Chapter 7 - HEAVY MACHINERY
Bullets shattered the remaining glass of the office as Elias’s men opened fire from the catwalk. Sterling and Maya dove out the back door, rolling behind a stack of wooden pallets.
"Cover me!" Sterling yelled. He dashed toward the forklift.
Maya grabbed a heavy metal wrench from a nearby toolkit and hurled it at a nearby transformer box, creating a shower of sparks that momentarily blinded the shooters on the catwalk. It bought Sterling three seconds.
He ripped the plastic casing off the forklift's steering column, twisting the wires together. The heavy machine roared to life.
"Maya! Get in!"
She scrambled into the cab as Sterling threw the machine into reverse. Bullets pinged off the heavy steel frame as they reversed out of the spotlight's glare.
"What's the plan?" Maya screamed over the engine roar.
"Elias wants to play with heavy toys? We play with heavy toys!" Sterling yelled. He slammed the forklift into drive and aimed it directly at the steel support column holding up the catwalk where Elias and his men were standing.
He wedged a heavy brick onto the gas pedal and grabbed Maya’s arm. "Bail!"
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They threw themselves from the moving forklift, rolling under a parked delivery truck. The forklift slammed into the steel column with a deafening, metallic crash. The pillar buckled. The catwalk groaned, twisted, and collapsed, sending three mercenaries tumbling twenty feet to the concrete floor below in a tangle of steel and sparks.
Dust choked the air. Sterling dragged Maya up, pulling her toward the narrow, winding ramp that led deeper into the facility—the boiler room.
