Assault on Khorram by Michael G. Thomas

Author:Michael G. Thomas [Thomas, Michael G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Swordworks
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Vendetta, Su’bartu Maelstrom

Artemas and Xenophon waited patiently as the two guards, presumably men loyal to Andronicus, walked passed them. Their hiding place was well chosen as it was a cramped storage area for empty storage containers. Inside, the small area stank of refuse, old oil and burning. It was hardly a place anybody would choose to visit. The small glass viewport in the door was barely wide enough for Xenophon to peer through. Artemas pushed her face up close to him, and he had to make a conscious effort to concentrate on the corridor and not her.

“What?” she asked, noticing him looking at her.

“Huh, nothing, why?” he replied nervously.

What is it with her? She’s attractive, sure, but there’s something else.

He shook his head. He had more important things to do than spend his time looking at an unusual, if highly attractive, alien operative. He looked back through the glass and saw the two guards finally move out of sight. The command deck and the rooms being used to hold the prisoners were in the next section, but from the number of guards moving about, he calculated there must be at least half a dozen more inside.

“Okay, it’s clear for about twenty seconds, are they ready?” he asked.

She nodded and placed the small metal spheres on the ground. Moving as carefully as he could, he slid open the door to create a gap of just a few centimetres. As it moved, there was an ever so quiet creak that sent a shudder up his spine. Luckily, nobody seemed to hear it. Not yet, anyway.

“Do it,” he whispered.

Artemas tapped a button, and the small group of metal bugs activated. The sound their tiny monofilament wings made was almost impossible to discern. The first lifted up and moved to the gap, and the others did the same. As they quickly moved out into the corridor, Artemas lifted a small metal flap fitted into the close fitting clothing on her left arm. It revealed a touch based control unit and small screen. They both watched as the devices moved to the doorway of the command deck. A large group of armed men stood nearby, each carrying a carbine or a Doru Mk II Rifle. Xenophon sighed as he watched.

“I don’t like this. We’d need a powerful force to reach even the door, and that assumes they have no more inside.”

Artemas looked up and smiled.

“Trust me, they will have more, watch.”

The bugs split up, with one moving up to the darkness of the ceiling and watching from high. Another headed for the door, leaving two to explore the rest of the corridor. They both watched in fascination as the entire area was carefully mapped and recorded. What really interested Xenophon was the small room being used for the prisoners. As the bug made its way forward, he noticed a series of short corridors on the right hand side.

“Can you take a right?” he asked.

“Where?”

“There!” he said, for a moment forgetting to keep his voice low.

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