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“Don’t be a dipstick One of their ammo dumps must have blown up”

As he drove, Wheatley kept one eye on the fire burning behind hi fro the flames

Then froht streaking toward them

“What is that?” Wheatley asked

Knoll turned in his seat “It looks like a missile Maybe it cooked off when the ammo dump went up”

Thethe outskirts of Port Cook Wheatley craned his neck to watch it through the windshield as it changed course and angled doard the ground

Five hundred feet above Port Cook, the rocket detonated, e a puff of white mist that seemed to quickly dissipate

“That’s lucky,” Knoll said “Looked like it was going to land in the center of town”

As they were crossing the bridge over the river that e of town, Wheatley saw several of the townspeople outside on thethe s, each of theround

“What’s going on”

That was all Wheatley got out before he lost consciousness

When he ca he noticed was the suely remembered that there was an accident at Talbot, and his lasttoward them After that, it was black

He opened his eyes and saw that the windshield was cracked and the hood crumpled It was also sideways In front of hied off the bridge, but he didn’t recall that happening

Wheatley turned his head with effort, but his legs wouldn’t move, and he could only flail his ar to sube him

Wheatley tried talking, but he could croak out nothing roans Knoll responded with a terrified keening The river’s surface was creeping higher as the truck settled into the river’s muck, and it didn’t look like he could move either