Cold War: Alien Storm by Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle

Author:Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle [Vee, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sixth Moon Press
Published: 2019-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Into the Fire

SASHA

Jesus but these guys don’t give up!

Sasha found herself wishing she had brought an extra Dub1 plasma rifle with her. She would never want to hurt Bitsy’s feelings, but the girl didn’t quite have the rate of fire Sasha needed right now.

Bitsy’s humming topped out again, barely noticeable above the crackling thunder coming from Box’s Repeater. Five uglies bolting towards her again. This was getting old. What the holy fuck is going on today?!

Box bellowed as he shifted his field of fire. “Cover! One o’clock!”

Sasha sighted in and pulled the trigger, blowing a smoking hole through the chest of the closest Hunter. As it collapsed, Box and the others reduced the one behind it to a pile of smoking embers. The remaining three kept running, undaunted by the destruction of their fellows.

Box shuffled back, trying to keep his fire trained on the lead Hunter. “What the fuck is going on!?”

Sasha bobbed to her left to clear around Box’s hulking form. A moment later all three Hunters angled slightly to match her new position. She juked back, and the Hunters all followed her again. “CentCom! Are you seeing this?! What the hell is going on?!”

“Victory, CentCom, we are receiving your feed five by five. Recommend evac ASAP.”

“No fucking shit?!” Bitsy was still in her refractory period, she was going to have to talk to Stan about that.

The lead Hunter bellowed, a deep, bassy roar that reverberated through her feet and lungs. With the roar it bulled through Box like a freight train, knocking the big man on his ass. The Hunter finally dropped its arms, still covered in glimmering ice armor, and leapt the last ten feet to land directly in front of Sasha. A thick layer of milky ice covered its body, melted to a thin sheet around the arms. In its open mouth Sasha saw multiple rows of spiky teeth.

Too surprised to react, she watched in horror as the alien scooped her up in a fireman’s carry. Bitsy flew from her hands, the strap dragging across her neck and choking her. The alien jumped again, this time to land inside the open jumpship. As the alien crossed into the ship, the once quiet engines flared the life, blowing snow and ash over the playground. The consoles and walls lit up in a blazing display of flashing blue lights.

The Hunter shrugged her off his shoulder and slammed her back into the rear wall of the ship, pinning her chest with one massive clawed hand. The alien loomed over her, its dull black eyes inches from her helmet. As Sasha struggled to move the crushing hand off her chest, the alien slammed its other fist into the bulkhead. Lights played along the alien's arm, flowing into the bulkhead. The wall behind her flowed and squirmed like a box of worms, and two coils snaked out from behind her to wrap themselves around her chest, securing her in place. The coils tightened, squeezing the breath from her.

The two remaining Hunters bulled past Linc and Akins, stepping on Box as he tried to regain his feet.

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