Before the Shattered Gates of Heaven Part 2_Infiltration Crew by Bryan S. Glosemeyer

Author:Bryan S. Glosemeyer [Glosemeyer, Bryan S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: invasion, underground, military, Bisexual, Scifi, Stealth, battle, adventure, SF, Space Opera, Sex, Sci-fi, Psychedelic, Sacrament, Combat, outer space, Infiltration, Orgy, far future, science fiction, Mission, action, alien, Covert, Strong, Bug Hunt, spaceship, woman, Rivalry, female protagonist, Ritual
Publisher: Void Forms Media
Published: 2018-12-12T22:00:00+00:00

17.

SABIRA EXPECTED TARGET Planet Thirteen-Nine-Seven-dash-Four to be hellish and foul. All her life she’d been told how the Vleez, just like all the monstrous races of the Monarchy, were outside of Divine Will. Their existence was so abhorrent to the Gods that they were found unworthy of unification and were ultimately to be exterminated. She had been face-to-eyeless-face with Vleez enough times to know how revolting they were. Their smell, their wiggling sense tendrils, their awful buzzing voices, everything about them disgusted her. It only made sense for their planets to be equally as vile.

The target planet turned out to be more beautiful than she could have imagined. The smells hit her first. Instead of rank decay, she breathed in humid air full of industrial odors, and as she made her way down the ramp, a strange salty tang hung in the air. Since the breathing pills had already kicked in, they opened the vents on their helmets to the local atmosphere, and the alien smells seeped through the vent’s microfilters. They each had a backup tank of oxygen snapped on to their backs that could last them up to about one hour, less if they were exerting themselves. Before the mission, medics had given them all inoculations against all the known airborne illnesses of the target planet, giving them the option to breathe the local atmosphere without concern of contagion.

The wrecker had touched down in the far end of a vacant lot attached to a cargo shipping port. The horizon to the east and north was blocked off by large stacks of shipping containers. Though the shape and aesthetic where strange to her, Sabira recognized the dimly lit outlines of cranes arching across the black sky to the north and west. They must be near the river, but from the lot she couldn’t see the water. To the west, directly across the open blankness of a wide riverbed, a tumble of dark hills rolled up from the far banks. Slow-drifting fog seeped through the low spaces between slopes and crept toward the rounded tops. Trails of moving lights wound through the hills and illuminated the shifting fog in pale yellows and grays.

A small white moon illuminated the fuzzy edges of clouds, streaks of soft silver across black. Lights from the port illuminated the underside of low hanging clouds. Shimmering stars, far fewer than she could see from the viewing deck, dotted the sky and poked through gaps in the thin cloud cover.

Her very first glimpse of another planet. Its beauty stunned her. But only for a moment. Caller Arrow led them away from the ship to where the lot ended above the river. She didn’t actually see him, nor any of the other crew. With the stealth fields their suits and wrecker generated, no being on this planet could see them. Their visors, however, could read the secret signatures of the stealth fields, presenting them as outlines of human shapes in glowing red with a small floating name glyph next to it.

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