorway.
“Drag the damn bags in!” Kara said as she stepped past her and set the ammo cans down just inside the doorway and headed back to the Suburban. Kara looked up at Heidi pumping rounds out to some of the danger points they identified earlier.
“Hey! Our table reservation is ready! Time to go sister!” Kara said as she stepped up to the Suburban.
Heidi turned towards Kara. She was wet to the core, the rain running down her in sheets. Her glare was fierce and her eyes bright though.
“Good! I’m hungry!” She leaned over towards Kara. “Here! Hold this.”
Heidi dropped the machine gun over the side into Kara’s arms. She slid down inside the suburban and closed the hatch. Heidi came out, her bail out bag on her.
“Let’s get inside, I’m wet and we have things to do.” Heidi said as she walked past Kara and into the house.