Alien Assault (Blue Star Marines Book 2) by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2020-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

Captain Bozilova called in all the troopers of the Creeping Fate and arranged them inside his ship. The Skarak were at the edge of the boarding ramp. With the power offline, the ramp could not close. The crew held the corridor, the narrow space concentrating their fire and holding the Skarak back.

Bozilova had never been boarded. In all his years attacking Union freighters from the belt to the sphere, he had always been the attacker. He knew once he had a foothold on a ship, he was not giving up. The first Skarak soldier rushed up the ramp and was inside.

“This is Bozilova. We have Skarak on board. I’ve lost all my troopers. Flight deck crew only remaining. I’m falling back to the flight deck and I’ll try and stop them from getting in. If it looks like the Skarak will breach my final position, I will destroy my ship. The Creeping Fate will fight as long as we can. Faction. Freedom. Forever.”

With Skarak soldiers inside his ship, Bozilova gave the order to fall back. He ran with his engineer, navigator, weapons operator, and pilot. The Skarak fire that chased them slammed into the engineer, dropping him with a scream. The screaming stopped as he fell, white energy crackling and fizzling out over the back of his head.

Bozilova turned and gave fire, his pulse rounds going wild and slamming into the walls, narrowly missing the Skarak standing at the end of the corridor. It raised its weapon and took aim at Bozilova. He saw more Skarak join the other, while others were moving off into other adjoining corridors, spreading through the ship.

Bozilova turned and ran, just making it around the bend before the Skarak fired. He made it to the flight deck in a few more strides.

Taking cover in the flight deck, all weapons were trained on the open entrance. Bozilova’s remaining crew looked breathless but determined. They were not beaten yet, even though they all knew they could not win.

A sudden hail of Skarak fire screamed through the entrance. Bozilova stood aghast as his remaining crewman fell to the floor.

Running to the command chair, Bozilova had one last move—a failsafe, installed on all raiders to ensure they would never be taken into custody by the Union. But it was the Skarak that prompted him to use it now.

As the Skarak rushed onto the flight deck, Bozilova pulled open the small cover on the side of the armrest. A single, simple switch. A Skarak came into view around the command chair just as he flipped the switch.

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