(eng) Michael Wallace - Alliance 03 by Insurgent

Author:Insurgent [Insurgent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

A raider named Einarsson from Icefall was the first to attack the damaged implant. Einarsson was a big man already, several inches taller than Svensen, and the extra bulk of his suit made him look all the more impressive. Like all members of the assault team, raiders and marines alike, he carried a fuel pack to help him rocket out of here when the mission was done, but he also wore twin fluxors on either hip, which connected to a hose and nozzle for the plasma torch.

Einarsson sparked the end of the nozzle and thrust it at the implant, which stood gleaming in the middle of the barren patch around which the humans had taken position. Unfortunately, the gods had deemed this the moment of Einarsson’s death. No sooner had the man started his work than something slammed him to the ground.

An explosion went off, and the raider’s arm flew past Svensen’s head, turning end over end. The armored fist still gripped the nozzle, and a length of hose spit globules of green plasma as it snaked back and forth. A figure rose above what remained of the man’s body: gray armor, gun attachments on the ends of its three arms. Kelly had a direct connection to Svensen’s com, and she let out a string of curses.

Lights flashed in the sky. Another decimator slammed into the ground and fired its guns at the stunned marines into which it had landed. A split second of lull, and then decimators were raining from the sky. They came in with their rocket packs flaring and their guns firing. The shuttles, instead of landing, were directly overhead and spewing their cargo at the ground. The attackers weren’t landing at a distance and hauling in from there, they were hitting the implant site directly, which brought them right into the midst of the humans.

Of course that’s what they were doing. Why land and risk your ship if you didn’t need to? And if you knew exactly where the damaged implant was located, of course you’d come in right on top of it.

Svensen shouted orders to his raiders. Kelly and a young colonel were doing the same thing to gather the marines. It was an attempt to abandon the perimeter defense and form clusters of defenders instead. But the enemy was coming too fast, landing with force and weapons blazing. Within seconds, they’d overrun the entire human position.

The battle would have turned into a rout, but for two things. First, not one raider or marine lost his nerve and panicked. Not that fleeing would have done any good. The surrounding terrain was as hostile as anything the Adjudicators could throw at them.

Second, the gunfire awoke the trees, those same macrophages that had attacked Helsingor’s assault team. Several burst out of the ground with waving appendages and grabbed for the nearest living creature, whether human or Adjudicator. Others dragged themselves across the landscape with roots and branches.

Hand cannons and Gatling gun fire blasted off limbs. That

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