A Pale Dawn (The Omega War Book 8) by Chris Kennedy & Mark Wandrey

Author:Chris Kennedy & Mark Wandrey [Kennedy, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seventh Seal Press
Published: 2019-01-30T07:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Eleven

Underneath Manaus, Main Continent, Chislaa

“Do you think you can open it?” Sansar asked.

“Looks like a pretty standard control pad,” Corporal Eric Chase replied as he pulled out his slate. “My slate can power the pad, but if there isn’t enough power to run the door mechanism, we might have to hook it up to some of the CASPers.”

As the connection was made, a low hum went through the tunnel, and the glow strips brightened noticeably.

“What…what are you doing?” Fentayl said. “You didn’t say that you would make it light in here. There are people whose eyes will be hurt by this!”

“Sorry, Fentayl, we didn’t know that would happen,” Sansar said. She tried to sound soothing, although she didn’t know how much of that would be lost in translation.

After a couple of seconds, lights winked on down the length of the tube, making it brighter than many of the Minchantaa had ever seen in the perpetual gloom of the jungle. After a few more seconds, the lights dimmed back to just the glow strips, which now seemed extremely dim by comparison.

“Sorry about that,” Chase muttered. “Apparently, that’s the default setting.” He worked with the system for another two minutes then said, “I got it.”

“You do?” Sansar asked. “Are you sure?”

“Yes. The system is somewhat antiquated, and it has some security features I’ve never seen before. It took me a few minutes to bypass those, but I now have the whole system operational again.”

“What about the other teams?”

“I broadcast it to the other teams as I was jacking in, so all of the other hackers saw what I was doing real-time. All the doors are ready to open. We’re just waiting on your go.”

Sansar brought up her commanders’ view on her Tri-V and separated it into four windows. Bravo, Charlie, and Delta each had a platoon of troops and were tasked with clearing the walls of the city and rescuing the hostages there; Alpha, who she would be following, was tasked with taking out the HecSha command center, so it was the largest group with two companies of troops. They had triangulated the lizards’ transmissions, and most seemed to come from one location. The doorway she was waiting at was within 100 meters of the facility, as best as she could tell, and she hoped they could chop the head off the alien merc force quickly.

The final platoon was scattered around the outside of the city, just inside the edge of the forest. Each trooper had five Minchantaa warriors with them. If any of the HecSha tried to flee to the forest, the natives would help the troopers track and eliminate them.

“Task Forces commanders, report status,” Sansar ordered.

“Alpha, stacked and ready to go,” Major James Henry replied. His view matched hers closely, as he was standing next to her, just outside the alcove holding their doorway.

“Bravo, ready,” Captain Tiffany Reynolds replied. She had the eastern door.

“Charlie, ready,” Captain James Cliffson said from the southwest door.

“Delta, ready,” Captain Anne Light said from the northwest door.

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