The bus had not rumbled more than I mile and ahalf down the road, before it came to the first roadblock. Two of the centers grayish hummers were parked in the narrow roadway. Heavily armed black clad security men stood in a semi circle around the hummers. Strangely they seemed to be watching the thick forest around them more than the road. As the bus screached to a shuddering halt, Dr. Jones exited the door to speak to the security men.
In the back of the bus Dr. Harman Anthony began to sweat once again. Mr. Dace had said communication were patchy, still it was possible he or Rothman had discovered the missing hard drives. All it would take was one radio message to get him Anthony knew. So he'd taken the last seat in the bus, back by the escape door. His hand rested on the door handle, even as he watched Jones talking with the very young looking security man.
The young security commander looked around nervously as he talked with the older man. "Yes sir..Mr. Dace was able to get through and let us know you were coming."
"Then what is the hold up?" Dr. Jones asked huffily.
"Well sir I'm not sure I should be letting you throught at all." The young commander admitted.
"What?" "Surely your not think of disobeying Mr. Dace's direct orders!?!" Dr. Jones fumed.
"No sir!" "It..It's just...well there are strange thing's going on all over!" "Well lost contact with..well nearly everybody really..but then out post bravo..the next roadblock down reported..well we're not sure what they reported!" "But we lost contact with them, so Captain Raymond decided to take a few guy's down to investigate." "That was an hour ago and we've not heard back from him." "An...and we've also been hearing alot of strange noises in the woods." The young commander muttered nervously looking around at the dark trees.
"You dolt it's just interferance on the radio's no dout!" Dr. Jone snapped. "When we get down there and talk to him..I'll tell him to get back here..your scared without him." The older man teased smirking.
"Not scared sir just worried...it's never good to be out of contact with the your leaders or the main force!"
Dr. Jones smiled condensendingly at the young trooper as he climbed back onto the bus. "Just do your job...now let us through."
Quickly the hummers were pulled back and the bus rumbled on through, down the dark tree lined road.