Aliens Omnibus: Volume 3 by S.D. Perry

Author:S.D. Perry [Perry, S.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 2016-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

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Joyce couldn’t believe what she was seeing when Kent tossed those two double doors open. She had expected to see a wide-open area with the deck and her shuttle sitting there. Instead what she saw looked like an anthill of bugs, damn near blocking any vision of the shuttle at all. The smell of rot had swept in over them.

In the first few seconds of the fight she and the rest had taken out a good two dozen of the closest and now had cleared every bug out to fifty meters. She’d used six full clips and the Kramer was starting to heat up in her hands.

Kent and his three men had gone out and left, checking the wall above them first. Then Hank and his three had gone out and gone right along the wall, doing the same. That spread out their firing angles and gave them a larger killing area.

She was kneeling beside the door on the right, carefully taking aim and killing any bug that even pretended to move. The rest of the group had spread around the door and were doing the same. It was now starting to feel to her like a target practice session as they all knocked legs and heads off of anything out in that open hangar.

She desperately wanted to get across that killing field of alien bodies and acid blood, but for the moment it felt much safer right where they were, their backs to the wall killing anything that moved in front of them.

Then, through the almost deafening bursts of gunfire around her, she heard her name being shouted. “Captain Palmer! Captain Palmer!”

She stood and looked both directions down the line. Hank and a few others had heard the call also and had stopped firing. He indicated the voice had come from the right, closer to the main entrance and above him. She stepped out and looked up at the balcony that ran along there. It was dark and she couldn’t see a thing.

“Cease fire!” she shouted. “Cease fire, unless one moves right at you!”

The firing stopped and the last of the roaring sound echoed over the dead aliens and the hangar deck.

“Captain Palmer?”

“Right here,” she shouted back.

“Sergeant Green up here.”

“Glad to hear your voice, Sergeant,” Joyce shouted back. The relief of having the Marines with them again was almost as much as she had felt when they first showed up in the tunnels.

“You need to get to your ship as soon as you can,” Green called back.

To her left a Kramer opened up and across the deck an alien head exploded like a cherry bomb going off. She waited until the echo died off in the huge chamber, then shouted back, “We were headed that way.”

“I know,” Green said. “But a pitched fight like this will only draw more bugs to this area There’s more of them than you have bullets to kill. Trust me.”

“What should we do?” Joyce shouted, feeling relieved she had someone else to make the decisions for a moment.

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