Daisy's Run: The Clockwork Chimera Book 1 by Scott Baron

Author:Scott Baron
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2018-12-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

“Override disengaged,” Mal announced, having finally regained control of both the doors and comms for the small conglomerate of pods Daisy had somehow managed to take control of. The normally calm AI found the ease with which she had been blocked out more than a little disconcerting and was pleased when the code blocks unexpectedly fell to her access attempts.

Starboard Seven and Nine both cycled open their doors into Pod Eight at the same moment, Tamara and Gustavo visually ensuring the other was not about to be ambushed, silently nodding to one another as they stepped in and sealed the doors behind them.

“She didn’t come out my way.”

“Mine either,” Tamara replied, looking at the weapon in Gustavo’s hands. “Jesus, Gus, a stun rifle? Really?”

“Hey, Captain said whatever it takes, and this was the least lethal thing in the armory. You know how important she is.”

Tamara gave him an unhappy look as she reached for the comms panel.

“Is that puke?”

“Shut up.”

“Jesus, Gus, you trained for zero-gs. And what happened to your face?”

“She ambushed me.”

“Ambushed, huh?”

Tamara’s raised eyebrow told him just how much she believed him.

“Captain,” she said into the comms. “Daisy ran to Starboard Eight, but she’s not here. She must have made an EVA outside the ship. She could be anywhere out there.”

“I read you, Tamara,” Captain Harkaway replied from Command. “Daisy disabled a lot of our equipment in that section, but I’m going to have Mal scan the ship’s surface as best she can. Standby.”

Gustavo looked around the pod. All of the strapped-down containers were too small to hide in, so it really did seem their shipmate had opted for a space walk.

“She actually did it. I mean, why an EVA? She has to know we’ll find her out there. Was she hoping to keep us locked out long enough to pop back in on the other side of the ship?”

“Probably,” Tamara replied. “She couldn’t have guessed we’d get past her overrides so quickly. But now that we’re in and know what she’s doing, she’s kind of screwed. There are a limited number of external airlocks on the Váli, and now that we know what she’s up to, all we have to do is grab her when she finally comes back in.”

“Why didn’t Mal notice what she was up to, though?” Gustavo asked.

“She’s the electronics expert, Gus. Plus, with all that extra stuff Mal had the neuro-stim pumping into her head for all those years, I’m sure she has more than a few tricks up her sleeve none of us could have foreseen.”

The captain’s voice came back over the intercom. “All right, you two, get out of there. She’s still not reading on external scans. I’m going to send Barry to suit up for an EVA to go find her.”

“I can do it, Captain,” Gustavo offered.

“I know you can, Gus, but I need you up here backing us up on navigation in case she tries to fiddle with those systems. And besides, Barry doesn’t get tired.”

Reluctantly, Gustavo accepted the order.

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