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himself.  “Too bad there’s no time for sightseeing.”
     
    “Unit Two, down,”  Penny spoke over the radio. “We’re going to miss the safari.”
     
    Bringing up a map on his cockpit display, he selected the route to the Kahamba Mine. “Penny, form on me.”  
     
    ***
     
    Alpha Team had regrouped after the parachute landing and was holding on a small rise that was barely higher than the tallest building in the Mine.  Angie had landed a little roughly, but was fine.
     
    “You’re right, this is almost too easy,” Mitch muttered .  Scanning the mine site with his electronic binoculars, he zoomed in on the visual feed that displayed via his helmet’s HUD.
     
    “It looks like the power is out for the entire mine and the lab, ”  Willie added.  “There is some emergency lighting on and the guards look totally disorganized.”  Even as he watched, half of the floodlights on the perimeter fence came on , then flickered back off.  “Looks like they’re having electrical problems.”
     
    “You think the EMP knocked out all the power?”
     
    Willie looked at his second in command.  “I’d say that was probably it.  Too unlikely to be a trap.  Let’s see what our spy says about this.”  He waved Angie over.  “You think that alien artifact might have caused that EMP?”
     
    Angie thought for a moment.  “I don’t know.  It ’ s possible.  No other alien artifact recovered does this, but we haven’t seen anything that looks like the egg.  This is going to cause a problem though.  It probably means we have no way of contacting Shani.  Cellphones and communications in general are probably fried.”
     
    “That’s just great,” Willie casually commented, as if he almost expected this to happen.  “I guess the free ride is over boys and girls.  We’re going to have to break our way in the hard way.  Mitch, your section takes point.  We’ll work our way around the main lab building and come in from the rear.”
     
    The team carefully crept down to the perimeter fence and cut through it.  Mitch’s section split off while Willie’s section stayed behind.  A stealth entry always took patience.  There was peeking, sneaking, and waiting.  It took almost ten minutes for Mitch’s section to reach the laboratory building.  They had to take care of two roving guards and a sentry taking a leak, but everything had run smoothly.
     
    Mitch fired the tranquilizer gun.  Phht , went the compress air rifle. The trailing guard slapped at his neck and collapsed in a heap. Switching targets, he then shot the lead guard before the first hit the ground.  Phht . The lead guard went down moments later.  His section rushed the final distance to a service entrance at the back of the lab.  They grabbed the unconscious guards and dragged them off into the shadows where they were not likely to be found.  
     
    “Cathy, the door,” Mitch ordered.
     
    Cathy, the team ’ s security specialist, checked the back door and opened it by just turning the door knob. “Door is unlocked, Sarge.  The electronics are fried so all the mechanical safeties have kicked in and released the door locks.”   
     
    “How convenient.”  Mitch and the rest of his team entered and checked the interior hall and a few rooms to see if it was clear.  He then went back outside and signaled for Willie’s section to advance.
     
    Willie’s team had been covering the approach to the main building from some outlying sheds.  They dashed across the open distance to the rear entrance.  Their raider suits had power assist and boosted every running step until they were running in quick bounds that quickly ate up the distance.
     
    Willie conferred with Mitch and Angie inside the building.  “The lab is on the third sublevel along with the vault.”  Willie was walking them through the map via their visor displays.  “We’re going to need to pass through this office area  and then work our way down the