Bold Moves by MJ Blehart

Author:MJ Blehart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sci-fi, science fiction, conspiracy, clones, space opera, colonies, starships
Publisher: MJ Blehart
Published: 2023-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

12

JACE’S IMMEDIATE CONCERN was to protect the APC.

That amounted to both keeping the armor-shelled attackers back and doing his best to prevent them from firing on the trailer that contained the virus.

Jace knew that the armor-shelled attackers coming at them were not soldiers. If they had been, they would not have run in firing. They would have taken advantage of the element of surprise and targeted Jace, Onima, and Kara directly.

Running in, guns blazing, resulted in sloppy fire. While it was a great scare tactic, it was not a good way to take out enemy combatants.

Soldiers would not have attempted to scare them away. Even if they were concerned about civilians, which Jace, Onima, and Kara technically were, given what they were attacking and why, scaring them made no sense.

It was, fortunately, to their advantage. Or else, Jace suspected, they might have been wounded when the armor-shelled goons sprang their attack.

Onima had climbed into the open control compartment of the APC and was firing her rifle on the attackers coming from the other side. Kara had holstered her pistols and was firing her rifle from where the APC was attached to the trailer.

Jace was at the edge of the trailer. Their attackers were approaching from all around.

Fortunately, they had left themselves wide open to ambush by Warrant Team One, disembarking swiftly in their charcoal-colored armored shells from the Minotaur.

There were a lot of the thugs in armored shells attacking. It occurred to Jace that he’d not gotten a proper count of the blue armor-shelled people. Even taking that into consideration, something about the attack was not right.

Then it dawned on him that they might have a bigger problem.

He reached for his comm. “Warrant Team One, this is Jace. Watch your six! I repeat, watch your six!”

More plasma fire erupted, and several shots only just missed Jace. He couldn’t see where they were coming from. But, as he had guessed, that meant more attackers were now behind Warrant Team One.

Jace was in the open with the APC to his back. He ran for the front and dove into the open compartment.

Both Onima and Kara were there too. They would each take turns popping up and firing at anyone in armored shells.

“Do you still have the detonator?” Onima shouted to Kara.

“Secured!” she replied.

“We need to keep them back,” called Onima. “We can’t let them take back the APC!”

“What if they have a second detonator?”

“If they did,” Jace began, “I expect they’d have already used it.”

“True!” Kara said. She popped up and fired at a target Jace couldn’t see. “We’ve also still got Teru’s jamming, and I think the armor on the trailer is too strong to be ripped open or blown up to release the virus.”

“Agreed!” shouted Jace. He arose, sighted the nearest blue armored shell, and fired several shots at them. The thug dove away, and Jace dropped back down as plasma bolts fired at him.

“Shouldn’t there have been other transporters with the APC?” Jace asked. “Why was Feroz here alone?”

“I was wondering that myself,” Onima confirmed.

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