Dagger's Edge: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Brutal Edge Book 2) by Pacey Holden

Author:Pacey Holden [Holden, Pacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

16

I braced my foot on the wall, heaving at the door with all my might as I hit the squad frequency.

“Peta. Door’s locked. What the—”

A deep, resounding thud shook the ground. I felt tremors up to my knees.

Peta came in over the frequency, “Yep, that did it!”

Internal locks retreated inside the wall, freeing the door that I was plying with maximum effort. The door flung open and I landed flat on my ass, armor plates scraping along the pavement.

“Move!” I shouted.

Skazz stepped around me, followed by Rohn. Parbeams up, spare ion mags tinkling in loops on their bandoliers, the kilmori were intimidating. Armored from head to toe, they made no sound save the occasional tinkling of their kit and footsteps on the pavement.

They looked like killers.

I found my feet. Daimer—whom I almost didn’t recognize because his long hair was wrapped up inside his helmet rather than dangling beneath it—paused at the threshold, eyeing the door for a moment.

I was going to tell him to get moving. Then he rotated his hips and kicked the door.

The titanium alloy bucked, screeched, and warped. The door hung at an angle, ruined hinges creaking.

Daimer gave me a brief nod before he slipped into the building.

I brought my parbeam up to my shoulder and asked, “What was the point of that?”

“Now they can’t lock us out,” he replied.

“Good idea,” I admitted. “Brick, Edge. Cancel overwatch. If you have Patrol bearing down on you, you need to get out of there. Secure the G-Bikes and sit tight.”

He gave me an affirmative growl. I could decipher, in that animalistic noise, that he disagreed with my decision, but he was going to follow through with it. That was enough for me.

I followed the kilmori into the first floor of the building.

Light pods embedded in the ceiling flickered with a dim orange-yellow hue that made me think of heat, though my HUD showed the temperature at a normal level. A dozen high-end aerospace craft were situated across the floor on rotary panels, all of which had gone stationary, leaving the vehicles facing all different directions. They ranged from single to four-seater configurations. Holographic banners above them promised SMALLEST WARP DRIVE EVER!

Incredible technology with an incredible price tag to match.

At the far side of the room, the sliding glass doors of the entrance were shattered, the frame bent and stuck halfway open. Blackened streaks stretched from a small depression in the cracked floor just inside the threshold, along with fragments of the FEMP, fragments of Union men, and blood. The array of destruction culminated in a circular electrical burn on the top step outside—the spot where Skazz had planted the FEMP, and where it had delivered its EMP blast. The carnage we saw could not have been from an EMP weapon, though, and that got my hackles up.

The Machinist Guild had failed to mention the fact that they had tucked a bomb inside the FEMP. Call me paranoid, but I felt like that omission was entirely intentional. For all I knew, that could have gone off at any point.

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