Rogue Elements

The pirate toppled backward. Ketch had the wherewithal to snatch the AK from the man’s soapy hands. The high-power rifle cracked again. The bullet hit below the bridge’s window frame. Sparks flew as a bridge control panel shattered.

“Ketch! The sniper!” Bolan shouted. “The sniper!”

Ketch popped up. The big rifle out in the dark cracked again, but it was seeking to damage the bridge and bridge personnel. The AK chattered as Ketch fired at the sniper’s muzzle-flash. He ducked as several AKs answered.

Captain Cleverly snarled. “Skiffs alongside! Port and starboard!”

Ladders hit the Caprice.

“Grenade!” Ibarra yelled.

The bomb looped over the rail and fell at Bolan’s feet. He snagged it and lobbed the explosive to the opposite rail. “Down!”

Bolan’s team grabbed the deck. A screaming pirate came over the rail. His war cry rose to a shriek as he saw the grenade spinning on the deck before him. The bomb detonated, and he shuddered as if he were in a terrible wind and fell back. Bolan loaded his sling with a Molotov cocktail and lit its fuse. The grenadier pirate came over the other rail, holding a grenade in his hand.

Bolan let fly.

The spiraling bottle just missed, but it hit the top of the rail and shattered. Half of the bottle’s contents sheeted over the pirate and ignited. He pulled a flaming crucifix from around his neck and dropped back. His grenade clanked to the deck.

He hadn’t pulled the pin yet.

Bolan ran forward at a crouch and snatched the bomb out of the path of the creeping, flaming oil and shoved it in his pocket. He took his last Molotov and lit it, not bothering to use the sling. He stood. Below, the burning pirate was flailing and screaming, and his fellow pirates in the boat were flailing and screaming, trying to avoid him. Bolan flung his firebomb into the middle of the ruckus. It broke apart, and fire flooded the skiff. The pirates abandoned the vessel en masse.

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