Attack on Thebes by M.D. Cooper

Author:M.D. Cooper [Cooper, M.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0779MT1D2
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2018-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

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Katrina struggled to pull Kara’s listless form into the ship, hollering for someone to help. Carl was at her side a moment later, sliding a grav board under Kara’s body and lifting it into the air.

“Quick, medbay!” Katrina shouted, and they pushed Kara to the ladder shaft and then up to the next level.

“She’s in shock,” Carl called out as Kara began to shiver and convulse. “We should get her in stasis, deal with it later.”

Katrina nodded and tried to get Vicky’s case out of Kara’s grasp.

“Noooo,” Kara moaned. “Gotta keep it for Father.”

“Your father’s here,” Katrina said, stroking Kara’s arm as Carl got the stasis pod ready. “He needs the case. I’ll take it to him.”

“Suuure?” Kara’s synthetic voice warbled with what sounded like fear.

“Yes, I’m sure. And you’ll be safe, too.”

Kara’s grasp on the case lessened, and Katrina was able to lift it free.

<Thanks, Kara,> Vicky said, her voice filled with sincere gratitude. <Sorry I was such a bitch to you.> Katrina maneuvered the grav board to the edge of the stasis pod where Carl waited. He grabbed her feet, and Katrina folded Kara’s wings around her before sliding an arm below the woman’s shoulders.

As quickly and carefully as they could, they got her into the pod. Katrina was about to close the lid, when Kara’s arm shot up and grabbed her wrist.

“I want to see Father.” Kara’s voice rasped and wavered.

“You will,” Katrina whispered. “Everything will be fine.”

“No…” Kara’s voice fell. “Not fine. Me. I want to be me again.”

Katrina folded Kara’s arm back down and stroked it for a moment. “You and me both.”

“Kat!” Carl whispered hoarsely. “Get to the bridge. I got this.”

Katrina coughed. “Yeah, OK.” She grabbed Vicky’s case and rushed up the ladders to the bridge, settling into one of the seats as the glowing shape of Gate 5 grew in front of them.

<Nice of you to join me up here.> Troy said. <Twenty seconds to the gate.> “Good,” Katrina said as she placed Vicky’s case on the seat beside her and wrapped a strap around it.

<I feel so safe,> Vicky said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

<You shouldn’t,> Troy replied. <The Kjeeran is going to hit GCP1 three seconds before we reach the gate. They fired on it and blew off one of the cargo pods—which ended up speeding its acceleration.> <Awww, crap. That must have been Gert! I had those weapons offline!> Katrina shared Vicky’s general sentiment and pulled up their rear view on one of the holoscreens, keeping one eye on it, and the other on the gate.

“We should have enough time, it’s a short jump…”

Ahead, the gate’s mirrors focused the negative energy into a roiling ball at its center as Troy deployed the Voyager’s mirror.

Behind them, the gate control platform crumpled as the Kjeeran plowed into it. Then it and the station were swallowed up by a blinding flash of light.

Alarms sounded, and half the cockpit’s consoles lit up as the antimatter explosion bathed the Voyager in gamma rays.

Katrina gritted

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