Angel Flight (Jack of Harts) by Medron Pryde

Author:Medron Pryde [Pryde, Medron]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pryde Rock Publishing
Published: 2014-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

They say that every thing that does not kill you makes you stronger. If that is true, then I must be Hercules by now considering all the things that have failed to kill me. The Shang tried real hard but I got away. A lot of other people didn’t, many of them far better people than me. I try to remember them all but there are so many. So I toast to absent friends and go on with life. It’s the ultimate way to cheat death you see. Live.

Eclipse

Hyperspace swirled around Jack’s Avenger, rainbow currents of gravity bringing every color under the stars to his eyes in one crazy kaleidoscope of chaos. The fighter’s gravity generator forced a bubble of serenity into the stream around them, but hyperspace pooled and eddied outside it. Frigates, destroyers, and others fighters created pools of their own calm, though more than one hung dead in the currents of hyperspace already beginning to pull them away from the rest of the task force. They were going to have to get their gravitics back up if they planned to move under power. Of the nine cruisers that left the wall of battle only Los Angeles remained, proudly proclaiming her lordship over hyperspace with a vast calm sphere around her.

The British destroyer Eclipse flowed down another rainbow stream to appear in front of them. She was heavily wounded, her starboard broadside ravaged by the final Shang missiles. Jack could see through her armor and air continued to leak out of the deep wounds reaching into her central spine. But half a dozen sturdy Harriers maneuvered around her still-living frame in a defensive formation obviously intended to keep her that way.

Gabrielle flickered back into his cockpit and let out a long sigh of relief. “We made it,” she whispered.

“I never doubted it for a second,” Jack returned with all the sincerity he could muster.

“That’s sweet of you,” Gabrielle said, shaking her head the whole time. “But you know how dicey that was. Thank you,” she finished and held his gaze until he nodded in acceptance. “Good. Now we need to form up so we can get out of here.”

Jack glanced at the displays showing the names of the disabled ships. Harrington, Clark, and Vargas. “What about them?” he asked, waving a hand towards the destroyer and frigates.

“That’s where I come in,” Gabrielle answered with a smile. Tractors beams lanced out from Los Angeles and snatched Harrington out of her gravitic stream. More tractor beams reached out for Clark and Vargas, and soon all three ships hung off Los Angeles’ flank, anchored in place by the pure brute power an American heavy cruiser.

“Are you sure you can handle that much dead weight?” Jack asked.

“Oh, don’t be silly,” Gabrielle returned. “They’re not dead. Their engines still work perfectly. And I can keep hyperspace at bay for as long as they need it.”

“If you say so,” Jack noted in a doubtful tone.

“I do say so,” Gabrielle said in a hard and determined voice.

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