"Dafydd ab Hugh, Brad Linaweawer DOOM: Infernal Sky (english)" - читать интересную книгу автораhuman race will prevail! If we have faith in ourselves.
I want you to promise that you'll always believe in heroes." "Heroes will save us," he echoed her. The two of them stood together for a long time, looking out the window at the blind white stars. 1 "So how did you guys escape from that death trap?" asked Master Gunnery Sergeant Mul- ligan. "With one mighty leap, sir ..." I began, but he didn't like my tone of voice. "Oh, don't give me that, Corporal Taggart," he said. "You guys are holding out on me. You can't tell me you were trapped near the top of a forty-story building in downtown L.A. with all those freakin' demons after you, and then just leave it there." When he said "you guys," he meant we didn't have to call him sir. Not here, not now. "That's exactly it," I said with a big grin. "We left!" "We probably ought to tell him," said Arlene sleep- breasts seeming to point at the horizon. She'd left her bikini top back at the hotel. The view was spectacular from every angle. For the last few days we'd been pretending that life had returned to normal. Hawaii was still a stronghold of humanity. On a good day the sky was normal. Blue, blue everywhere, and not a single streak of bilious alien green. The wonderful sun was exactly what it ought to be—yellow, round, and not covered with a new rash of sunspots. At least not today. We'd slapped on plenty of suntan lotion, and we were soaking up the rays. We weren't going to waste a good day like this. The radar worked. The sonar worked. The brand-new really good detection equipment worked, too. Every detection device known to man was in use for sea and sky. We almost felt safe. So the three of us decided to play. The master gun was a great guy. Off duty, he liked to be called George. He didn't mind being teased, either. Hawaii Base employed the services of a number of scientists and doctors. I'll never forget Arlene's reac- tion when they said that Albert was going to be all right, despite his having taken a face full of acidic imp |
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