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Alaska, a spot that Ben had decided
to investigate after cleaning out southern California.
Alaska had been code-named Northstar.
Ben's Husky pup, Smoot, rolled over on
her back in the back seat of the Jeep and started
snoring, deep in contented sleep.
"What's the word on the flyovers?" Ike asked.
"Not good. From what our pilots have been able
to observe, Los Angeles is pretty well
carved up by various gangs, but the Scouts have taken
a few prisoners, and under interrogation, they admit
that all the gangs will pull together and work as one if
attacked by a large enough force."
"What are we facing?"
"Just about anything you'd care to name," Ben said, disgust
in his voice. "Offshoots of those punk
gangs of the eighties make up a lot of the enemy.
Dickheads with gang names like the Boogies make
up a lot of the enemy. The Boogies and the Skulls
and assorted punk crap like that. The Night People have
their own section of L.a., and the gangs respect
it. At least the Believers haven't renamed themselves
the Purple Twats or something equally stupid."
Ike laughed at Ben. "Oregon is clean,
Ben. The rest of the teams will be pulling in here over the
next couple of days."
"We won't have much time to rest and reorganize. I
won't kid you, Ike. Taking California is not
going to be easy. The gangs here have had years to arm
and train; they've known for a long time that someday they'd
have to face us. And they'll probably be
ready, at least mentally geared up for it. If any
of our people are thinking easy, tell them to hang it
up."
"Still no word from Khamsin, Kenny Parr, Lan
Villar, or any of the rest?"
"Not a peep. I know we knocked the props out from
under them, but I don't believe we killed them
all. They're in deep hiding somewhere. They'll show
up. Bet on that."
The Rebels were now almost certain that there had
been a massive cover-up on the part of
America's politicians after the Great War. From
what they had been able to piece together, many members of
Congress had been secretly supporting the
movement of the Believers, the Night People --
creepies to the Rebels coma bizarre religion that
embraced cannibalism. Why they'd supported a
movement that horrible was something that Ben realized he
would probably never know.