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beautiful."

A bullet whanged off the side of the wagon,

causing everyone to cringe just a bit. "Five miles

out of town and they're shootin' at us already," Cooper

bitched, bringing the wagon to a halt by the side of the

road.

They all bailed out the left side of the wagon as

Scouts pulled up in hummers, officially known as

high-mobility, multipurpose wheeled

vehicles, the hummers were outfitted with .50

caliber machine guns. Ben's husky, Smoot,

stayed in the wagon as she'd been trained to do.

The fire, now coming from a machine gun, picked up

and everybody ducked. But Ben had already pinpointed the

location of the hostiles.

"The fire's coming from that stone hut right over there,"

Ben called to Scout. "Get a couple of tanks

up here and drop some calling cards in on them."

The Scout grinned. "Like a Valentine's Day

card, General?"

"Yeah," Ben returned the grin. "Sort of

let them know we're here."
"Right, sir."

Two main battle tanks lumbered up,

swiveled around on the roadbed, and lowered the