DEFIANCE & DESPERATE STAND
Rylan's POV
I’d calculated the scenario in mere seconds. It was what I’d been taught to do. Count the enemy. Measure their positions. Calculate odds. Find weaknesses. The numbers didn't lie. We were surrounded. Outnumbered. Exhausted. Our strike force, we had probably forty guys that were still left fighting. The rest were injured or exhausted and couldn't fight effectively. About sixty prisoners were freed, but most of them were weak from captivity. Malnourished. Traumatized. Some could barely stand.
GENESIS had more than a hundred new troops. They were in tactical gear and armed with military-style weapons. Night vision. Body armor. Automatic rifles. They had encircled the clearing as neatly as drawn with a compass, sealing it off in all directions. Profess
