Bitemarks 5.4

Bitemarks 5.4

Ed walked into one of the Bureau's communications monitoring stations. Alf was wearing one of the headsets and tapping at a keyboard.
"What's going on?" Ed asked. Alf didn't reply but one of the other staff answered for him.
"Seems like our vampire is in Iceland."
"The food store?"
"No, the country." said Alf, removing the headset. "Shit, this is really bad news." He stood up and paced for a while. Ed eventually broke the silence.
"What's going on?" he asked again.
"Some news desk in Iceland just got hold of amateur footage from a reporter who was off duty at Keflavik airport." He punched a few buttons at the terminal and the shaky phone camera footage came up. It clearly showed Skarletta smashing through the window at Keflavik, throttling a woman at the help desk and then opening fire on the security guards.
"Holy... shit..." said Ed.
"I know and it gets worse. We were still monitoring the military comms after they picked you up. They're on this already. They've contacted Iceland saying the vampire is a criminal they're after for crimes against the British military. They're assembling a commando unit as we speak."
"Christ... but she had guns. I mean... she already took out two lots of soldiers armed with rifles at the Arctic base with her bare hands!"
"She's up to something. All this in public?" said Alf. "Something about that radar site."
"They won't be able to stop her." said Ed, "Is that crossbow ready?"
"Yeah it's ready. But what can I do Ed? If I just send you in... To them you're just another hostile."
"We have to do something. Right now we're the only ones capable of stopping whatever she's doing."
"Then I guess there's only one thing we can do..." Alf put the headset back on, "Someone patch me in to the General in charge of that unit."


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Skarletta dragged one of the dead cops into the bunker and then slammed and bolted the door shut behind her. It was dark but that didn't bother her. She fed a little on the dead cop until her bullet wounds were fully healed and then adjusted her pupils to make the most of what light there was. There was still some computer equipment here and she lugged her array of towers over to it. She tried starting up the main computer terminal but there was no power. She cursed and looked around. There were three more doors and she tried all three until she found the one that led downstairs to where the backup generator lay. It wasn't a complicated mechanism. Hopefully it would provide enough power for what she needed to do. She started it up and returned upstairs. The main terminal had come online and she keyed in an adjustment to the dish's angle. That done she opened her PC towers and began putting components together.