“What the hell was that?” Doug yelled. “Did something just explode on the Panther?”
“It didn’t look like an explosion,” Zero replied. “Though there’s debris.”
“Wait… no, that’s not debris. That’s the cargo. Someone’s blown the cargo.”
“But why?”
“Maybe for us. Joe’s still on the ship. If he realised he couldn’t stop it jumping away then maybe he was trying to leave us as many supplies as he could till he managed to return.”
“So what do we do, Shadowhawk?”
“Nothing for now. We can’t risk trying to pick anything up while the Panther is still shooting at us. We wait till the ship leaves then we move in.”
“Roger that.”
They sat in silence for several more seconds, then a new signal came in.
“Doug! Doug, can you hear me? It’s Sasha. Doug, please respond… before it’s too late
