Chapter 45
Over the next second I circulate energy to heal my badly burnt eyes and the sight of a giant mushroom cloud hanging over a haze of smoke that covers the Capital city fades into my vision. Then the helicopter is hit by a savage shock wave and we’re sent tumbling, flipping through the air even a hundred miles away.
Slowly, we manage to get control of the situation, pulling the sticks and working the pedals by our feet until the helicopter is mostly hovering in place, watching the fading fireball that appears to be a nuclear explosion over Washington DC.
"You didn’t"
"They started it"
"You know they’re not going to take this lying down right?"
"The various zone leaders are currently rounding up Federal leaders and Bureaucrats to be charged with Treason against the citizens of the country. Over 300 strikes like the one on the safe house happened today, almost all failed. Alpha Petros had over a thousand agents led by the DEA raid the pack. The Blue Moon wolves and the local National Guard stood with him to end things without too many casualties, and the leaders will be standing public trial."
"Do you think we’ll be seen as the good guys? There’s millions of people in that city"
"Everyone but government employees was evacuated to Boston and New York City 2 weeks ago for security concerns. The government feared uprising or an invading force from a portal destroying the government apparatus. So they evacuated the city and set up loads of security after the army turned down their initial attack plans."
Following Karl’s memory of where the nearest Witch enclave was, we not so gently crash landed the helicopter a few miles south of our current location.
A quick run later, we were at a mansion in the woods, where a young woman met us in the yard with a broom and a grim look.
"Go away. I know the council agreed to declare war, but we didn’t agree to that!"