Alien in Chief by Koch Gini

Author:Koch, Gini [Koch, Gini]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: DAW
Published: 2015-11-13T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 49

FELT A HUGE surge of power from Abigail sent to Mahin, and the rest of the track reformed as Abigail collapsed.

Fortunately White was there and even though he still had Ginger, he was able to catch Abigail and keep her upright. My music changed to “Hold On” by Wilson Phillips.

The engine crossed the water and entered more trees. Of course more snakes dropped onto the shield because apparently we were just that kind of lucky. I ignored them and turned to watch the rest of the train as I felt us speed up as well. Meaning Adriana and I were on the same wavelength as Algar—get the train across before the A-C Magic ran out.

Bruno wasn’t flying along with us. He couldn’t get to me due to the shielding and he was staying to watch to make sure all the cars made it across.

“Hold on just a little while more,” I said to the other girls. “We can do this.” Felt an energy drain, meaning that Abigail was pulling from me, and probably White, in order to keep feeding her power to Mahin.

I gently tugged and pulled us all onto our knees. Experience said that falling right now would be a really bad idea, and when we were all drained we’d all fall—that was a given.

Bruno shared that the caboose was almost across as Mahin passed out. Abigail and White were both close, I could tell. I concentrated, focusing on the tracks.

It wasn’t much, but it was enough. Abigail passed out as Bruno told me we’d made it. Then the shield disappeared and White and I sort of collapsed against each other.

In time for the one damn snake that had managed to hang on and not slide off the shield to land right by us. No one had hyperspeed enough to get away from it.

But Ginger was here and she wasn’t drained. She made short work of the snake, then snuggled up to me for well-earned praise. “You are the best ocellar ever, you know that?” I said as I petted her head and scratched behind her ears.

Bruno flew up and caught up to us and landed next to me for his well-deserved scritchy-scratches as well.

We stayed up on top for a while. None of us were up to trying to get into the engine or anywhere else. My music mix went back to Kyle’s playlist. At least I assumed “Going Nowhere” by Oasis was on Kyle’s playlist, since the chorus lyrics were “going nowhere on a train.” Hit repeat—I liked the song and it was soothing, and I figured we all needed soothing.

After a little while Gower and Reader crawled up and worked their way to us. “Jeff called and said it’s too hard to get up here from the engine,” Reader shared as they reached us. “So, he wanted us to help you all get down. Who’s going where?”

“I’ll go into the engine with Jeff. But I think everyone else should go down into the cars with you guys, James.

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