Race threw the gun down in disgust and then seeing the Nazi jam a new magazine in the grip of his pistol - did the only thing he could think to do
He took three bounding steps forward and hurled himself at the man.
He hit him hard and both men went sliding along the deck of the speeding Pibber.
They got to their feet quickly, and the Nazi hit at Race backhanded, but Race ducked and the Nazi's fist went sailing over his head.
And then suddenly Race was up in the commandos face, rushing at him with an angry right. The punch connected and the Nazi recoiled at the blow, his head flailing backwards,
Race hit him again and again—yelling with each punch as the Nazi staggered backwards.
'Get—'
Punch. “—off—'
Punch.
Punch.
With the final blow the Nazi fled into the stem railing of the Pibber and fell off the back of the boat splashing down.
Race—his chest heaving knuckles bleeding—stared out after he fallen Nazi. After a few moments he saw a familiar form of the caiman converge on the side and he heard as the Nazi began to scream.
Renee was creeping cautiously down the corridor of the command boat; all of a sudden she heard voices echoing from the door to her right.
She stepped forward and stood at the door frame.
And saw a man she wanted standing in the centre of an ultra-hightech laboratory. He was stiff old man, but huge, obese, with enormous fat belly, stretched tight
Renee held her breath as she glared at the old man
He was Otto Ehrhardt.
he's the leader of the Stormtroopers.
one of the feared Nazis of World War Second.
He could have been what? seventy-five years old now, but he didn't look a day over fifty. His Aryan features were still apparent, if worn with time. His white blond hair was thin on top. And his blue eyes sparkled; glistened with madness as he barked orders to his men;
'...then find that generator! off, you imbecile!' he bellowed into a radio then jabbed a pudgy finger at one of his commandos, 'You call Hauptmann Anistaze here right now'
The laboratory around the Nazi general was a mix of Chrom, modern equipment, white walls, vacuum chambers, but instead of working Laboratorians in white coats there were commandos with pistols. Now they all hustled out of the main glass doors that led out onto the boat's rear helipad deck.
But Renee only had eyes for the object that Ehrhardt held in his left hand,
An object wrapped inside a ragged purple cloth.
The idol.
At that moment, Heinrich Anistaze charged in from the helipad deck and stood to attention before Ehrhardt.
'You sent for me, sir.'
'What's going on?' Ehrhardt said.
'They're everywhere, Herr Oberstgruppenfuhrer. There must be dozens of them, maybe more. They appear to have split up, taking out different sections of the fleet and causing sufficient damage,'
'Then we leave,' Ehrhardt said, handing the idol to Anistaze and guiding him back toward the helipad deck.
Quickly. We will take the idol in the helicopter and get it to the mine that way. Then, if the heads of government haven't responded to our demands by the time we insert the thyfium into the Supernova, we -will detonate it.'
From the wheelhouse of his newly-recovered Pibber, Race surveyed the aquatic battlefield around him.
What was left of the fleet still surged forward along the river, but it was a shadow of its former self.
Three Pibber were still afloat but one of them belonged to Race. Only one helipad barge remained, along with three of the Original five Rigid Raiders—and one of those belonged to Schroeder.
Van Lewens Scarab sped along in front of the fleet, and of course, there was the last Mosquito chopper—still wreaking havoc from above.
About forty yards behind him, Race saw Doogie's Goose seaplane wheel out of the wash Of the helipad barge in front of it, It surged out into the river proper in search of a clear stretch of water from which it could take off.
Race span to look forward.
About thirty yards ahead to the left of the Pibber, he saw the massive Nazi second boat powering along the river.
At that moment, however, as he watched the command boat Race suddenly saw men burst our onto its rear
