Juan shook his head. “No, you look really serious.”
Eddie turned to him and gave him a look that said It was worth a try.
At that moment, Gomez’s voice came through the comm system.
“Alpha, are you still there?”
Juan tapped twice on the molar mic.
“We’ve had an incident on Omega,” Gomez said. “The distraction got activated prematurely.”
No kidding.
Juan tapped again to acknowledge.
“Too bad we’re stuck in the bottom of the Dragão,” he said.
The guard stared at him like he was crazy. “Shut up.”
“Ferreira said we couldn’t move. He didn’t say we couldn’t talk.”
“That’s true,” Eddie added.
“I don’t care,” the guard said. “Be quiet or I’ll shoot you and tell Mr. Ferreira that you moved anyway.”
“Are you free to move?” Gomez asked.
Juan tapped No.
“You’re captured?”
Yes.
“That doesn’t sound good. We’ll figure a way to get you all out of there,” Gomez said. His tone wasn’t very reassuring.
The door opened, but it wasn’t Ferreira returning. It was Luis Machado.
“What’s going on?” he asked the guard.
“Mr. Ferreira thinks one of them had something to do with the attempted attack. We’re holding them for questioning when he gets back.”
Machado looked at Juan and grimaced. Juan could tell he was making a decision.
“I see,” Machado said. “I’ll go find him.”
He turned, putting his hand into his jacket. Without a word, he whirled around, firing a round into each guard.
They didn’t have time to even be surprised. All three of them slumped to the floor.
“Thanks,” Juan said.
“Some rescue plan you guys came up with,” Machado said. “I didn’t think I’d have to save you within the first two minutes.”
Juan and Eddie both picked up pistols from the dead guards.
“Something went wrong,” Eddie said.
Machado smirked at him. “You don’t say. Somebody must have heard those shots. Let’s get out of here.”