Bounty Hunter: Dig Two Graves by Rachel Aukes

Author:Rachel Aukes [Aukes, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Waypoint Books
Published: 2020-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Two

The sand kicked up before Joe heard the zing of the blaster. He ducked farther behind the sandy knoll Val had built up as an extra defense. The concrete wall crumbled a little more with every shot, and soon they’d have nothing left but the sand pile.

“Do you have a shot at the tank yet?” Joe asked.

“Not yet. The first transport’s in the way,” Val said as she looked through the scope on the grenade launcher.

Using his elbows, Joe crept forward to peek over the sand. Through a crevice in the wall, he saw the MRC transport he’d arrived in, the dead soldiers still strewn around it. Behind the transport, the massive tank loomed. A transport was big, but a tank was three times the size. A huge black heavily armored cube, a tank’s only weaknesses were its cannon rotation, a narrow slit that wrapped around the diameter of the tank that required a sniper’s eye and luck to hit, and the track system, which the transport currently blocked. The underside was unprotected, meaning that a good explosion in the right place—ideally just beyond the track system—could burn it from the inside out.

The tank’s turret moved continuously. Every time one of Val’s rebels took a shot, the tank targeted their position and blasted it. Meanwhile, two separate squads of murcs crept closer to the ruins.

Joe frowned. If they didn’t take the tank out soon, there wouldn’t be anyone left. “We're sitting ducks out here. A one-eyed monkey with a bad aim could take us out.”

“You think I don’t know that?” Val said without looking.

He glanced at her, then again at the transport. He swallowed. “We can’t keep this up. I’m going to get that transport out of the way. Tell your people to cover me. Be ready to hit the tracks.”

Val snapped around to eye him. “What?”

He didn’t wait, or else he’d second-guess himself. He pushed himself up and sprinted, using the ruins for cover as much as possible and ignoring the soreness in his thigh and side. The murcs, seeing his uniform, didn’t fire at first, but once someone shot in his direction, others joined in, and soon Joe was diving behind a rock. He really missed his exoshield.

More blaster fire was followed by the tank’s booming cannon, and he jumped to his feet again. Val’s people were all laying down fire, mostly at the murcs, but one or two were wasting shots by firing at the tank. The distraction was enough to take the heat—literally—off Joe, and he zigged and zagged to covered positions until he was on the opposite side, then went for the transport. He could’ve taken out a couple of murcs from behind, but he chose not to draw attention to himself; his priority was opening a path for Val. The transport was still powered on, and all Joe had to do was shift it into gear. He increased power, and the heavy transport accelerated slowly enough that the murcs in front of him were able to get out of the way in time.

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