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“McGregor,” Wilson yelled, “will you get off me!”
Suddenly the weight lifted and Wilson could stand. Wilson went to where the Queen had been standing and started to help people off her. She was buried under four security agents but unharmed.
“Mac,” Wilson yelled, “Get her out of here! Find the first news truck and get her on the air. Then get her the fuck to safety!”
“Aye-Aye skipper,” Mac said though his instincts said to stay with Wilson, he knew his boss was right. He pulled the Queen to her feet.
“I’m okay!” The Queen snapped. “Now get me to a phone!”
“Here!” McGregor yelled handing her the phone. “Star 1 gets you the command post!”
She hit star one on the communicator and called, “This is Empire, Stand down Succession Event. Authentication Juliet Tango! I say again this is Empire. Stand down! Succession Event Authentication Juliet Tango.” She said the magic phrase that had been drilled into her since becoming queen of Trena. It was the only way to authenticate that she was still alive and not under duress.
“Command Post copies Empire. Do you need assistance?” The controller asked.
Mac took the phone from his queen’s hand and said, “Jorge this is Mac The command teams okay, I need a heavy lifter at my location. The Queen’s okay, but I need every ambulance, and medic you can get your hands on. We’ve got one hell of a mess. I haven’t seen a mess like this since I was in the militia. We got bodies, and pieces of bodies, and wounded all over the place. We may have two hundred dead! Possibly a thousand injured.”
“Okay Mac,” the duty controller called, “Smoke Eater is en route, the IRS is en route, and TFD is responding with a full mass casualty response. Now you do your job and get your people to safety! We don’t know if this was an assassination attempt or not. Now move your ass!”
That was all Mac needed. He moved the Queen through the carnage to the nearest entrance where the war wagon was waiting with the guard force out with their weapons at the ready. As she came out of the convention center a news team covering the event came running to her.
“Your majesty,” The reported yelled, “are you okay? Are you hurt?”
“Take this live!” The Queen snapped not caring if she ticked someone off “Citizens, and visitors of Trena, a bomb exploded in the Convention Center a few minutes ago. It has harmed and has killed a great many of our people. I don’t know if it was an attempt to take me out, or to cause problems. Maybe both! When the justice ministry finds the person who is behind this the full weight of my government will fall on that person or persons. It is one thing to attempt to kill me it is another to go after innocent people. Now if you don’t mind I need to get out of here so these folks can help the survivors, they can’t do that if I am in their way. Get us out of here Mac.”
With that Mac and his team forcibly cleared a path to the war wagon. Once they were aboard the heavy duty all-terrain vehicle, it roared off with full police escort.
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